Irena Jurek: You just came back from participating in the Nicaraguan Biennial, how was your experience? Leah Dixon: Incredible. I’m still processing everything. The curator, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, picked a group of international artists to work together and collaborate, and in general make responsive works. His intuition was spot-on. We worked together and collaborated with intense […]

The third Frieze Art Fair will be opening in the coming weeks, and its organizers have arranged a multifaceted array of programming which promises to interest viewers from all backgrounds. This year, 190 contemporary galleries will be participating, 53 of which are New York-based, and Frieze’s popular Projects, Talks, Sounds, and Education programs will continue. […]

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Lifes May 9 – Jun 28, 2014 Pace Gallery 510 West 25th St. New York City pacegallery.com

NY Arts: What is your artistic background? Do you identify as a filmmaker or as a painter?   Russell Sheaffer: I’ve been working on films for a while now — editing and producing for others and directing my own experimental work. I like to think of the experimental work that I’m doing as (often abstract) […]

Featuring: George Bolster, Carla Burns, Gary Dempsey, Sarah Feehily, Beth Fox, Gemma Gore, Luke Howlin, Steve Maher, Megs Morley & Tom Flanagan, Mike O’Brien and Liam O’ Callahan Curated by: Shane Harrington Irish Art Does Not Exist April 24 – May 18 Opening Reception: April 24, 6-9pm Station Independent Projects 164 Suffolk Street New York […]

Pete Tobey: You’re from New York City? Brian Morris: Yup. First generation American-Irish from Woodhaven, Queens. My folks grew up 100 miles or so from each other in Ireland, and met in The Bronx in ’68. I love New York. Lived all over, Brooklyn, Harlem, Astoria, Forest Hills, Little Italy, Alaska, and now LES. PT: Alaska? […]

Showcasing everyone from big names to emerging stars, there is a lot of great art to be seen in NYC these days. Here are our selections for the best shows that are up to be looked at right now. All across town, from painting to sculpture to video and performance, take a peek and then […]

Featuring: Mark Beasley, Tim Berrensheim, Alexandra Gorczynski, Ryan Whittier Hale, Claudia Hart, Jeremiah Johnson, Brookhart Jonquil, Sophie Kahn, Alex M. Lee, Sara Ludy, Shane Mecklenburger, Jonathan Monaghan, Mikey McParlane and Michael Mallis, Brenna Murphy, Nicholas O’Brien, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jon Rafman, Nicolas Sassoon, Jasper Spicero, Kate Steciw, Katie Torn, and Krist Wood. Performances by: ATOM-r (Mark […]

Featuring: Pamela Council, Patrice Renee Washington, Sara Jimenez, Sondra Perry Re: Purpose April 12 – May 4, 2014 FiveMyles 558 St. Johns place Brooklyn fivemyles.org

İrfan Önürmen plumbs the intricacies of existence with a postmodern process-oriented painting strategy that fuses a cartoon drawing aesthetic, tulle collage, and cubist planar construction; effectively obscuring formal classification and raising more questions than it answers. His current show at C24 Gallery persistently mines the many shades and guises of the human condition in subtle […]