Emese Krunak-Hajagos: The topic for this year’s Contact Festival is Identity, involving ancestry, history and society, and how the individual’s sense of self is shaped by them. How do you feel about your mixed African-European background? Namsa Leuba: I think to be a mix of cultures is a great wealth. I am an African-European, born […]

There are a number of people making work right now that aptly dig holes into what a sculpture or installation can be, purposefully pointing fingers at the ways we encounter art in the round. I am thinking specifically about a show by Daniel Turner that is coming to an end at Team Gallery, an experience […]

As the summer weather starts to heat up, there are often very few places in the city to escape the oppressive heat. You could stay in your apartment, locked away for the entire season next to your AC unit with your computer, or you could make a mad dash out of your door to somewhere […]

NY Arts Magazine: Please tell us something about your work that often gets overlooked by the unfamiliar or untrained eye. Trudy Benson: I’ve had more than a few studio visits start out with some kind of, “Oh, I get it now,” comment. It’s obvious that the most common mode of consumption of painting today is via […]

If you made it to Bushwick this past weekend for the open studios extravaganza, chances are you are just returning to your senses right about now. The intensity of the event continues to grow exponentially each year. Uninvolved locals find their neighborhood suffocatingly swamped with people, insiders wander around with their heads down attending to […]

There was no place better than Industry City for a screening of a film so central to Brooklyn. Set up in between looming warehouses, the atmosphere of the opening night for Rooftop Films’ 2014 Summer Series was relaxed as people mingled and found seats. Indie and Brooklyn-based band Rumors performed a long thirty-minute set preceding the […]

Our times are the times of materialistic values, of greed, of self-indulgence. Herod is dancing in Chambliss Giobbi’s Tanz für mich, Salome!, inspired by Richard Strauss’ very modern opera based on the Oscar Wilde play Salome. Giobbi loved the music but has turned the story around and made Herod the one dancing. This collage is […]

Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Elana Katz: I come from a family involved in the arts, both of my parents are classical musicians, my grandmother was a painter, my aunt is a poet, and I myself was trained as a classical ballerina as a child, very […]

NY Arts Magazine: Please tell us something about your work that often gets overlooked by the unfamiliar or untrained eye. Damon Zucconi: It’s hard to answer this because I feel like, by definition, I shouldn’t know the answer. But something that’s become apparent, only recently to me, as I live with the things I make, […]

Tomorrow through the 31st, The Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City will present Karen Sherman’s One with Others. This work is an evening-length trio that questions how things can fit or hold together and the constructions necessary in being one’s real self. The work premiered in 2013 at DC’s Dance Place and features striking achievement from artists […]