Dia Art Foundation is pleased to announce Constellation Congress, a three-part exhibition of work by Koo Jeong A, that provides the first opportunity for American audiences to experience the in-depth work of this important artist. For over twenty years, Koo Jeong A has been steadily and rigorously constructing a visual language of evocative riddles and […]

Michael Brennan: When I first saw your work I thought, “Here’s a painter who’s a wildcard.” And I wanted to know on a personal level: Were you always a rule breaker? Were you a problem child? Trudy Benson: As a kid, no; as I got older, I guess I was. I had dreadlocks when I […]

ASSOULINE is pleased to announce the publication of a groundbreaking new title. Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil, documents his experience in space in the first-ever book of photography published by a private space explorer. Featuring his photographs of Earth—as seen from the International Space Station—this evocative piece showcases Laliberté’s captivation with Earth’s surface, […]

 Pioneering video and multimedia artist Wang Jianwei is known for his conceptually complex, multi-faceted explorations of the contemporary Chinese reality. Using elements of theatre, philosophical inquiry, artistic methodology and “scripted accident,” he seeks to illuminate the in-between, that poorly defined grey zone where most of us live—and where most of the really interesting things happen. […]

Kurt Schwitters, a “grandfather figure” of the avant-garde in his native Germany and a master of European Dada and Surrealism, is finally conquering the hearts and minds of Americans thanks to this “extreme collage” experience, curated by Isabel Schultz (of Kurt Schwitters Archive at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover) in collaboration with Menil director Josef Helfenstein. […]

 Nothing says summer like a leisurely afternoon in the garden. The Katonah Museum of Art’s provides the perfect outdoor spot to eat lunch or escape for some peaceful moments beneath the magnificent 100-year-old Norway Spruce trees that stand sentry over the Sculpture Garden. On June 5, things will get even more interesting as five of […]

  On the occasion of Bushwick Open Studios, ARCH Production & Design NYC teams up with curator Claudia Eve Beauchesne to present A+, a multi-disciplinary exhibition of works by ARCH members and other Brooklyn-based artists. “Media mix freely and eclectic influences fuse into new forms. Art, design and architecture bleed into one another. A+ is […]

Henry Miller, Virginia Woolf, Antonin Artaud – Carl Köhler knew them all. At least, so it seems when facing his portraits. From the edgy, black lines of Franz Kafka, crudely cut in wood, to the airy blue shades used to capture the sensitivity of Joyce Carol Oates. Little known outside the borders of his native […]

  “Often this ideal is subverted by a reality that is less than perfect and relationships are somewhere on a continuum from the quirky and oddball to the disturbing and unsettling.” “Often this ideal is subverted by a reality that is less than perfect and relationships are somewhere on a continuum from the quirky and […]

 “This week NY Arts caught up with two of the world’s leading contemporary art advisers, Nicolai and Michael Frahm. The brothers, originally from Copenhagen but now based in London, have collaborated with some of the highest profile artists of our time and advise prolific collectors and new collectors from all over the world. They spend […]