ARTES MAGAZINE

Mary Hrbacek’s solo exhibition, Peopled Forest of My Mind, curated by Elga Wimmer at the Creon Gallery in New York City in April, 2013, featured Hrbacek’s new, very small and very large, personified tree paintings. Inspired by her dense, dramatic charcoal drawing executed on stark white paper, Hrbacek cultivates eerie hybrid plant forms as they [...]

To launch Rediscovered Masters, art historian Peter Hastings Falk assembled Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery, the first in a series of exhibitions dedicated to deserving late-career artists and/or those have passed on and whose achievements have been forgotten or overlooked. An important example of one such notable but neglected artist, according to Falk, is [...]

Keith Haring’s large-scale symbolic scrawled diptychs, on view at Mana Contemporary, spur memories of an era when gangs of boys performed spontaneous break-dances in SoHo subway stations. They recall a time when free spirits ruled, with street art that continues to spark the cosmic desire in the human soul to soar unfettered, taking those feelings [...]

Every once in a while—and I cannot remember the last time this has happened—an art exhibition adopts a provocative, never before seen, truth-telling-concept and executes it so brilliantly that viewers are forced to take stock of what is happening in the world around them. I am not talking about themes which are a dime-a-dozen, but [...]

Yigal Ozeri salutes his country of origin in new oil paintings at Mike Weiss Gallery, fusing the concept of the warrior goddess with the “universal soldier,” paying homage to the heroine of the show, whose looks and reputed combat skills rival the attributes of the mythological goddess, Atalanta. The artist explores an essential human archetype [...]

In the midst of the Holiday season it’s prime time for cultural tourism in the Big Apple. So why did a visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art seem so blah humbug? The museum is counting down its last days on Madison Avenue before a move to the Meatmarket District, downtown near the popping [...]

Hurricane Sandy devastated New York’s Chelsea Gallery district. Hit particularly hard were the most prestigious street level venues. The surging Hudson River flooded the area as well as wiped out basement storage areas. Entire exhibitions were lost as well as multiple millions of dollars worth of works in basement storage areas. This was particularly devastating [...]

Zelda Fitzgerald once said, “To be young and beautiful for a long time. That is what I want.” But fate had other ideas, and the unlucky lady, locked in a room waiting for electro shock therapy, died at age 48 in the Highland Mental Hospital, in Asheville, North Carolina. A fire spread throughout the hospital [...]

There is nothing that can be said or seen about the internationally famed, New York City based, Rose Hartman or her iconic photographs, that hasn’t found its way into an interview, an article, or a juicy gossip column—be it in the pages of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, New York Times, New York [...]

A Large Nose, a Lot of Noise, and Little Poetry Everybody knows Cyrano de Bergerac – he of bulbous snout – if not by name alone, than by play, movie, or perhaps even history. Yes, Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 – 1655), the French dramatist and duelist actually existed, though not exactly in the [...]