Continuing: Lauren Halsey | The Met Museum Roof Commssion Lauren Halsey has created a full-scale architectural structure imbued with the collective energy and imagination of the South Central Los Angeles Community where she was born and continues to work. Titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), the installation is designed to be inhabited by The Met’s visitors, … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, May 15: Open House with Robert Kushner, 3:00-5:00 pm Robert Kushner | I [Heart] Matissee, at DC Moore Gallery Among the varied influences in Robert Kushner’s oeuvre, from Japanese screen painting to American modernism, Henri Matisse’s influence has often been a continual through-line as Kushner finds resonance in Matisse’s inclination toward design, love of pattern, beauty, expressive drawing, and vibrant color. Above: Suzani and … Read the full Story >>
Art as Infrastructure: Alamo [“The Astor Place Cube”] Tony Rosenthal (1914-2009) created "Alamo" in 1967 as a temporary installation commissioned by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, but its stay became permanent after local residents petitioned the city. It is made of six eight-by-eight-foot panels of Cor-Ten steel and weighs about 1,800 pounds. Its surface features geometric indentations and grooves, and it turns … Read the full Story >>
Powerhouse Arts opens its doors to the public on Sunday, May 21 following a 7-year rehabilitation. This center for Brooklyn art community makers offers facilities that include a metal fabrication shop, ceramics studio, and print shop. These vital, affordable manufacturing resources for artists are accompanied by a 13,000-square-foot events space that will showcase creative work on a singularly dramatic stage: the Great Hall, formerly the … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18: LIC Arts Open Had enough of global art fairs and commercial vibes? Join LIC Arts for 5 days filled with art, music, performances, and more. Immerse yourself in the local art scene and discover the zeitgeist of this vibrant art community, with Open Studios on May 17 & 18th from 12pm - 6pm. Whether you're an art enthusiast, … Read the full Story >>
As monument-toppling has become a belated cultural signifier, even more so given the BLM / anti-trump / and COVID-19 protests, one of NYCs most reliable cultural weathervanes has again risen to the task. Currently at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City, Queens, Monuments Now, curated by the park’s director of exhibitions, Jesse Wilcox, suggests that artists have been fighting the fight long … Read the full Story >>
Using her mastery of technology and careful study of BPCA’s commitment to environmental sustainability, Shuli Sadé created an innovative, temporal installation that hopes to bridge the potential of technology and bring viewers close to nature in a new, site-specific augmented reality (AR) installation created for Battery Park City Authority (BPCA).. “Behind the origin of this project is the wish to share the discovery of … Read the full Story >>
Friday, March 31-Sunday, April 2: AIPAD | The Photography Show The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, now in its 42nd edition, is the longest running exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium. The fair will feature cutting-edge contemporary and modern photography, and exemplary 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, and new media presented by its 44 member galleries. The VIP preview is Thursday, noon … Read the full Story >>
Looking ahead: Works on paper by Georgia O’Keeffe at MoMA Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time, the first exhibition to investigate the artist’s works on paper made in series, using charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and graphite, presents more than 120 pieces created over more than four decades. The artist explored forms and phenomena—from abstract rhythms to nature’s cycles—working in series that sometimes gave rise to … Read the full Story >>
Sunday, April 19, 1:30, Risha Gorig | The Journey at Prospect Park’s Boathouse The Journey depicts a flock of neon-pink kinetic birds suspended 15 feet in the air, wings catching and releasing with the wind. The work deploys allegory and ingenious engineering in equal measure, conjuring the act of migration as both literal phenomenon and lived condition.The installation is a reminder that destination … Read the full Story >>
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset |The Hive, at the Moynihan Train Hall Public Art Fund was invited by Empire State Development to develop and direct a program of ambitious art installations for three prominent sites within the Train Hall. In keeping with the redesigned building’s architectural integration of old and new, the art program commissioned three of the world’s leading artists to … Read the full Story >>
Frieze New York 2018—the seventh edition of the 'London import—has delivered on its promises for this year. From the commissioned Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter) by Adam Pendleton, which will fly over Randall’s Island Park until November to the Live program that features Lara Schnitger’s Suffragette City, a hybrid performance (above) in its New York debut, the fair has become as much … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, February 16, 6:00-8:00pm: Posturing | Kathy Osborn & Bradley Wood at Susan Eley The word “posturing” is defined as calculated or affectatious behavior: aware of oneself and projecting a deliberate, specified image. For Kathy Osborn—her posturing is generated from a stage, a scene. She collects vintage dollhouses and sets up intricate vignettes in her studio. Each is precisely lit to add drama to … Read the full Story >>
This weekend a major exhibition of works from the Mexican avant-garde opens at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. México 1900–1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, and the Avant-Garde, which presents more than 200 works, including some of Rivera’s famous murals and pieces by lesser-known Mexican artists, premiered in Paris last October. The Dallas exhibition, its only appearance in the U.S., … Read the full Story >>
True or False / Answers Below: 1) Those vanilla beans you scrape into your homemade ice cream are from an orchid plant2) Charles Darwin further proved his theory of evolution using an orchid that is named for him3) Orchids only grow in hot, humid climates. That’s why it’s so hard to grow them in hot, dry city apartments Orchids are some of the … Read the full Story >>
February 14, 6-8pm: Printers Picks | A Look at Priorities and Processes Why an artist makes and should make prints, how prints are made, and the business of print publishing have been the main topics of conversation over the last fifteen years of working with David Krut in New York City, Johannesburg and London. As printers and publishers, the company has a unique perspective … 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 >>
Works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 Paris-2010 New York), an artist of international reknown, are currently on view at MoMA/New York, SFMOMA, and at MassMOCA, at last count. Much has been written about the motivations that propelled her aggressive and multivalent art works that range from massive bronze sculptures to small books stitched out of cloth. Using the body as a primary form, Bourgeois explored … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, November 9, 7-11pm: The Party at Angel Orensanz News from the Home Office: It's a book launch, exhibition and video salon-screening with open bar! AI-AP’s annual event is set for Thursday, November 9th, 2023 at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, just off East Houston on New York's Lower East Side Join the creative community and celebrate with the winners in American Photography 39, American Illustration 42 and … Read the full Story >>
I loved the peace and quiet the pandemic lockdown afforded me. Of course, I feel badly for all the people who were suffering with the loss of loved ones—that goes without saying. During the quiet time I found that I could get a lot of work done without any distraction—it provided me with pure undivided attention to create new work in uncharted territory. I … Read the full Story >>
