Focus on the American East

Gordon Matta-Clark, . Day’s End (Pier 52) (Exterior with Ice), 1975. Color photograph, 1029 x 794 mm.  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. A history of the Wild West Side and the Whitney’s new public sculpture
Robin Newman |

  Long before its abandoned train track was turned into a famous park (The High Line), the streets of New York’s Meatpacking District were lined with racks of raw meat, drug dealers and transexual prostitutes. …

Scott Burton, The Lecture Agency, Lecture on Self Scott Burton. Lecture on Self
The Lecture Agency |

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 …

A Still from  David Wojnarowicz's A Fire In My Belly (1986-87) David Wojnarowicz: Place and History
Robin Newman |

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 …

Simon Fujiwara, Esther Schipper, Frieze, New York, 2018, art fair, contemporary art Frieze New York 2018 | Highlights
Matilde Soligno |

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 …

Hito Steyerl, Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum Infinite Blue: A Survey in Color Symbolism & Global Connectedness
Jennifer Sauer |

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. …

Jon Rafman, Dream Journal, Frieze, New York, art fair, Frieze 2017 Frieze New York 2017. Reality, times a thousand
Matilde Soligno |

    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 …

Matteo Nasini, Clima gallery, Marsèlleria, Marsèll, 3D print, sculpture, armory week, New York, tapestry Matteo Nasini opens Marsèlleria’s New York space
Matilde Soligno |

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 …

Ed Fornieles, Finilar, Arsenal Contemporary, Armory week 2017, Armory show, New York, gallery March/April 2017: 20 Gallery Shows in New York
Matilde Soligno |

    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 …

Philip Guston, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser Wirth, New York Painting On The Border: Philip Guston 1957-1967
Robin Newman |

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 …

Cao Fei, Moma PS1, Cosplayers Cao Fei at MOMA PS1: Life, parallel
Ludovica Capobianco |

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, …

Icaros, Tribeca Film Festival, Leonor Caraballo, Matteo Norzi Interview with artist and filmmaker Matteo Norzi
Arianna Carossa |

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 …

Ramiken Crucible, Lucas Blalock, LES Galleries, Spring 2016, New York Lucas Blalock: Low Comedy at Ramiken Crucible
Arianna Carossa |

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 …

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