The 92nd Street Y opened its twentieth anniversary lecture series with a panel moderated by longtime publisher and editor of ART NEWS, Milton Esterow. The museum directors on the panel included Glenn Lowry (MoMA), Kathy Halbreich (Walker Art Center), and Philippe de Montebello (the Met). Although the topic was "What’s Next for Art Museums?" a […]

Dedicated to ephemeral and experimental art, the Franklin Furnace has proved to be a hardy perennial among New York cultural institutions. Founded by artist Martha Wilson in 1976, Franklin Furnace occupied a Tribeca loft for two decades, where it served as an early and in some cases premier venue for artists like Ida Applebroog, Eric […]

The return trip to Beijing was a gift from Leslie since we had to cancel our dive vacation to the Solomon Islands and Australia. She made all the arrangements for me to use my air mileage to return to Beijing to finish the two sculptures that I had started on my last trip and to […]

The 48th Corcoran Biennial, "Closer to Home", takes place nearly one hundred years after the inaugural 1907 Biennial and is organized to reflect ideas relevant to the recent history of the Corcoran’s Biennial series. Throughout its long existence, the Corcoran Biennial has always been something of a mutable exhibition: a half-invitational, half-juried showcase until 1967; […]

Written in 1875, William Henley’s "Invictus: The Unconquered One" describes the author as a ship sailing through the dark night, beset on all sides but unsinkable, and closes with the lines "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." While most of Henley’s works are long forgotten, this poem […]

I met Florencia Guillen in London at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, where she works as an advisor to Britain?s most celebrated sculptors. Needless to say, I was impressed: Guillen?s fluency in four languages (she studied media and communication in Mexico), her artistic academic past (diplomas from both Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, Italy, and […]

Bearing faggots of channeledcherry branches checked deep redsurfing on feet of claysteel wheels carry naturallythe vertical levitationof Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. (…) MAD DREAM CHAMBER By Jamie DalglishIshmael Randall Weeks, All too Familiar – Installation @ MATCH, artspace – October 2004Bearing faggots of channeledcherry branches checked deep redsurfing on feet of claysteel wheels carry naturallythe vertical […]

The New Museum of Contemporary Art’s show "East Village USA" (200 works by 75 artists) is on view through March 19 in a space rented from the Chelsea Museum (the New Museum’s temporary home until the new location on the Bowery is completed in 2006). In ithe show?s press release, curator Dan Cameron suggests the […]

I don’t just mean the neighborhood, although I first lived there on Avenue D and 8th Street when it was still called the Lower East Side (or as someone tried to re-christen it, the Loser East Side, and another, the Looser East Side), when there were jazz bars like Slug’s and you could rent a […]

Joanne Mattera is an abstract artist who has been painting for over 30 years. She is the author of "The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax" (Watson-Guptill, 2001). Mattera exhibits regularly throughout the United States and abroad, and divides her time between Salem, Massachusetts and Manhattan. On and […]