Officials voted to extend the sculpture’s permit but are requiring stakeholders to return in six months with plans for a permanent location. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “ART”
Nancy Lane, Spirit Behind Studio Museum of Harlem, Dies at 88
By Gotham Rex on April 1, 2022
An art collector and the institution’s longest-serving board member, she was also a pioneering Black woman in the corporate world. Source: New York Times
Ashton Hawkins, Manager of the Rich and Powerful at the Met Museum, Dies at 84
By Gotham Rex on March 30, 2022
A top executive, he cultivated donors, then used his legal acumen to arrange their multimillion-dollar gifts of money and art. Source: New York Times
These Artists’ Hunt for Studio Space Ended at the World Trade Center
By Gotham Rex on March 26, 2022
Silver Art Projects, in its third year at 4 World Trade Center, is one of the programs that provide emerging New York artists with free studio space. Now it is adding an executive director. Source: New York Times
Overlooked No More: Barbara Shermund, Flapper-Era Cartoonist
By Gotham Rex on March 4, 2022
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. Source: New York Times
Beeple Is Trying His Hand at Artwork for Walls
By Gotham Rex on March 4, 2022
The digital artist known for NFTs is showing paintings and prints IRL at a Manhattan gallery. Will the art establishment finally take notice? Source: New York Times
La Guardia’s New Delta Terminal to be Defined by New York Artists
By Gotham Rex on February 22, 2022
Six site-specific permanent artworks will celebrate the city’s energy and diversity. Source: New York Times
Julie Saul, Effervescent Manhattan Gallerist, Is Dead at 67
By Gotham Rex on February 12, 2022
She promoted photographers like Sally Gall and Arne Svenson, and she later broadened her gallery’s scope to include multimedia artists like Maira Kalman and Roz Chast. Source: New York Times
Met Museum to Renovate Its Ancient Near East and Cypriot Galleries
By Gotham Rex on February 9, 2022
Construction for the $40 million project is expected to start next year and finish in 2025. Source: New York Times
Some Masks to Come Off in New York
By Gotham Rex on February 9, 2022
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to announce plans to drop her mask mandate, following the lead of several other governors. Source: New York Times
In a Reimagined Victorian Schoolhouse, an Artist Finds His Third Act
By Gotham Rex on February 8, 2022
By moving into a turn-of-the-20th-century building in upstate New York, the ceramist Dan McCarthy learned that he didn’t need the city that had defined him — and his career — after all. Source: New York Times
It’s Gold, Baby. But Niclas Castello’s Cube Is Nothing New in Art.
By Gotham Rex on February 2, 2022
The artist’s solid gold cube, which appeared for one day in Central Park, was Instagram bait, an NFT promotion and even kind of pretty. Source: New York Times
The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward
By Gotham Rex on January 28, 2022
Despite an ongoing legal challenge, New York City is going ahead with a plan for artwork at a new park that will feature messages of social justice, not the statuary some had sought. Source: New York Times
The Grimness of January
By Gotham Rex on January 24, 2022
New York City, already exhausted by the pandemic, is uneasy after a barrage of shootings. Source: New York Times
Manhattan Prosecutors Return Two Artifacts to Iraq
By Gotham Rex on January 19, 2022
The repatriations are among the first under Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan district attorney, who is continuing the work of a dedicated antiquities trafficking unit created by his predecessor. Source: New York Times