New York Art

UPDATE: Artist Released For Plastic Bag Bomb Scare

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Takeshi Miyakawa, I Love New York, Plastic Bag I Love You New York, NY Crime, Ny News, Takeshi-Miyakawa-I-Love-New-York, New York Art, New York News

The artist arrested for a causing a scare with his "I Love New York" public art display was released from jail by a Brooklyn judge on Wednesday. T...

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Creating the Post-Hipster City: In Conversation With Urbanist Aurash Khawarzad

Tida Tippapart | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: New York Around Town, New York Hipster, New York City Urban, New York Architecture, Aurash-Khawarzad, Urbanism, Brooklyn Hipster, New York City, New York Art, Culture News
Tida Tippapart

Committed to exploring the multiple intersections between art and urbanism, Aurash Khawarzad speaks about creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.

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On the Culture Front: Cock Opens Off-Broadway, PEN Festival Storms New York and More

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Timber Timbre, Radio City Music Hall, Royal National Theatre, Feist, Joyce Theater, Cock Play, New York Theater, Pen, PEN World Voices, Cock Royal National Theatre, New York Art, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Mike Bartlett's buzzed about new play, Cock, from the Royal National Theatre opened to a thunderous and mostly deserved standing ovation at the Duke Thursday night.

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Free And Fun Photo Festival Comes To New York

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Photography, Claude Grunitzky, Video, New York Photo Festival, Photography Fair, Paul D. Miller, Hank Willis Thomas, Glenn Ruba, Contemporary Photography, New York Art, Dumbo, Arts News

Good news, photo fanatics: this weekend The New York Photo Festival takes over Dumbo, Brooklyn from today until May 20. The festival, which is free an...

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The Cultural Capital of Everywhere

Kurt Ellenberger | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Nyc Culture, New York Culture, Big Apple, New York City, Culture, New York Art, Lincoln Center, Broadway, Broadway Musicals, Culture News
Kurt Ellenberger

As a repository of great music, dance, and art, New York has no equal. As a cultural capital, it has been replaced by something even more chaotic, anarchic, diverse, open, disgusting, and accessible by more people than any city could ever be: the Internet.

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MTA Taps Big Artists For Second Avenue Subway

| Amy Zimmer | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Jean-Shin, Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Second Avenue Subway, Subway Art, Mta-Art, Second Avenue Subway Public Art, NY Around Town, Mta, New York Art, New York News

MANHATTAN — After the digging and blasting, the dust and noise, the Second Avenue Subway will have shiny new stations with installations from art s...

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The Artist's Perspective -- Frieze Art Fair New York

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Manhattan, Frieze Art London, Art Exhibit, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sculpture, The Armory Show, American Art, New York, New York City, Culture, Frieze Art Fair, Randalls Island, Art Fair, New York Art Fair, Gerhard Richter, Gallery, New York Art, Home News
Barbara Ernst Prey

Although I was born in New York, grew up in New York and now live in New York, it was my first visit to Randall's Island in Manhattan -- just to see the inaugural Frieze Art Fair.

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Frieze Scores -- and So Do I

Paul Klein | Posted 05.04.2012

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Paul Klein

I'm in New York for the much anticipated Frieze Art Fair, which has blown the roof off how an art fair is supposed to look.

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PHOTOS: Art World Gathers For Frieze New York

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Ny Parties, Frieze Art Fair, Chuck Close, Kim Cattrall, Frieze, NY Around Town, Randall's Island, New York Art, New York News

The 2012 Frieze Art Fair has officially kicked off in New York with fans of the best in contemporary art gathered at Randall's Island Park on Thursday...

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Your Guide To Frieze New York

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Andres Serrano, Gilbert and George, Frieze Art Fair, Video, Spartacus Chetwynd, Vik Muniz, Frieze New York, Yinka Shonibare, New York Art Fairs, Jenny Scoble, New York Art, Controversial Art, Arts News

The 2012 Frieze Art Fair kicks off tomorrow by taking over Randall's Island in New York, so get yourself on the Frieze ferry to see the 180 galleries ...

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The Cultural Landscape Architects: Nicelle Beauchene of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Julie Chae | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Nada, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Chris Wiley, Jim Lee, Afruz Amighi, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Nicelle Beauchene, New York Art Exhibits, New York Art, Arts News
Julie Chae

Nicelle opened Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in 2008 after eight years of working in Chelsea galleries. This series, "The Cultural Landscape Architects," has profiles of art-world professionals who play a role in connecting art with the public.

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Finally! Affordable Art Returns To NY

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Emerging Art, Affordable Art, Democratic Art, Video, Affordable Art Fair, Contemporary Art, Art Fairs, New York Art Fairs, Slidepollajax, New York Art, Arts News

If you thought art collecting was up there with yachting, cufflink collecting and other activities for the 1%... think again! The Annual Spring Af...

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"Sustainability" Has Become a Growing Focus of Artists' (and Art Schools') Attention

Daniel Grant | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: The Business of Art, Mary Miss, Sustainability, Hugh Pocock, Maryland Institute College of Art, Eve Mosher, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Green Artists, Green Art, Environmentalism, New York Art, Arts News
Daniel Grant

Art that focuses on issues of sustainability doesn't have a certain look, in the way that abstract expressionism or Pop Art is easily and quickly recognized, but rather reflects a series of ideas about the role of art in the environment and in society.

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Stanley Whitney at Team Gallery

Liz Markus | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Tyler School of Art, Fiction/Non-Fiction, Jose Freire, Team Gallery, Stanley Whitney, Slidepollajax, Painting Tips, New York Art Exhibit, New York Art, Arts News
Liz Markus

I've always loved Stanley and his work, so I was excited to visit the artist in his Manhattan studio before his new show opened where we caught up and viewed some of the new paintings that are currently featured in his second solo.

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Art in Earnest: Harlem-Based Artist, Tyson Hall

Eric J. Henderson | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: El Anatsui, Howard Gardner, Barry Sanders, Kandinsky, Ellen Winner, Cs Lewis, Jamaica Queens, Harlem, New York, Artist Profile, Queens, Street Art, Art Theory, New York Street Art, Tyson Hall, New York Art, Arts News
Eric J. Henderson

Hall dwells specifically at the intersection of Art and Policy, his work aiming to touch people in the everyday. That is so cliché that it hurts as I strip the meaning of that universality down to a feel-good thing to say. I don't mean it that way.

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Moving Photographs: You Won't Believe Your Eyes!

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Photography, Video, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Slidepollajax, Vienna Artist, Botticelli, Timotheus Tomicek, Rineke Dijkstra, New York Art, Arts News

Timotheus Tomicek is a young photographer from Vienna whose striking images explore the tension between motion and stillness. In the words of Jenkins ...

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On the Culture Front: Gatz, 4000 Miles, Rediscovering the Natural History Museum, and More

Chris Kompanek | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Elevator Repair Service, Beyond Planet Earth, Natural History Museum, Gatz, Creatures of Light, 4000 Miles, Gatz Show, New York Theater, New York Around Town, New York Art, New York News
Chris Kompanek

It's heartening that one of the hottest theater tickets of the season is a word-for-word staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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LOOK: 'Silent World' Photos Imagine An Empty NYC

Posted 04.04.2012

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Amidst the hustle and bustle of city life, dodging tourists, and a constant flow of anonymous faces, ever wonder what New York would be like if it wer...

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Roosevelt Island Art Bridges Two NYC Boroughs

Jim Luce | Posted 04.03.2012

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Jim Luce

Recently I met with Norwegian painter and public artist Vebjørn Sand and I pitched him on Roosevelt Island as his next location. I then pitched the president of RIVAA, Tad Sudol. One week later we all met in RIVAA Gallery to explore possibilities.

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Viscous Varnish

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Australian Art, Australia, Jazz, Varnish, Dale Frank, Abstract Expressionism, Volta Ny, Slidepollajax, Anna Schwartz Gallery, New York Art, Video, Arts News

Dale Frank is an Australian painter who has, over the past decade, become obsessed with varnish. Traditionally a resin that appears as a translucent s...

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Tiny Paintings By Big Artists

Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Size Does Matter, Andy Warhol, Video, Paul Klee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti, Tiny Paintings, Joan Miro, Shaquille O'Neal, Xs Metropolitan Museum of Art, Slidepollajax, New York Art, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Oftentimes exhibitions are organized around artist, movement, location or theme. But rarely have we seen one organized around size. (Excluding Shaq's ...

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The Armory Show, Billy's Antiques Funeral, 'Bob's Burgers:' What To Do This Weekend

Posted 03.10.2012

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Billy's Antiques Funeral Where: Billy's Antiques & Props, 76 East Houston Street; (917) 576-6980 When: Friday and Saturday, 7PM-12AM Price: Free ...

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"The Jungle Book"... Where Books Are Seen

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Moby Dick, Video, Natasha Bowdoin, Lewis Carroll, Leaves of Grass, Monya Rowe, Slidewide, Walt Whitman, Female Artists, The Jungle Book, Borges, New York Art, Arts News

Although we spend hours looking at books, we rarely acknowledge their physicality, especially if we're reading something on a Kindle. Natasha Bowdoin ...

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'Linsane' Street Art Appears

Posted 03.01.2012

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"Linsanity" has taken NYC by storm. Not only is the point guard shredding NBA records and scoring 136 points in his first five career starts for the K...

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PHOTOS: Whitney Biennial Opening Party

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Video, Paul Dano, Whitney Biennial, NY Around Town, Amanda Hearst, Whitney Museum, New York Art, New York News

Art kids and fancy celebrities gathered on the Upper East Side on Wednesday evening for the 2012 Whitney Biennial Opening Party, where attendees parti...

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