A curated list of the best art openings across NYC galleries this week. Eureka, a lighthouse play and The Fortunetellers Ellie Ga June 30, 2015 at 6:30 PM Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York TABLEAU Daniel Spoerri, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, B. Wurtz, Josh Tonsfeldt, Trevor Shimizu, Brent Owens, Pedro Wirz, Fabian Drung, Gelitin, Margaret […]
Best In Show At Art Basel 2015
With $3 billion worth of art shown by 284 galleries, Art Basel—which closed on Sunday—was, this year, not only a commercial success that matched if not eclipsed prior showcases, but it also signaled a renewed interest on the part of audiences—whether serious collectors or recreational buyers—to invest in art in a way that has reinvigorated galleries. Some examples? Agnes Martin‘s 1966 […]
John Waters’ Beverly Hills John On View in London
Artist and director John Waters, known for off-kilter cult favorites as Pink Flamingos and Serial Mom, has been subverting common themes — religion, domesticity, glamour and fame — throughout his career. A prolific artist, alongside films, Waters has been creating still photo-based work since the early 1990s. His latest show, a photographic exhibition called Beverly Hills John, has, after a successful […]
Germaine Krull: Revolution, Erotica and Ads
Pioneering modernist photographer Germaine Krull was as much a photojournalist as she was a story-teller. Through her work, most of which originated over a period of a few years in the 1920s and 1930s, Krull created an impressive portfolio that tackled artistic photography, advertisements, portraits and photojournalism. As one of the most famous female photographers of the inter-war period, she […]
Laura Beth Reese’s Intimate Ex-Boyfriend Portraits
For Boston-based artist Laura Beth Reese, breakups will always be a part of her life. The photographer’s series Ex-Boyfriends sees Reese capture photographic mementos of her former partners after the relationship is over. The images see the subjects, tacit and half-undressed, as they pose for her camera and gaze, pensively into the distance. The portraits of former lovers are intimate […]
Philippe Parreno: H{N}Y P N{Y}OSIS
In his largest installation in the U.S. to date, French artist Philippe Parreno gives American audiences an opportunity to experience first-hand the monumental scope of his work through a large-scale fusion of art, film, music and architecture. In Park Avenue Armory’s expansive Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Parreno, with the help of set designer Randall Peacock, will stage an ambitious, multi-sensory […]
Art Openings This Week in NYC
A curated list of the best art openings across NYC galleries this week. Françoise Grossen June 4 – August 15, 2015 Blum & Poe, 19 East 66th Street, New York Habitat: Oil Paintings, Sculpture & Installation Environments Mark Hadjipateras June 4 – July 11, 2015 Denise Bibro Fine Art, 55 Gansevoort Street, New York, 10014 […]
Kim Gordon: The City Is A Garden
Kim Gordon’s — the former front-woman of Sonic Youth — long-standing, and quite accomplished, foray into arts has landed her shows at MoMA/PS1 and White Columns in New York and Künstlerhaus in Graz. Now, the 303 Gallery in NYC is putting on the first solo exhibition of new work by Gordon, after signing the musician and visual artist in 2014. After last […]
Wig Up: Girlfriend’s Ode to 90s Drag
In the ’90s, with movies such as The Birdcage, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and Paris is Burning, drag was slowly but steadily permeating popular culture. Drag mainstream was—thanks to, in no small part, larger-than-life personalities such as RuPaul and Lady Bunny—spilling over into the “regular” mainstream, despite its largely underground status. Photographer Michael James O’Brien spent much of the decade […]