Focus on the American East
The new Whitney Museum of American Art arrives at the shore of the Hudson River looking forwardRobin Newman | Apr 30, 2015
With the May 1st opening of their new ‘home’ the Whitney Museum of American Art looks to the future while symbolically returning to their roots. The new building on Gansevoort Street in New …
Ryan Trecartin’s 2015 Triennial at the New MuseumFrancesco Lecci | Apr 15, 2015
The Triennial is an exhibition the New Museum presents to the world every year to focus, from a curator’s point of view, on the very new trends of contemporary art. This year’s edition, run by …
Interview with Massimilano Gioni on the 2015 Armory Focus: MENAMDroste Effect | Mar 7, 2015
We spoke with Massimilano Gioni, director of New York’s New Museum, about this year’s Armory Focus: MENAM, a section dedicated to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, and curated by Omar Kholeif for …
Interview with Omar Kholeif, curator of Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa, and the MediterraneanDroste Effect | Mar 7, 2015
We talked with Omar Kholeif, curator of this year’s Armory Focus: MENAM, a section dedicated to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean inside The 2015 Armory Show art fair in New York City. …
Intervals – Allora & Calzadilla in Philadelphia at The Fabric WorkshopEleonora Castagna | Mar 3, 2015
Last Sunday it was a super cold day in Philly, so I spent the whole afternoon at The Fabric Workshop. A friend of mine was my tour guide through the city, which I was visiting …
Experience Matters. Kazuo Shiraga and Satoru Hoshino at Dominique Lévy New YorkRobin Newman | Feb 19, 2015
Gutai, which translates as “embodiment” or “concrete”, is most commonly understood in the West as the name of the avant-garde art group that was formed in 1954. The Dominique Lévy gallery in New York City …
Days of Endless Time at the Hirshhorn Museum, WashingtonEleonora Castagna | Jan 27, 2015
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, …
Geoffrey Farmer at Casey Kaplan GalleryEleonora Castagna | Dec 18, 2014
“Kathy Acker rang my head like a bell. It happened sometime in the spring of 1990, while she was reading out loud, a passage to our class from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 book, Tender …
Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman’s 29 Space Time brings performance art into the futureRobin Newman | Nov 21, 2014
29 Space Time is a performance art piece that was recently performed at the art space Roulette in Brooklyn, NY. Performed and created by the multimedia artists Perry Hobber and Julia Heyward. A unique piece on …
Reverse interview with Alfredo AcetoEleonora Castagna | Oct 29, 2014
He was defined as “a young artist who wants to join the art world passing thorugh the main entrance, possibly asking for someone who can open the door for him or get him a pair …
A conversation: Chloë Bass on PRELUDE 2014Eleonora Castagna | Oct 24, 2014
“This year the Prelude festival is going to be different”: this is the first sentence of the Curators’ welcome to the 2014 Prelude Festival. Known as the “un-official kick off event of the fall season” …
Kristine Potter at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New YorkMatilde Soligno | Oct 16, 2014
Kristine Potter is known and valued for her delicately ambiguous and compelling representations of masculinity. A component also present in her latest photography work Manifest, now on view at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in Chelsea, …
