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 >>
With the Whitney Museum of American Art opening its new survey Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back on Monday, this week’s DART Artist Q&A features an interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, 1977. Warhol’s famously laconic speaking style often failed in its attempt to present him as a dumb blond; see for … Read the full Story >>
With her magically exuberant color palette, Aliza Nisenbaum tells human stories: painting people, individually or in groups, with their countenance, posture, and immediate surroundings organically composed to depict their connections with their families ,homes, and communitie. Above: Pedacito de Sol (Vero y Marissa), 2022 In this exhibition the artist’s years-long engagement with people at the Queens Museum and its neighborhood, Corona, highlights Nisenbaum’s personal … Read the full Story >>
Fiber arts—a newer name for “womens’ work”, is everywhere in museums and galleries—but nowhere is the idea of craft as art as environmentally equal to work made in metal and bronze by men more beautifully realized than it is today at Madison Square Park. Sheila Pepe, a feminist and queer artist whose elaborate web-like structures have been seen in New York in galleries and museums, … Read the full Story >>
Thursday, January 15, 6-9pm: Anita Kunz | Evolution at Philippe Labaune Philippe Evolution, a solo exhibition by Canadian artist and longtime AI contributor, Anita Kunz, brings together decades of work that explores evolution as a living system, one shaped by continual change, expansion, and recalibration. Kunz is internationally recognized for her editorial illustrations for such magazines as: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and … Read the full Story >>
On permanent view |Terminal B commission at LaCuardia Airport The Public Art Fund celebrates its collaboration with LaGuardia Gateway Partners for the permanent installation of LaGuardia Vistas, a window mural by Sabine Hornig for the new Terminal B. The 42’ h x 268’ w transparent photo-collage fills an expansive glass façade, allowing sunlight to immerse visitors in a kaleidoscopic wash of color, image, and … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through December 14: Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Howardena Pindell’s decades-long career seems to be an effort to map and capture this secret order of the universe. Her enigmatic works revolve around what remains unseen and unexplained, blending abstract intuition with the rigor of scientific observation. Moving fluidly across media, her practice combines elements of mystery with a precision that recalls the … Read the full Story >>
Continuing through January 29, 2022: Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice, Haines Gallery Meghann Riepenhoff, whose work was most recently seen in NYC at the New York Public Library, in 2019, lives and works in Bainbridge Island, WA. She creates her camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the elements, placing paper coated with homemade emulsion directly within the landscape. As they make contact with photographic materials, weather and water … Read the full Story >>
Wednesday, June 12: Last chance for Transparent Shades | Elizabeth Murray at Gladstone Elizabeth Murray: Drawings (1974-2006) presents over sixty rarely seen works, curated by Kathy Halbreich, who co-organized the first retrospective of her work, Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings in 1987, which originated at the Dallas Museum of Art and traveled to major institutions nationally. Halbreich once again contributes to shaping Murray’s … Read the full Story >>
Saturday, June 19, marks the anniversary of what we know as Juneteenth. According to the Smithsonian Institution, in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and over 250,000 enslaved Africans were declared free by the executive decree known as General Order No. 3. Today, Juneteenth celebrations take place largely in the form of regional parades, … Read the full Story >>
Saturday-Sunday October 21-22: Open House New York Weekend “A pubic celebration of New York and the power of place! The 21st edition of Open House New York Weekend festival will offer a mix of in-person experiences, self-guided explorations, and digital content—inviting you to get an insider’s look at everything from single rooms, studios, factories, and public spaces to entire buildings, blocks, bike corridors, and waterways. Above: … Read the full Story >>
