Tag: Gallery
Thomas Barbey: In the Grip of Illusions.
Thomas Barbey is a master at mixing pictures. His art known as photo montage is the process of artfully combining two or more photographs to come up with a convincingly real art piece. For all of those who just...
Ellis Gallagher: Urban Legend?
New York nightlife abounded at Ellis Gallagher’s New York City-reflective art exhibit on Bowery and Delancey at the Collective Hardware Gallery Thursday night. A couple of skips and a shimmy past the Williamsburg Bridge, it was easily accessible enough...
Art of Fashion- discovering beauty in the rough.
Webster Hall was just like I once remembered it; glittery disco ball, flashing lights, sideways glances and heart-pounding music blaring out of speakers. The crowd was familiar, with the occasional hipsters, the model-esque women clomping around in their platform...
POP Art…
When a special event is held to showcase the work of several New York artists, it is sometimes hard to ascertain by what criteria the event should be judged. Does one evaluate it based on the talent of the...
Akut and Hera- if only you were as beautiful as us…
If you Google “Redflagg Herakut opening”, you will undoubtedly be directed to a number of art forums, each with multiple frantic posts from Herakut fans stunned that they hadn’t heard about the opening party Thursday night that kicked off...
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 believe this to be an acceptable segue.
The Black Honky art show of works by former...
Melanie Bonajo Book Launch; a loss for words.
Photography by Paul WR Perez.
A large, yellow school bus lumbers past the fire escapes of Brooklyn tenement buildings.
Hebrew letters sprawl across its side, seemingly strange in the urban corner of Williamsburg where, two blocks ago, Bedford Avenue buzzed with...
Glamour arrives at the Artseen NY Benefit. If only you were there too…
Arriving last night to the NY Foundation for the Arts, 'Artseen' Benefit was like coming to a wonderful performance art piece, all the characters were in place, the gestures, cheek bones and the art that hung along the walls...
Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian. Beyond the box…
Due to some abnormal external forces, the gallery-goers at the Gagosian opening last Thursday knew to automatically lock themselves into a queue. This magnetic stream leaked out from the inner depth of the great gallery to swallow innocent bystanders...
Clic Gallery, and how they all flocked.
Here’s the question on my mind. Does art sell better when it’s surrounded by lots of beautiful people, correct cheek bones, foreign accents and an endless supply of hors’ deaves and jalapeno tequila cocktails. The answer it seems is...
Miss Subway Girl: Then and Now.
Beauty. It is the thing that our society craves and rewards. In Fiona Gardner’s upcoming photo exhibit ‘Meet Miss Subway,’ at Rush Gallery we are treated to an intriguing dialogue on the passage of time, the idealization of youth,...
JOHN WATERS-“Old Chickens Make Good Soup.”
We love the recession. Seriously, it’s great. Why? Because people maddeningly pant around town, tongues hanging loose like rabid wolves, looking to quench their empty little souls with any kind of perverse painkiller entertainment. This obviously creates the ultimate...
Say ‘Cheese’- Glitterati Pop-up Shop Explores Our Identities.
Tuesday night, artists, musicians, supporters, and friends gathered at Rush Arts Gallery on West 26th to take part in Glitterati Magazine Nicholas Fahey’s “Your Portrait Project.” Interestingly enough, the art goers also seemed to have an underlying anchor -...
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 Chelsea last Friday. Coming straight from Japan, totally unaware of the language and culture of...
United Creators want to make your Art Gallery Irrelevant?
Here’s an idea. You’re a starving artist trying to get your work out, except there’s one problem, the art galleries aren’t returning your phone calls. It’s that time of day you begin to reconsider your sanity except this time...
