Tag: New York
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A look behind the scenes of the travelling exhibition on Berthe Weill
The show celebrating the pioneering Parisian avant-garde gallerist opened in New York before travelling to Montreal and then Paris. We spoke to the curators about the complicated logistics behind such an endeavour and consider how touring an exhibition affects its…
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Sara Reisman – interview: ‘This was an opportunity to engage with contemporary issues that interest our members and to work with artists and architects from the larger art community’
Sara Reisman, chief curator at the National Academy of Design, talks about the institution’s 200-year history and its aims for the future, and picks out some favourites from its current show, Drawing as Practice
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Eduardo Kac – interview: ‘There is nothing on paper. All the works are experienced dynamically, with the glowing quality of functional displays’
Known for naming the domain of ‘bio-art’ and for his creation of a ‘green glowing bunny’, Kac is also a substantial pioneer of digital art. Here, he talks about his current ‘mini retrospective’ in New York
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Surrealism Beyond Borders
For three months in New York, and then at the Tate Modern, visitors will be treated to that increasingly rare phenomenon in museum show business – a teaching exhibition. A blockbuster, yet not, so bouleversé you may not be, but…
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With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985
With almost 100 works on show, this exhibition is outstanding for the way in which it takes the pattern and decoration movement seriously as an object of historical inquiry
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Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America – book review
Preceding an exhibition at New York’s New Museum, this book, based on a vision of the late Okwui Enwezor and realised by artists and curators who worked with him, is a timely response to racist violence
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Bochner Boetti Fontana
This lush, even glamorous exhibition is curated by Mel Bochner and comprises 18 works by himself, Alighiero Boetti and Lucio Fontana, as he seeks to show the connective threads that bind them
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En plein air: art in the time of pandemic
With museums and galleries shut due to the pandemic, art had to be rethought. Online shows have their place but can’t compete with seeing the real thing. With that in mind, here is a roundup of New York’s best outdoor…
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Hilarie Mais – interview: ‘I draw what I am working on as a way of understanding and observing the work’
The artist talks about her abstract constructions, which lie partway between painting and sculpture, and how her art was shaped by life in New York in the 1970s followed by her move to Australia nearly 40 years ago
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Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-45
Following the Mexican Revolution of 1920, art that reflected the country’s traditions and social ideals blossomed – and, for a while, the US fervently embraced it
