The Detroit Museum of Art, which narrowly escaped having treasures from its collections thrown on the auction block to help save the city from its financial crisis last year, is now enjoying a moment in the sun. The current exhibition, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit, could not have come at a better moment. Timed exhibition tickets for this proclaimed blockbuster are selling out, … Read the full Story >>
Ink in this Sunday, May 23rd, for an afternoon of art and festivities on the Lower East Side. The Rema Hort Mann 15th Annual Art Crawl is on - and once again, it will bring an insider view of this eclectic and expanding art 'hood. Savvy tour guides, including painters Jules de Balincourt and Christopher Mir, will introduce small groups to new cutting-edge contemporary … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, May 7, 5:30-8:30: Open Studios at NY Academy of Art This is the last chance to meet the 2026 thesis students before they pack up and depart their studios. Explore over 80 MFA studios, meet the artists, and preview the MFA 2026 Thesis Exhibition. Works can be seen now at nyaa.edu/shop. RSVP required for open studio visits Save the date: May … Read the full Story >>
The Fall DART List for photography in New York will hit your inbox next week. Unlike last September, when more than 40 photo shows opened on the first Thursday of the month, this year's offerings are a little more spread out - giving gallery hoppers a chance to pack more into their busy evenings. But for now, here's a select list of upcoming museum … Read the full Story >>
Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Vegetable Weapon-Mutton Hot Pot/Beijing, 2002, Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo. This just in from United Photo Industries: There's a New Town in Town. Wednesday, May 16 Book signing and reception, 5:30-7:30 pm. Henly on Safari | Julie Muszynski. Rizzoli Bookstore, 31 West 57th Street, NY, NY. Information. Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Under the Influence | The Art of Power … Read the full Story >>
July 24, 6pm: Fresh Cut at Bookstein Projects Summer exhibitions often feel like bouquets gathered from many gardens, and Fresh Cut at Bookstein Projects embraces that spirit with particular charm. Bringing together more than fifty artists from different generations, the exhibition celebrates the enduring pleasures of flowers, still lifes, and scenes drawn from everyday experience. Historic masters and contemporary voices mingle easily, revealing … Read the full Story >>
Unlike Wall Street, the art market is booming. So reports Souren Melikian in the July 31st edition of The International Herald Tribune. If that's true, then why are so many people on the front lines - art dealers, auction houses and artists - so worried? The substance of Melikian's piece, which is an update on a story he wrote in The New York … Read the full Story >>
Talk / Discussion / Performance Wednesday, January 6 Gallery Walkthrough with Wm. Hunt | Hunt's Three Ring Circus, 5:15 pm. 1235 Ave of the Americas Gallery/UBS Building, between 51st-52nd Streets, NY, NY. Also on Friday, January 8 at 10 am. Info. Thursday, January 7 Rochelle Feinstein Book Party, 6-8 pm. On Stellar Rays, 1 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Bartholomew Ryan on "Jim Shaw: … Read the full Story >>
When I daydream about summer on the beach vivid memories spent with friends, lovers or often alone appear. I imagine the sunshine against my skin, the smell of the ocean and the sound of waves crashing. I love standing at the point were the waves disappear into the sand-there I write my hopes and my sorrows, allowing the ocean to carry them away. Summer Sorrow is … Read the full Story >>
Closing January 7: Regarding Kimber at Cheim & Read Kimber Smith (1922-1981) had his first exhibition in New York in 1951, where his work was paired with Joan Mitchell’s. Smith’s effortless style [above] anticipates the work of influential artists such as Mary Heilmann, Richard Aldrich, and Joe Bradley The first exhibition of his works in NYC since 2011 was held at Cheim & Read's UES … Read the full Story >>
Since October 2003, Nina Berman has been making portraits of American soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq War. The series has been published in book form and is now on view at Jen Bekman, 6 Spring Street, NYC. The opening reception is tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. A Purple Heart is the badge of honor given to soldiers for their wounds, and … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through November 6th: Riccardo Veccchio | The 31 Degree Project, Open Studio 31 Degrees project gives visibility to environmental injustice through disparities in tree coverage in prosperous or marginalized neighborhoods in NYC, and sets out to work with city agencies, organizations and communities to plant trees in neighborhoods that need them most. Join Riccardo for the launch of this public, multi-site mapping … Read the full Story >>
"Pimp Your Bookcases" continues with Michael Foley, who has kept busy getting the vote out while his Lower East Side gallery is temporarily closed. Peggy Roalf: Just guessing that you might have more than one library: If so, how do they differ? Where are they located? And how do you manage your collection? Michael Foley: You are correct, Peggy! My man stash is in … Read the full Story >>
Best known to the general public for his New Yorker covers, artist Peter de Sève has done the public a favor by cleaning out his studio and making many of his originals available. Opening tonight at Philippe Labaune Gallery is a full-on retrospective of his works on paper. The selection on view spans de Sève's career, “providing clear insight into an illustrator who '’draws like a god'’, as Françoise … Read the full Story >>
The prestigious W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant is given each year to honor the legacy of a photographer whose passionate involvement with seeking the truth set an almost impossibly high bar for what photography can be. The Smith Fund websites states, Gene Smith was a loner, a driving and driven man, who bucked the system of which he was a part. Some say … Read the full Story >>
A full-page infographic decrying fraudulent practices in the olive oil industry, which ran in The New York Times Sunday Review on January 26th, came under scrutiny. As a writer responsible for my own fact-checking and typos, I sympathize with the artist [Nicholas Blechman], the editor, and he or she who was charged with writing this epic erratum [the longest I’ve ever seen the Paper of Record]—and not least, the … Read the full Story >>
The artist Interview—whether a Proustian Q&A; a workspace story; an exploration of the role of bookcases; or the current In the Studio With series—has long been a summer feature in DART. These stories delve into choices about life and work at the most personal level. One of my favorite questions: How do you know when the art is finished—or to stop working on it, … Read the full Story >>
Special Events Wednesday, April 1-Thursday, April 2 Fascisms Across Borders. The New School, Albert and Vera List Academic Center, 6 East 16th Street, NY, NY. Information. Friday, April 3-Saturday, April 4 Feminism and Architecture Part 2 | Women, Architecture and Academia, 9:30-5 pm. The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, NY, NY. Information. Lectures / Discussions / … Read the full Story >>
To say that the photography of Wayne Sorce (1946-2015) flies under the radar is hyperbole. This master of color photography, who worked at a time when anything not black-and-white guaranteed exclusion from the discussion of “fine art photography,” embraced urban chaos as his métier—in extraordinarily measured views of Chicago and New York. Mainly taken during the late 1970s and early 1980s, these vibrant, large-scale … Read the full Story >>
France’s pharmacy sign—a green neon cross fabricated in seemingly unlimited iterations across the land—is the country’s most ubiquitous logo. Sometimes it appears in a static—and in this case, stately—form, here at a deluxe pharmacy in Amiens [row one]. In the second row is an animated sign that provides weather and market reports along with the store’s business hours. In row three, nested crosses in different colors … Read the full Story >>
