This wonderful two-minute video will take you inside Edward and Jo Hopper’s New York City studio in 1965.
August 1, 2014
Larry Rivers Foundation Sues Former Chelsea Hotel Owner
The Larry Rivers Foundation is suing developer Joseph Chetrit, the former owner of the Chelsea Hotel, over a missing painting that once hung in the hotel’s lobby and that the foundation has been trying to recover for three years.
Inside the Magnificent Lobby of a Classic Skyscraper
The Cass Gilbert–designed Woolworth building was the world’s tallest when it was completed in 1913, and while it relinquished that title long ago, its gothic exterior is still a commanding presence on Broadway.
Polly Apfelbaum Plays with Pattern
Among the sleek catalogues at the entrance to the Clifton Benevento Gallery sits a tattered hardcover, its paper jacket ripped to reveal the plain binding. This is artist Polly Apfelbaum’s copy of A Handweaver’s Pattern Book.
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Colorado, Israel, New Jersey, and Quebec.
Art Movements
DIA evaluation is doubled, Sekhemka statue sale loses two museums accreditation, Met Opera lockout postponed, and more from the week in art news.
Portraying the Monstrous Elegance of Parasites with Tintypes
Tapeworms, leeches, lice, bedbugs, fleas, and ticks — the litany of Marcus DeSieno’s photographic subjects is enough to cause a few paranoid itches
From a Williamsburg Storefront to a Midtown Museum: Spectacle Theater at MAD
Spectacle excels at making the most of whatever its members put their eclectic, seemingly tireless minds to. Seven days a week the volunteer-made, volunteer-run, 30-seat screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hustles out a menagerie of films — rare, radical, forgotten, misbegotten, offbeat, and controversial — which they charge $5 to see.
Gallery Whispers and Lunch in the Cafe: Mapping Museums Through Their Sounds
“There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them,” says artist John Kannenberg, who’s been recording museum noise for 15 years.