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ArtRX NYC: Halloween
There is something spooky for every culture vulture in the city this week.
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In Brooklyn, 600 Women Artists Unite for a Photograph
A group of 600 female artists convened at the Brooklyn Museum for “Now Be Here #2,” which has been called the largest group portrait of female and female-identifying artists in New York.
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A Street Artist Spotlights the Inhumane Treatment of Migrants in Malta
Some 5,000 undocumented immigrants currently live in overcrowded detention centers in Malta, though their hardships are mostly hidden from the wealthy European tourists who flock to the Mediterranean archipelago.
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After Museum Controversy, St. Louis Artists Focus on Community Building
During meetings in which local artists of color and allies gathered to strategize in response to the controversy at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, two possible approaches emerged: reprimand and correct the museum, or elevate the good work happening beyond its walls.
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Wandering Around Bushwick’s Second International Gallery Biennial
On a chilly October weekend, Exchange Rates spread a foreign invasion of art across a particularly industrial area of Bushwick and East Williamsburg. Islands of art in small galleries throughout the neighborhood forged surprising, playful alliances between artists from London, Germany, Colombia, the Netherlands and elsewhere. A sampling collection of
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The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick
In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.
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Visiting the Museum of Modern Art at Sunrise
For those who wake up hungry for art, the Museum of Modern Art is opening its doors at 7:30am every Wednesday in October.
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The Venezuelan Modernist Who Took Inspiration from Graphic Design
Gerd Leufert's visual art carries a freedom that the branding, emblems, and logos that he made as a graphic designer did not have.
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Required Reading
This week, a new public art work by Ursula von Rydingsvard, a former Yves Klein model speaks, the original webcam girl, podcasts, and more.
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Weekend Words: Alas
"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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Stoic Beauty
At one point, while looking at Roy McMakin’s four identical green tables, I had the sudden urge to wipe the dust off one of them, except there wasn’t any dust.
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After the Storm, and Before
Marco Breuer has been making abstract photographs since the early 1990s. However, in contrast to Aaron Siskind, whose black-and-white photographs of walls were linked to the gestural paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, particularly those of his friend Franz Kline, Breuer works with sheets of c