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Kenny Scharf Artist Mural on the Houston Street Wall
It’s quickly become one of our favorite public art spaces: “the Wall” on Houston Street (formerly the “Deitch Wall”, now curated by the Hole Gallery), right around the corner from Bowery, and, in case...
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Paula Scher’s MAPS Chelsea Exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
Sometimes it feels almost unfair, the amount of enviable things Paula Scher has accomplished in her career. She spent most of the 1970s as an art director at CBS and Atlantic Records, designing some...
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MoMA explores Magritte’s Surrealist Years
French artist Rene Magritte didn't exactly look the part of a surrealist icon, a man who would blow a million minds with his bizarre juxtapositions, his impossible realities, his… I don't know… his...
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The Faberge Big Egg Hunt is ON!
Is NYC cracking up? Well, while there may be several examples of that, right now, and through until April 18, there are more than 250 giant eggs "hidden" all over New York City. Each one of these...
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Pop Art & Post-War Artwork from Onnasch Collection at Hauser & Wirth
New York City's grand museums are about to launch their big spring/summer exhibitions. We're especially looking forward to Ai Wei Wei in Brooklyn, and Jeff Koons Whitney takeover, which will be that...
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Two Brand New NYC Public Art Projects – Perfect For The Fall!
If the vitality of a city can be measured, even to a small degree, by the prevalence and energy of its public art, then New York is in fine shape indeed. From the ongoing exhibitions in City Hall Park...
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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Now At The Brooklyn Museum
Los Angeles-born artist Kehinde Wiley had a really great idea back in the early aughts, fresh off his MFA from Yale, and he has executed it in dozens (hundreds?) of surprising, sensual, powerful, and...
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The New Downtown Whitney Is a Spectacular Success
It's definitely the cultural event of the season, and probably the year, the opening of the new downtown Whitney Museum of American Art, moving from their Upper East Side home of nearly 50 years to...
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Key to the City: A New Creative Time Project by Paul Ramirez Jonas
Those New York City public-art wizards at Creative Time have done it again. Ever since the early 1970s, this excellent art collective has been commissioning, curating and creating innovative,...
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Henri Matisse: Radical Reinvention, 1913 – 1917, at the MoMA
What a wonderful treat, the just-opened Henri Matisse art show at the Museum of Modern Art. Sprawled out luxuriously in the larger of the MoMA's sixth-floor galleries, this full-scale exhibition...
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