T.A.G. (Teen Art Gallery) is an organization run by teens for teens, devoted to displaying works by artists ages 12-19 in galleries. Its founder and curator, Audrey Banks, is eighteen years old and a senior in high school. Their first show opened in July, 2011 at the Open Center in New York City and was […]

Broadway Gallery, NYC is setting up for Armory Arts Week.  And this year, it is displaying work at Fountain.  The gallery will be featuring an international line up with artists whose concerns range from hyper-texture to human sexuality to Neo-Pop.  A confirmed list of participants includes Sophia Dang, Nikki Romanello, Jessica Manley, Patricia Mota, Jamie […]

Bushwick has bloomed into an avant-garde art bubble; original and creative vibes are permeating through the diverse and small neighborhood.  And with new spots like Luhring Augustine in the hood, a new crowd is coming in. The spontaneity of Bushwick’s art scene is what keeps it stimulating and thought-provoking. Other spaces such as ArtsinBushwick and […]

From October 2011 to January 2012, a spectacular exhibition set apart a privileged section of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Occupying the largest gallery on the second floor, the Yayoi Kusama retrospective challenged visitors to see the world through the eyes of this radical and exceptionally influential artist. Diagnosed with a hallucinatory mental illness, Kusama […]

Paola Fiorido: Your work in ten words? Paola Schmidlin: An ironic, inevitably dramatic conceptualization of human reality’s emptiness. PF: What is the sensation you wish to inspire in viewers of your work? PS: The awareness of the void and the inescapable loneliness of being. “An ironic, inevitably dramatic conceptualization of human reality’s emptiness.”   Paola […]

Armory Arts Weeks kicks off soon. And so NY Arts has put together a little preview of what to look for. Volta and Armory have a Nordic focus going on which is a big touchstone for many galleries this year. Most notable is Sanja Iveković, who stands outs as a must see. Presenting at Volta […]

Alisha Kerlin’s paintings have the ability to get past the mind’s usual categories of rational beliefs or humming discursiveness to resonate in a place that’s hard to name.  Solitaire games, measuring tapes and dangling carrots are recurrent images, but an equal player in her work is her glowing, murky backgrounds, which often question or even […]

    As we close our last chapter for 30 Artists To Watch, we realize that you’ve been waiting, perhaps feverishly for what would come out.  This last post does not disappoint.  Our featured artists are exciting because they are re-orienting the way we see.  This is no easy task.  And their attention to formal/surface […]

“I think that poetry is the foundation of all artistic creation. It is the opposite of political and pragmatic thinking.” Karin Mamma Andersson is one of Scandinavia’s leading contemporary artists. In her paintings she pairs contemporary approaches to form and content with a specifically Nordic, romantic-expressive tradition. Her exhibit Dog Days is on view from […]

Shrouded in the illusion of cultural globalization, we have become acculturated to other places in the world as they enter our virtual world. Artists call up diverse images, providing fresh stimuli and recognizing the unknown in their environments. Through duality and ambiguity, artists provide emotional awakening, through which people can mutually confirm their identities, and […]