Focus on the American East

The Lecture Agency | Apr 27, 2020
Scott Burton’s 1973 performance lecture The Lecture Agency is a research platform, based on forms of radical pedagogy, which includes on its website a library of manifestos and other fundamental texts aimed at …

Robin Newman | Oct 9, 2018
David Wojnarowicz was first shown at the Whitney Museum in 1985 as a part of the museum’s Biennial which focused on avant-garde artists based in New York City’s East Village. Now, some 33 years later …

Matilde Soligno | May 4, 2018
Frieze New York 2018 | Randall’s Island | May 4–6, 2018 This year’s edition of Frieze art fair in New York lives up to the “brand”‘s reputation of relatively higher quality. Remarkably, this …

Jennifer Sauer | Oct 26, 2017
The color blue is: spirituality, open skies, a symbol of power, status and beauty. Infinite Blue, the blue-hue themed exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, examines representations of the color across history, cultures and mediums. …

Matilde Soligno | May 7, 2017
On Friday morning, as I was getting ready to travel to Frieze, and I was complaining via Whattsapp with a friend of mine about how far it is from downtown Manhattan, and even …

Matilde Soligno | Mar 3, 2017
Marsèll, a high-end shoe brand from Milan that like other enlightened fashion houses devotes part of its resources to funding art exhibitions, opens a new space in the Chelsea gallery district of New York. The …

Matilde Soligno | Mar 1, 2017
These days galleries in New York have excellent shows on display: this week everything revolves around New York’s most important art fair, the Armory Show. It is Armory Week 2017, and the city …

Robin Newman | Jul 7, 2016
The new show Philip Guston: Painter 1957-1967, held at Hauser & Wirth in NYC, parallels the painter’s important retrospective held in 1966 at the Jewish Museum. A half century later the current show …

Ludovica Capobianco | Jun 7, 2016
It’s not breaking news that the bond between Eastern and Western culture is growing tighter, especially when it comes to contemporary art. Recently, a Japanese collector was the undisputed protagonist of New York’s Spring auctions, …

Arianna Carossa | May 26, 2016
Arianna Carossa: I cannot but combine your work as an artist to that as a director. What are the threads – if any – that unite your past work with this film? Matteo Norzi: This …

Arianna Carossa | May 13, 2016
Lucas Blalock’s work perfectly matches my idea of photography today. When I’m observing it, I think of what Slavoj Žižek said: for reality to be real, sometimes we need to add artifice. Otherwise, it’s not …

Ruth Green | Apr 3, 2016
The continuous unveiling of identity is so often constructed by surroundings. However these surroundings are simultaneously undergoing the same process, defining and redefining their own spatially determined self, shedding classical brick and concrete …