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Art Rx
This week, the doctor prescribes lots of artist talks, a few openings, and the Museum Mile festival.
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Urban Heroes of Istanbul: It's About Public Space
ISTANBUL — Last Monday night, the word on Twitter was that the police tanks were coming back to the square from the southeast. Thousands rallied, adorned in their bike helmets, swimming goggles, and bright smiles underneath their gas masks.
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Cats Take Over the Art World
Common journalistic wisdom has it that it takes three examples of a phenomenon to make a trend. 1) Kitty City, a metropolis/playground for cats that was built at Flux Factory in May and unveiled with a kitten adoption drive the first weekend in June; 2) The Cat Show, an exhibition devoted to cats, a
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Social Media at the Helm of Performance on Governors Island
On a muggy Saturday afternoon, a crowd of modern dancers in tie-dye shirts, clown-glam costume wearers, bemused children, art-aware observers, and curious members of the general public gathered on the parade ground of Governors Island. As the assembled mob grew, a tweet was read aloud, a command: “P
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The Impossible Desire of the Encyclopedic Palace
VENICE — After all of the seeing and being seen, it was a huge relief to enter Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the youngest artistic director of La Biennale in 110 years. This museum-like exhibition featuring work from over 150 artists from 38 count
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George Sugarman’s Unrecognized Greatness
I am tired of critics characterizing George Sugarman (1912–1999) — whose work was either overlooked or marginalized during his lifetime — as an idiosyncratic sculptor. By labeling him in this way, they are able to suggest that the neglect was partially his own doing, and to imply that he wasn’t inte
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Why Jeff Koons Made Michael Jackson White
I still remember the ripples of titillation — occasionally marked by muffled, satisfied guffaws — that spread predictably through the art world when Jeff Koons first exhibited his shiny white and gold porcelain sculpture, “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” (1988) at Sonnabend in 1989. The sculpture was p
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Wishing Upon a Star: Dan Colen’s Escapist Fantasies
The spirits that I called at Oko is Dan Colen’s first solo exhibition in New York City since his disastrous Gagosian show in 2010.
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Reading the Writing on the Wall at #OccupyGezi, Part 2
ISTANBUL — ‘Look at all the things a few trees can do!’ reads this graffitti near Tünel on Istiklal Boulevard. Erdoğan infamously dismissed the protests in a speech where he said ‘This is all too much for a few little trees.’ Of course, the trees were symbols of the general policy of the AKP governm
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Is Neon the New Black?
On the evening of May 10th, Greenpoint's art spaces were abuzz. It was the first Friday night when everyone agreed to stay open late, a coming of age moment for the district.
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Overheard in the Art World
What we "overheard" at Art Basel Hong Kong, the 55th Venice Biennale, the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios, and elsewhere.
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Animals Suspended in Animation with Paint and Resin
Using just acrylic paint and resin, Singaporean artist Keng Lye shapes three dimensional depictions of animals that seem suddenly frozen in time.