By Tony Zaza Neither an interpretation nor a translation of  a literary work, but rather the basis for a deconstruction, The Great Gatsby rolls along feverishly like a bad memory. And so to entice you to pay attention to the pivotal point of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, director Baz Luhrmann sugar coats numerous […]

1. Everything looks better in a tent. The natural light in that fair was amazing! 2. Large NYC Galleries are still killing it, but smaller international galleries are holding their own by showing insightful and poetic work. (Which is often easier to ship and just as fun to look at.) 3. Liam Gillick and Carl […]

It’s pretty rare to have the opportunity to see the work of a living legend. There are very few artists who ever achieve this status, standing head and shoulders above the rest of us. If the measure of influence is equated to height, Ellworth Kelly is way up there. Turning 90 this year, this art […]

Ah, art fair season. What’s not to love, right? Sometimes art fairs take your money, pour an unbelievable amount of closely-hung work into your brain via your wandering eyeballs, and kick you in the ass as you exit. You are stuck on the sidewalk wondering whether you ever need to see a work of art […]

Wish Meme is an art fair for those who want something fresh and different. Put on by The They Co. in collaboration with the New Museum and a whole slew of great curators, its a welcome change. Enough words though, here’s a recap featuring photos snapped by our photographer, Anna Carnochan. Feast your eyes.

One of the most elegant and thought-provoking exhibitions this year is Maya Lin’s Here and There. Lin became the center of controversy in 1981 when she won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Still a student, and virtually unknown, her design was chosen from over 1,400 submissions.  I remember seeing an exhibit of […]

Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts or did you begin as something else?  Where there other artists in your family?   Conrad Bakker: As a child I was always curious about the world and interested in making useless things, but […]

Austrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister’s pitch book for The Happy Film fits in my palm—it is short and sweet, bright and charmingly … delightful. The book works to communicates Sagmeister’s desire to answer and visualize the following questions through film, “Is it possible to train your mind in the same way you train your body?” and, “Can […]

This world, and the world of art in particular, is so often filled with largely superfluous gestures that sometimes the best work attracts attention for displaying an economy of gesture. The best of this work can go so far as to display little or no gesture at all. Craig Dworkin’s latest book from MIT press […]

by Tony Zaza For movie fans who are partial to movies without closure, the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival provides many good movies without complete endings. You can use your imagination to project a conclusion. Perhaps life has become so subtle and arbitrary, endings are no longer relevant. What might matter more is what brings people […]