3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1087+ words) Rebecca Pollack traveled from Los Angeles to New York City to attend a master’s in social work graduation at Columbia University earlier in May. While she was in town, she saw a Broadway show and went to the beach, going…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (271+ words) Charles Fazzino understands that appetite better than almost anyone. He does not merely paint New York. He pops it open. His work carries the manic electricity of the city itself, bright, crowded, seductive, sentimental, and impossible to ignore. Fazzino’s universe…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (121+ words) Summer vibes are on the way! So lie back, relax and enjoy some art. Here are 10 of the best upcoming museum and gallery exhibitions in New York City this season. 1071 Fifth Ave. / Website Price: $30 Adult Tickets 11 W. 53 St. / Website Price: $30 Adult…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (990+ words) Folk art may be the closest visual language to the human condition because it begins before theory, before permission, before the academy has time to name it. It begins with the hand. It begins with need, loss, devotion, labor, memory,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (729+ words) In recent months, at the top of the 2nd Ave subway stop, there was a beautiful portrait of a pair of swans. A few blocks away on the Lower East Side, The Ridge Hotel greeted guests with a beautiful mural of…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (311+ words) Enter Melanie Stimmell, who, quite elegantly, absorbs that history and reframes it through a lens that feels, at once, tactile, mischievous, and undeniably seductive. Her work does not announce itself loudly. It seems to pull the viewer inward with a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (159+ words) What disturbed them was not subject, but color itself. Color, in that moment, became both structure and theory. Her methodology is grounded in fluid dynamics and material interaction. Reiter’s work extends beyond the gallery into design contexts, appearing in major…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (405+ words) There is a particular intelligence embedded in this kind of frivolity, one that feels almost decadent in its refusal to justify itself. Fredo describes The Moonlighters as a universe shaped by imagination, humor, and observation, though what emerges feels far…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (533+ words) This weekend, Boroughs of the Dead will be hosting a walking tour telling the stories of female ghosts in Greenwich Village. Led by author and de facto ghost historian Andrea Janes, the 90-minute tour tells stories of historical women who…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (312+ words) There is, perhaps, a quiet intellectual liberation in that. Elsewhere, From the North introduces a different, though equally compelling, register. Inuit artists bridge ancestral knowledge with contemporary expression, their works carrying a quiet authority that resists simplification. There is a…...