Bushwick Open Studios: Film Festival Curated by Microscope Gallery By Quinn Dukes The summer has finally crept upon us bringing along with it the delights of outdoor festivals. Artists, art enthusiasts and neighborhood locals infiltrated street corners during Brooklyn’s first neighborhood-focused event of June, Bushwick Open Studios. Over the course of three days, Bushwick Open…
Ellen Gallagher: Greasy at Gagosian
555 West 24th Street
By Matthew Farina
Revealing her most personal and least socially assertive work to date, Ellen Gallagher’s large mid-career show Greasy is more seductive than political. The artist’s varied interests including natural history, minimalist abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance, and marine life come [...]
Bruce Davidson spoke about his career at Levi’s Photo Workshop in Soho on December 9. The talk was broadcast live over Facebook to 35,000 viewers and was followed by an open question and answer session. Davidson is a street photographer known for his photo essays Brooklyn Gangs, Civil Rights, Lower East Side, Central Park, [...]
Drawing Closer to Nature at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah
By Matthew Farina
Abstract painting influenced by nature is, for the most part, well-explored territory. The recent exhibition Drawing Closer to Nature presented the work of three emerging painters, Lori Hayes, Susan Ross and Melissa Staiger all of whom have escaped the tired [...]
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