Dia’s Alexis Lowry Illuminates the Dan Flavin Art Institute
There’s a special quality to the light on Long Island that has long attracted artists; they’ve painted it and drawn it, attempting to capture or react to it. But one Long Island artist, Dan Flavin,...
View ArticleSee This Eye-Opening NYC Photography Exhibit
Mark Lubell’s first exhibition was one of hope amidst despair. “The beginning of my career was September 11th,” said Lubell, co-organizer of the ground-breaking here is new york: a democracy of...
View ArticleJanis Staggs Reunites Klimt’s Women at the Neue Galerie
Years before her story was told in the 2015 Helen Mirren film Woman in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer was making waves in the art world. Decades earlier, her portrait was one of the prizes art-hoarding Nazis...
View ArticleSocrates Sculpture Park Lets Visitors Have Fun With Art
THE USUAL RULES OF MUSEUM DECORUM—no touching, noise or horseplay—go right out the window at Socrates Sculpture Park. Visitors to the outdoor space in Long Island City encounter art that can be...
View ArticleCorinne Erni’s Global Perspective
After a whirlwind career that’s carried her around the globe, Corinne Erni now hopes to bring the world to Long Island. She’s recently joined the Parrish Art Museum as curator of special projects and...
View ArticleFresh Eyes at the Whitney Biennial
THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL is part Mount Everest, the ultimate challenge, and part Mount Olympus, the ultimate glory. And two art-savvy young Brooklynites, Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, are ready to...
View ArticleDreams of Grandeur at the Heckscher Museum
Dr. Michael W. Schantz has been making an impact in the arts since he was a young boy, winning an award for his first sculpture when he was in second grade. The Heckscher Museum’s executive director is...
View ArticleLuminous Experience
IN THE EARLY-TO MID-1800s, English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner stunned the art world by creating atmospheric, brilliantly colored, light- filled seascapes that practically enveloped the...
View ArticleStep Inside Jacques Torres’ Chocolate Museum
Jacques Torres is bringing people closer to his world of chocolate. image: barry johnson After moving his chocolate factory from Manhattan to Brooklyn in 2013, Jacques Torres was contemplating what to...
View ArticleGallerist Celebrates 20 Years in Sag Harbor
“I’m not interested in pure abstraction,” Laura Grenning proclaimed. “The [painters] that I’m most interested in are the ones that take all this great training but bring it to today’s visual...
View ArticleAndrea Grover’s Ship Comes In
When the call came that she’d been chosen as the new executive director of Guild Hall, the East Hampton arts, entertainment and education center, Andrea Grover immediately did a victory dance…in the...
View ArticleSet Sail at 3 Popular Long Island Maritime Museums
The days on the water are—sadly—numbered. But museums showcase Long Island’s rich nautical history, allowing people to enjoy maritime merriment year-round. Take a jaunt to three popular Long Island...
View ArticleMoving the Needle at the Jewish Museum
“Je suis Modigliani. Je suis Juif.” “I am Modigliani. I am a Jew,” was the audacious introduction used by Amedeo Modigliani. It was simultaneously bold and dangerous since he could have been arrested...
View ArticleThe Crucible of MoMA With Glenn Lowry
“Art is what nourishes my mind. I am constantly fascinated by how artists think and they think through their works of art,” explained Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City....
View ArticleArtistic Couple Nurtures a Movement
“Louis took me to my senior prom when I was sixteen,” Susan Meisel said. “I got engaged to him when I was about seventeen and got married to him about two weeks before my eighteenth birthday.” You...
View ArticleNicholas Baume Breaks Through to the Other Side
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. —Robert Frost So begins...
View ArticleCharles Riley’s New Classroom
“The museum is sort of a sleeping beauty,” said Charles Riley, the recently appointed director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, “and she needs a kiss to wake her up so people get to know her.” The...
View ArticleDavid Bowie’s Spirit Lives at the Brooklyn Museum
image: matt furman It took more than 30 years for the perfect denouement to an early chapter in Matthew Yokobosky’s life in the arts. “I was always taking art classes,” said Yokobosky, the director of...
View ArticleWhitney Curator Talks Grant Wood
In 1930 a nearly 40-year-old, unknown artist from small town Iowa painted a picture of a dour faced couple—a woman with pillows of apprehension between her brows and a man with a menacing pitchfork set...
View ArticleLee Krasner and Jackson Pollock’s Past is Prologue
“If there’s one thing in life that you need to do, it’s to have experiences,” Helen Harrison proclaimed. “You have to be awake. Be alive. Be aware.” Waking people up to the power of art has been the...
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