The Drawing Center

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35 Wooster St
Manhattan, NY 10013
212-219-2166
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The Drawing Center is the only fine arts institution in the U.S. to focus solely on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. It was established in 1977 to provide opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists; to demonstrate the significance and diversity of drawings throughout history; and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture.
Located in SoHo, The Drawing Centers galleries provide an intimate and human scale viewing experience. It has been called "one of the city's most highly respected small art museums" by The New York Times. Attracting more than 55,000 visitors annually from the local area, across the country, and around the world, The Drawing Center has presented more than 230 exhibitions, published over 85 catalogs, and has been recognized through prestigious awards such as the International Art Critics Association/USA award for Best Show by a Non-Profit Gallery or Space for the 2010 exhibition Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?, the 2009 exhibitions Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World and Unica Zrn: Dark Spring and the 2008 exhibition, Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities. Exhibitions have toured to prestigious museums around the world, including: Tate Britain, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (The Stage of Drawing); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain (The Prinzhorn Collection); the Santa Monica Museum of Art (3 x Abstraction); Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (Iannis Xenakis: Architect, Composer, Visionary); The Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands, and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago (Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion?).

The Drawing Center's acclaimed exhibitions encompass a wide range of artistic traditions and take a uniquely interdisciplinary approach. Dynamic exhibitions connect drawing to science (Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature), architecture (Constant, Inigo Jones, Louis Kahn, Yona Freidman, Frederick Kiesler), literature (Victor Hugo, Henri Michaux, Unica Zrn), political movements (Rikrit Tiravanija), theater (Picasso's Parade, Theater on Paper), film (Sergei Eisenstein, Drawing on Film, Sun Xun), music (Iannis Xenakis, Musical Manuscripts), choreography (Trisha Brown), and technology (FAX).