Milija Belic is native to Serbia but has lived in Paris since the early 1980s. He’s a sculptor and painter whose geometric abstractions are endowed with a special lyrical quality that causes us to think of him as a poet among the sculptors. His expression is pure and oneiric, always on the track of the […]

Lori Ellison: Just to get things started, how did you begin making the work you are making now? Lawrence Swan: That James Castle show we saw in Philadelphia affected me. I responded to his handling of materials. I didn’t set out to imitate him, but I think he helped me break through or break out […]

Today being the first day of Bushwick Open Studios, we hope that you are all out there visiting the galleries and studios of the 600+ shows that are happening this weekend! When the event started in 2006 it was organized on a volunteer basis by some of the fifteen local artists and community organizers that founded […]

While other fine arts venues continue to exploit the unwashed and uneducated, Blain-DiDonna Gallery continues to offer opportunities to re-examine artists whose work reinterprets our notions of the nature of artistic expression, while at the same time preserving their integrity and mystery. Following their stimulating Hans Arp show comes the enigma of Paul Delvaux, whose […]

NY Arts recently got in touch with two writer/poets and art theorists Amir Parsa and Ammiel Alcalay. In a fascinating roundtable, the two discuss world literature, interactions between art and literature, the Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni, and the nature of formal innovation. Amir Parsa: Ammiel Alcalay, two of your books have just been published. If […]

Vessels: Nicole Cherubini, Francesca DiMattio, Brie Ruais, Beverly Semmes, and Betty Woodman. The Horticultural Society of New York – a growing community of urban gardeners who strive to maintain the relationship of plants and people – gives hospitality to an exciting group exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculptures by five New York-based female artists: Nicole Cherubini, Francesca […]

Nightfall / Alkony New tendencies in figurative painting Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, March 29 – May 24, 2013 MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary October 7, 2012 – February 10, 2013 Mankind has always been fascinated by darkness. In the beginning as the Bible says, “darkness covered the face of the deep” and since then looking into […]

By Masha Froliak In the midst of nineteen commercial buildings of Rockefeller Center, scattered between 49th to 50th street, stand nine unique human figures of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. Human Nature, the latest site specific creation of the artist, is built of massive bluestone slabs piled on top of each other into forms which resemble […]

Daria Irincheeva has a sharp wit and keen sense of humor. Perhaps this is why she collaborates easily at Maurizo Cattelan’s Family Business gallery where she is director. Whenever I connect with her and the intense photographer Ruy Sanchez Blanco, I feel energized by our dialogue. Irincheeva’s solo exhibition Avoid This Water took place at […]

The following conversation was conducted with Mary Hrbacek over the telephone, as well as via email by Edward Rubin on April 23, 2013. Edward Rubin: Why Trees? What is it that made you start painting trees? Give us a little history of what made you switch from painting rocks to painting portraits of trees. Mary […]