The most noteworthy shows opening across NYC galleries this week. All We Need is Inside Jeppe Hein April 16 – May 30, 2015 303 Gallery, 507 W 24th Street, New York Arm’s Length Erin Shirreff April 17 – May 22, 2015 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22nd Street, New York, 10011 Performing for the Camera Tseng Kwong […]
David Lynch, Between Two Worlds: A Union of Art, Film and Xiu Xiu
Despite the fact that his latest directorial feature, the obscurely fascinating Inland Empire, was released almost a decade ago, David Lynch’s legacy as a filmmaker, artist and visionary is perhaps more profoundly vital today than it has ever been. Beyond his work as a filmmaker, David Lynch has been, throughout his entire career, a prolific painter and artist, with a body of work that […]
Alien She: Riot Grrrl Through Art
Today, the city of Boston will officially proclaim April 9 as “Riot Grrrl” day, in honor of original riot grrrl, musician Kathleen Hanna. Hanna, a pivotal figure on the hardcore-punk scene and frontwoman of seminal feminist bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, is in Boston to lecture and perform at the Wilbur Theater. The Riot Grrrl movement has been at […]
Milan Design Week: A Danish Showcase at Salone del Mobile and Art Around Town
Milan’s Salone del Mobile has grown into the largest fair of its kind in the world, far surpassing its founding mission of showcasing Italian design, and instead becoming a platform for the showcase of over 13,000 global designers’ work. Taking place during what is known as Milan Design Week, the Italian city becomes a “living gallery,” playing host to a myriad presentations, installations and […]
Ars Magna: Diana Al-Hadid
Diana Al-Hadid’s opus inhabits multiple media: large-scale sculptures, drawings, site-specific installations and painting all feature throughout the Syria-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s work. Al-Hadid’s work is rooted in history: she often references art from centuries past, from which she borrows motifs that she rearranges, reinterprets and uses in her own compositions. It is a symbiotic fascination, one that lends Al-Hadid’s work a […]
Art Openings This Week in NYC
The most noteworthy shows opening across NYC galleries this week. Teeth Gnash Tennessee Group Show April 3 – April 26, 2015 INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, 89 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002 Anton Alvarez Wrapsody April 1 – May 9, 2015 Salon 94, 12 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128 Mariana Castillo Deball, Jumana Manna, Hans Schabus, Gabriel Sierra Cartography […]
No Second Take: ‘Disposable’ Showcases the Single Shot Era
How many selfies does it take to get the “perfect selfie?” Back in the day of disposable cameras—way before Instagram—one take is all you got. No selecting the best shot. No deleting. The folks at Con Artist Collective, an artists collective on the Lower East Side in NYC, are going back in time to the “one take” days by putting on an exhibition […]
Eli Craven
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]imple foldings of regular photographs—think vintage movie stills and mail-order catalog photos—repurpose, in the hands of artist Eli Craven, archival photos into sexually charged works that take on a second life. For his series “Screen Lovers,” Craven turned to books of iconic movie couples: while the original images are romantic and only lightly sexual in undertone, Craven’s arrangements reveal a much starker, sexually charged aesthetic. For […]
Art Basel Hong Kong: A Photo Recap
Art Basel Hong Kong wrapped last week. The 2015 showcase of the multi-location contemporary art fair (with outposts in Miami Beach and Basel) drew 233 galleries from some 37 countries, and scored big with visitors and buyers. Galleries enjoyed some healthy sales: David Zwirner Gallery reported the sale of Chris Ofili’s “Dead Monkey – Sex, Money and Drugs” (2000) for $2m, while Hauser and Wirth […]