Lisa Breslow’s New York State of Mind Artist Lisa Breslow’s solo show, “Recent Works” is at the Kathryn Markel Gallery in Chelsea, from November 15 thru December 15. Breslow’s work is a love song to New York. Central Park and the High Line, Chelsea, Long Island City andthe Village; these […]
by Nami Hoppin The women artists in this stunning exhibition demonstrate the role of women in the current ascendency of contemporary Japanese ceramics around the world. It focuses on how their relationships to France have influenced and enabled the five artists who are show-cased in this exhibition to find their […]
by SARA EVANS Maybe it’s sort of juvenile to have a favorite painting, but on a recent visit to the New American Wing at the Musuem of Fine Arts in Boston, I came to the realization that I do: I love John Singer Sargent’s large and mysterious canvas, “The Daughters […]
by Sara Evans Musical or opera? Opera or musical? Ever since “Porgy and Bess” was first launched in 1935, the controversy has raged. But while critics have foamed and fumed ever since the birth of this American icon, audiences continue to flock to its successive productions. Its current iteration, “The […]
by Isabelle Kellogg Luke Haynes hasn’t stopped quilting since he started toying around with small snippets of fabric on a sewing machine ten years ago. By now, he’s worked past his 100th quilt, many of which have been on view at recent shows across America, including his native city of […]
by Sara Evans Eighty-nine-year-old Ellsworth Kelly is one of the pillars of Abstract Expressionism, a major figure in both Color-Field and Minimalist painting. His abstractions are precise, tight and geometric, with color-block grids and intensely hued, hard-edged forms floating in space. But there is a softer, less well-known side to […]
by Ellen Edwards Cities are dynamic, their districts wax and wane, are hot or not. And nowhere is this fact of urban life truer than San Francisco’s SoMa, the district South of Market Street, the long street that slices all the way through the city, from Twin Peaks to the […]
April 21st – May 12th, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21st. 12-5pm Special in gallery broadcast during Freize Art Fair – Saturday, May 5th 2-5 pm 317 Tenth Ave, Ground Floor (between 28th and 29th St.) Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 6 p.m. (Art) Amalgamated, a new project space […]