About a week before the opening of Abramovic’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, I went to hear her speak about her work. I am glad I gave myself that gift; it gave me a background that definitely helped me appreciate her work and the exhibition currently on at MoMA more. Abramovic, a 64 [...]

Curated by Jeff Koons, the controversial exhibition “Skin Fruit,” on view until June 6th, 2010 at the New Museum, is the first exhibition in the US of Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection made up of 1,500 works by 400 artists. Pulling from one of the best collections of contemporary art in the world might be intimidating [...]

If you don’t know about Ethan Cohen and his gallery, you should. In 1987, he was the first gallerist in New York to show Chinese Contemporary Art. And despite the downturn because of the economy, he is still promoting his Asian artists. Currently, he has a show of Ushio Shinohara’s work, a Japanese artist, born [...]

I managed to squeeze in three performances though hundreds have been taking place across the city for the past couple of weeks. The performances run until November 22nd so I highly encourage you to check at least one out.
Talk Show by Omer Fast
What a pleasant surprise! I went to this performance because it was taking [...]

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Ukeles was a name I had never heard of before I went to hear this artist speak at Ronald Feldman Gallery. Born in Colorado in 1939 she lived in NYC in the 60s and became an artist in order “to be free.” Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko all influenced her as she began her [...]

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I am not sure how to categorize the performance/lecture I saw by Mark Leckey last week at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. Based on an existing theory about the internet, the former Turner Prize winner begins explaining that his interest in the subject came about when he encountered a photo from [...]