I am known in the sound community as an abstract turntablist and sound artist, along with being involved in the contemporary sound art world as a curator. My curatorial work began early while I was living in Houston, hosting performances of improvisation and sound. When I moved to New York City in 2005, I immediately […]

“For Thinkin’ Long and Dark,” Brent Owens’ third solo show at English Kills, probably has enough distinct bodies of work in it to comprise several more tangential exhibitions. This is what’s great about it: the plurality of ideas eddy together, challenging the standards of an artist’s body of work, and the ways in which it […]

I formed architecture.collective back in early 2008 with a friend and fellow architect. We were going to change the world, but “surviving”is a somewhat more poignant description, as our first test of mettle was seeing through the Global Financial Crisis. Times were incredibly challenging, but somehow we made it through; the first partner has since […]

NY Arts: What is your artistic background? Do you identify as a filmmaker or as a painter?   Russell Sheaffer: I’ve been working on films for a while now — editing and producing for others and directing my own experimental work. I like to think of the experimental work that I’m doing as (often abstract) […]

Pete Tobey: You’re from New York City? Brian Morris: Yup. First generation American-Irish from Woodhaven, Queens. My folks grew up 100 miles or so from each other in Ireland, and met in The Bronx in ’68. I love New York. Lived all over, Brooklyn, Harlem, Astoria, Forest Hills, Little Italy, Alaska, and now LES. PT: Alaska? […]

Showcasing everyone from big names to emerging stars, there is a lot of great art to be seen in NYC these days. Here are our selections for the best shows that are up to be looked at right now. All across town, from painting to sculpture to video and performance, take a peek and then […]

Every spring the Tribeca Film Festival rolls through lower Manhattan for a short but rich visit. The festival, founded in 2002, partially as an effort to reinvigorate Manhattan, is now a New York City staple. There is always a dynamic line-up, including independent films, documentaries, narrative feature-length films, and shorts. Happening from April 16-27, here […]

Based On, If Any, Jordan Rathus’s incisive and wildly entertaining museum debut, at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art focuses primarily on videos that playfully deconstruct and subvert preconceived expectations of both authorship and viewership. Drawing on the materiality of film, Rathus dissects the conventions of the medium, and also draws attention to the […]

Leah Oates: What was your background, and what has been your progression as an artist? Were there any creative types in your family, and when did you know you were going to be an artist? Katherine Daniels: I grew up in Huntington, West Virginia. I was always drawing. As I was bad at sports and was […]

Jim Elledge’s, Henry Darger: Throw Away Boy presents a rich portrait of the outsider artist’s life, scaffolded with a decade’s worth of research. Arguing against claims that Darger “was a pedophile, a sadist, or a serial killer”, Elledge has produced a fascinating, and frankly heart-wrenching, account that explains Darger’s work through the context of it’s […]