David Ebershoff is the author of four books, including The Danish Girl and the #1 bestseller The 19th Wife. The Danish Girl is a fictional account of painter Lili Elbe, who worked in Paris in the 1920s and 30s and became the subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Academy Award-winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. Ebershoff’s books have been translated… Read More
The New York Academy of Art presents a lecture by fine art insurance specialist Laura Murphy Doyle. An invaluable presentation for both art collectors and working artists, Doyle will discuss all issues related to the acquisition, handling and storage of art pieces, including packing and transit conditions, ephemeral materials, common mistakes, ideal displays and the Visual Artist’s Rights Act Laura… Read More
Kathy Grayson is the owner and director of the Hole, a contemporary art gallery. Opened in July of 2010 on the Bowery, the Hole presents monthly solo and group exhibitions featuring artists from emerging to established including Kembra Pfahler, Holton Rower, Lola Montes Schnabel and Matthew Stone. Previous to founding the Hole, Grayson was a director at Deitch Projects.
Tschabalala Self is a New Haven based painter. She received her B.A. from Bard College in 2012 and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art in 2015. Her work builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the black female body. The artist constructs exaggerated depictions of female bodies using… Read More
Jon Kessler received his BFA from SUNY-Purchase. He has sculptures in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and been the subject solo shows at PS 1, Deitch Projects, and The Drawing Center. He has received… Read More
Art Review: “Coming to Power” at Maccarone Gallery by Anastasiya Tarasenko MFA 2017 Alice Neel Nadya Nude, 1933 Just as our own Take Home a Nude auction is right around the corner, “Coming to Power” offers a scintillating look inside the world of the artist, for whom the forbidden fruit hangs low and always within reach. While sexual imagery used to… Read More
Art Review: Jonathan Gardner at Casey Kaplan Gallery by Stephanie del Carpio MFA 2017 “Bather with a Yellow Towel” As artists, and more so as painters, we have a complex relationship to the past. Jonathan Gardner embraces it and reinvents it into a wonderful pastiche of figures and patterns. His reverence for art history feels genuine and the historical references… Read More
Born in Tehran in 1976, Ali Banisadr’s formative childhood years were during the Iran-Iraq war. Banisadr earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2005, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2007, where he was awarded the Postgraduate Fellowship followed by winning an award in painting from New York Foundation for the Arts…. Read More
Damian Loeb (born 1970) is an artist currently living and working in New York City since 1989. He was discovered by Jeffery Deitch in 1997 and is currently represented by Acquavella Galleries. Loeb, using primarily painting and photography, creates meticulously specific images that subverts the language of reproduction and memories to codify a dialogue between relativism and our formative experiences…. Read More
Andrianna Campbell is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she specializes in American art. Her doctoral research focuses on Norman Lewis and Abstract Expressionism in the post-World War II period. Alongside her scholarly research, she is the author of essays and reviews on contemporary art for Artforum, Art in America, Even… Read More
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