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Looking for Plato at Collective Hardware.

Plato’s theory of forms holds that there exists a perfect other in a removed world of which ours is a sad, poor copy. I...

Sally Golan- ‘A Hint of the Dark Side.’

  Teetering along in my heels, I tentatively looked around in search of The Gallery Bar. Having never been there as well as have never...

‘Quick while still,’ stars at pop up at Heist gallery.

In their continued efforts to be innovative and a progressive voice for down town artists (what else would we expect from Ms Talia Eisenberg...

Yoshitomo Nara wants to Confuse you.

The innocuous little moppets so delicately existent on Yoshimoto Nara’s canvases reversed the role of ‘gazer’ and ‘gazee’ at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in...

The Sleek set turn up for Albert Watson at Milk.

  If you are in the business of gawking at sleek looking children with perfect jawlines and too high cheekbones we certainly hope you were...

CJ Reilly gets a Prosthetic leg thrown at him.

After seeing C.J. Reilly's Drawing Stories from South America show during the Bushwick Open Studios and Art Fair (CJ Reilly- From one tip of...

‘Fortoul presents’ is a blowout at Damon Dash Gallery!

This past Friday night saw the grand opening of the Damon Dash gallery and to be frank the whole experience was a blow out....
Rose Hartman: Incomparable women of style.

Rose Hartman: ‘Incomparable women of style.’ An odyssey of a glamour photographer…

'Style is the way you go to bed and wake up in the morning.' And thus begins the delightful odyssey of Ms Rose Hartman who...

The Unveiling of Michelangelo’s “The Young Archer” at the Met— Oh the Pizzaz!

Photography by James Palmar. Daphne Guiness. Was the sculptural unveiling of ‘The young archer,’ a work purported to be that of Michelangelo’s...

How to Behave like you Know what you are Looking at. Etiquette at the...

"This is how you are supposed to stand," Umberto whispered in my ear as I took a sip of my PBR and stared at...

The Prettiest Girl in the Room: Frank Benson’s Human Statue (Jessie) at Taxer &...

With Fashion Week, Fashion’s Night Out and the first openings of the September Chelsea gallery shows, it seemed near impossible that an exhibition of...

A Visual Feast: the NYC Halloween Parade

Written, photographed by, and © Keith Lew, keithlew.com Visit Keith Lew's full gallery HERE As I exit the W4th subway station onto 6th Avenue, I try to...

Silhouette Building Sets the Gold Standard of Green

There are moments—those rare, freak occurrences where all the pieces come together to create something marvelous. It’s...

Is there something going on between Jeffrey Deitch and Keith Haring?

When Clayton Patterson's article first fell on my lap I was intrigued, titillated, and also concerned. Concerned about the implications, the arguments, and the...

Cats in the art history

Cats in art history: How felines came to be lovingly embraced in popular contemporary culture after first appearing symbolically in the Ancient Art world. The...