Editing Drawing Center

{{Short description|Museum in Manhattan, New York}}
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|name= The Drawing Center
|image= The_Drawing_Center_-_NYC_(48129060193).jpg
|caption=The Drawing Center at 40 Wooster Street
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|established= 1977
|location= 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013 
|type= [[Art]], Special Interest<ref name="TDC: About">{{citation |title=The Drawing Center: About |website=Art Info|year=2008 |url=http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/20138/6677/about/the-drawing-center-new-york/ |access-date=July 11, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010210027/http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/20138/6677/about/the-drawing-center-new-york/ |archive-date=October 10, 2008}}</ref>
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|director= Laura Hoptman<ref name=Smith2018>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta |author-link=Roberta Smith |title=Drawing Center Names New Executive Director |date=July 31, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/arts/design/drawing-center-new-executive-director-laura-hoptman.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&action=click&contentCollection=design&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=August 4, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
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The '''Drawing Center''' is a museum and a nonprofit exhibition space in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.

== History ==
The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] Martha Beck<ref name=Vitello2014>{{cite news |last=Vitello |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Vitello |date=January 22, 2014 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/arts/design/martha-beck-founder-of-the-drawing-center-dies-at-75.html |title=Martha Beck, Founder of the Drawing Center, Dies at 75 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref> in 1977, with the mandate of seeking to "express the quality and diversity of drawing -- unique works on paper -- as a major art form".<ref>{{cite book|last=Lambert|first=Susan|title=Reading drawings: an introduction to looking at drawings|year=1984|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|isbn=9780394724799|pages=6}}</ref> It was originally housed in $900-a-month ground-floor space in a warehouse at 137 Greene Street in [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]]<ref name=Vitello2014/> before it moved to its present location, on the ground floor of a 19th-century cast-iron-fronted building at 35 Wooster Street, in the late 1980s.<ref name="Carol Vogel 2011">{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=February 3, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/design/04vogel.html |title=The Drawing Center Expands Beyond Its Lines |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref> In its first year, the Drawing Center attracted 125,000 visitors.<ref name=Vitello2014/>

After a $10 million renovation in 2012, designed by Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture & Urban Design, the museum today occupies two and a half floors, 50 percent more exhibition space.<ref name="Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look">{{cite news|last=Loos |first=Ted |date=September 5, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/arts/design/drawing-center-and-other-renovated-museums-reopen-in-fall.html |title=Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref>

== Activities ==
Each year, the center presents "Selections" exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists as well as exhibitions of historical and contemporary drawing-based work. In conjunction with its interior expansion in 2012, the Drawing Center announced the start of a long-term initiative to exhibit Latin American drawing.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |author-link=Holland Cotter |date=November 1, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/arts/design/drawing-center-reopens-with-guillermo-kuitca-show.html |title=Works That Play With Time |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 11, 2022}}</ref> The Drawing Room, located across the street from the Main Gallery, features dynamic, drawing-based installations and exhibitions by emerging and under-recognized artists.  The center offers a range of public programs for both adults and children, including film screenings, literary readings, artist talks, symposia, performances, and ''The Big Draw'', a day-long event or series of events featuring artist-led drawing activities for all ages.

==List of shows==
{{incomplete list|date=October 2015}}

=== Before 2010 ===
* ''[[Leon Golub]]: Live & Die Like a Lion?''
* ''Selections Spring 2010: Sea Marks''
* ''Sun Xun: Shock of Time''
* ''Apparently Invisible: Selections Spring 2009''
* ''Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking''
* ''M/M (Paris): Just Like an Ant Walking on the Edge of the Visible''
* ''Greta Magnusson Grossman: Furniture and Lighting''
* ''[[Rirkrit Tiravanija]]: Demonstration Drawings''
* ''Kathleen Henderson: What If I Could Draw a Bird That Could Change the World?''
* ''Drawing on Film''
* ''[[Frederick Kiesler]]: Co-Realities''
* ''Yüksel Arslan: Visual Interpretations''
* ''Drawing Out: Student Artwork from Drawing Connections''
* ''Selections Spring 2008''
* ''[[Sterling Ruby]]: CHRON''
* ''[[Alan Saret]] Gang Drawings, 2007''

=== 2010 ===
* "Day Job" group show: artists: Chris Akin, Pasquale Cortese, Elizabeth Duffy, Caroline Falby, Alex Gingrow, Tom Hooper, Alexa Horochowski, Michael Krueger, Shawn Kuruneru, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Mary Lydecker, Raul J. Mendez (PNCA ’97), Julia Oldham, Alex O’Neal, Roberto Osti, Zach Rockhill, Luis Romero, [[Alfred Steiner (artist)|Alfred Steiner]], Justin Storms, Harvey Tulcensky, Jonathan Wahl.
* ''[[Gerhard Richter]], Lines which do not exist''
* ''Claudia Wieserm, Poems of the Right Angle''
* ''[[Dorothea Tanning]]: Early Designs for the Stage''
* ''[[Eva Hesse]] Drawing''
* ''[[Leon Golub]]: Live & Die Like a Lion?''
* ''Drawing Out: Student Artwork from the Drawing Connections Program''
* ''[[Iannis Xenakis]]: Composer, Architect, Visionary''
* ''[[Ree Morton]]: At the Still Point of the Turning World''
* ''[[Unica Zürn]]: Dark Spring''

=== 2011 ===
* ''Pathways Drawing In, On, and Through the Landscape''group show:artists: Ann Carlson i Mary Ellen Strom, Mark Harris, Jessica Mein, Terry Nauheim, Candida Richardson, Gosia Wlodarczak
* ''Drawing and its Double'', Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, group show:artists: [[Giorgio Ghisi]], Lafrery Du Perac, Salvator Rosa, [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi]], [[Antonio Canova]], [[Giorgio Morandi]], [[Piero Dorazio]], Achille Perilli
* [[Paolo Canevari]], Decalogo
* ''Drawn from Photography'' group show:artists: L Alvarez, [[Andrea Bowers]], Fernando Bryce, [[Sam Durant]], Ewan Gibbs, Karl Haendel, Richard Forster, [[Serkan Ozkaya]], [[Emily Prince]], Frank Selby, [[Paul Sietsema]], Mary Temple, Christian Tomaszewski ([[C.T. Jasper]])

=== 2012 ===
* [[Guillermo Kuitca]], ''Diarios''
* José Antonio Suárez Londoño ''The Yearbooks''
* [[Sean Scully]], ''Change and Horizontals''

=== 2013 ===
* ''Drawing Time, Reading Time''- group show: artists: Carl Andre, Pavel Büchler, Guy de Cointet, Mirtha Dermisache, [[Sean Landers]], [[Allen Ruppersberg]], Nina Papaconstantinou, Deb Sokolow, [[Molly Springfield]].
* William Engelen, ''Falten''
* Susan Hefuna and Luca Veggetti, ''NOTATIONOTATIONS''
* Terry Smith, ''Document''
* Giosetta Fioroni ''L’Argento''
* Alexandre Singh, ''The Pledge''
* Ignacio Uriarte, ''Line of Work''
* Ishmael Randall, ''Weeks, Cuts, Burns, Punctures''

=== 2014 ===
* [[Sari Dienes]], ''Sari Dienes'' 
* [[Xanti Schawinsky]], ''Head Drawings and Faces of War''
* ''Thread Lines'' group show:artists:   Mónica Bengoa, [[Louise Bourgeois]], Sheila Hicks, [[Ellen Lesperance]], Kimsooja, Beryl Korot, Maria Lai, Sam Moyer, William J. O'Brien, Robert Otto Epstein, [[Jessica Rankin]], Elaine Reichek, [[Drew Shiflett]], Alan Shields, [[Lenore Tawney]] and Anne Wilson 
* ''The Intuitionists'' group show:artists:  : Shaun Acton, Valerio Berruti, A.J. Bocchino, Dana Boussard, Hannah Burr, Maria Bussman, Enrique Chagoya, Joyce Chan, Catalina Chervin, Hannah Cole, Kenny Cole, Vincent Colvin, Hollis Cooper, Cui Fei, Gabriel Delgado, Wendy DesChene, Asya Dodina i Slava Polishchuk, [[Debra Drexler]], Derek Dunlop, Elisabeth Eberle, Lisa Endriss, Rodney Ewing, Tory Fair, Douglas Florian, Nicholas Fraser, Carl Fudge, Brett Goodroad, Barry Gray, Stephen Grossman, Nathan Haenlein, Patrick Earl Hammie, [[Skowmon Hastanan]], HENSE, Elizabeth Hoak-Doering, Cynthia Ona Innis, Tatiana Istomina, Hedwige Jacobs, Chiaki Kamikawa, Manfred Kirschner, Kimia Kline, Nicholas Knight, Kang Joo Lee, Kate Tessa Lee, Cynthia Lin, Hung Liu, [[Maess Anand|Maess]], Mario Marzan, [[Linn Meyers]], [[Nyeema Morgan]], Paul Morrison, Seamus Liam O'Brien, Alison Owen, [[Jenny Perlin]], Mel Prest, Jo Ann Rothschild, Anna Schachte, Fausto Sevila, Jill Shoffiet, Thomas Slaughter, Chris Spinelli, [[Karen Tam]], Caroline Tavelli-Abar, Scott Teplin, Jen Urso, Kris Van Dessel, [[Kara Walker]] and Margaret Withers.
* ''Small'', group show: artists: [[Firelei Báez]], Emmanouil Bitsakis, Paul Chiappe, Claire Harvey, Tom Molloy, Rita Ponce de León, [[Peggy Preheim]], James Sheehan and Tinus Vermeersch 
* [[Lebbeus Woods]], Architect
* [[Len Lye]], ''Motion Sketch''
* Open Sessions, group show: artists:  Eleanor Aldrich, Derek Dunlop, Heather Hart, Yara Pina, Andrew Ross, Lauren Seiden, Barbara Weissberger. 
* [[Andrea Bowers]] i Suzanne Lacy''Drawing Lessons''
* Rashaad Newsome, ''FIVE'' 
* [[Deborah Grant]], ''Christ You Know it Ain't Easy!!''
* Dickinson/Walser ''Pencil Sketches''

==Management and funding==
The Drawing Center named Laura Hoptman, a former curator at [[The Museum of Modern Art]], Executive Director in 2018.<ref name=Smith2018/>

In August 2005, the Drawing Center was considered one of the groups to occupy the [[World Trade Center (2001–present)|World Trade Center]]. The plan was scrapped, and then the center's leadership spent a couple of years exploring a move to the [[South Street Seaport]], where it planned to build a $60 million museum.<ref name="Carol Vogel 2011"/> By 2010 the museum decided to stay put and expand its Wooster Street home.<ref name="Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look"/>

Also in 2005, it was among 406 [[New York City]] arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the [[Carnegie Corporation]], which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/city-groups-get-bloomberg-gift-of-20-million.html |title=City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million |first=Sam |last=Roberts |author-link=Sam Roberts (newspaper journalist) |date=Jul 6, 2005 |access-date=Aug 30, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |url=http://carnegie.org/sub/news/anon2005.html |title=Carnegie Corporation of New York Announces Twenty Million Dollars in New York City Grants |date=July 5, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310235744/http://carnegie.org/sub/news/anon2005.html |archive-date=March 10, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> For the 2012 renovation, the [[Lower Manhattan Development Corporation]] gave a $3 million grant, one of its largest contributions toward a single construction project.<ref name="Same Museum, but a Brand-New Look"/>

As of 2011, attendance was at 35,000 visitors a year.<ref name="Carol Vogel 2011"/> As of 2018, the center attracted 55,000 visitors a year.<ref name=Smith2018/>

==References==
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==External links==
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