The D.J. Carl Craig’s basement “club” shows the affinity between minimal art and techno music. It’s an after-party for the Covid age, minus the sweat. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “ART”
3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
By Gotham Rex on August 19, 2020
Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the pandemic. Some are open for in-person visits. Here are shows worth viewing either way. Source: New York Times
Guggenheim Approves Diversity Plan After Staff Complaints of Racism
By Gotham Rex on August 17, 2020
An expansive effort comes as the museum faces a deficit of $15 million. Source: New York Times
A Bouquet of Group Art Shows Near Houston Street
By Gotham Rex on August 13, 2020
These expansive exhibitions, in galleries on or near the Lower East Side, create an immersive sense of art and the reawakening art scene. Source: New York Times
New York’s Sidewalk Prophets Are Heirs of the Artisans of France’s Lascaux Caves
By Gotham Rex on August 6, 2020
A critic’s tour deciphers the signs and symbols of the street art adorning boarded-up storefronts. What it tells us about our shared political realities and the ways our stories are connected. Source: New York Times
Four Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
By Gotham Rex on August 5, 2020
Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the pandemic. Some are open for in-person visits. Here are shows worth viewing either way. Source: New York Times
Three Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
By Gotham Rex on July 30, 2020
Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the pandemic. Some are open for in-person visits. Here are shows worth viewing either way. Source: New York Times
Met Museum Acquires Two Sculptures by Wangechi Mutu
By Gotham Rex on July 28, 2020
The new additions are from the series that is on display on the museum’s Fifth Avenue facade. Source: New York Times
Welcome to the Great Indoors: Museums Beckon in the Berkshires
By Gotham Rex on July 23, 2020
At Mass MoCA and the Clark, there are timely new exhibitions, but our critic finds as much relevance in a still life by Manet, or an Ingres drawing. Source: New York Times
At Magazzino, Social Distancing Devices Vibrate. So Does the Art.
By Gotham Rex on July 22, 2020
A Hudson Valley oasis of Italian art debuts eight up-and-coming artists — and new wearable safety tech — upon its reopening. Source: New York Times
Brigid Berlin, Socialite Who Joined Warhol’s World, Dies at 80
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2020
Born into privilege, she rejected her upbringing to become a fixture on the New York underground art scene of the 1960s and ’70s. Source: New York Times
The ‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Art That Contain Multitudes
By Gotham Rex on July 16, 2020
The works in Harlem and Lower Manhattan are much more than a challenge to President Trump; they are opportunities for Black artists and community togetherness. Source: New York Times
As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst
By Gotham Rex on July 16, 2020
Holland Cotter masks up on the Lower East Side and SoHo; Jillian Steinhauer discovers eco-feminist art taking root in Chelsea. Source: New York Times
Black Lives Matter Street Painting Is Rejected in Catskill, N.Y.
By Gotham Rex on July 13, 2020
The debate over whether to allow the street art has exacerbated racial tensions in Catskill, where just over a fifth of the population is Black. Source: New York Times
Storm King Reopens for the Art-Starved
By Gotham Rex on July 9, 2020
The pastoral sculpture park in New York’s Hudson Valley opens its gates, with new works by Mark di Suvero, Kiki Smith and Martha Tuttle — and new precautions. Source: New York Times