Re-imagining the Donnell Library
Ever since the Donnell Library branch closed in 2008, the neighborhood surrounding West 53rd street has missed its beloved reading room. Today the New York Public Library will officially unveil the The Donnell Library Center’s replacement, a center redesigned to fit at the base of a high-rise hotel. Architect Enrique Norten and his firm TEN Arquitectos imagined […]
MoMa PS1 RAIN ROOM: Opening This Saturday
The rain room is coming! Apparently this interactive installation- a constantly raining room which reacts to viewers within the space by magically shielding them from wet drops – was a hit in London. I can’t wait to see it in New York. Opens May 12th and runs through July 28th. Read more below and here […]
Making Cents
Musician and writer Damon Krukowski, of the bands Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi, breaks down the meager royalties currently being paid out to bands by streaming services and explains what the music business’ headlong quest for capital means for artists today. Consider Pandora and Spotify, the streaming music services that are becoming ever more […]
Matt Paweski, Tulip Lamp
Matt Paweski, Tulip Lamp, 2013, steel, acrylic, enamel, copper rivets, electrical components, 27 x 7 x 2″. On view at Atelier de Troupe , 3418 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90039.
Sebasti?o Salgado’s “Genesis”
This past Sunday, The New York Times’ Sunday Review section featured a portfolio of images from photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who has long documented human suffering and its causes around the world. But for his latest project, he has turned his lens on Earth itself, in order to document the beauty it retains despite its own destruction […]
DAUGHTER: THE MOVIE TEASER
I’m super excited for the premiere of the experimental surf film, Daughter: The Movie. Shot on 8mm & 16mm film, and featuring footage of Kassia Meador, Mikey DeTemple, Derek Hynd and others it’s guaranteed not to be your average surf film. Check out the teaser here:
Arthur Ou at Brennan and Griffin
Harmony Blog contributor Arthur Ou has a solo exhibition opening this Sunday, April 28, from 6-9 PM at, this show departs from his recent photographic seascapes and gestural alchemical interventions by transposing the sensibilities of both into an engagement with painting. The show runs until June 9—don’t miss it!
Meg Cranston: Emerald City at NADA Art Fair, NYC
MEG CRANSTON EMERALD CITY NADA NYC Pier 36 | Basketball City | Booth 514 MAY 10 – 12, 2013 Fitzroy Gallery and Newman Popiashvili Gallery are pleased to announce Emerald City, a solo booth at NADA NYC with Los Angeles-based artist Meg Cranston. High fashion beams industrial perfection and this year’s lodestar is emerald, the official […]
Sámi-Walking with Reindeer/ Photos by Erika Larsen
Erika Larsen knew she wanted to photograph the reindeer herders who live as nomads throughout northern Scandinavia and Russia, known as the Sámi. In order to truly immerse herself in their culture, Larsen initially worked as a housekeeper for a Sámi family. She cleaned bathrooms and learned to cook reindeer while earning the trust and […]
Repurposed Payphones
Following up on our prior post on the New Museum’s innovative use of New York City’s pay phones for their 1993 exhibit, the city is now actually attempting to decide what to do with the relics, rather than send them to the landfills. The mayor’s office has been holding a sustainable design competition for prototypes […]
Scenes From Salone del Mobile, Milano
Every spring, Milan plays host to one of the world’s largest furniture fairs. Equal parts convention and party, the fair (called the Salone del Mobile) brings over 300,000 visitors to the city to wander, look, buy and party. Most of the official business is housed at the large convention center just outside the city center, […]
Photo Show: Lost Weekend NYC
If you are in New York this weekend, check out the photo show at Lost Weekend. It features the art work of talented local photographer, Tommy Colla. Where: Lost Weekend: 45 Orchard St, New York, NY. When: April 11th, 7PM-10PM More info here.
Italian Art of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s in New York
New Yorkers have recently benefitted from exhibitions of little-known (on these shores, at least) Italian artists whose work from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s is quite spectacular. First there was an exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery of folded and graphically treated paintings by Giorgio Griffa. (That’s one of them above.) Then there was the work […]
For-ev-ah Young
Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers is ostensibly a beach movie, thus earning a place on the Harmony blog, right? I hope so, as it gives me an excuse to post my favorite review of the film thus far, by Amy Taubin for Artforum.com. A sample: When the camera has its fill of gravity-defying boobs, it switches to […]
Suzan Frecon, cathedral series, variation 10
Rail: Do you think of your paintings as being derived from nature? Frecon: Oh, I think nature is a given. It’s impossible to say we aren’t from nature. To me, nature is everything and I don’t put it in those terms where you say they derive from nature but—I was always trying to figure out—I […]
Jerry Saltz on the Death of the Gallery Show
Are changes in the art market rendering the gallery show obsolete? Jerry Saltz thinks this may be the case, and that it might have profound repercussions: The clustering of hundreds of galleries in several neighborhoods has meant that a huge swath of the art world is continually being presented at our doorstep. That is changing, […]
FIX THE SHADOWS: Warren Smith
Inspired by an unplanned 3-month search for quiet, Fix The Shadows is a traveling photo documentary project spearheaded by Warren. Showcasing both the aesthetic and process of a handful of fellow friends, artists, surfers, and photographers sharing ideas, cameras and cold empty waves along the coast of Maine. Equal parts surf film and behind-the-scenes look at […]
The Ends(s) of the Library
A library, like the Internet, is a constantly growing, endless entity, with new titles and media added daily. But the way we organize and collect the information within changes with the times, and it is with that in mind that the Goethe-Institut’s New York Library presents a show titled, “The End(s) of the Library.” Starting […]
Recalling 1993
The New Museum has come up with a unique way of promoting their latest show, “1993.” In an attempt to place potential viewers into a mindset of nostalgia and memory related to that specific year, they used one of the few relics of that time for their message’s medium: pay phones. Barely used today, the […]
“Margarine and the Museum”
An excellent piece by Julia Langbein about her participation in (and critique of) “Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art,” an exhibition held at University of Chicago’s Smart Museum last year. (The show is traveling to the Blaffer Museum in Houston (August 31, 2013 — January 5, 2014) and SITE Santa Fe (February 2014 — May 2014). A quick teaser: Alhäuser asked the staff (aided […]
Mirrored House (Disappearing House)
Check out this serene beauty of this art installation. A thoughtful way to start the week! (via Endlessbummerny.blogspot.com)
Pierre Carreau: Waves and Beaches
While spending time at Clic Gallery over the weekend I came across the incredible prints of French photographer Pierre Carreau. By taking hundreds upon hundreds of shots, Carreau has honed his craft to create isolated portraits of waves in which the light and nuances of each curve make them appear more like glass than water. Born near Paris […]
Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites
Informed by the sociopolitical contexts of Latin America, Abraham Cruzvillegas has garnered much attention for his dynamic assemblage sculptures made of found objects. Interested in improvised building materials and techniques, he roots his sculptural practice within the urban landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, a district in the south of Mexico City. Over the […]
