NEW YORK – The Photography Show presented by AIPAD has announced the exhibitors for the 2023 show, which will be on view from March 31 through April 2, 2023, at Center415 on Fifth Avenue between 37th and 38th streets. The fair will open with a VIP Preview on March 30. The roster of galleries includes members of the prestigious Association…
David Zwirner Gallery presents Frank Walter
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Antiguan artist, writer, and polymath Frank Walter (1926–2009) at the gallery’s East 69th Street location in New York, curated by Hilton Als. This focused exhibition follows the solo show of Walter’s work presented at David Zwirner London in 2021 as well as the celebrated…
Nathan Ng Catlin
“Catlin is interested in the complex narratives that arise from distinctions (culture, views on morality, etc.) that bring people together and separate them. His work is representational and figurative, featuring human interactions that draw inspiration from classical paintings, comic books, and tattoos”. Davidson Gallery presents What Goes on Behind a Windowpane, an exhibition of new work…
Salon Art & Design RETURNS
Our favorite design fair returned to the Park Avenue Armory last night. It was a joy to experience such wonderful displays after a long hiatus. Celebrating its 10th anniversary with nearly 50 design global galleries and a few special events. New York’s Tambaran Gallery, which features contemporary, African, Oceanic and North West Coast art, will…
Asia Society Museum Presents Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection
Asia Society Museum presents Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, an exhibition of works by more than 20 Iranian-born artists and one German-born artist, reflecting a dynamic and thriving contemporary arts scene. The exhibition, illuminating the multifaceted experiences and identities of artists spanning three generations who are working inside and outside of Iran,…
FINDLAY GALLERY PRESENTS Summer Selections: Works on Paper – 20th Century Modern + Contemporary
Findlay Galleries presents a group exhibition of works on paper by various artists displaying a wide breadth of formats and styles. Artists included in the exhibition are Byron Browne, Leonard Edmondson, John Ferren, David Finn, Gen Paul, Ward Jackson, Ronnie Landfield, Gordon Onslow Ford and Fritz Rauh. 32 East 57th Street, 2nd FloorNew York, NY,…
Discovering Viceregal Latin American Treasures
Colnaghi gallery and Jaime Eguiguren Art & Antiques are delighted to present Discovering Viceregal Latin American Treasures, a survey exhibition that brings together more than a hundred works of art from the Viceregal period (c. 1520 – 1820). The Old Master works in the exhibition date from the 17th to 18th century, and are comprised of paintings, sculptures, chests,…
Alois Kronschlaeger: KIND OF BLUE
Cristin Tierney Gallery is pleased to present Kind of Blue, a temporary immersive installation by Alois Kronschlaeger in a former retail space below the gallery on the Lower East Side. Kind of Blueopens the evening of Friday May 21st from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Entry will be limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. The installation is…
ADMIRING ANTHONY MCCALL
Anthony McCall (b. St Paul’s Cray, 1946) lives and works in Manhattan. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, his work’s historical importance has been recognized in such exhibitions as “Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-77,” Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-2); “The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the…
CAROL BOVE AT David Zwirner
David Zwirner is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions of new work by American artist Carol Bove (b. 1971) at its 537 West 20th Street and 34 East 69th Street locations in New York. These presentations coincide with her work being featured in The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping (on view through November 2021)…
Niki de Saint Phalle Structures for Life
Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter and filmmaker. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculptor Saint Phalle was also known for her social commitment and work. She had a difficult and traumatic childhood and a multiply-disrupted education, which she wrote about…
Drawing Inspiration at the Forum Gallery
Forum Gallery presents Drawing Inspiration, an exhibition of works on paper by twenty-seven artists who approach drawing from uniquely different perspectives. The exhibition opens on Thursday, March 25 and will be on view through Saturday, April 24, 2021. Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), whose artistic vision was largely expressed in works on paper, commented: “I love the…
Photography by Sebastiao Salgado
Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photojournalist whose black-and-white prints capture natural environments and the people who inhabit them. He uses his images as a means of promoting preservation, as is the focus of his project GENESIS (2004–2011). Salgado’s documentation of unblemished landscapes, wildlife, and indigenous communities demonstrate how urgently the need is to protect these…
Shona McAndrew
CHART is pleased to present Haven, an exhibition of new works by Shona McAndrew. Occupying both floors of the gallery, McAndrew will debut nine new paintings and seven new watercolors. With this body of work, McAndrew explores the significance for a woman to create her own safe haven and to invite someone to share that…
Blending Abstract and Calligraphy Toko Shinoda
Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by Allison Tolman, her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker,…
CARAVALHO PARK GALLERY IN BROOKLYN
CARVALHO PARK announces the first exhibition of Paris-based artist, designer and architect, Garance Vallée, in the United States. Portrait de Famille, a solo exhibition, features a suite of paintings, drawings and sculptures – of Vallée’s distinct and indelible language – opening on February 13. Portrait de Famille, will be on view at Carvalho Park in…
ANIMATION FIRST 2021
Animation First is the only film festival in the US dedicated to the unparalleled legacy and enduring ingenuity of France’s animation studios and schools. Today, France is Europe’s largest producer and the world’s third-largest exporter of animated film. Since its early beginnings in the late 19th century when Émile Reynaud projected his Pantomimes Lumineuses at…
IN-BETWEEN – The New Series in search of the Light
Manika Nagare was born in Osaka, Japan in 1975 and raised in Kagawa, Japan. Through her multicolored and multi-layered oil painting, she seeks to explore and visualize a realm of sensations evoked from ephemeral moments and events in both the human and natural world. Her practice also includes numerous public art projects, for which she…
APAP Conference starts today
APAP Announces Programming Highlights for APAP|NYC+ 2021, 64th Annual Performing Arts Conference and First-Ever Held Entirely Online, January 8-12, 2021 Dr. Anthony Fauci, Yo-Yo Ma, and Other Luminaries to Tackle Issues Key in the Industry’s Recovery: Health, Advocacy, Anti-Racism, and the Climate Crisis The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) has important programming highlights for…
Jackie Saccoccio — Abstract gestural painter
Jackie Saccoccio (December 16, 1963 – December 4, 2020) was an American abstract painter who focused on gestural abstraction creating spontaneous abstract works with a focus on bright colors, large canvases, and deliberately introduced randomness. Her works have been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the…
Onishi Gallery Show–Four Elements in Japanese Arts: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
Onishi Gallery is proud to present Four Elements in Japanese Arts: Earth, Air, Fire and Water – a stunning exhibitiThe on that showcases the technical mastery of Contemporary Japanese metalwork artists. For generations upon generations, Japanese people have appreciated and incorporated natural elements into their everyday lives. They have adorned the interiors of their homes with natural…
The Brooklyn Museum awards second annual UOVO Prize to Baseera Khan
The Brooklyn Museum awarded Baseera Khan the second annual UOVO Prize, which recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists. Khan’s work concentrates on performance, Islamic cultural and religious ephemera, sculpture, collage, and video, and addresses issues of surveillance, otherness, and the body. As the awardee, Khan will receive a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, a…
HIGHER PICTURES GALLERY MOVES TO DUMBO
Higher Pictures Generation presents an exhibition of new work by Gina Osterloh in their new space at 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Osterloh’s photographs explore the relationship between vision, the perception of difference, and selfhood. In response, her work pushes against the camera’s readiness to…
Who is Raven Half-moon —
Raven Halfmoon (Caddo Nation) is from Norman, Oklahoma. She attended the University of Arkansas where she earned a double Bachelors Degree in ceramics/painting and cultural anthropology. Her work has been featured in multiple exhibitions throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Raven is currently based in Helena, MT where she is a artist in residence at…
TRUMP REVOLUTION — THE END OF TRUTH
The exhibitions are curated by the Bronx Documentary Center’s Founder and Executive Director Michael Kamber, and Exhibition Coordinator, Cynthia Rivera. The exhibition website was designed by Exhibition Coordinator, Cynthia Rivera. In America today, the very notion of truth is under assault. Citizens vigorously disagree about matters of scientific evidence; about the very existence…
NEW SHOW AT FOXY PRODUCTION
Figura considers the ever-changing function of the figure in art. Beyond the resemblance of a person in real life, the figure’s role, across time and cultures, has constantly evolved through socio-political, philosophical, and religious influences. Literary critic Erich Auerbach’s “Figura” (1938) investigates the history of the figure’s definitions and contours: from Ancient Greece to Rome,…
Polish Animator Mariusz Wilczyński’s Kill It and Leave This Town Premieres in the US
Kill It and Leave This Town is available for streaming between November 25 and December 8, 2020, for a rental price of $12 at vimeo.com. Co-presented by Anthology Film Archives, the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and Outsider Pictures, and representing its North American premiere run, this two-week virtual engagement will be supplemented by a…
PERFECT BODIES BY BOSCO SODI AT PIONEER WORKS
Through December 20, 2020. Sited on a once teeming commercial concrete parking lot two blocks south of Pioneer Works, Perfect Bodies speaks to, in artist Bosco Sodi’s words, “silence, contemplation and the passing of time—the small things in life and our relationship with the earth.” The installation consists of large-scale clay spheres made from local…
THROUGH HER EYES – IN MEMORY OF LAURA DE SANTILLANA
Laura de SANTILLANA was born, according to her words in a glass factory. Paolo Venini’s grand-child, Anna Venini and Ludovico Diaz de Santillana’s daughter, this Venetian was born in the famous Venini factory in Murano, Italy. Laura de Santillana moved to New York after finishing classical studies at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She…
ADFF 2020
The Architecture & Design Film Festival, celebrates the unique creative spirit that drives architecture and design. With a curated selection of films, events and panel discussions, ADFF creates an opportunity to entertain, engage and educate all types of people who are excited about architecture and design. With well-attended screenings, legendary panelists, vibrant discussions and events…
AMY SILLMAN
The splendor of Sillman’s new show at the Gladstone gallery lies in its restlessness. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on paper, canvas, and linen, the painter’s fecund imagination finds its expression, first, in a number of abstract images made up of bold dark lines that suggest Sillman’s interest in collage, less in terms of…
TAKE A LOOK AT JESSE KRIMES
Jesse Krimes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. After graduating from Millersville University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2008, he was indicted on non-violent drug charges, confined to a violent offender unit for a year, and completed the remaining five years of his sentence in both medium and maximum-security federal prisons. Since returning…
AMERICAN ARTIST THORNTON DIAL
David Lewis Gallery is pleased to present Thornton Dial: Dial World, a two-part exhibition celebrating the legacy and brilliance of Thornton Dial. Each exhibition is named after a work by the artist. Dial World, Part I: The Tiger that Flew Over New York City takes place on 88 Eldridge Street, and presents eight major assemblages…
MARK DI SUERVO AND LEONARD CONTINO AT PAULA COOPER GALLERY
Lifelong friends, di Suvero and Contino first met in 1960 at the Rusk Institute in New York City where both were patients. In 1959 at the age of nineteen, Contino was severely injured in a diving accident. Paralyzed from the shoulders down, he retained some mobility in his arms and hands and needed to use…
Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Mystic Parallax, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Awol Erizku, on view through November 14, 2020, on the 9th floor. Erizku engages an Afrocentric perspective in a new body of photo-based works, sculpture, drawings made from incense smoke and ash, and a series of short films, which act as…
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit is the New York-based artist’s first museum survey exhibition in the United States. The exhibition traces Hsu’s key ideas and demonstrates how they clearly resonate in the works of younger artists coming of age today. In the mid-1980s Hsu began a series of works that considered the implications of the accelerated…
Steven Holl, Obolin
“The presence of light is the most fundamental connecting force of the universe.” Steven Holl, Parallax, 2000 Obolin celebrates the scientific and psychological effects of light and space. The sculpture was named by Holl’s four-year-old daughter Io Helene, who, when asked what Obolin means, replied: “it means anything you want it to mean.” Fabricated from…
COLORFUL REOPENING AT LISSON GALLERY IN NYC
Lisson Gallery reopened its New York galleries with an exhibition of 17 of its artists, exploring chromatic themes in their work as well as the aesthetics and emotions related to color – towards an attempt at perceptual recalibration. This group exhibition looks at re-setting and re-establishing our habits of looking at art, focusing on the…
Liu Xiaodong: Spring in New York
Liu Xiaodong, the usually itinerant Chinese painter, has been situated in New York City under lockdown since the middle of February, unable to travel back to his home in Beijing. From a small New York apartment, the artist has made a series of watercolour paintings documenting the changing landscape of the city over the past…
RICHARD LONG AT LISSON GALLERY
For his first exhibition at Lisson Gallery in New York, Richard Long presents a selection of works which illustrate the four key facets of his practice — sculpture, photography, text work and mud works — and their symbolic significance. Renowned for his travels and ability to transform a journey into a work of art, Long…
PABLO PICASSO’S ANTI-WAR WORK GUERNICA
The Spanish Civil War broke out in July, 1936, after a group of conservative military tried to overthrow the progressive government of the Popular Front, elected in February of the same year. Expecting an easy coup, the military rebels were surprised to encounter massive popular resistance, especially in the large urban centers. In a matter…
ROY DEFOREST VENUS OVER MANHATTAN
Roy De Forest’s freewheeling vision, treasured for its combination of dots, dogs, and fantastical voyages, made him a pillar of Northern California’s artistic community for more than fifty years. Born in 1930 to migrant farmers in North Platte, Nebraska, De Forest and his family fled the dust bowl for Washington State, where he grew up…
ARTE POVERA PIONEER DIES
This post is to honor a great Italian figure who recently died. His life deserves special recognition. The source of this post is from Art News Germano Celant, curator and critic who worked tirelessly to shape the history of Italian contemporary art, has died at 80. La Reppublica, a prominent Italian publication, reported that he…
OTTO PIENE: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Otto Piene (1928-2014) was born in Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany and lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Cambridge and Groton, Massachusetts. Piene was one of the founding members of the ZERO group (1957-1966) along with Heinz Mack, and later Günther Uecker. From 1948 to 1953, he attended the Blocherer Art School and studied painting at the Academy…
VINTAGE NEW YORK
State of the Arts NYC selected some vintage photographs of NYC to share. Experiencing a crisis, will prompt folks to look at the past. These urbanscapes hopefully will gives a moment to pause and reflect on our city and where we wish to go moving forward. Below we describe the photos from George P. Hall…
The Breath of Clay: The Life of Koichiro Isezaki’s Contemporary Bizen
I am not an artist that thinks about the definition of tradition while making [my art]. We are tradition, we are a part of it. It’s not in the past. We live and continue through it.” – Koichiro Isezaki Bizen is characterized by significant hardness due to high temperature firing, its earthen-like, reddish-brown color,…
MIRA DANCY, FRANCE-LISE MCGURN & CLARE WOODS
Connected through an interest in figurative representation, the exhibition brings together three artists who present the body in unconventional ways, each exploring contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, society and politics, as well as addressing the long and problematic history of the male gaze. The submissive female subject typically depicted reclining, seated or kneeling, is one…
USELESS FLOWERS EXHIBITION
Fisher Parrish Gallery is presenting Useless Flowers, a two-person exhibition of paintings and sculptural works by New York artists Caitlin MacBride and Sam Stewart. The form of a bonnet is a point of common connection for MacBride’s oil paintings and Stewart’s sculptural lamps. In Useless Flowers, each artist focused on bonnets worn by the Shakers, a…
MEN ARE DIFFERENT, THOUGH THEY LOOK ALIKE
Perrotin in the Lowwer East Side just opened Amadoda Akafani, Afana Ngeentshebe Zodwa (men are different, though they look alike), an exhibition of 28 new paintings by Cape Town based artist Cinga Samson, marking the artist’s first solo exhibition at Perrotin. Cinga Samson was born in Cape Town in 1986, and grew up between the…
PROMENADE BY SOUTH KOREAN ARTIST LEE BAE
Perrotin New York presents Promenade, an exhibition from Korean artist Lee Bae, based in Paris, France and Cheongdo, South Korea. For his first solo presentation with Perrotin New York, the artist has created a physically immersive environment that expands upon his ongoing aesthetic and material experiments with charcoal. This concise collection of drawings, paintings, and…
The documentary “BELOVED”
The Amsterdam News decided to take on gun violence across NYC. Instead of throwing young people in jail, they decided to understand the challenges they are facing and find solutions. Dedric “Beloved ” Hammond used to run the streets. Now he is trying to save lives and make a difference. This is an unpredented partnership….
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