Art
Looking and Being Looked At in the New International Center of Photography
I expected to stare at many things at the International Center of Photography's new 250 Bowery location, but my own image was not one of them.
Lower East Side
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Grafting Puerto Rican Architecture onto the Lower East Side
Edra Soto attempts architectural transplants the way a doctor might replace skin, seeing if an unfamiliar addition will take.
News
The Koch Brothers Loom Large in Lower East Side Mural
If you're strolling through the Lower East Side, you may just run into the Koch Brothers — or specifically, a new mural that plasters their mugs on a wall on the corner of Rivington and Suffolk streets.
Art
An Artist Serves Up Decadent Feasts for Wild Animals
Over the past few years, New York-based artist Dana Sherwood has organized a picnic for wild baboons on the South African coast, left banquets for raccoons in the suburbs of South Florida, and concocted a molded terrine of jellied spam, beef, hot dogs, and marrow bones for coyotes.
Art
Highlighting the Invisible Labor of Art Objects
The tension between design and art derives from the utility ascribed to the former vying with the elusiveness that characterizes the latter.
Art
Paintings That Trick the Eye
Ryan Mrozowski has double vision.
Art
Painting the Imagined Space Where East and West Harmonize
Salman Toor’s insular scenes of life in Pakistan have vanished.
Art
Disco Beads and Abstract Rawhides: Jeffrey Gibson's Untraditional "Nativeness"
Half a century ago, many Native American artists trying to break into the fine art market were told that their oil paintings would never sell because they were not recognizably "Indian" enough.
Art
Remembering Architecture Through Fragments and Impressions
Buildings, in New York City especially, are so overwhelmingly big that they can sometimes seem to occupy our space and not the other way around.
In Brief
Attention, Starving Artists: Lower East Side Burger Joint Now Selling $64 "Basquiat Burger"
PYT Burger, a fancy new joint on Bowery in Manhattan known for its "stunt burgers," is hoping Basquiat's name will help sell a $64 burger. It's enough to make a starving artist cry.
Art
The Maximalist World of a Collective Art Dream
Stepping into the fantastical world of I won’t wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views is like going through a portal, entering a delirious space of a collective dream.
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The 2015 NADA New York Art Fair in 25 Superlatives
The 2015 Armory Show is barely two months cold, and already another art fair week is upon us.