Stepping off the street into Spencer Brownstone Gallery last week, I felt an immediate drop in volume, not acoustically, but visually, a certain calmness that’s very noticeable, especially living in New York City…
AF: Congratulations on the book—it’s certainly been a long time coming. Let’s start at the very beginning. You mention that your
Video walk-through of Martin Wong’s Popeye at P·P·O·W Gallery.
See the full video walk-through of Robert Rauschenberg’s Life can’t be stopped at the Solomon R. Guggenheim.
AF: Congratulations on the book—it’s certainly been a long time coming. Let’s start at the very beginning. You mention that your
The contemporary art gala is, more often than not, a grueling marathon of forced pleasantries and rubbery chicken. But on
There is a specific kind of kinetic absurdity in the modern art heist. We like to imagine Thomas Crown Affair
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiraling rotunda at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a notorious diva, a space that routinely swallows the contemporary art it is meant to display.
Pat Steir, the indomitable American painter who spent half a century exploring the fraught, exhilarating threshold between control and surrender, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 87.
In Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a character famously dreams of how beautiful it would be if one could hurl a bomb into pure mathematics.
Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths at Cisternerne, Denmark
The inaugural exhibition, "New Humans: Memories of the Future," curated by Massimiliano Gioni and his team, sprawls across this newly cavernous, 120,000-square-foot campus.
Last week’s gallery hop: stepping inside the worlds of DD Herschlein at Matthew Brown and Alexandria Tarver at Nino Mier Gallery. Check out the highlights from both shows below
The art world has always possessed a bottomless appetite for mythology, and no one has spoon-fed it more successfully than Banksy.
For half a century, the New York gallery scene has been a restless, mutating beast, forever shedding its skin to find cheaper rents and larger white-cube spaces.
Pace Gallery now represents artist Anicka Yi in a corporate partnership with Gladstone Gallery, 47 Canal, and Esther Schipper.
We attended a series of openings two Fridays in a row. Check out the best shows here.
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