In our Fall 2011 issue, NY Arts Magazine will feature Voices from artists of Middle Eastern origin. The status of the arts in the Middle East fluctuates between resistance and identity in individual expression. At the same time, there is a growing movement to ignite the arts at the grass roots level. To date, many […]

Film Festival season in New York begins shortly after the Academy Awards with the annual New Directors New Films series presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Not a true festival, NDNF has evolved from a simple harbinger of spring to a useful early warning physical. It takes the pulse of world cinema to […]

In the early evening of August 4, 2010, police were dispatched to Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills. As a local TV station reported the following day, a driver had crashed his taxi into a house following a disagreement with a pair of Italian honeymooners over the fare, leading to his arrest. In the […]

This exhibition brings together the photographs of four exceptional artists, each working with the representation of the human form. The fabrication of individual male bodies into multi-limbed hybrids, makes Antony Crossfield’s exploration of the male form at once unsettling, yet weirdly beautiful. Phillip Toledano’s highly-crafted images combine up-close physical observations that are imposing, detailed and […]

Lisa Williams: I remember first encountering your work about five years ago. Since then, it has undergone a gradual paring down of color and shape, becoming more fluid and self-assured. Can you talk about some of the changes in your work? Amy Feldman: In many ways my paintings are about overcoming the anxiety of their […]

I search for the substance of desire, control, and attachment by imagining their physical references in psychic, virtual, and erotic worlds. In my recent videos, Static and Sequester, I aim to personify what is intangible, to maintain it and hold onto it, with the camera as witness. I incorporate breath, bodily forces, and time limits […]

   A MATTER OF HEART is the second exhibition of Brian Reed’s five-part Journey of Love series. This latest installation and live performance follow Reed’s critically acclaimed New York Times reviewed exhibition, Through the Heart of it All. “To know love as beauty, one must know the beauty of suffering and pain.”   Brian Reed, […]

Works shown at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf were recently presented in the artist’s solo show „COVER WORKS (New Works)“ in Oldenburger Kunstverein. These works have a different focal point. Silke Wagner has chosen artworks of eleven 20th century female artists and converted them into new forms. Such an aesthetical dialog can be understood as homage to […]

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu is pleased to announce the exhibition of Andrew Binkley’s latest body of artwork entitled Crossings. Throughout Binkley’s work as an artist, he has utilized a variety of media and approaches to uncover and explore our notions of time and patterns of human behavior. In Crossings, Binkley brings into play the time-based […]

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a group exhibition organized by the Rio de Janeiro-based gallery A GENTIL CARIOCA, featuring five artists from this gallery’s program. Artists in the show include Ricardo Basbaum, Carlos Contente, Laura Lima, Maria Nepomuceno, and Thiago Rocha Pitta. A GENTIL CARIOCA is a gallery situated in the Central Historic district of Rio […]