By Tony Zaza, The Roving Eye | Film The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival sheds some fearless light upon the worldwide problem of identity. This year’s assortment of works start in Brooklyn and end in Morocco. They feature an army of unknowns and unknowables: delinquents, compe’sinos, extraordinary gentlemen, uncommon women. They exhibit the ambiguity of their […]

“I paint flowers so they will not die. I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. I never paint dreams or […]

‘All art is valid. We are all part of artistic community and all human beings who will achieve peace’ – Yoko Ono “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971,” which runs from May 17 through Sept. 7, includes about 125 early art pieces, works on paper, films, installations, performances and audio recordings. Ono Inspires us through […]

“SHE” by VALYA: VISUAL REFLECTIONS ABOUT FEMININITY During wartime, when so many Ukrainians, including artists, are moving off the country, only the most persuasive artworks and exhibition projects are able to overcome a negative tendency of intellectual migration in order to help the developing and struggling community on the very eastern edge of Europe to […]

Floating sculpture rises over the Greenway Half-acre net tethered between buildings to waft overhead until Oct. Is it a giant jellyfish? A spaceship? An outsized butterfly net? Whatever it is, Brookline artist Janet Echelman’s light-as-air sculpture, which turned heads as it soared over the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway on Sunday morning, took a village to […]

PAVILION OF THE UNITED STATES 56TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA JOAN JONAS’S THEY COME TO US WITHOUT A WORD Presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center Commissioner and Co-Curator: Paul C. Ha, Director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center Co-Curator: Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the NTU Centre for […]

The Botín Foundation presents Sol LeWitt. 17 Wall Drawings. 1970-2015 Spain’s most important exhibition to date devoted entirely to Wall Drawings by Sol LeWitt, an artist who is regarded as the father of Conceptual Art A selection of 17 Wall Drawings, most of which have never been shown before in Spain, made in collaboration with […]

JI YEO  It Will Hurt A Little April 30 – May 16, 2015 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 6 pm BAXTER ST at CCNY is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artist and 2014 Workspace Resident, Ji Yeo. The It Will Hurt A Little project introduces interiors of plastic surgery clinics in […]

Brown Foundation Gallery On View: April 18 – August 2, 2015 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston For over three decades Marilyn Minter has produced lush paintings, photographs, and videos that vividly manifest our culture’s complex and contradictory emotions around the feminine body and beauty. Her unique works—from the oversized paintings of makeup-laden lips and eyes to soiled […]

“There are no CDs involved. It’s a technological orgy up there and I try and keep it more my music than anyone else’s. If people come out to see deadmau5 I want them to hear deadmau5 music.” Joel Zimmerman doesn’t like being called a DJ. The dance music phenomenon from Toronto, better known as deadmau5, rolls […]