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Armory Week 2016: A Pile of Great
I’ve no solid empirical evidence at all to substantiate a claim with which I’d like to open this sequence of images of, and a bit of commentary on, last week’s art fairs. While it did occur to me that...
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Puzzles & Gems (And Maybe Skip the First Paragraph)
Tucked into a not exactly bustling block of western Crown Heights, Gridspace is yet another gem among Brooklyn’s many practically impractical, and therefore particularly wonderful art venues. That is,...
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Nuts & Bolts of MONTH2MONTH
Artists, cultural critics and occasional collaborators Jennifer Dalton and Bill Powhida are launching a new public art project very soon, and it’s a most compelling one. It’s called MONTH2MONTH, and...
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Getting Seaworthy: Offshore Residency
If you’re an artist who has the time and, often, financial wherewithal to afford yourself a residency somewhere, the good news is that there are loads of them out there. The bad news is the same:...
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Summer Museum Preview
Here’s a selection of current and forthcoming exhibitions worth adding to your summer calendars. A few of them will even allow you to take in some sun. A couple might give you reason to take tissues...
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Observations Up & Down
A number of noteworthy exhibits opened in and around Bushwick in recent weeks. At Victori+Mo, Langdon Graves has transformed the entire gallery into a somewhat blindingly pink,...
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Art, Systems, Critique: A Conversation with For Freedoms Super PAC
The brainchild of creative agents and political cognoscenti Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, For Freedoms has been heralded as the first artist-run super PAC, an intriguing and very timely...
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More Her Side of Things: SOHO20 in 2016
Founded in the early 1970s by a group of 20 artists hoping to further their own careers and those of female artists in general by sharing their resources and working collectively, SOHO20, a true NYC...
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An August Art Agenda (& Exes)
Perhaps you’ve heard that the typically hyperactive art scene in our fine town slows down a bit over the summer, especially during the month of August. It’s true, it does. Quite significantly,...
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Get Yours Now: Art Opportunities
The relative slowdown of arts-related matters in August recently prompted me to put together a long, admittedly meandering list of items you might want to add to what could nonetheless be quite a...
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Turbans & Tolerance: The Sikh Project
Coming soon to the exhibition spaces of the Sikh Coalition in downtown Manhattan is The Sikh Project, a portrait show and sociocultural essay of sorts by British photographers Amit and Naroop. It’s a...
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Histories, Trash, Erotica, Death: A (Fine) Fall Museum Preview
Prepare for the recently dormant yet typically quite lively art gallery circuits in our fine town to get jolted back into activity this week with hundreds of openings scattered around the boroughs....
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Gallery Rounds: Up & Underway
The new exhibition season in NYC is not yet a week old, but it’s fair to say that it’s already, in a quantitative sense, well underway. That is, there were just enough gallery openings last week to...
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Spotlit: The TSA Network
“Night Flight” at TSA NY. Image courtesy TSA NY. Artist-run galleries can take many forms and be administered in many ways, especially when they’re partnered or collaborative affairs of some sort, or...
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Gallery Rounds: Heavily BK
There was a point earlier this month when I realized I’d seen 82 new gallery shows in ten days. I know, what a slacker! Anyway, seeing all of those and a handful more since then has prompted me to do...
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Bushwick Open Studios: Field Notes & Takeaways
It was a somewhat grey and rainy, at times even almost chilly weekend in the city, but none of that would’ve registered as drab or a drag at all if you were one of the thousands upon thousands of...
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Spotlit: The Chimney
It is a vessel of darkness and a conveyor of light. It glimmers and it dims. It hangs and sits. It hums and looms. It heaves, and it breathes. It seems to absorb, and it seems to sigh, and it seems,...
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About & Around: A Round About
Eight grey horizontal planes stretch from foreground to background like a wide set of stairs leading only to a wall, or like a set of bleachers pushed up against one, in the opening moments of Buster,...
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Philogyny First: Female Artists Heat Up Winter
I probably don’t need to open this post with a lengthy, serpentinely worded commentary or critique on how the generally befuddling, definitively unseemly, ethically incongruous, historically anomalous...
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Salves & Salvos: 2016 Art Highlights
(All photos by Paul D’Agostino.) As many other recent year-end roundups of all sorts have similarly stated, the year 2016 will be recollected for quite some time for a great many reasons, and perhaps...
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