On Friday, May 10th, we took the F train in Manhattan and went to see the NADA NEW YORK art fair. It is located in the southern tip of Manhattan close to the historic Brooklyn Bridge, in an area called the Basketball City on Pier 36 by the East River. Neighboring with the oldest China [...]
This is a 46-minute lecture by the Californian artist Robert Irwin (b 1928) during an event of the Chicago Humanities Festival in January 2010. He is one of the founders of the Light and Space movement in the 1960s. His work focuses on the issues of light and space within a specific site or environment, [...]
At 90 years old, the celebrated minimalist American painter Ellsworth Kelly explores new possibilities of edges with an exhibition at Mathew Marks Gallery in New York. He is known for his hard edge paintings, but now, they have a surprising swerve. The show will end on June 29th. Four Panels, oil on canvas four panels, [...]
When we think of power, we do not often relate it to stillness. Nor do we often associate a great leap forward to a gentle gesture of a supple, pliable material. But right in the middle of New York City, on the tip of the iconic Flatiron Building, a pivotal location where the Fifth Avenue [...]
Sometimes the most precious things are found by chance. We were on our way to see something completely different, but as we saw a window display showing an exhibition about calligraphy, we changed our plans. Little did we suspect that it was the most important show on the language of art that we had seen [...]
One of the most delightful things to do in NYC on a sunny autumn day is to take a stroll around its diverse art districts, watch one art exhibition after the other on streets full of galleries, drink an exquisitely roasted coffee from some exotic country, and share with a friend what we saw and [...]
If you don’t like art or have never been to a museum, you probably would have still heard of Edward Hopper (1882-1967). He is often referred to as the greatest American artist in modern times. He was a master of realist paintings and yet, he inspired celebrated abstract painters like Willem deKooning and Mark Rothko. [...]
By Light-man You have probably heard of James Turrell’s impressive solo exhibition currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. I was informed that this was the second most popular exhibition ever held at the museum, the first being a Picasso show. Some people might have told you they were dazzled by [...]
By C. C. Loch Hame is a band that I started with my friends, but now it’s just me. The American artist Tyler Loftis began his recent performance at the Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in Lower East Side Manhattan with these words in an introductory video. The gallery was packed and people waited [...]
When we went to see a major solo exhibition by the contemporary artist James Turrell at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, we saw a side show on the 4th Rotunda called New Harmony, Abstraction Between the Two Wars ( 1919- 1939). The show, named after a painting by Paul Klee in 1936, put together [...]
