With Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum and Cindy Sherman at MoMA, this past year has seated women artists at the forefront of the New York art scene. These impressive retrospectives called attention not only to the force and depth of the artistic creation of women, but also to the woman as subject matter in […]

This past Saturday FLUX Harlem hosted a panel discussion at Art Speaks! Gallery. The talk covered the controversial topic of a post-racial society.  Positing the question: how does the idea of a “post racial” America impact how we currently view the world? Can America ever look past race?  With election day ahead, this theme has […]

Over the past fifteen years the “Ocean Parkway Killer” has targeted sex workers along this stretch of roadway, ultimately putting his victims to rest at Gilgo Beach. It is this series of events that Nick Kline examines in his exhibit at Open Source Gallery, Gilgo Beach. In a sterilized, clinical gallery space, in which the […]

Brooklyn-based artist Ted Lawson explores the theme of feminine sexuality with the cold perception of a scientist or a professor of anatomy. The artist seeks to portray the eternal beauty of a feminine “golden age” in bust sculptures such as Entropy, while also investigating the biologic and metabolic character of the female body. He attempts […]

One day in the spring of 2002, I had an epiphany. I told my husband, who is an artist, that I decided to open an art gallery. He said, “What took you so long?”  At the time we were living in lower Manhattan and I was working in the investment banking industry. But art was […]

Less well known are the exquisitely rendered spider drawings of French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) which takes on a friendly anthropomorphic view of the spider. In Smiling, an 1881 lithograph described by J.K. Huysmans in his classic novel of decadence A Rebours (1884) – translated Against Nature – a grinning spider, with ten legs rather […]

The painted “Narcissus”, attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ca 1599, is the focal image of Francine LeClercq’s installation, whereas the erring gaze of Narcissus, the visual echo reverberating between the illusionistic picture plane and the actual gallery setting, the existential reciprocity between the subject and object, form and content,… are parallel notions and traits […]

dOCUMENTA 13 was extensive and manifold in its vision. The emphasis was not on “art” per se but on the act of creation in its myriad forms. dOCUMENTA is held every four or five years in the out-of-the-way German city of Kassel. dOCUMENTA 13 was ambitious in its scope both in content and geographical spread. […]

September 5th marked the 100th birthday of the late, great avant-garde musician, composer, wrtier, and theorist, John Cage. In honor of this momentous centennial organizations, symphonies and arts foundations all across the globe are throwing month-long events to celebrate not only the legend Cage left behind, but the man himself. “The usefulness of the useless […]

Two new exhibits opened this week in Chelsea dealing with themes of mourning, loss and searching. At Mixed Greens, Searching: Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa & Mie Olise is a meditation on the search for meaning. The gallery is hosting some major works. Notably Ader, who is most famously known for works such as I’m […]