Peter M. Brant Foundation Art Study Center visit

The Peter M. Brant Foundation’s main building was built in 1902 and was used for apple storage at that time. Peter Brant bought it as a polo clubhouse. In the 1990s, the Brant Foundation was created and in 2009, the space was opened by the foundation. The current [...]

For 30 years, Christian Marclay’s work has explored music in all its facets. He is an artist, musician and composer. “Sound an image are very closely intertwined in my work,” he says. At the Whitney, he invites visitors to participate in the exhibition. Viewers are asked to write notes on the large chalkboard which performers [...]

The Peter M. Brant Foundation’s main building was built in 1902 and was used for apple storage at that time. Peter Brant bought it as a polo clubhouse. In the 1990s, the Brant Foundation was created and in 2009, the space was opened by the foundation. The current exhibition is a solo show of the [...]

I entered the spacious and sunny studio and first met Matthew, Marc’s studio manager and then the man himself. Both men were extremely friendly and engaging. As Marc and I began speaking, Matthew got down to work donning his latex blue gloves and adhering individual rhinestones to elk antlers. Hard to believe that this labor [...]

This highly focused exhibition takes a look at one of the “most innovative, momentous and little studied periods in the long career of Matisse.” It begins when he left Morocco and returned to Paris in 1913 and ends when he left Paris for Nice in 1917. The works from these years are extremely reworked –abstraction [...]

This was my second visit to Storm King and it certainly lived up to the memory I had of my first experience. Though it was extremely hot out, I managed to cover all of the grounds and see some of their newest additions. If you have not been, you must make the trip. Only an [...]

An artist of whom you have probably never heard but definitely should know about is Mary Ann Unger. Born in New York City in 1945, she died prematurely of breast cancer in 1998. A contemporary of female sculptors such as Kiki Smith, Petah Coyne, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, whom she knew and exhibited with, she [...]

On Saturday late night I had the pleasure of going to see and support a very talented woman whom I went to high school with. Her name is Rozz Nash and she is the lead vocalist and songwriter of a group called Coulon. I have been wanting to see a show of theirs for awhile [...]

Art Basel 2010

Art Basel 2010. Overall, some excellent works on view. There were fewer Americans visiting than in previous years but buying still seemed to be happening for smaller ticket items. I preferred Volta and Liste which had some really great works by artists I had not heard of before and some by better-known artists [...]

Nicole’s visit to Louisville, KY and 21c

I headed down to Louisville, Kentucky for the first time to check out the hotel/museum 21c owned by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. The red penguin, seen above in pajamas for their annual pajama party fundraiser, is the logo and mascot of the establishment. The 90-room property, which occupies [...]