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Here and There: Maya Lin at Pace Gallery
One of the most elegant and thought-provoking exhibitions this year is Maya Lin’s Here and There. Lin became the center of controversy in 1981 when she won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Still a student, and virtually unknown, her design was chosen from over 1,400 submissions. I remember seeing an exhibit of […]
Becky Franco: Chosen at SOHO20
Being an artist is all about vulnerability. Some artists are pretty afraid of this, creating a product that feels very closed-off and protected from the prying eyes of their viewers. Becky Franco is not one of these artists. Her large realist works on canvas are now on view through May 18th at SOHO20 Gallery in […]
In Conversation: Conrad Bakker interviewed by Leah Oates
Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts or did you begin as something else? Where there other artists in your family? Conrad Bakker: As a child I was always curious about the world and interested in making useless things, but […]
May Fairs, NYC 2013
These days a new art fair seems to pop up every month. May is no exception. Showcasing some of the most well known artists and galleries are Pool, Frieze, NADA, Parallax AF, Verge, Cutlog, Red Dot, and Pulse. Make it out to see these exhibitions, but make sure you bring a snack. The volume of excellent […]
Make Your Own Luck with Ballast Projects
In collaboration with The New Museum and The They Co, one of our favorite independent curators has an exciting show open from May 4th-11th at the Old School, 233 Mott St. in Nolita. Adam Mignanelli of Ballast Projects has really been killin’ it lately. This show seems to be another exhibition that very worth our […]
Stefan Sagmeister’s The Happy Film Book
Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister’s pitch book for The Happy Film fits in my palm—it is short and sweet, bright and charmingly … delightful. The book works to communicates Sagmeister’s desire to answer and visualize the following questions through film, “Is it possible to train your mind in the same way you train your body?” and, “Can […]
No Medium by Craig Dworkin
This world, and the world of art in particular, is so often filled with largely superfluous gestures that sometimes the best work attracts attention for displaying an economy of gesture. The best of this work can go so far as to display little or no gesture at all. Craig Dworkin’s latest book from MIT press […]
Selections from The Tribeca Film Festival 2013
by Tony Zaza For movie fans who are partial to movies without closure, the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival provides many good movies without complete endings. You can use your imagination to project a conclusion. Perhaps life has become so subtle and arbitrary, endings are no longer relevant. What might matter more is what brings people […]
Jeffrey Scott Matthews Interviews Mark Sengbusch
Mark Sengbusch is a painter, curator, and Sudoku Master living in New York City. Jeffrey Scott Mathews is a painter, writer and musician based in Brooklyn. They met in Detroit, in 1997 at College for Creative Studies. They later studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art where they picked up on a dialogue that will carry […]
John Zurier at Peter Blum
When it comes to scale, an artist usually knows his or her strengths and sticks to one size or another. It’s a rarity to find an individual who has compelling aesthetic chops both when creating smaller as well as larger works. John Zurier is one individual who seems comfortable creating reductive abstractions in any size […]
