“Marcel Broodthaers. L’espace de l’écriture” introduces a wide selection of approximately fifty works coming from prestigious international institutions that document the main themes of the artist’s poetics: the relationship between art and language, the status of the artwork, and criticism of the museum as device and idea. “His original ideas on how the work of […]

Next to the Sea surveys the impact of the sea – from voyage and an ache for adventure to nostalgia and a sense of belonging. Faced with a rhythmic vastness and an expanse of shores, the sea reminds us how close we are to the next adventure and how far we have traveled from where […]

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre and Notes in Motion Outreach Dance Theatre are proud to present, White Night II – a Movable Performance Soiree on Saturday, February 25, 2012. Tickets will grant entry in 15-minute intervals between 7pm and 9:15pm. Upon admission, guests will be guided from room to room through the three leveled space, discovering […]

For as long as I can remember, the camera has enticed me to explore the world through its lens. As a result, I have employed the camera to express my conscious or subconscious imaginings.  Sometimes it is to share with others.  At other times, it is to engage in a solitary and personal revelry in […]

Drawing with images of architecture and landscape, I make pieces that survey peripheral and everyday spaces. Sometimes these spaces, and the things in them, are overlooked, or literally stepped over, such as weeds in the sidewalk. Sometimes, like sale banners or fast-food signs, they are ignored because of their ubiquity. Through a process that starts […]

Gary Snyder Gallery: At first glance, one would be hard pressed to find a clear and common theme linking the artists that we are representing at Gary Snyder Gallery, especially if you were to look for the common theme in the actual work of the artist. But I do believe that the artists have things […]

An erstwhile acquaintance of mine once asserted that if art doesn’t concern itself with presenting something beautiful to the world then artists have fallen to the level of bad philosophers.  Does this suggest then, I wondered, that an artist producing beautiful work is automatically a good philosopher?  Or does it imply that the only real […]

When Sigmund Freud published “Little Hans,” the first-ever psychoanalysis of a child, he elicited both worldwide accolades and condemnation for revealing the sexual lives of children. His 1909 case study branded Freud’s iconic reputation and laid the foundation for child psychoanalysis. In September 2011, writer/director David Pilot brought the historic case to the stage at […]

It is often said of pictures that they open a window to another world. The images created by Japanese artist Wataru Matsumura construct their own worlds. Leon Battista Alberti made the window metaphor famous in the 15th century in relation to the use of perspective, but Matsumura’s drawings make no use of this device. They […]

In his new exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery on Fifth Avenue, the distinguished American poet John Ashbery again succeeds in revealing his visual sensibilities through new collages. It was as recent as 2008 that the poet made his debut as a visual artist at the gallery. Now with collages with names like Promontory, […]