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Friday, April 19, 2024
After a lazy August, we�re ready to get back to the galleries and see some paintings, the kind that are�so new�and fresh we can still smell the wet paint. This week, plan to go to Chelsea on Thursday (after First Thursday in DUMBO) and Bushwick on Friday. The Lower East […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Some artists�go upstate to get away from the art world in the summer, and others gather an�art world around�them wherever they go. We�went up�to the Adirondacks�recently to visit the summer outpost of Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts in Jay, […]
Our mid-summer�selected exhibitions list,�organized by neighborhood, is, well, blooming with�group shows that feature flowers, gardens, and nature. For those of you who are out of town, perhaps tending�your�own patch of land�or painting�at an�artists� residency upstate, links are�included for online browsing. For a full exhibition listing, make sure to check out […]
Our selected June exhibitons list is�organized by neighborhood, and for those of you who have already packed up and left town�or are holed up in the studio working toward a fall exhibition, we�ve included links�for online browsing. My summer plans? Thanks for asking. I love spending summer in the city, […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / CounterPointe, an inspired dance project organized by Jason Andrew and Julia Gleich of Norte Maar, unfurled last weekend at the Actors Fund Arts Center in downtown Brooklyn. In its fifth year, the project comprised a series of dances created collaboratively by female visual artists and choreographers. […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Thanks to the ongoing disaster known as the Trump administration, anxiety was in the air at the art fairs this year. Unconstitutional��deportation, hate crime, heedless�military intervention, political corruption, the impending�loss of affordable healthcare for 24 million people, and the failure�of GOP will to seriously investigate�palpable�indications�of […]
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Pairing artists with choreographers often produces transcendent results, and it has a venerable tradition�Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, for instance. Earlier this month, I was fortunate to get tickets to see Counterpointe, a collaborative series developed by Norte Maar that joined seven female artists with seven female choreographers. Fusing the […]
Maureen Gallace @ 303 Gallery (Chelsea) The following is a short list of exhibitions and openings, organized by neighborhood, that we think are worth checking out, either IRL or online. Note that the submission guidelines are included at the end of the post. Brooklyn Jared Bark Photobooth Works 1969-1976/ Southfirst […]
“An avalanche of color has no force,” Matisse wrote in 1945. “Color attains its full expression only when it is organized, when it corresponds to the emotional intensity of the artist.” At OUTLET this month, Jason Andrew presents the impressive work of Lucy Mink and Judith Dolnick, painters who seem […]
