Alex Katz at the Guggenheim Museum Decades ago, when I lived in Soho, a familiar sight was the sweatshirt-hooded Alex Katz on his daily early morning jog. Running into his wife, the beautiful Ada Katz, was always a pleasure - her warm smile exuded genuine charm. When...
Returning to New York on Air Fair Weekend, I missed Independent, the Armory and Spring Break while nursing an airplane cold (luckily, not covid). However, as I recuperated, I visited several local downtown galleries, abounding with great autumnal energy. I began with...
Marina Adams What Are You Listening to? LGDR (Top Photo) I first saw Marina Adams' bold, beautiful abstractions in a 1998 show at the wonderful "Art in General. The group show," Crossing Lines", curated by Denyse Thomasos and Madeline Weinrib, also introduced me to...
The Whitney Biennial is big, sprawling across the entire museum, featuring 59 artists and bravura curation. As a poet, I loved the way poetry and words thread throughout the exhibition, from Renee Green’s 1989 Space Poem, Crayola bright flags printed with epigrams,...
Women's history month in New York City heralds two amazing women artists whose long inspirational careers are celebrations of feminism and creativity. Maggi Hambling Real-Time Marlborough Gallery Maggi Hambling suffered a heart attack last week on the eve of her first...
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art. Here is an arbitrary selection of current offerings in and around NYC. Carrie Mae Weem’s magnificent installation, “The Shape of Things” at the Armory just closed,...
Ilka Scobie trawls through the best art exhibitions New York currently has to offer. Scobie is a New York poet and art critic. Her publications include books, Any Island (Soncino Press) There for the Taking (For Zoas Press) Journals: Long Shot, New Observations,...
With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid vaccination) to tiny storefronts selling transgressive signage, the New York art world is in full and masked swing. Galleries are opening, and...
"Every religion has Nuns and Monks," Ugo Rondinone remarks as we finish up bowls of miso soup. We are in my Noho loft, enjoying an early Sunday supper. Getting back to Ugo's upcoming show "Nuns & Monks" opening at the Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea, and his current...