ABRAHAM LUBELSKI WILL DO A SERIES OF ONE HOUR INTERNET INTERVIEWS ON LOVE, PEACE AND ART NY Arts Magazine presents the interactive performance installation, A Summer of Love and Peace: 300,000 Works on Paper.   Abraham Lubelski and NY Arts Magazine are pleased to announce the summer event, which incorporates not only work by Lubelski, […]

Joan Jonas They Come to Us without a Word For the five galleries of the U.S. Pavilion, Joan Jonas will conceive a new complex of works, creating a multilayered ambiance, incorporating video, drawings, objects, and sound. Literature has always been an inspiration and source for Jonas, and the project for Venice will extend her investigation […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat passed at the tender age of 27 years young, yet his body of works — particularly to be paid special attention at his upcoming exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum titled Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, isn’t just someone’s brilliant idea to fabricate the young artist’s thoughtful ‘scribbles’ into some artistic sense of expression. Curated […]

There are a lot of thrills in “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit,” a tightly focused exhibition exploring the 11 months that the married couple spent working here in 1932-33. But what’s most exhilarating about the show, which opens Sunday at the Detroit Institute of Arts, transcends the numerous knock-out works by both artists. […]

Kit Messham-Muir, University of Newcastle On Kawara – Silence at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City was always going to be one of the most significant exhibitions of On Kawara’s career. After all, it is the first fully representative survey of five decades of the artist’s practice, which focuses on exploring time and our […]

Monet’s painting confirmed genuine by using SPECIM’s hyperspectral camera. 23 March, 2015. The 1891 work ‘A Haystack in the Evening Sun’ was found to be a genuine piece of Claude Monet’s work by researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in the Department of Mathematical Information Technology. The research team revealed a layer of paint over […]

I first became interested in sound art well before I became interested, or even knew anything about, curating.  However I was heavily influenced from a relatively young age by considerations that are essentially curatorial. I’ll have to give you a bit of background. In the late ‘80s I spent the school holidays in Kuwait. The […]

The Roving Eye By Tony Zaza BE NOT INHOSPITABLE TO STRANGERS LEST THEY BE ANGELS IN DISGUISE. The Better Angels, Terrence Malick’s silent black and white movie restores the promise of cinema as a medium that can invade conscience.  Once viewed psychic apathy is impossible. Poetically bleak and somber, the coonskin voiceover narrative conveys a […]

NEWS By ROBERTA SMITH | NY TIMES You can love or hate Kehinde Wiley’s bright, brash, history-laden, kitsch-tinged portraits of confident, even imperious young black men and women. But it is hard to ignore them, especially right now, with scores of them bristling forth from “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic,” the artist’s mind-teasing, eye-catching survey […]

NEWS By JOYCE LAU for NY Times HONG KONG — Collectors and museum directors from around the world had the chance on Friday to deal discreetly with the 223 galleries participating in the third Art Basel in Hong Kong fair. The private viewing was the quiet before the storm on Saturday night, when the event […]