If you’ve never seen Pae White’s work, this would be a good excuse to go see the 2010 Whitney Biennial.  Being an admirer of Ms. White’s work, which has narrative qualities combined with designer’s aesthetics, I was not disappointed at her chosen piece for the Biennial.
When the elevator doors opened to a huge Pae White [...]

While having the potential to come off as a bit of a Debbie Downer, Roberta Smith contributes seasoned wisdom with traditionalist tones in this weekend’s NY Times Arts & Leisure section.
The title, Post-Minimal to the Max, is odd and misleading, so I suggest disregarding it, but the writing nicely frames the current art moment as a [...]

Contemporary art frustrates a lot of people. One common complaint is artwork seems to be trending towards awkward, messy, simple, and ugly art. This viewpoint may stem from seeing artwork with forced naivety in tired, derivative ways; however, when naivety is genuine it is absolutely charming. So when we all received a surplus of [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve been to the ICP, but what attracted me to visit was this camera made completely out of cardboard and held together with household items. It is the work of the Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý in his debut show in America.  Although I was not familiar with his name, his [...]

The Art Book Swap New York at MOMA blended noble intentions with fun and ingenuity.
NADA and Regency Arts Press, Ltd. sponsored the event on Saturday, February 6, 2010, from noon-5pm.  What’s this all about and how is it done, you ask?  Keyword answers are free books, simply, and effortlessly…bring your art books and swap them [...]

The New York Society of Women Artists
The Meaning of the Line Exhibition
February 8-28, 2010 @ The Broom Street Gallery
Some Serious Ladies Show Their Works
In a artistic climate in which one walks into “hip” contemporary art galleries often feeling that they have encountered “civilization at the end of its tether,” it is refreshing to find a [...]

“Since 2003, Unsound Festival, Poland’s most adventurous music festival, has brought a bold and uniquely modern program of music to Kraków. Now, with seven festivals in their native city under their belt (and outpost events further east in cities like Minsk), Unsound is coming west to New York for their first ever North American edition. [...]

Sterling Ruby: 2Traps
Pace Wildenstein
545 West 22nd
February 5th – March 20th
Trap number one, I fell into shortly after exiting the gallery. Do not read the press release. At the very least, wait 24 hours. The Press Release (3-stapled pages) could easily be the intro of a yellow and black book titled: Sterling Ruby for Dummies. Perhaps this [...]

Oh Art Basel, you came and went… we scurried like ants searching for the next delicious sugar cube, trampling those that were in the way just to get our fill. It should be considered an extreme sport to be able to soak in the entire over saturation of art that spills into the streets of [...]