The work of Nicolas Carrier is mainly composed of videos. His videos are of two types: some are “written” films with a synopsis and a direction, others reuse found footage. In both cases, the question is to attain the borders of the narration and to see how, by referencing cinema, to get out of the […]

On January 19, 1981, photographer Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the roof of a loft on East 12th Street. She was just a few months shy of her 23rd birthday. Like Rimbaud, Woodman left behind a very special legend and legacy, from which 120 vintage photographs, various large–scale blueprint studies of human figures […]

Gallery La Maison Rouge will stage the first major international exhibition of neon art from the 1940s to the present day. Hundreds of different pieces and work will be presented, with many being shown for the very first time. Artist’s that will have their work exhibited are; Lucio Fontana from the early 1950s, François Morellet, […]

With his work, Japanese artist Toshikatsu Endo, addresses human existence. He wishes to return to a facet of contemporary life that seems to have disappeared.  His art is a device to go back to the essence of human existence. With materials, such as bones, wood, water and fire, his mostly circular sculptures have a primal […]

    Even well after the cultural wars of the mid 1980’s, the representation of sexual difference in art has been aggressively policed. And America’s museums, with few notable exceptions, have been silent in the face of what is now the most vocal contemporary civil rights frontier. But there has never been a shortage of […]

British born artist Jane South lives and works in New York, creating sculpture and installations reflecting the architectural forms of her surroundings. What begin as 2-dimensional drawings become hanging or standing geometric installation sculptures. The artist constructs intricate, yet often large-scale works from card and paper that are visual abstractions of mid-20th century industrial detail. […]

Spring art fairs kick off the first week in May here in New York.  Off the heels of March, this season is all about Nada, Frieze and Pulse. At the forefront are emerging galleries, project spaces and blue chips too.  This year is especially hot, considering that this is Nada’s first time in its 8 […]

Who is Alex Harsley? You might find him inside the 4th Street Photo Gallery in front of the long lines of black-and-white prints that hang on wooden clips, like clothes on a laundry line. There you will find a beautiful portrait of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as numerous landscapes […]

More than a year has passed since the Egyptian Revolution initiated a falling domino effect throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world. The opening of the new Middle Eastern Art wing serves as proof that the Middle East and its intricate, yet fascinating, conflicts are of interest to a large audience, and […]

Cassandra Louise Baker: The first time we ever met, I visited your studio in late Fall 2011. You told me this whole meta-narrative about these characters in your painting.   There was an entire back-story that I would not necessarily glean from my initial viewing of the work. At that very moment I realized there was […]