Last week, Ken Carbone emailed the news that he had completed his apple a day project, which has been unfolding on Instagram and Facebook for the past year. This is what he wrote: An apple a day. No. 365!!! [above, right] Mission accomplished! It has been a beautifully exhausting journey, in all the right ways. I learned to love the daily challenge of making art. It … Read the full Story >>
Unfixed—ideas, methods, materials—is what can be said to characterize the extraordinary output of Robert Rauschenberg. In Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules, a sweeping retrospective continuing at SFMOMA, this restless innovator’s contributions to the art of our own time registers in full. Visitors will experience the moment when Modern art made its exit, rules were swept aside, and friendships became collaborations, opening access to … Read the full Story >>
Through September 11: Dakota Modern | The Art of Oscar Howe at the National Museum of the America Indian in NYC This major retrospective introduces new generations to one of the twentieth century’s most innovative Native American painters. Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Yanktonai Dakota culture. He proved that art could be simultaneously modern … Read the full Story >>
September 6-8: 30th Anniversary Armory Show at the Javits A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary galleries to New York each year. Through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships and engaging public art activations, The Armory Show has played a significant role in global contemporary art. The … Read the full Story >>
Ruling families of the Renaissance, such as the Medici, exerted their influence through political intrigue, war and art, as can be seen in The Met’s presentation of The Medici: Portraits & Politics 1512-1570. American high culture, a construct of large institutions, mostly white, endowed by the wealth of corporate donors, also mostly white, is undergoing a radical shift, as consumers are beginning to … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday June 7: Sylvia Palacios Whitman | To Draw a Line with the Body at Americas Society Americas Society presents Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body, the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in the United States. Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist, who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary … Read the full Story >>
This exhibition. continuing at Garth Greenan Gallery through February 25, features five large-scale tipis and two sets of ceramic bullets from Luger’s series Rounds. “Indian Country,” Cannupa Hanska Luger writes, in unofficial US military terms, is used to refer to hostile territory in active war zones. From the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, the US government expanded westward, carrying out … Read the full Story >>
It’s Open Studios season in NYC, with hundreds of artists opening their doors for an intimate view of their work and process. Following are some of the upcoming events. Additional public art events are mixed in chronologically. Saturday, October 7, 2-3:30pm: Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard at Wave Hill Join exhibiting artists Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard in conversation with … Read the full Story >>
The Armory Show at the Javiatz Center, September 8-11 A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. With over 240 galleries from 30 countries, the 2022 edition features solo exhibitions of international artists at 16 galleries; FOCUS: Landscape Undone, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, presenting artists … Read the full Story >>
A few hours spent browsing art in the townhouse galleries that populate NYCs Upper East Side offers quiet contemplation of great art, mostly not under glass, along with a leisurely stroll along tree-lined streets with numerous choices for an espresso-bar rest stop. Following are my picks from a recent weekday afternoon. Unnatural Nature: Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Gallery Presenting myriad conceptual and formal … Read the full Story >>
One of the exhibition casualties of the Corona19 pandemic is the tightly focused, small, gemlike exhibition, Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings, organized by the Princeton Museum of Art. The exhibition, comprised of just 19 paintings, drawings and watercolors by Paul Cézanne [1839-1906], together with a number of black-and-white photographs of the sites where he made the works, opened on March 7, 2020, only … Read the full Story >>
Closing June 3: Public Access at Naval Cemetery Memorial Landscape The Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Landscape is 1.7-acre publicly accessible landscape that now servesas a point of respiteand reflectionalong the length ofa 14-milewaterfront greenway in Brooklyn. As a part of the Navy Yard, the sitehadbeenlargely off-limits and out-of-sightto the public since its use as a cemetery was decommissioned in the 1920’s. After a recent renovation, … Read the full Story >>
Continuing: Chuck Close | Portraits of Artists at Pace Prints Chuck Close (1940–2021) was a remarkably versatile and creative printmaker who utilized a wide range of techniques to render images of himself and his friends. In addition to his self portraits, the exhibition presents images in a variety of printing techniques that portray Close’s friends and fellow artists John Chamberlain, Philip Glass, Lyle … Read the full Story >>
An afternoon of gallery-hopping on the Upper East Side is a perfect cure if you are wishing you were in Europe. With its tree-lined streets, distinctive townhouses, major art museums, and Central Park defining its western edge, the neighborhood’s many contemporary art galleries offer a bracing view of some of the most compelling art of the past 50 years. Yesterday I grabbed an umbrella … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday July 10, 3-5pm: Sculptors Alliance Meetup | Thaddeus Moseley in City Hall Park Grab a friend and your sketchbook and join this fun, free Sculptors Alliance event. Meet in City Hall Park for a close look at Thaddeus Mosley’s new works in bronze, above, presented by the Public Art Fund. Accessible entrances are on the West side on the Broadway and Park … Read the full Story >>
Getting calendars and to-do lists organized so you have everything at your fingertips, anywhere, can seem like a big job. But there's a way, and nomadic illustrator Magoz has figured it out. If you follow his point-by-point method, you can work anywhere. Or play anywhere while keeping tabs on your projects. Here's a start: My Productivity System. How I Use a Calendar and a To-Do List … 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 >>
Neither Here Nor There, currently on view at RadiatorArts, in Long Island City, presents work by eight artists born in France who have made a home in New York City. Through mixed media, sculpture, photography and painting, the artists of Neither Here Nor There examine a state of being slightly “out of tune” and how their experience may have impacted their work over … Read the full Story >>
There are still some sunny days ahead to enjoy drawing and painting in the wild—as wild as it gets in the city. Following are some ideas for plein air painting and drawing and other ways to enjoy our parks and gardens. Plein Air Painters of NYC [above] is a free meetup founded by muralist and sculptor Insiya Pardiwala to build a community of artists dedicated to … Read the full Story >>
Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center returns to Rockefeller Center—opening this week and continuing through October 2, 2020. Loring Randolph, Director of Frieze NY, says, “So much has changed since our planned opening of this year’s Frieze Sculpture on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, April 22nd, but what has not waivered is Frieze and Rockefeller Center’s commitment to putting the art of our time in the … Read the full Story >>
