Author Archives: mauri
Holocaust Commemoration: Daniel Libeskind on the Art of Memory
World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the master planner for Ground Zero and the architect of one of Europe’s most visited museums, the Jewish Museum Berlin, explains the role that memory played in his work. He also speaks about the acute sense of responsibility he feels when accepting commissions for projects addressing Jewish history, to create […]
Jim Gaylord Interviewed by Christian Maychack
Jim Gaylord, Call on the Carpet, 2013, gouache on cutout paper, 36 x 50 inches courtesy of the artist and Jeff Bailey Gallery CHRISTIAN MAYCHACK: I was thinking about the title of your last show with Gregory Lind, Skipping Over Damaged Area, and about that sort of technological breakdown that happens with the damaged […]
School of Death: Cabinet, Critchley, and Family Business
“If the examined life is not worth living, then is death not worth examining?” It’s a clever thing to postulate, and this is precisely the program of a new collaboration featuring Cabinet Magazine with Philosopher Simon Critchley at Family Business of 520 West 21st street. The project bears the ominous title School of Death and […]
William Crump Interviewed by Leah Oates
William Crump, Rise After Rise Bow the Phantoms Behind Me linen, brass, glass, gouache, flashe, wood frame, various dimensions, 2012 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? […]
Duchamp’s Fountain: A Psychic Retort to the Functionless Armory
After much duress and rhetoric, Fountain by Duchamp as lowly as it once appeared, has been chastened by Meister Eckhart, who proclaimed: “And behold! All in One.” Not merely a gaff of raw Dadaist vulgarity, but a heightened amplification usurping the serene bypass taken by artists on the aftermath of Duchamp’s storm of acrimony. R. […]
Kinesthetics: Art Imitating Life
Utilizing many different kinds of energy from standard electricity to solar cells, the artists in this exhibition create sculptures that engage the viewer by seemingly coming alive. Sculpture’s approach to the kinetic is one that continues to grow and thrive as technology marches steadily forward. These artists stay at the cusp of scientific experimentation, […]
Jenny Gravestam
Street Fusion came to life in 2010. A colorful explosion with an urban street feeling, this piece was inspired by old school funk music and street art. My aim is to make people feel happy while enjoying my art. Enjoy color, enjoy life! www.gravestam.com
On The Center of Digital Art by Rex Bruce
Rex Bruce is the founder and director of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He took some time earlier this year to share some insight with NY Arts about the vitality of the L.A. art scene. I was introduced to computer technology from an early age: my father was a programmer in the late […]
Untitled Art Fair Establishes a Name For Itself
Tofer Chin’s solo booth as presented by Lu Magnus Gallery at the Untitled Art Fair Amongst the extensive list of fairs exhibited at last week’s Art Basel, an underdog outshined the competitors with its fresh take on environmentally-minded art. Untitled, directed by curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, made its debut this year by setting up camp right […]
Barnaby Ruhe at Dorfman Projects by Lee Klein
I first really got to know Barnaby Ruhe as the actor who portrayed Jackson Pollock, while I did a much more minor turn as Clement Greenberg, in Bill Rabinovitch’s fantastic fiasco “Pollock Squared.” Ruhe is foremost a painter, while also practicing moving energy around as a healer, a shaman, and a boomerang thrower, he transfers […]
