Lecture by Richard Vine, Managing Editor of Art in America Throughout history, art and crime have been deeply intertwined. Not only have artworks been the target of criminal behavior—vandalism, theft, and forgery—they have also frequently taken crimes as their subject matter: Andy Warhol’s “13 Most Wanted Men,” Weegee’s murder-victim photographs, Mike Kelley’s installation in response to serial killer John Wayne… Read More
Julia Kunin lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.F.A. from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Julia Kunin’s work is represented by Sandra Gering Inc. Gallery where she had a solo show entitled “Les Guerilleres”, in 2015. Kunin has exhibited nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include: Golden Grove at… Read More
Lise Soskolne is an artist and core organizer of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a New York-based activist organization whose mission is to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract their labor, and to introduce mechanisms for self-regulation into the art field that collectively bring about a more equitable distribution of its economy. An… Read More
Matthew Deleget hosts a conversation with Kay Takeda, Vice President, Grants & Services, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Heather Pontonio, Director, Art Program, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter, curator, and arts worker. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Australasia. Matthew has received awards… Read More
“The Artist-Gallery Relationship” a talk with Kristen Becker, Marianne Boesky Gallery Kristen Becker works for Marianne Boesky Gallery as the Director of Museum Engagement, a position she created to help bridge the gap between the commercial and non-profit worlds. She travels domestically and internationally to arts organizations, art fairs, and related events to facilitate more transparency amongst her peers and… Read More
From March 20 – 23, the New York Academy of Art will exhibit for public viewing the designs and model for the National World War I Memorial, designed by Academy graduate Sabin Howard. The viewing is free and open to the public and on March 21 at 6:30 pm, Howard will give a free talk at the Academy discussing his… Read More
DUNCAN HANNAH was born in Minneapolis in 1952. He attended Bard College from 1971 to 1973 and Parsons School of Design from 1973 to 1975. In the seventies, he became associated with New York’s avant-garde and glam and punk rock scenes, acted in a number of underground movies, and showed several of his figurative portraits in 1980’s infamous Times Square… Read More
ALI BANISADR Neither fully abstract nor definitively figurative, Ali Banisadr’s richly allusive paintings are as arresting as they are disconcerting. In their conflation of multiple temporalities and narrative dimensions, the paintings might be better understood as “world landscapes” (to borrow a phrase from early Netherlandish scholarship) than as landscapes or abstract compositions. Rather, they reprise art-historical conventions to subtly… Read More
A talk with Independent Curators: who are they and how we do we have access? Sharon Louden talks with Bartholomew Ryan, Claire Schneider and Mitra Khorasheh. BARTHOLOMEW RYAN is an independent curator based in Minneapolis. He served briefly as Milton Fine Curator at the Andy Warhol Museum. Previously he was Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,… Read More
EILEEN COOPER was born 1953 in Glossop, in the Derbyshire Peak District. She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1971-1974 being in the cohort of students who were selected by Jon Thompson. Senior members of staff at that time included Bert Irvin RA, Basil Beattie RA and Michael Craig Martin RA. She went on to study Painting at the Royal College… Read More
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