Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
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Susan Philipsz Transforms the Gentlest of Folk Forms, the Lullaby
From Hansel and Gretel to Rosemary’s Baby, Philipsz sings these bucolic songs of dark, and often violent, undertones.
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Activist Art With a Personal Touch
Songs in the Dark offers socially engaged vignettes on issues that are of clear personal importance to their makers, some of whom are activists outside of the art world as well.
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Seeking the Soul of Iceland
It is not surprising that a music star would have an exhibition at an art gallery. What is surprising is how compelling and meaningful this show, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, really is.
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Sarah Sze’s Gleaming, Ephemeral Universe
Sze’s dynamic sculptures aim to capture relationships and their gaps, the solidity of objects and their discarding.
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Dana Powell and the Pleasures of Restraint
Do not mistake small size of Powell’s paintings for modesty; she wants to draw us in, to make works that can sustain close looking.
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Tomás Saraceno’s Sculptures Touch the Sky
Strapped into a harness beneath Saraceno’s inflated sculpture, we are carried aloft, peaceful and ecstatic, merging with the air.
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Art that Embraces the Incoherence of the Internet
Liu Shiyuan’s videos, photos, and installations wrangle with the deluge of information and imagery we’re constantly fed without veering into incoherence.
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With Satire, Whimsy, and Fermented Milk, Art Collective Skewers Eurocentrism
Slavs and Tatars come on in full force, filling both floors of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery with their irony-imbued mixed-media work.
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Cage aux Folios: Mark Dion Makes a Library for Birds
It takes a few minutes for the avian residents of Mark Dion’s “The Library for the Birds of New York” to settle back into their chirping and fluttering after you’ve entered the giant cage and stepped below the strange white oak laden with books.
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The Measured Precariousness of Sarah Sze
It’s a common promise made in many press releases and artist statements: rather than delivering an artwork with hermetic, built-in meaning and context, the art, by being loose in some way, will provide its viewer with materials and tools with which to construct meaning.
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Look Before You Sit: At Frieze New York, the Seats Are All Sculptures
Frieze New York opens its doors to the public today, but already during yesterday’s press and VIP preview the aisles were crowded, the common areas and restaurants filled with worn-out fairgoers, and it seemed as if the only empty seats were sculptures.