Objet D’Art: The Mask of Fashion
February 12, 2015
The fact that Bozidar Brazda executed a show of wearable clothing over the last month without realizing his opening coincided with New York Fashion Week signals the artist’s subconscious knack for tapping into his surroundings.
10 Picks from The Outsider Art Fair 2015
January 30, 2015
In its 23rd year in New York, the Outsider Art Fair is larger than ever with over 50 galleries from dozens of international cities.
Playing With Nudes
January 28, 2015
Known for her life-size wood cutouts of creatures, humans, and objects that expand on her background as a theater set designer, the artist Z Behl has shaped a practice that draws on myths and fairytales while it creates new ones.
A Female Pheromone Hotbox
January 22, 2015
Opening tonight at Steven Kasher Gallery, “Pheromone Hotbox” presents the work of five young female photographers whose practices focus on depicting other women.
Stick ‘Em Up
January 16, 2015
With art e-commerce sites in full force, often with all the fiscal excess of a live auction, it’s refreshing to see a new one taking a smarter, more altruistic stance.
Wyatt Kahn’s Proper Proposal
January 12, 2015
Current art world phenom Wyatt Kahn, whose fragmented canvases blur the line between painting and sculpture, transcends traditional roles once again as curator for Rachel Uffner Gallery’s group show, “Proper Nouns.”
Objet D’Art: Happy Snarkitecture Holidays
December 19, 2014
Crafted to simulate a crumbling marble sculpture, the chunk of holiday decor pictured above could only be the handiwork of Snarkitecture’s Daniel Arsham, with some help from his partner, Alex Mustonen
The Digital Creator
December 19, 2014
Watching Jacolby Satterwhite’s fast-paced 3-D digital animations, viewers should be prepared to relinquish their grasp on reality.
The Abstractionist
December 17, 2014
At the mountaintop outdoor show “Elevation 1049” in Gstaad, Switzerland last winter, artist Claudia Comte brought the village’s hockey into her playful world of 3D geometric abstractions.
Just a Thing
December 12, 2014
Nearly a century after Marcel Duchamp displayed his first readymade, academic and curator Robert Hobbs sets out to explore the philosophical meaning of “the thing” versus “the thing-in-itself.” The culmination of his efforts, an exhibition aptly titled “The Thing and Thing-in-Itself,” opens tonight at Andrea Rosen Gallery.
Boychild
December 10, 2014
Performance art gets very 21st century under the manic, techno musings of Boychild.
Peter Russo and Lucy Ives
December 8, 2014
Founded in 2007 by a collective of writers, designers and artists, including current director Peter Russo, Triple Canopy is an online arts and literature magazine based in academia but expressed with an internet-era wit and a heavy use of multimedia.
Double Takes at First Edition/Second Thoughts
December 1, 2014
Tonight at Christie’s New York, 75 original works will go up for auction. This wouldn’t be unusual, except tonight’s lots are objects not typically regarded as fine art.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Latest, and a Poem
November 25, 2014
London-based artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye made her American debut in New York with a 2010 solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery, closely followed by an acclaimed exhibition at The Studio Musuem in Harlem. When she had her second show with the gallery in 2012, her style was familiar: quiet, poignant portraits of black men and women […]
Glenn Kaino, on Concepts and Coral
November 18, 2014
In a small space at the biennial exhibition Prospect.3 in New Orleans, seven aquariums in artist Glenn Kaino’s installation Tank give off a mechanical hum, generating a white noise that creates an oddly comforting background to their ethereal, fluorescent glows.
Visiting the Salon Art + Design Fair
November 13, 2014
Highlights from the third annual Salon Art + Design Fair at New York’s Park Avenune Armory.
Objet D’Art: Iggy
November 13, 2014
Part cat, part mythical fawn, and part antique lamp, Iggy came into being at the hands of Chicago-based artist Jessica Joslin.
10 Picks from Independent Projects New York
November 8, 2014
Whether a person is buying or not, art fairs are great for perusing the latest and greatest on the market. In essence, they’ve become sprawling pop-ups with a blend and diversity of work impossible to find or replicate elsewhere.
Objet D’Art: Eclipse Clock
October 14, 2014
Collaborating with PK Shop, the independently curated subsidiary retail store of Paul Kasmin Gallery, artist Ivan Navarro saw an opportunity of cosmic proportions.
On the Surface of Alex Kwartler
October 14, 2014
For his show at Nathalie Karg Gallery, which opened last night, artist Alex Kwartler presents two diverging series of large scale works made over the last year.