Ruinart and Georgia Russell's Collaboration Launches at Art Basel Miami Beach
There sits a cave, well, a cellar, in the south of Reims, the unofficial capital of the Champagne-Ardenne region. It's dark and dank and cold, aged and vast, almost cathedral-like in its scope....
View Article4 Questions: Xu Bing
The formidable artist, Xu Bing is most well-known for his large-scale installations that incorporate language, text, and characters.
View ArticleIn the Studio: Nari Ward, Part I
Harlem is a peculiar place. The ghosts of literati past that linger through its present cultural gatekeepers, the gentrification that went from 0 to 60 in under six seconds. It’s riddled with good...
View ArticleIn the Studio: Nari Ward, Part II
Dramatic, sculptural installations that transform collected mundane materials into works examining race, poverty, consumer culture, and materiality have become synonymous with the Jamaican-born,...
View Article4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones
There's something to be said (and held closely) about quietude in a time when shock and volume are firmly aligned with power and value. It's something more to explore that power and value, in all its...
View ArticleIn the Studio: Nari Ward, Part III
Dramatic, sculptural installations that transform collected mundane materials into works examining race, poverty, consumer culture, and materiality have become synonymous with the Jamaican-born,...
View ArticleThe Month's Best of New York Art & Culture
Here are my picks for this month's best of art and culture in New York in no particular order. Ajak Deng + Laurie Simmons + ArtNews Since Sarah Douglas's turn at the helm of this storied publication—...
View ArticleDavid Salle Debuts at Dallas Contemporary, Skarstedt
David Salle's reputation proceeds him. The sophistication of his work was as evident when he was a young student at CalArts in the 1970s as it is now, certainly a significant factor in his rise to...
View ArticleMisty Copeland, Susan Fales-Hill Raise More Than $1 Million at Northside Gala
Last week the Northside Center for Child Development, led by Thelma Dye-Holmes, Executive Director and CEO, hosted its annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street with honorees American Ballet Theatre's Misty...
View Article4 Questions: Giuseppe Penone
When you step into the Gagosian Gallery on Via Francesco Crispini in Rome, housed just steps from Palazzo San Lorenzo in a neoclassical building with its soaring ceilings and treated floors, there's no...
View Article3 Picks for Art and Culture in Rome
The thought of Rome might not immediately conjure up images of contemporary art. Quite the opposite when you consider the ancient city and it's ghosts of culture past. But this month was one for the...
View ArticleThe Best New York Art and Culture for June 2015
Here are just some of my picks for this month's best of art and culture in no particular order. The new Whitney Museum Everyone is visiting and talking about the new Whitney Museum, and for good...
View ArticleCarolina Herrera, New York Botanical Garden Raise More Than $1.6 Million at...
Hundreds of guests swirled about the New York Botanical Garden last Thursday evening. They were there for Carolina Herrera and the garden's self-described blockbuster exhibition that presents Frida...
View ArticleLast Chance: Bruce Conner at Paula Cooper Gallery
Perhaps the most aggrandizing quality of Bruce Conner is his veiled honesty. It's not always immediate or even explicit, as he was known to ascribe the credit for his works to others, but it's there....
View ArticleRashaad Newsome opens at SCAD Museum of Art
VideoRashaad Newsome is king. Last night, Newsome held an intimate affair of a few dozen during his 24-hour residency at Ace Hotel New York. Before collaborators, curators, writers, artists, and...
View ArticleFort Gansevoort opens in New York City's Meatpacking District
New York is no stranger to food, art, or retail, but when independent curator Adam Shopkorn was presented with the opportunity to take over a 19th-century Greek Revival row house on the corner of...
View ArticleBehind the Image: Three Photographers Tell All About Three Iconic Images
The stories behind iconic photographs.
View ArticleContemporary Marble Sculpture Line the Ruins in Rome
Photo: Davide Fracassi/Pacific Press/Newscom The finest marble comes from a small town in Tuscany. Sitting 300 feet in air, the quarries raise tall like snow-drunk mountains. Men work in tune,...
View Article4 Questions with South African Artist Robin Rhode
By 1990, chalks-down protests in South Africa were so common they were almost routine. Sure, the beginnings of Apartheid reform and desegregation were present, as slow as molasses as it were, and by...
View ArticleDash Snow Survey Opens at The Brant Foundation
The November morning was warm. The sprawling Connecticut lawn was drunk with sun under an azure sky and bordered by the deepest crimsons and chestnuts, of ambers and saffrons as if the autumn weather...
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