I knew, for sure, that I was home again a few days after my plane landed in New York. Riding the crowded, sweaty subway, beleaguered passengers were suddenly confronted with yet another beggar, a young, strung out white guy in …
The young Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat explains that the original idea for Found Memories came to her in 1999, while she was working on a film being shot in a village with a closed cemetery. The coffins of those who …
George Dureau: Black on view at Higher Pictures Gallery, New York City, May 31-July 13, 2012 In 1978, Marcuse Pfeifer organized an exhibition in her uptown New York City gallery entitled The Male Nude: A Survey in Photography. Hung salon …
Alexander Gray Associates April 11- May 25, 2012 Lorraine O’Grady has been around a long time. An active and avid feminist, a conceptual artist, photographer, writer, performer and video artist, she has been at the forefront of discussions about African …
I’m feeling like men are in need of equal time on this Blog. They have, as usual, had more than equal time on the walls of New York galleries and museums this month. But I am less interested in numbers …
Bronx Museum, February 9, through May 20, 2012 Curated by Valerie Smith Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect is a dense and highly conceptual exhibition, one that at first hardly seems at home on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
Americas Society, Feb. 8- April 14 Curated by Edward J. Sullivan For me, the most unnerving thing about the Milagros de la Torre exhibition at the Americas Society, with almost 40 photographic works produced since the 1990s (that will be …
The Jewish Museum, November 4, 2011 through March 25, 2012 Curated by Mason Klein of the Jewish Museum and Catherine Evans of the Columbus Museum of Art, this important exhibition draws on two museum collections with rich holdings on the …
David Zwirner Gallery, January 17—February 25 One of the hottest shows in New York this month – if you judge “hotness” by the crowds of people waiting to get in – was the large-scale installation work of Doug Wheeler. Raised …