Bill Scott is a radical artist, but not in the sense to which we’ve become accustomed.
Mr. Scott, whose abstract paintings and prints are on display at Hollis Taggart Galleries, doesn’t rely on slick theatrics, obtuse theorizing or technological appropriation. He has the temerity to plumb something deeper than his navel or the superficialities of Read More
A relaxed local restaurant, the sort of place you can drop into without a reservation, where you could eat several times a week: This is what Austrian chef Daniel Angerer and his fiancée Lori Mason had in mind when they opened Klee Brasserie in Chelsea a few months ago. Indeed, with its storefront windows, long Read More
Egon Schiele and Paul Klee are both crowd pleasers, but how radically different are the pleasures they offer. Last fall, the Neue Galerie exhibited drawings, paintings and prints by the angst-ridden Austrian Expressionist. This spring, Klee’s affectionately cultivated whimsies adorn the museum’s pristine walls. The swing from masturbatory psychodramas to teetering, childlike enigmas is dramatic. Read More
Egon Schiele and Paul Klee are both crowd pleasers, but how radically different are the pleasures they offer. Last fall, the Neue Galerie exhibited drawings, paintings and prints by the angst-ridden Austrian Expressionist. This spring, Klee’s affectionately cultivated whimsies adorn the museum’s pristine walls. The swing from masturbatory psychodramas to teetering, childlike enigmas is dramatic. Read More
There are artists whose lives become, in retrospect, an allegory of the era in which they worked, and one of them was Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944), whose career is the subject of an unusual exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. Don’t be dismayed if her name is unfamiliar to you. It was certainly new to Read More
Brazilian Cocktails and Sushi
Served at Vela’s Hydraulic Tables
Everything about Vela is black. The walls are black, the mirrors are black, the metallic banquettes that curve like waves above your head are black, the tables and floor are black. The staff wears black; even the immense long bar is black (except for the Read More
Olica sounds more like a brand of margarine than a French restaurant. The name, which is part of the makeover of the midtown brasserie formerly known as L’Actuel, is a combination of the names of the two daughters of co-owner Christophe Lhopitault. Earlier this year, Mr. Lhopitault and chef Jean-Yves Schillinger decided to redo the Read More
“This is a watershed moment in the entire field of contemporary art, one which will bring new, previously unimagined forms of artistic expression as well as new possibilities for more established forms.” So writes Lawrence Rinder, the Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art apropos of BitStreams, Read More
Anni Albers (1899-1994), whose work is currently the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Jewish Museum-and is also represented on a smaller scale in the Making Choices exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art-is, so to speak, the other Albers. She was 11 years younger than Josef Albers when they were married in 1925. Read More
Since his death in 1992 at the age of 80, the American painter Steve Wheeler has been the subject of a modest revival of interest both in his own work and as a member of the group-the so-called Indian Space Painters-with whom he was associated in the late 1940′s. Now, in an exhibition called Steve Read More
