Florian Meisenberg: How do you perceive and process the images or ideas you are trying to visualize in your paintings? Cristina de Miguel: Most of the images I use come from my mind. Normally I visualize them in my mind unexpectedly, especially when I’m lying on my bed about to sleep and my eyes are […]

Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Carol Salmanson: I come from a family with a humble background and ambitious parents, who had no interest in the arts. I was passionate about both visual art and ballet, but my mother actively discouraged me until I was in high […]

Arne Svenson’s most recent photographic series, The Neighbors, is on view at Julie Saul Gallery. Acting as voyeur and investigator, Svenson used a telephoto lens to photograph his neighbors in a highrise across the street from his apartment. The photographs remind us of film stills, or a slow-moving art-house picture. The work shows windows framing […]

If you want to get inside the brain of an artist, take a look at where they work, live, eat sleep, and dream. To see all of that at once, take a look at their studio. You had the perfect chance this past weekend. Across the city people geared up for Bushwick Open Studios. Artists […]

Shirin Neshat, originally from Iran, is a woman artist of an international repute. She always challenges the notion of femininity in her video work, her films, and her installations. Many things have already been written about her much awarded film Women without Men in which we see women, with or without men, who question all forms […]

Milija Belic is native to Serbia but has lived in Paris since the early 1980s. He’s a sculptor and painter whose geometric abstractions are endowed with a special lyrical quality that causes us to think of him as a poet among the sculptors. His expression is pure and oneiric, always on the track of the […]

Lori Ellison: Just to get things started, how did you begin making the work you are making now? Lawrence Swan: That James Castle show we saw in Philadelphia affected me. I responded to his handling of materials. I didn’t set out to imitate him, but I think he helped me break through or break out […]

Today being the first day of Bushwick Open Studios, we hope that you are all out there visiting the galleries and studios of the 600+ shows that are happening this weekend! When the event started in 2006 it was organized on a volunteer basis by some of the fifteen local artists and community organizers that founded […]

While other fine arts venues continue to exploit the unwashed and uneducated, Blain-DiDonna Gallery continues to offer opportunities to re-examine artists whose work reinterprets our notions of the nature of artistic expression, while at the same time preserving their integrity and mystery. Following their stimulating Hans Arp show comes the enigma of Paul Delvaux, whose […]

NY Arts recently got in touch with two writer/poets and art theorists Amir Parsa and Ammiel Alcalay. In a fascinating roundtable, the two discuss world literature, interactions between art and literature, the Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni, and the nature of formal innovation. Amir Parsa: Ammiel Alcalay, two of your books have just been published. If […]