It’s beginning to look a lot like industry at Maccarone Gallery. Conveyor belts carry, hands handle, machines mix and mingle, and down by the hem of their parents’ coats children’s mouths become smudged with Paul McCarthy’s newest chocolate work: Santa with Butt Plug. James Hilger is NY Arts contributing writer based in Yonkers, New York. […]

I love the city, for many of the same reasons I love nature. There is a quiet to it when you really let go. When it is quiet I can see through the visual chaos and find amazing beauty. For several years now I have been working with the energy provided by the urban environment […]

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a traditional Mexican holiday that celebrates and honors the dead through colorful expressions in art, costumes, music, food, dance, and drink. It’s an important annual event culminating in “una fiesta en el cementerio” (a party in the cemetery.) Rick Castro is the curator and owner of […]

“This past October, on a lovely fall day just before Halloween, I took a stroll with my mouse friend through Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Maybe it was obvious that I was a tourist, or maybe twelve-foot cats are rare in Chicago, but the local inhabitants noticed me right away and started migrating across the […]

I think in images. My work is inspired by strong emotions. I have been drawing since the age of four. I was a perfect, polite, cute little girl in a perfect, polite, cute little suburb of New York. One day, while I was out playing, a mental patient escaped from a nearby hospital and sexually […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: A year ago, you presented installation Fountain of Light at Tate Liverpool in the U.K. What was the inspiration for this piece? Ai Wei-Wei: I wanted to do a piece outside of Tate that has a strong appearance in the environment, with a strong sense of the location. I think Vladimir Tatlin’s […]

Twenty years ago, I stepped off of a gray New York City street and into the world of Lenore Tawney. Tawney met me at the studio door dressed entirely in white. She was tiny, barely five feet tall, with clear blue eyes and hennaed hair cut in a short bob. My appointment was to begin […]

Recently the public had a chance to witness the marriage between collage and poetry—the third installment of a popular show took place at the Tompkins Square Public Library Gallery. My selection began with a strong dose of historical perspective in the form of works by two major proponents of visual poetry: Charles Henry Ford (1913-2002) […]

Weiner is a key figure responsible for the foundation and emergence of Conceptual art in the 60s. Finally, after a prodigiously creative career, he deservedly gets a comprehensive exhibition co-organized by the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) with careful oversight by chief curators Donna de Salvo of the Whitney […]

As a thirteen-year old, messed-up kid, I used to make pornographic comics for my French teacher. In addition to getting me good grades in French, drawing obscene scenes of copulation provided me with real pleasure, especially when I succeeded at more or less accurate anatomy of my positive heroes. This just goes to show that […]