This week is the last chance to experience the sound art exhibit installed throughout the lush gardens of the Caramoor Center, featuring mesmerizing works by Laurie Anderson, Bob Bielecki, Stephan Moore, Betsey Biggs and others.
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Bushwick Open Studios, which took place this past weekend seems to be getting bigger every year. This year, the block parties, band line-ups, food trucks, street sellers and other entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on the event’s draw, threatened to take some of the focus off the art. On Saturday afternoon and into the evening, it was a bit of a mad-scene in the area around the Morgan L stop.
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In a mammoth installation at the soon to be demolished Domino Sugar Factory, Kara Walker draws us into the bitter past of the sugar industry with a monumental work that replaces her artwork’s usual brutality with sheer impressiveness.
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A survey of the outspoken Chinese artist presents 20 years of his provocative work that blurs the line between art and activism.
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Bushwick’s Catland Books holds their first ever art show with haunting, symbol-laden photographs by artist Christina Dallas, AKA “Teen Angel”.
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As a New Yorker forced to touch strangers almost anytime I find myself on the subway at rush hour, I find it hard to romanticize the premise behind Richard Renaldi’s “Touching Strangers” exhibition which opened last week at the Aperture Foundation Gallery in Chelsea.
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This year’s iconoclastic Brucennial is about to come to a close. The show, hosted by the anonymous art collective Bruce High Quality Foundation, provides, with over-saturated walls featuring art solely from female artists, a stark and refreshing contrast to the Whitney Biennial uptown. If you haven’t made it there yet, tomorrow will be your last chance.
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While there are some troubling aspects to Gauguin’s work, his ‘Metamorphoses’ show now on view at MOMA presents an intriguing side of his work in print and sculpture.
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