Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea featuring Anselm Kiefer and Robert Rauschenberg
At this point it should come as no surprise that rockstar art dealer Larry Gagosian can put on multiple large-scale exhibitions by brand-name artists, any one of which would be more than welcome in any museum in the world. But in case you still need convincing, we heartily recommend heading over to Chelsea some time between […]
Levi’s Photo Workshop NYC, in Soho
The Levi's Photo Workshop could be the least-hyped coolest thing going on in the New York City right now. Located on Wooster Street in the–instant nostalgia alert!–former Deitch gallery space, the Levi's Photo Workshop has so much photography-related, totally-free goodness that it's almost a bit overwhelming. We went once just to take it all in, and […]
Canstruction NYC 2010 at the World Financial Center
In what has become a great pre-Thanksgiving tradition in our family, we roamed the soaring, sun-drenched Winter Palace at the World Financial Center last Thursday afternoon to take in Canstruction 2010, that annual celebration of cool design, tricky engineering, and donating a whole lot of time, talent and food to New Yorkers who need it […]
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, running now through January at the Met, is packed with the kind of visually clever, relentlessly entertaining works that have earned him recognition as one of the great pioneers of the Conceptual Art movement. In and of itself, this is an extremely engaging exhibition, filled with energy and spectacle and humor. But what […]
The International Center for Photography in NYC presents/..The Mexican Suitcase and Cuba in Revolution
It's kind of a small, sterile-feeling space–think institutional gallery rather than museum–but New York City's International Center of Photography almost always puts on a good show. And the two exhibitions running now are particularly noteworthy, both for photojournalists (and its fans, like us) as well as anyone easily engaged by 20th-century history (um…. also like […]
Abstract Expressionist New York at the MoMA
The MoMA digs deep (and wide) into their extraordinary permanent collection for the blockbuster show of the season, Abstract Expressionist New York, a celebration of the creative explosion that burst through this town in the 1940s and '50s. Taking up the Museum of Modern Art's entire fourth floor–the first time an exhibition has done so […]
Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City
One of New York City's great under-hyped little gems is Long Island City's Socrates Sculpture Park, set on a patch of Queens riverbank. The art here–large outdoor sculptures–is always fun and interesting, the setting unique, the atmosphere festive and communal, the views of the water and Manhattan's Upper East Side wide-open and fairly stunning. Recently […]
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool at the Asia Society Museum
We admit it: our expectations were pretty low as we walked into the Yoshitomo Nara exhibition at the Asia Society Museum last week. Not that we dislike the almost cultishly adored Japanese artist, a leader of that country's influential Neo-Pop movement… it's just that Nara's big-eyed, large-forehead-ed little girls (often threatening someone with a […]
Public Art in NYC Featuring Type on the Streets: Barbara Kruger at the downtown Whitney site and Twist and Amaze on Houston
One of the most exciting long-term New York City projects is the construction of the new, Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum downtown, which will stand at the southern terminus of the great High Line Park, on the corner of Washington and Gansevoort Streets. But just because the new Whitney Museum building won't be completed until, […]
DUMBO Arts Festival: Fun Walk-Around-in-the-Sun Alert, This Weekend!
The always-a-blast DUMBO Arts Festival has been transforming the cobblestoned streets of this Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass community into an excellent art party for about a dozen years now. If you've been before (all photos on this page are from past Festivals), you know how much fun it is to wander around […]
At this point it should come as no surprise that rockstar art dealer Larry Gagosian can put on multiple large-scale exhibitions by brand-name artists, any one of which would be more than welcome in any museum in the world. But in case you still need convincing, we heartily recommend heading over to Chelsea some time between […]
Levi’s Photo Workshop NYC, in Soho
The Levi's Photo Workshop could be the least-hyped coolest thing going on in the New York City right now. Located on Wooster Street in the–instant nostalgia alert!–former Deitch gallery space, the Levi's Photo Workshop has so much photography-related, totally-free goodness that it's almost a bit overwhelming. We went once just to take it all in, and […]
Canstruction NYC 2010 at the World Financial Center
In what has become a great pre-Thanksgiving tradition in our family, we roamed the soaring, sun-drenched Winter Palace at the World Financial Center last Thursday afternoon to take in Canstruction 2010, that annual celebration of cool design, tricky engineering, and donating a whole lot of time, talent and food to New Yorkers who need it […]
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty at the Met
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, running now through January at the Met, is packed with the kind of visually clever, relentlessly entertaining works that have earned him recognition as one of the great pioneers of the Conceptual Art movement. In and of itself, this is an extremely engaging exhibition, filled with energy and spectacle and humor. But what […]
The International Center for Photography in NYC presents/..The Mexican Suitcase and Cuba in Revolution
It's kind of a small, sterile-feeling space–think institutional gallery rather than museum–but New York City's International Center of Photography almost always puts on a good show. And the two exhibitions running now are particularly noteworthy, both for photojournalists (and its fans, like us) as well as anyone easily engaged by 20th-century history (um…. also like […]
Abstract Expressionist New York at the MoMA
The MoMA digs deep (and wide) into their extraordinary permanent collection for the blockbuster show of the season, Abstract Expressionist New York, a celebration of the creative explosion that burst through this town in the 1940s and '50s. Taking up the Museum of Modern Art's entire fourth floor–the first time an exhibition has done so […]
Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City
One of New York City's great under-hyped little gems is Long Island City's Socrates Sculpture Park, set on a patch of Queens riverbank. The art here–large outdoor sculptures–is always fun and interesting, the setting unique, the atmosphere festive and communal, the views of the water and Manhattan's Upper East Side wide-open and fairly stunning. Recently […]
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool at the Asia Society Museum
We admit it: our expectations were pretty low as we walked into the Yoshitomo Nara exhibition at the Asia Society Museum last week. Not that we dislike the almost cultishly adored Japanese artist, a leader of that country's influential Neo-Pop movement… it's just that Nara's big-eyed, large-forehead-ed little girls (often threatening someone with a […]
Public Art in NYC Featuring Type on the Streets: Barbara Kruger at the downtown Whitney site and Twist and Amaze on Houston
One of the most exciting long-term New York City projects is the construction of the new, Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum downtown, which will stand at the southern terminus of the great High Line Park, on the corner of Washington and Gansevoort Streets. But just because the new Whitney Museum building won't be completed until, […]
DUMBO Arts Festival: Fun Walk-Around-in-the-Sun Alert, This Weekend!
The always-a-blast DUMBO Arts Festival has been transforming the cobblestoned streets of this Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass community into an excellent art party for about a dozen years now. If you've been before (all photos on this page are from past Festivals), you know how much fun it is to wander around […]
