It’s been a challenging time in New York City and art has provided some relief from politics. A recent roundup of three current and very different exhibitions left me feeling quietly inspired. Portia Munson’s shamanic show offers a blessed reprieve to the cold reality...
Exhilarating, eclectic and exhausting, New York hosted seven art fairs from March 3-6. Ranging from blue chip venues like AADA to intimate bohemian spaces like the tiny and international Salon Zurcher fair, it’s a time when art lovers, collectors and the curious...
“A true patriot must always be ready to defend his country from his government” - Herman Melville quote via StikFinished just before a torrential autumn downpour, Stik’s sixty foot Avenue A mural will grace the busy East Village corner for a...
Barely recovered from Venetian art overload, we arrived in Zurich just in time for Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s dinner for Ugo Rondinone’s show, “Soul.” The Zurich show is a continuation of his stone tribe of humanoid figures, first seen in New...
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IN 1965, Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) bought a beautiful red brick building on the auspicious corner of Lafayette Street and East 4th Street. The building, originally a chapel, was part of an orphanage, with the kid's dormitories demolished and turned into a...
Native New Yorker Lorna Simpson has creatively explored race, gender and history for over thirty years. First recognized in the 1980s for her conceptual photos, Simpson’s practice has encompassed collage, video, drawing, performance, sculpture, and now, painting....
It’s been a busy year for Brooklyn based artist Derrick Adams. When I met the charming multimedia artist at Swiss Beatz’ holiday party, the huge letters spelling out Derrick’s name were in celebration of his banner year. 2017 included solo shows at NYC’s Jack Tilton...
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” Oscar Wilde Twenty years in the planning, the Oscar Wilde Temple gloriously debuted in New York City’s Church of the Village. The artist duo David McDermott and Peter McGough have transformed the...