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The New Museum 2015 Triennial—Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Juliana Huxtable
Cover: Frank Benson Juliana, 2015 Painted Accura® Xtreme Plastic rapid prototype 54 x 48 x 24 in (137.2 x 122 x 61 cm) (approx.) Courtesy of the artist; Sadie Coles, London; and Andrew Kreps Gallery,...
View ArticleAOT Project Salon Artist IAN J. CARR Selected for Armory Art Week Group...
Ian James Carr will participate in FUTURE ORIGINS, opening March 6th at Gallery Rene Mele [228 East 83rd St.] Recent AOT Project Salon exhibiting artist Ian James Carr has been selected for a group...
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Armory Week of Art Fairs—Smartest Art I Found
Art Fair Week 2015 in Pictures. I am sure there was the coolest smart art that I missed out on, these are works that were most visceral initially or came by frequency in tune with my radar and...
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Future Origins Opening Night at Rene Mele Gallery
Chad Saville,Rene Melchor,Daine Coppola,Ian James Carr FUTURE ORIGINS opened to throngs of art goers at Rene Mele Gallery last Friday night: Sculptor Ian James Carr’s Manhattan Debut! Last Friday...
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Robert Knight Public Tribute Saturday March 28 6:30 The Riverside Theater in...
An investigative journalist like none other, the late Robert Knight of WBAI will be remembered with a Tribute on March 28th, at The Riverside Theater inside The Riverside Church. Speakers and...
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The Pursuits of Quisqueya Henríquez
Quisqueya Henríquez employs a sophisticated sense of humor that in some work appears with subtlety and in others the use of obvious text. The beauty and brilliant colors draw you in, and then she...
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Oren Pinhassi at 55 Gansevoort Opening Tuesday, April 7th 6p
Oren Pinhassi and Ellie Rines Passover Gathering at 55 Gansevoort Tuesday, April 7th 6-8pm. I can’t hide my excitement for Pinhassi’s upcoming show at 55 Gansevoort. Oren is an artist whose trajectory...
View ArticleAOT Project Salon Spring Benefit and New Website Launch
I am very excited to announce the launch of aotprojectsalon.com and even more excited about the upcoming Artist-in-Residence Program Spring Benefit on Wednesday, April 22! So far twenty artists have...
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NYC Rise Up and #ShutItDown for Baltimore April 29 Protest–First Thoughts
Over and again cries for justice filled the streets of New York City on April 29th, pointing out a system that is broken and corrupt on a NationWide scale. Protesters came together in unity with the...
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NYC Rise Up and #ShutItDown for Baltimore April 29 Protest—Video
The killing of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore Police Department sent shockwaves through communities across the country, but none harder than in Baltimore where both protests and riots erupted....
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Freddie Gray—Baltimore Prosecutor Mosby Delivers: What is a Depraved-heart...
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African-American man, was taken into custody by the Baltimore Police Department for possessing what they alleged was a switchblade. While in...
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FLUX Art Fair— “Harlem Has Its Day”
Flux Art Fair debuted at the historic Corn Exchange Building on Wednesday, May 13th to press and special guests. The “21st Century Artist is a Nomad” curatorial theme said to reflect the culturally...
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Under the Volcano: Simon Cerigo, Dan Asher, Nancy Smith—1980s Lower East Side...
Congratulations to Kate and Theo Cerigo for a fantastic weekend exhibition of their amazing Dad’s (Simon Cerigo who died suddenly in 2013) work, the late Dan Asher, and their mom Nancy Smith. The...
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Bushwick Open Studios 2015
Sienna Ried, Defixiones, 2014 Sienna Reid, The Defixiones, Wood panels incised with a knife. Referencing the Amanda Knox trial, she was the subject of a modern day witch hunt and cursing by Police and...
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Detroit Issues $10K Shepard Fairey Warrant
Just back from Detroit where I clocked in an 18 Mile bike tour of Motor City. That full story will appear in a few weeks. But in the meantime, Shepard Fairey was in town last month to create an 18...
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Art and Activism; Corinne Innis Taking Aim at Police Brutality (Video)
Like Clockwork—Corinne Innis and Xavier Basabe Black Lives Matter Opening Tonight: 8 September 2015 6-9p AOT Project Salon 159 Hope St Williamsburg 8 – 28 September 2015 *Gallery hours are by...
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Minority-Paranoia; 14-Year-Old Ahmed Mohamed Sent to Jail for Bringing...
As a Nation, we have a history of engendering needless fear of dark skin people. “Minority-Paranoia”; a blinding effect that produces ignorant and hateful acts also known as discrimination. This young...
View ArticleVIDEO: Artist Talk with Lucio Pozzi Diffraction Exhibition—NYU Casa Italiana...
On October 5, 2015 at NYU Casa Italiana, Lucio Pozzi and poet Pellegrino D’Acierno launched their collaborative book “In The Fat Man Arpeggios” The evening was also the opening of Pozzi’s exhibition of...
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