This year, Armory Art Week 2013 will reach back into art history, don prizes to the best dressed and have artists establish brands.  The Armory show has announced Liz Magic Laser as their commissioned artist for the 2013 edition. Laser’s practice is interdisciplinary and broad as she combines performance, theatre and installation. Some of her […]

  The main differences between curating (which I did for about 15 years and still do but now in the gallery space ) and running a gallery is sales and critical response to the shows. There have been visits from writers from ArtForum, Art Net, Art News and Arte Fuse and the gallery mailing list […]

  In New York City, residents and tourists are constantly inundated with things to look at. Whether it be flashing lights, huge advertisements, a man dancing around only wearing green underwear in Union Square or yellow taxis flying by, there is always something new demanding our attention. The more years you spend here, the more […]

  In one of her paintings, Junkyard Sun, we see a toy Michael Jackson, and above him, a toy figure of pro wrestler Junkyard Dog.  Both of them are the artist’s childhood heroes.  A squirrel, a notion of conservation, is placed near the wrestler.  A big fly, a tiny zebra, a pair of shinny pumps, […]

So it was that the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1895 (just before he turned thirty years old) drew the image of the scream now at the Museum of Modern Art through April 29, 2013.  He drew it  with pastels on a sheet of paper mounted on cardboard.  It measures 32 by 23 ¼  inches.  […]

What inspired the idea was my exposure to music and art since a young age. I’m a DJ and when I was younger I worked with top labels such as Universal giving me access to all types of musicians. My time in art school and as a graffiti artists helped me build that natural passion for art. […]

You’re a Big Boy Now OR Rauschenberg ist Tödlich involves frameworks for music, text, actions, images, and interactive sequences. These evolved from improvisational and object-based performances done collaboratively by cellist and performance artist Valerie Kuehne; composer and performance artist Brian McCorkle; and writer and performance artist Esther Neff. Through a haze of grease and cigarette […]

On December 19th the Barnard Gallery will be hosting its annual Dinner Collections, with guest speaker David Krut. This exhibition is an opportunity for the gallery to collaborate with our artists, in order to showcase pieces that both the artists and Christiaan Barnard have earmarked and identified as significant works. This collection of work will […]

Amongst the extensive list of fairs exhibited at last week’s Art Basel, an underdog outshined the competitors with its fresh take on environmentally-minded art. Untitled, directed by curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, made its debut this year by setting up camp right on Miami Beach. Showcasing up-and-coming artists from all over the world, Omar selected the appropriate […]

The subject of Matthew Deleget’s current work is abstract painting – its historical framework, precedent strategies, exhibition conventions, and audience expectations. In his studio, Matthew takes on a pluralist approach and merges painting with conceptual, process, and installation strategies. He freely samples, remixes, and often subverts precedent abstract art movements, including suprematism, constructivism, plastic, concrete, […]