Jose Freire was nowhere to be found. It was the inaugural night of his second Team gallery, on Wooster Street in SoHo. The space, filled with stenciled paintings by David Ratcliff, was teeming with guests waiting to congratulate him. Finally, Freire materialized–standing nervously behind a metal dog leash that served as a velvet Read More
The art scene is not dead in Soho. At least not yet.
Crown Art Gallery, noted for its collection of Picasso and Warhol prints, is opening its second store, in 2,100 square feet at 421 West Broadway. The gallery has had another location at 1609 Broadway for the last 20 years.
The tenant signed a Read More
The sculptor John Chamberlain has been around since the early ’60s. He had a corrugated-steel piece sitting on the floor of Andy Warhol’s original Factory, and he had one prominently on display at Max’s Kansas City right through the heyday of the sex, drugs and music.
The artist recently surprised onlookers by leaving Pace, his Read More
Tara Donovan is famous for her uncanny ability to reanimate the dead effigies of mass production. She can make several thousand plastic cups, or a dozen huge rolls of adding-machine tape, look delicate and necessary because her acts of mechanical repetition are always inflected with organic variation. (She’s breathing new life into Minimalism, too.)
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After losing a villa in Budapest, being imprisoned by both Germans and Russians, and immigrating to New York, Tibor de Nagy, with John Bernard Myers, founded a marionette company. It failed as a marionette company but reemerged, in 1950, as the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. In honor of its 60th anniversary this year, Read More
Graphic designer Michael Tompert made a mistake that’s caused plenty of headaches for parents: he bought his young sons iPods. Naturally, the tots were at each other’s neck over one of the damn contraptions and the bickering was such that Tompert grabbed the tiny device and hurled it at the ground. The shattered screen and Read More
A $50 million Van Gogh vanished from the Khalil Museum in Cairo on Saturday. Well, it didn’t magically disappear–it was helped out of the building by thieves and the fact that only 7 of the museum’s 43 security cams were functioning at the time. That’s bad enough, but it’s not the first time this year Read More
In New York, art is nothing if not convenient. Some single streets feature more art galleries than other whole towns. Here, we look at how very much is on view on just two city blocks: East 66th and 67th streets, which is something of a headquarters for Old Masters and fine furniture dealers, and East Read More
