Artsy Crowd Joins Chuck Taylor, AIDS Activist, at Charity Footwear Gala

Art Forum correspondent Linda Yablonsky, Giant magazine editor-in-chief Emil Wilbekin and rapper Lupe Fiasco joined more than two dozen art and fashion world luminaries at chef Marcus Samuelsson‘s Aquavit restaurant in Midtown on Thursday, April 16, for a cocktail reception and dinner in support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS’ (RED) campaign, hosted by sneaker giant Converse. Read More

A Minimalist Artist With a Modernist Bent

Certainty is not an attribute that immediately springs to mind when we think of 20th-century art. A certain anxiety-a Cézannean doubt-is one of the defining hallmarks of the modernist enterprise. Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of Read More