NY Arts: What is your artistic background? Do you identify as a filmmaker or as a painter?   Russell Sheaffer: I’ve been working on films for a while now — editing and producing for others and directing my own experimental work. I like to think of the experimental work that I’m doing as (often abstract) […]

Featuring: George Bolster, Carla Burns, Gary Dempsey, Sarah Feehily, Beth Fox, Gemma Gore, Luke Howlin, Steve Maher, Megs Morley & Tom Flanagan, Mike O’Brien and Liam O’ Callahan Curated by: Shane Harrington Irish Art Does Not Exist April 24 – May 18 Opening Reception: April 24, 6-9pm Station Independent Projects 164 Suffolk Street New York […]

Pete Tobey: You’re from New York City? Brian Morris: Yup. First generation American-Irish from Woodhaven, Queens. My folks grew up 100 miles or so from each other in Ireland, and met in The Bronx in ’68. I love New York. Lived all over, Brooklyn, Harlem, Astoria, Forest Hills, Little Italy, Alaska, and now LES. PT: Alaska? […]

Showcasing everyone from big names to emerging stars, there is a lot of great art to be seen in NYC these days. Here are our selections for the best shows that are up to be looked at right now. All across town, from painting to sculpture to video and performance, take a peek and then […]

Featuring: Mark Beasley, Tim Berrensheim, Alexandra Gorczynski, Ryan Whittier Hale, Claudia Hart, Jeremiah Johnson, Brookhart Jonquil, Sophie Kahn, Alex M. Lee, Sara Ludy, Shane Mecklenburger, Jonathan Monaghan, Mikey McParlane and Michael Mallis, Brenna Murphy, Nicholas O’Brien, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jon Rafman, Nicolas Sassoon, Jasper Spicero, Kate Steciw, Katie Torn, and Krist Wood. Performances by: ATOM-r (Mark […]

Featuring: Pamela Council, Patrice Renee Washington, Sara Jimenez, Sondra Perry Re: Purpose April 12 – May 4, 2014 FiveMyles 558 St. Johns place Brooklyn fivemyles.org

İrfan Önürmen plumbs the intricacies of existence with a postmodern process-oriented painting strategy that fuses a cartoon drawing aesthetic, tulle collage, and cubist planar construction; effectively obscuring formal classification and raising more questions than it answers. His current show at C24 Gallery persistently mines the many shades and guises of the human condition in subtle […]

I come from a musical background; my mother studied music in school, later teaching vocal and instrumental music in Newark public schools, and I grew up learning and playing multiple instruments. As a young person, I didn’t have much exposure to the visual arts, other than the occasional visit to the Met or the Newark […]

Leah Oates: How did Momenta form and what is the mission of the gallery? Eric Heist: Momenta began in 1986 as a group of five young artists in Philadelphia that were interested in having some critical dialog about their work after undergraduate school. We were working day jobs and felt isolated in our studios with […]

Everybody agrees that “Hey Ya!” is the greatest song. Viscerally and emotionally powerful, its references to history and form leave no doubt as to Andre 3000’s intelligence and artistry. It isn’t often that a piece can create such unanimity of judgment. And, what exists at the other end of the spectrum?  Can a work actively […]