DISPATCH – May 13, 2012 (4:43 p.m.) New York City, NY Let’s get this out front: I’m a fan of street photography. I love the raw and random moments street photography can capture. Subtle beauty, quirky coincidences, the bizarre, or intimate expressions appearing unbidden are some of the treasures found by a photographer who searches among the spontaneous. The images created [...]
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Street Art Portrays Overlooked Beauty in Brooklyn
Posted: May 12, 2012 in Brooklyn, Exhibitions, New York City, PhotographyTags: Anna Delany, Klughaus Gallery, Photography, street photography, Tom Gould
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Frieze Anchors Another Art Fair Week in NYC
Posted: May 4, 2012 in Art Fairs, Brooklyn, Exhibitions, New York CityTags: Art, art fair, Chelsea Night, Frieze Art Fair, NADA, PooL, Pulse, Randall's Island, Red Dot, Seven, Verge
DISPATCH – May 5, 2012 (1:14 p.m.) NEW YORK CITY, NY Art fairs are back in NYC. This time, the art festivities are clustered around Frieze New York. This is the first time Frieze is appearing in New York City. The art fair opened yesterday on Randall’s Island and continues through Monday. One important thing to know is tickets for Frieze need [...]
Sound as Artistic Medium
Posted: November 23, 2011 in Brooklyn, Film, Performance ArtTags: biennial, Christine Sun Kim, Todd Selby
DISPATCH – Nov 23, 2011 (Wednesday; 9:24 a.m.) BROOKLYN and NEW YORK, NY I was exploring the Internet for art and discovered the performance artist Christine Sun Kim through a video on Nowness.com. Photographer-filmmaker Todd Selby had visited Kim in her Brooklyn studio and made a film of the deaf performance artist. Further exploration revealed that Kim appeared at [...]
Visual Diary – Patchogue Arts Biennial
Posted: November 12, 2011 in Brooklyn, Ceramics, Installation, Long Island, Painting, Sculpture, Video, Projection and Film, Visual DiaryTags: Art, biennial
DISPATCH – November 12, 2011 (Saturday; 10:30 a.m.) Patchogue, NY The Second Patchogue Arts Biennial is in the final throes of a three-week exhibition. Last night, I went and checked it out. I entered through “the back door” from inside Briarcliffe College (versus the formal front entrance) and walked into a wide-open gallery of contemporary art. The view was breathtaking. The Biennial brings [...]
Tiny Constructions – Playful and Poignant
Posted: July 5, 2011 in Artist Profiles, Brooklyn, Drawing, Exhibitions, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, RiverheadTags: Art, art installation, Craig Kane, mixed media, Sculpture
DISPATCH – June 19, 2011 (Sunday; 8:14 p.m.) Riverhead, NY Craig Kane makes the smallest artworks you’ll probably ever see. From afar, his “CONSTRUCTS” installation at Art Sites gives the impression of smudges or tangles of material on an otherwise white wall. Everything changes after getting up close: When you’re near enough to zero in on his art, [...]