Author Archives: jolanta
Soumaya Museum: Move over, Mr Getty
Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, today opens the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, which will house his mind-blowing collection of art. Juan Carretero visits It was no small party in Mexico City the other evening. What else would you expect when the host is Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in the world by […]
No Man’s Land
Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]
No Man’s Land
Churner and Churner is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition: “No Man’s Land” by Joianne Bittle. “No Man’s Land” brings together two series of Bittle’s work: a recently completed group of paintings of jackrabbits (2008-2011) and the first of a series of portable dioramas. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in New […]
Resurrection
RESURRECTION: A NIGHT OF POETRY, PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ART Saturday April 26, 2011 from 6 to Midnight, Performances start at 8pm $5.00 DONATION CASH BAR RESURRECTION is a Multimedia Performance Poetry by New York City’s Latin@ avant-garde elite, incorporating spoken word, dance, music, visual effects and art exhibit. Presented by The Organization […]
Pricy Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein Drawing Acquired for $10 Expected to Achieve over $1,000,000 at Christie’s Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drawing for a Kiss V.” The 6 by 6 inch graphite and wax drawing will be auctioned May 11, 2011. AP Photo/Christie’s Images Ltd 2011. By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP).- The invitation to a 1960s “happening” was intriguing: […]
Cherry Blossom Season
1 April 2011 until 3 April 2011Friday, April 1 . Sunday, April 3. 2011 Preview: Thursday, March 31 *invitation-onlyLocation: 1-9-11 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku 106-0031 Tokyo JapanSite: www.artfairtokyo.cominfo@artfairtokyo.com ART FAIR TOKYO is the largest fair of its kind in Japan, featuring high-quality domestic and international galleries covering a wide range of genres and […]
Cuban Visions
NEW YORK, NY (February 9, 2011)–Cuban Visions is a contemporary Cuban art exhibition that will open to the public from May 26 through June 1, 2011 during a citywide celebration of the Cuban culture in New York City. Cuban Visions aims to present Cuban culture and reality through contemporary art that transcends political differences, updates […]
Speculative Features
“Speculative Features,” curated by Regine Basha for SculptureCenter, will be on exhibit at the Lexington Avenue offices of Bloomberg, the financial data giant. The exhibit features the work of four sculptors that, in conjunction, address the complicated “futurological” nexus of economics, the growth of information technology, politics, and pop culture. The exhibition’s thesis statement reads: […]
Cameron Hayes @ Feldman Gallery
“What happens when pretend politicians pretend to be terrorists reports the deleterious effect on Muslim girls after local politicians use “dirty tricks” to scapegoat Muslims in order to gain votes. In a brightly-colored passage, young girls, now afraid to wear scarves, search for their identities in school lockers. Turned flat, the lockers could also be traps. With […]
Free Women of Color
This season, the Brooklyn Museum acquired an important, paradigm-shifting oil painting by Italian painter Agostino Brunias. The piece, entitled “Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape,” depicts women of mixed race on the Caribbean island of Dominica, which changed hands multiple times between the powers of Britain and France during […]
