Interview
People's Climate Arts Goes Beyond Global Warming
It's been six months since the People's Climate March took over the streets of Manhattan, but the group behind some of the rally's most iconic artworks is busier than ever.
New York
Art
On Kawara's Polite Conceptualism
As my entry into the art world took place just a few years after the Museum of Modern Art’s 1970 Information show, I’ve grown increasingly conscious of an unexpected turn in the positions of several hard-line members of the once aggressively anti-aesthetic conceptual camp.
News
New York City Bill Could Give Citizens Greater Say in Public Art Process
New legislation to be submitted to the New York City Council on Tuesday could bring an end to a decades-long debate surrounding democracy and public art.
Interview
Art for the Discerning Drone
This summer the Knockdown Center, the sprawling arts space in Maspeth, Queens, will host a drone obstacle course consisting entirely of specially commissioned sculptures.
Art
Choreographing a Response to Climate Change
Dancing about climate change makes about as much sense as ... painting Op art compositions to give stock tips. Or crafting a steel sculpture that instructs viewers how to renew their driver's licenses. Or composing an opera to review a restaurant.
News
Toronto University Acquires Berenice Abbott Archive
Berenice Abbott was best known for being New York City's official photographer during the Great Depression, though she actually explored a panoply of subjects during her six-decade-long career.
Art
Reviewing the Responses to MoMA's Divisive Painting Survey
As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.
News
Part-Time Faculty Protest Conditions at the New School
On Monday protesters gathered outside the New School (TNS), a university in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to demand better conditions for the school's part-time faculty.
Art
Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village
New Works and the Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre, Anton van Dalen’s first solo show in eight years, charts the shifting landscape of New York City. Populated with imaginative characters, the artist’s latest work vividly documents the forces of gentrification and change.
Art
Central Park's 212 Paths in One Public Sculpture
Tatiana Trouvé mounted 212 giant spools of rope onto three steel structures in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, with each rope representing one of Central Park’s winding walkways.
Art
Kinetic Energy Transforms Humble Materials into Minimalist Drums
Swiss installation artist Zimoun, who specializes in immersive soundscapes and acoustic architecture, has seemingly turned all of New York into a giant aural installation.
Art
Mining Lady Liberty's Russian Lineage
Legend has it that the copper for America's most famous sculpture — the Statue of Liberty — was produced at the metallurgical factory of Nizhny Tagil, one of the industrial centers of Russia’s Ural region.