Wednesday, April 16 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Lebbeus Woods Architect and Len Lye | Motion Sketch. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Talk and book signing, 6:30 pm: Richard Relaldi | Touching Strangers. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Information. Donation/$5 The SVA MFA Designers as Authors + Entrepreneurs presents, 12:30 pm: Venture | Design Entrepreneurs Thesis Forum. SVA … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from Brasília, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in your hometown? A: No matter how many times I had the opportunity of living in other cities and countries, I always ended returning to Brasília somehow! But because of that I suspect I can appreciate better the advantages and quirks of this strange town. Brasília can be a … Read the full Story >>
Among the high points of the AIPAD show in March were two large installations of photographs by Matthew Brandt. Between his work shown at Yossi Milo Gallery and at M+B, Brandt commanded more wall space than any other artist at the fair. Tonight a show of new work opens at Yossi Milo, with large-scale unique prints from his ongoing studies of the natural world. … Read the full Story >>
Thursday June 26 5-6 pm: Karen Finley | Performance / Let Me Bitch A Little at Freight + Volume As part of her current exhibition, Karen Finley will perform her spoken word piece, Let Me Bitch A Little followed by a walk-through of the show, More Desperate Than Ever, which closes in two weeks. The centerpiece of this show is a large ongoing … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from the Golden State, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Utah? A: I grew up in the Bay Area (Berkeley/El Cerrito) and Salt Lake City, Utah, and spending 10 years living in South and Central America, I recently returned to Sandy, Utah. Utah is a beautiful place with lots of types of landscapes. The thing … Read the full Story >>
June 17: Branching Out: Tree as Community Hosts Anchored by an exhibition of six site-specific sculptures by emerging New York artists, Power of Trees will be experienced by visitors across the Garden through visual art, performances, and special events as well as simply by walking the grounds. The central art exhibition of this program, Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts, features six site-specific sculptural … Read the full Story >>
Art Fairs/Special Events Wednesday, April 9-Saturday, April 12: BEPAD | Harper's Books, Fulton Ryder, and Karma at the Lowell Hotel. 28 East 63rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Thursday, April 10-Friday, April 11 Symposium |Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Information. Thursday, April 10-Saturday,April 12 Sculpture City Saint Louis presents: Monument| Anti-Monument, a … Read the full Story >>
Q: Originally from [where?] what are some of your favorite things about living and working in [your current locale]? A: I was born in Hong Kong and moved to England when I was 13. One of my favourite things to do in London is to visit galleries and museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum; aside from the exhibits themselves, the atmosphere and the architecture … Read the full Story >>
Last Friday this eerie head materialized above the Shibuya district as part of the 2021 Tokyo Tokyo Festival organized in advance of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Titled “Masayume,” which translates to “prophetic dream,” the hot air balloon piece was launched from a park in the busy financial and shopping district in the western section of the city. Above: "Masayume" by the artist collective [mé] … Read the full Story >>
For many urbanites, gallery hopping is the only way to beat holiday overindulgences. So lace 'em up and hit the bricks: here's a selected list of shows you won't want to miss. Fa la! NEW YORK, NY Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video The International Center of Photography Closing January 7, 2007 New Photography 2006 Museum of Modern Art Closing January … Read the full Story >>
With After Nature, an exhibition that opened yesterday at the New Museum, the arts of installation and appropriation have come together throughout the museum's main exhibition space. An apocalyptic view of nature spoiled by war, pollution and other human intervention, the show was curated by Massimiliano Gioni, who took his inspiration from a 1988 prose poem of the same title by W.G. Sebald. … Read the full Story >>
Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond Planning ahead: October 19-21 The Brooklyn Conference | Inspiring Social Change. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Info Planning ahead: October 30 Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts presents: Immigration Panel for Artists, 5:30 pm. JAMS, 820 8th Avenue, 34th Floor, NY, NY Info Tuesday, October 10 Lauren Greenfield, talk, 6:30 pm. International Center of … Read the full Story >>
Maurizio Cattelan | Sunday at Gagosian In this new installation, Cattelan doubles down on his response to economic inequality in America, using precious metal to deconstruct the country’s relationship to the accessibility of weapons (a condition against which privilege affords no defense). Panels of stainless steel, plated in 24-karat gold, have been “modified” by gunfire. The components’ formerly smooth surfaces are left riddled … Read the full Story >>
ALTHOUGH DUMBO, THAT PRECIOUS WEDGE down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass in Brooklyn, has seen the exodus of many of its pioneering artists and galleries due to skyrocketing rents, it is still home to a number of top notch galleries, performance spaces, shops and restaurants. If you haven't yet made a visit, now is the time to go. Power Move: This week marks … Read the full Story >>
Portrait or still-life? Seventeenth-century Dutch master or twenty-first-century photographer? Reality or artifice? These are some of the thoughts that drift through my mind as I contemplate the latest group of photographs by Richard Learoyd that will go on view in New York tomorrow. Learoyd’s unique life-size photographs were first seen here in 2010 at a solo show at McKee Gallery, and also represented by a single portrait at the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 8, 6-8 pm: Geles Cabrera | Museo Escultórico at Americas Society The first solo exhibition in the United States dedicated to Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, one of the most prominent female sculptors of her country, will feature artwork created over 40 years of her career and will be on view through July 30, 2022.Above: Geles Cabrera in the museum of her … Read the full Story >>
Bill Cunningham, the photographer loved for his long-running coverage and commentary on street fashions for the New York Times, is also a cultural anthropologist and an architectural historian. All of his interests combined in an eight-year project called Facades, now on view at the New-York Historical Society. In the late 1960s, when Cunningham began work on Facades, New York was in … Read the full Story >>
And what is the use of a book, without pictures, or conversation? Before slipping down the rabbit hole and into a world of fantastical transformations, so the most famous reader of all time posed one of the greatest questions of all time. In the 150th anniversary year of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, exhibitions here and abroad, from Kansas to Kobe, Japan, are … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 29 Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Uphill Both Ways | Pose and Revok. Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 25th Street, NY, NY. In conjunction with their first show in New York, the artists will also collaborate on a large-scale mural on the famed Goldman Properties wall located on Houston and Bowery streets, in lower Manhattan.Although style, medium and techniques vary between the two artists, their work is … Read the full Story >>
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being fashionable or successful.In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.My favorite smell is the first smell of spring in New York. Soon after graduating from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), Andy Warhol (1928–1987) moved to New York City and immediately found assignments for the fashion magazines. His work debuted in Glamour … Read the full Story >>
