Cary Smith: The words in your paintings seem funny, ambiguous, and have a precision about them, all at the same time. Where do they come from, and what do they mean to you? John Phillip Abbott: The words come from memories and personal experiences. For example, a painting might reference my first car, a Pontiac […]

Courtesy of Microscope Gallery. Microscope Gallery is a new art space specializing in the works of film, video, sound, new media and other time-based artists. The artists we present are independent, radical, experimenters and risk takers who range from the emerging to recognized pioneers and innovators. Microscope also offers a weekly screening, performance, readings and […]

By Alan W. Moore Madrid isn’t that big of an art town. It’s more about the patrimonio, the magnificent treasures of the Prado, Escorial, et al. It’s the center of the State, recently very much under siege by the rabble. So it’s refreshing for the few days when the city’s contemporary art fair–the ARCO- is […]

Samuel Francois, The Joy of Man, Courtesy of Rod Barton Gallery. By Vanessa Saraceno Aiming to explain a “certain idea of eroticism”, French artist Samuel Francois presents a new series of works, collectively titled The Joy of Man, as the exhibition at Rod Barton Gallery, London. It is his first solo show in the UK. Inspired […]

By Anna Gurton Wachter The artist Cynthia Maughan made around three hundred works on video in her lifetime. I had the opportunity recently to watch a sampling of them, when New York University screened them as part of October’s Archiving the Arts conference. In introducing the work, conservator Jonathon Furmanski offered an observation that has […]

This year’s centennial edition of New York’s largest art fair, The Armory Art Show, was one for the record books. Showing his support, Mayor Bloomberg introduced the fair in a press conference. His participation during the opening of the fair directly points to the on-going role of the fair within the New York art scene. […]

Votla 2013 kicked off yesterday. NY Arts checked it out. The show was slick, intense and wide ranging. It may be Volta’s best year yet. Kadar Brock had some new, interesting works on view with Vigo/The Hole. For painting, Envoy Enterprises Winston Chmielinski and Clint Jukkala stole the show. Other highlights were the scary and […]

In conjunction with Armory Art Week, the Lower East Side will be in full party mode.  Friday, March 8, 2013,  7 – 9 pm is Lower East Side Gallery Night with several neighborhood galleries offering extended hours. And then on Sunday, March 10, 2013, 12 – 6 pm will be Lower East Side Gallery Stroll. Stop […]

“Daybreak,” an exhibition of new works by artistic genius Thornton Dial, opened February 8, 2013 at the Bill Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.  Following a successful tour of “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial” at several museums and a current exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Dials’s new work reiterates his […]

Beginning from Miller’s text, the exhibition breaks down the structure and production of cinema into stages that are normally obscured. An exploration of the workings of a preexisting form of production, Cinematic Moments also asks what type of knowledge an exhibition is capable of producing. Cinematic Moments is constructed as an architecture that invites the […]