Artists Exhibitions Museums Uncategorized A Half-Century of Political Painting Packing Powerful Partisan Punch
Exhibitions Fairs Kinetic News Uncategorized Armory Week: Hand sanitizer, elbow-shakes, and lots of extraordinary art
Collectors Curators Exhibitions Stunning ‘Ninth Art’ works recall era when free expression didn’t risk death sentence
Museums Woman! Rachel Feinstein Poses Deep Questions Through Sculpture December 26, 2019 She is masturbating while lying on her belly, bigger than body size, sensitive to every brush of the skin, enjoying …
Artists Collectors Performance Surge In Interest in David Datuna Artwork After Banana Eating December 10, 2019 With the entire world discussing Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana (known as “Comedian”) and David Datuna’s eating of same (known as …
Artists The Hunger Artist December 09, 2019 Recently, an artist made international news headlines for taping a banana to a wall and selling it as ‘art’ for …
Exhibitions Fairs Performance Basel Banana Eater Speaks to the Globe December 08, 2019 Throughout the 1990s, “60 Minutes” could reliably stir up middle American eye-rolling by showing works of modern art that committed …
News Ognjen Simic, 1965-2019 November 17, 2019 The Fine Art Globe lost a family member today. Our great writer, Ognjen Simic, has died by suicide, at age …
Artists Conceptual Environmental Exhibitions Kinetic Museums News Political Hans Haacke: Art with Ulterior Motive November 11, 2019 Hans Haacke’s All Connected retrospective at the New Museum marks a return from the long banishment of the controversial New …
Artists Auctions News Major Week of Sales for International Auction Houses Draws Worldwide Attention November 11, 2019 One of the year’s biggest weeks for major auction houses is here. Modern and contemporary art auctions are some of …
Auctions News Asian Art Auctions Dominate London Auction Scene November 05, 2019 Every fall, the Asian art market turns its attention to London. Asian Art in London is an annual, 10-day …
Exhibitions Todd Hido exhibit ‘Light From Within’ at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris October 14, 2019 PARIS—Light From Within is not just the title of the exhibition at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris. It’s …
Artists Curators Exhibitions News The Powerful Vernacular Art of Simone Leigh October 08, 2019 Last year’s Guggenheim Hugo Boss prize went to Simone Leigh, a 50-year-old African-American artist whose time, it seems, has come …
Artists Curators Exhibitions Confronting Division and Perception at A.I.R. Gallery September 27, 2019 The current state of affairs – locally, nationally, globally – has sharpened our awareness of separation that appears to spring …
Artists Exhibitions News Hollis Taggart Showcases Alex Kanevsky’s Fluid Brushstroke September 24, 2019 “Liberation and disorientation” is the second solo show by a contemporary artist Alex Kanevsky at Hollis Taggart gallery. The show, …
Artists Exhibitions Fairs News Fashionably Attended ArtBerlin Showcases Solid but Unadventurous Works September 20, 2019 BERLIN—The annual ArtBerlin fair, which opened last weekend in Germany’s capital against a backdrop of beautiful September weather, presented a …
Artists Auctions Exhibitions Fairs News New York’s September Asia Week: Gearing Up For Spring September 17, 2019 Ten years ago, a number of Manhattan galleries formed what was then called the “Asian Art Dealers of the Upper …
Artists Curators Exhibitions News ‘Domestic Horror’ on the Upper East Side September 12, 2019 The first Thursday in September comes like a sharp ring of an alarm clock, stirring the last dregs of summer …
Artists Exhibitions Museums Uncategorized A Half-Century of Political Painting Packing Powerful Partisan Punch March 20, 2020 “At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist.” Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) In the 1980s —I can vouch—the mean age …
Artists The Creative Scene in Vanishing New York September 04, 2018 I’ve recently remembered an old transient friend I had as a teenager. When I was a kid trying to be …
News Jake Gyllenhaal is Ensorcelled in Velvet Buzzsaw February 13, 2019 On the heels of the HBO’s art-world documentary The Price of Everything, with its real-life cast of billionaire art collectors, …
Artists Exhibitions News Hollis Taggart Showcases Alex Kanevsky’s Fluid Brushstroke September 24, 2019 “Liberation and disorientation” is the second solo show by a contemporary artist Alex Kanevsky at Hollis Taggart gallery. The show, …
Artists Curators Exhibitions News From Manet to today – an exploration of the role of black female model October 29, 2018 Posing Modernity, an exhibition that opened last Thursday at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery is a rare exploration of the trajectory …
Exhibitions Museums Play It Quiet: The Silent Art of Rock and Roll April 22, 2019 “Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll” at the Metropolitan Museum showcases hundreds of instruments that were either owned …
News Prominent Art Dealer Endures Ordeal En Route to Dallas December 29, 2019 Avery Andon, the jet-setting owner of the contemporary art gallery ArtLife, claimed on Instagram this morning that his fiancée …
Artists Exhibitions News Michael Swaney Shines at Johannes Vogt Gallery’s New Uptown Space December 03, 2018 “He is a very …
Curators Exhibitions Museums News Amid Turmoil, Whitney Biennial Takes Pulse of America’s Mindset August 12, 2019 Without a doubt, the most scandalous museum show in New York City right now is the 2019 Whitney Biennial. The …
Artists Brazilian Sculptor Juliana Cerqueira Leite Dazzles on the Bowery September 13, 2018 A stunning show opened up last night and a few dozen people gathered on The Bowery to toast the Brazilian …
Museums News WNYC’s All Of It Takes a Hard Look at Protests at The Whitney February 19, 2019 In late November, a gathering of migrants at the US-Mexico border led to the tear-gassing of some of the participants. …
Artists Curators Exhibitions Confronting Division and Perception at A.I.R. Gallery September 27, 2019 The current state of affairs – locally, nationally, globally – has sharpened our awareness of separation that appears to spring …
Artists Exhibitions News Olga Chernysheva’s ‘Autoradio’ an Intricate Evocation of the Universally Mundane October 30, 2018 Art, as some argue, is what makes us stop short and look anew at the mundane. Olga Chernysheva, a contemporary …
Artists Exhibitions Lucien Freud at Threshold of Human Condition April 25, 2019 Lucian Freud’s distinctive brush stroke and muted palette are extolled for the powerful visualization of texture. Yet, meticulous representation, or …
Artists Exhibitions Fairs News Outsider Art Rings in New York’s Fair Season January 17, 2020 Now in its 28th year, the Outsider Art Fair kicks off a season of New York fairs, with the Winter …
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