Michele Oka Doner: A Seed Takes Root
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture 8 West 8th Street, New York, NY, United StatesMichele Oka Doner is an artist whose work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Her artistic production includes sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She has created numerous permanent art installations throughout the world, including Radiant […]
Esmé Thompson: Recent Paintings
Bowery Gallery 547 W. 27th St., Suite 508, New York, NY, United StatesExhibition Dates: March 26 – April 20, 2024 Opening Reception: Thurs, March 28, 2024, 5PM-8PM Closing Salon: Sat, April 20, 3PM-5PM, featuring an artist talk by Esmé Thompson, a reading by Jen Stock, and music by Molly Thompson and ensemble Bowery Gallery is pleased to present the latest evolution of painted, shaped, and layered […]
Gallery Talk: Wolf Vostell’s Experiments with Concrete
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MABriana J. Smith will discuss Wolf Vostell’s concrete sculptures, including concrete casts of television sets and a concrete book. She will also describe how his project Concrete Cadillacs, installed as part of West Berlin’s 1987 Sculpture Boulevard, incited a massive public debate about art in public space and even inspired concrete parodies of his work. […]
Film Screening and Q & A: Two Poets and a River
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for a screening of the documentary film Two Poets and a River. Using the Oxus river as a topos, this film explores themes of love and loss through the lives and musical poetry of two Wakhi musicians, Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. These two poet-singers share a common language and culture and […]
Prudence Peiffer: The Artists of Coenties Slip
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture 8 West 8th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIn the 1950s and ’60s, Coenties Slip—an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River—was home to several extraordinary, then-struggling artists: Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. For just over a decade, this street of dilapidated sail-making lofts and maritime warehouses […]