Sara MacKillop’s Ex Library Book tells the story of a place of words without using many. Published with Pork Salad Press, this work seems at first to be a random photo collection of stamps and insignificant slips found in any public library book, building up a detailed picture of the public library by showcasing every element […]

2013 has been the year of the bicycle in New York City, with the city rolling out the country’s largest bike share program and more than 50 miles of new bike lanes. With cycling on the rise in the city, ARTCRANK rolls into town primed to top a 2012 NYC debut that saw a crowd […]

Combing the commercial landscape for product detritus and two-dimensional media, Copeland guts and recombines found materials into psychotropic Pop assemblages. His material gestures range from slight and clever manipulations of image or lettering to jarring repetition of pattern and hyper-saturated color. Leaving the skeletal remains of the commodity form, Copeland reclaims the “potential” of the […]

Berlin: a city between the worlds, a city between east and west, a city that is only what its people believe it to be. Dutch artist and photographer, Erwin Olaf, attempts to approach himself with personal definition with his series about the city, “A Homage to Berlin.” I tried to understand his artistic vision during […]

The duty of policing the borders of what art is and who is an artist can be an uninteresting and hazardously mind-numbing task. But this year, when we witnessed the Venice Biennale’s Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) labeled the outsider or visionary Biennale, one does begin, despite herself, to ponder, “what does mark an image […]

Artist Sarah Bednarek’s work in sculpture and drawing addresses ideas of the finite and the infinite, of the perception and possibility of a mathematical and geometric ideal—one that eludes our grasp in our everyday reality but can be faintly glimpsed in mental images and in the world of the imaginary. She articulates a sense of […]

AVENUE Antiques October 10 – 13, 2013 Art & Design at the Armory Show, New York City Frieze London October 17 – 20, 2013 Regents Park, London Vienna Art Fair Oct 10 – 13, 2013 Messe Wien, Hall A, Vienna Cut­log Octo­ber 24 – 27, 2013 Atelier Richelieu, Paris Art Toronto Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto […]

Contemporary design compresses the problems of quantum physics into domestic space.  In Lightspeed, a show opened September 7th at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California, Oregon artist Trygve Faste explores the kinetic architecture of such transformations. His work experiments with the way lines organize space dimensionally, how angles catch and refract light, and […]

Long Standing is Rachel Beach’s second solo exhibition at the Blackston Gallery, presenting a collection of new works exploring themes of balance and illusion. Featuring: Rachel Beach Long Standing September 8 – October 27, 2013 Blackston Gallery 29C Ludlow St, New York City blackstongallery.com

  Cynthia Daignault’s large format paintings utilize vast expanses of sinuous mark-making as fields within which to play with our notions of perception and light. Feauturing: Cynthia Daignault Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow? September 8 – October 20, 2013 Lisa Cooley Gallery 107 Norfolk St, New York City lisa-cooley.com