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The 11-foot sculpture appears to be like like one thing out of a comic book strip: a luxurious purse perched on skinny legs and matched with high-end sneakers. The work is by the Austrian-born artist Erwin Wurm, and it represents equipment from the collections of Lanvin, the French trend home. “Desire” (the title of the […] More

Before 89 worldwide artwork sellers showcase their beautiful wares inside a constructing that was as soon as the playground for New York’s wealthy and well-known, they get the prospect to be kids once more. Their grown-up recreation? Designing strikingly distinctive cubicles out of tight uniform areas for TEFAF New York, the European Fine Art Foundation […] More

In one of many oldest buildings in South Street Seaport in New York, greater than 100 artworks by 61 artists utilizing textiles inventively have taken over a former mercantile warehouse and its unused equipment. “The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition,” on view by means of May 12 in tandem with a number of artwork […] More

When talking of artwork, be it museums or gala’s, the environments through which works are displayed are inclined to replicate the type of the items themselves. Look to the Pompidou Center in Paris for instance, a contemporary glass advanced with excessive ceilings and an abundance of pure mild that may be a nod to the […] More

When the Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj obtained an invite for his largest mission ever within the United States, he knew simply the place to go: again to highschool. For “Abetare,” his spare, good, completely pleasant sculptural set up on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Halilaj, who’s 38, traveled to elementary colleges throughout […] More

Frank Stella, who died on Saturday at age 87, as soon as joked that he harbored just one remorse. We had been sitting in his scruffy studio within the East Village, and he stated he was sorry that he had did not take authorized motion when the boys’s put on retailer bearing his identify opened […] More

“Money isn’t any object,” states a sly little textual content portray by the artist Ricci Albenda on this yr’s version of Frieze New York. Which, after all, isn’t true. At any artwork honest, as at any commerce honest, cash is the object. Put one other method, on this context all of the objects on view […] More

This yr’s version of the New Art Dealers Alliance truthful, town’s pre-eminent present for up-and-coming galleries, boasts 92 cubicles and several other sturdy exhibitions by hometown favorites, together with the photo-painter Dietmar Busse at Fierman (4.04); Hesse Flatow’s (4.01) present of chic, offbeat sculptures by Amanda Martínez and Alina Tenser and mixed-media work by Emma […] More

It was love at first sight, stated Loïc Le Gaillard, a founding father of the Carpenters Workshop Gallery (C.W.G.). The design gallery’s London base had been within the Mayfair district for 16 years the place, he stated, it was anchored in a white dice exhibition area, “having the identical language as all people else.” Wanting […] More

TEFAF New York, the European Fine Art Foundation truthful, will not be quick on artworks to maintain a customer’s consideration. But simply exterior the partitions of the Park Avenue Armory, the positioning once more of this yr’s occasion, lie many extra choices for viewing and shopping for artwork on the close by galleries on the […] More

May is a large month for artwork and design in New York City, with quite a few gala’s and occasions happening all through the boroughs. The largest and most established embrace Frieze New York (Thursday by means of Sunday) adopted by TEFAF New York (May 10-14), the NYCxDesign Festival (May 16-23) and, for main design […] More

“The title of ‘Independent’ is one thing of a manifesto,” mentioned Matthew Higgs, who has been the curatorial adviser to the New York artwork honest Independent since its founding in 2010 by Elizabeth Dee. Higgs and Dee, interviewed collectively at Spring Studios in TriBeCa, the place this yr’s honest might be staged, have steered Independent’s […] More