June 16, 2014 It was only about a three-hour drive from our house in Westchester to North Adams, Massachusetts, home of MassMOCA, the country’s largest museum of modern and contemporary art. We were booked into a B&B on East Main Street, walking distance to the City’s major restaurants and only a short drive from the […]
Out of The City
June 8, 2014 Sound art has been around for a while. Yves Klein made sound art. John Cage certainly did. There are two floors exhibiting contemporary sound art at The New Museum of Contemporary Art on The Bowery right now. And this week-end a major installation of sound art pieces collectively titled In The Garden […]
Taking Care of Your Guests
June 2, 2014 I was asked to help out at the gallery on the Lower East Side where I had done my NYU internship last year. A sudden personnel shortage prompted them to ask me to watch the gallery for a day. It was a quiet day on the Lower East Side. A week day. […]
Spring Gallery Tour of The Lower East Side
May 29, 2014 Twelve members of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey drove into the City in three cars, parked at various lots and met me in front of the Y Gallery on Orchard Street at 11 in the morning this past Thursday. A few had time to stop for coffee along the way. […]
Kara Walker at The Domino Sugar Factory
May 26, 2014 Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety”—an installation at The Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn –is one of the most beautiful and disturbing works I have ever seen. And then, isn’t that just like Kara Walker? One of the few beautiful and disturbing works I have seen previously was a mural in silhouette that she […]
Did I Forget Anything?
To-Do List May 8-11 Lead group from Northern New Jersey Center for the Arts on tour of Chelsea galleries—check Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen’s opening at Ivy Brown Gallery—check Ryan Brown’s opening at Y gallery—check Pulse, NADA, Downtown, Frieze, Contemporary and Satellite art fairs—check Did I forget anything?
The Affordable Art Fair
The Affordable Art Fair in early April was our first foray into the world of contemporary art fairs and our first chance to see how our artists’ work might be received by that larger world of potential collectors. By all measures of success, this was a very successful first outing. Each of the six artists […]