Galleries
As I stepped out of the elevator on the top floor of Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery, I was met by two burly security guards one of whom said “please keep the noise down as a film crew are filming inside”. Upon entering the gallery space I could see the...
Erik Parker’s vibrantly colored, eye-popping figurative paintings might not be in lockstep with all the trends of contemporary art, but he couldn’t care less. The Brooklyn-based artist is part of a major exhibition on view through the end of February 2013 at...
Big ears; melting faces; hollow eyes; blurry nudes; top-hatted showmen; jeering caricatures; ghoulish nomads; and apparition-like Christian deities, all sketched and spray-painted with sloping expressive curves in a fleshy, acid-tinged palette.Alessandro...
Gazelli Art House will launch its Azeri outpost in Baku's cultural district on November 2nd, 2012. The 6,000 square-feet exhibition space is to be located at 93 Nazimi Street, a stone's throw from the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators.This opening...
Forget the Olympics — London is now gearing up to what might be its biggest, most competitive art season ever. Frieze Art Fair will launch the inaugural Frieze Masters one day before Frieze London's official opening, and several major international galleries...
We had so many plans, so many summer art books to read, so many out-of-town art destinations to which we'd plotted weekend trips, and now here we are again, swept up in a tidal wave of exhibition openings. To help you — and ourselves — better ride New York...
Rio-born, London-based artist Alexandre da Cunha has a unique knack for turning banal objects into intriguing and poetical visual statements. In his hands, a parrot-printed beach towel stands as a flag for a fantasy faraway (and a tongue-in-cheek critique of...
1. "Art of Change: New Directions from China"That Chinese art is booming is old news. But until now, galleries and auction houses have almost exclusively focused on easy-to-shift, easy-to-hang paintings. An institution was needed to tackle the less marketable...
The Lower East Side mainstay envoy enterprises is expanding. On September 13, the funky, fun-loving gallery will debut its second space, located at 87 Rivington Street, only a few minutes’ walk from its current location at 131 Chrystie Street. The...
What is on the minds of young artists and curators today? According to the debut exhibition of a new gallery space in Tribeca, the answer won't exactly surprise you: parties in Brooklyn, the Internet, and, of course, the artists and curators themselves. Youth...
