A conversation with Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya
Amongst the sprawling one-story warehouses of downtown LA, Murmurs Gallery stands out with its polished glass-and-concrete exterior and beckoning matcha and café-latte sign. The recently reopened, community-oriented events space and gallery boasts an artist-curated shop, café, plant-filled courtyard, and monthly
Puppetry: Exploring Representation through Abstraction
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center — The Clemente for short — is a quiet cultural trove. The architecture juxtaposes its clamoring Lower East Side neighborhood, standing proud on the corner of Rivington Street under a sedate,
Plum Cloutman: Emergency
Tucked into a stripped-down space in the upper reaches of a building beside the High Line, Hesse Flatow gallery displays Plum Cloutman’s work almost in secret. Not actually, of course—the U.K.-based painter and printmaker’s solo show has been quite popular
The Cruel Art
Ballet is a cruel art, not much less crueler now than what it was in Belle Époque Paris, but art nonetheless, and terribly inspiring as such. At the beginning of June, I went to see the Degas exhibition at the
3 Intervews: The Shed Open Call with Bessie Rubinstein
The Shed arts center opened in the spring of 2019 in Hudson Yards, a megadevelopment that ate up $25 billion dollars. This kind of rapid development and pushback is endemic to New York. Yet despite the unremarkability of the architecture
The Architect’s artist: Costantino Nivola at Magazzino Italian Art
If Alvar Aalto can be dubbed the ‘architect’s architect,’ I call Costantino Nivola the ‘architect’s artist.’ A Sardinian native, he fled Fascist Italy with his Jewish wife, finding himself happily ingrained in the explosive mid-century AbEx New York City ecosystem.
Spooky Action: Liz Nielson
I have been told by local Newburgh, NY friends that Liz Nielson and her wife, Lina, run the best gallery in the city. Elijah Wheat Showroom is a gem, tucked down the lush, and now quiet — save for the
Behind the scenes with Art in Odd Places Curator Furusho von Puttkammer
Q&A: Behind the scenes with Art in Odd Places Curator Furusho von Puttkammer This weekend, we’re looking forward to checking out the myriad of outdoor artworks and performances curated by Furusho von Puttkammer for the Art in Odd Places art fair.
…as Artist, Cartographer, and Architect: Mira Dayal at Spencer Brownstone Gallery
Emily Conklin "…In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps
Escape Velocity: NFTs and The Promise of Utopia
Bitcoin Planet, by oxiyusuf In the infancy of the internet, it was thought by some that we were on the brink of a global communist revolution, as new technologies for sharing would obviate the need for private property. This belief seemed