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35mm black and white film photographs by Piotr Pillardy 35mm color photographs by Joan Ronstadt (developed & scanned at Exposure Therapy in Brooklyn) For the first time since February, during a year that has felt somehow infinite and compressed, I was able to visit a museum in person (a sentence that exists only in 2020). Going to the Met […]
35mm color film photographs by Piotr Pillardy (Developed & scanned at Exposure Therapy in Brooklyn) Just a short drive or train ride from the city is Storm King Art Center (more often solely referred to as Storm King, named after the nearby mountain). Set in an idyllic landscape, this art center acts as the perfect and prescient solution to our […]
My last in person museum experience was at the MoMa in February. As the months have passed and the pandemic still rages on, I have been eager to engage with new art in an immersive way. UNTITLED’s (a contemporary art fair organizer) inaugural VR art fair, UNTITLED Art Online (running from July 29th through August 9th), looked like a promising […]
“I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It’s all right, but it’s already done and I want to do something new.” -Donald Judd (1928-1994) This quote from Judd perfectly embodies how the artist successfully changed the direction of the art historical canon, with the influence of his […]
Much in the same way as the madeleines that Proust wrote about so many years ago would involuntarily conjure memories from a single bite, hearing video game melodies takes me back to the safety of my childhood living room floor, to hours spent cross-legged, lost in digital adventures scored to these enduring songs. This is the power of the music […]
Among the most powerful recent exhibitions I’ve visited in the city, Shahidul Alam: Truth to Power at the Rubin Museum on West 17th Street chronicles the four-decade career of the prolific Bangladeshi photographer, writer, and activist Shahidul Alam. The first major U.S. museum retrospective of his work, the exhibition features both film and digital photography, Alam’s writing, contact sheets, and […]
Andro Wekua November 1 – December 21, 2019 515 West 24th Street, New York On the same block of Chelsea where I once spent a fantastic summer as an unpaid gallery intern is the W. 24th Street location of the infamous Gladstone Gallery. The gallery boasts a stunning roster of artists, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Amy Sillman. This month, I […]
Having heard about a show featuring The Glow, a band whose current lineup featured musicians from other groups I admire; Teen Body, whom I had wanted to hear live; and Sean Henry, a band releasing a record on one of my favorite labels, I knew this was not one to miss. I was further intrigued that the show was hosted […]
As October was here, the time had finally arrived. With the crisp and cool autumn air in my lungs, I set foot in a museum which, like much of the rest of New York’s art-loving public,I had eagerly awaited following its four-month, $450-million, and additional-47,000-square-foot makeover. Would New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, a seminal institution for the collection […]
With fall here, there is an overwhelming number of shows to visit throughout all five boroughs. However, for the October edition, I’m focusing on galleries in NoHo and Tribeca with shows featuring art that defies traditional categorization. Not sure which are worth a visit? Here are three exciting gallery shows to check out in Lower Manhattan. Show: Wyatt Kahn Gallery: […]