Batia Shani represented by Tamar Dresden Art Projects creates the site-specific installation Tissue.  The Hebrew word “rikma’”references this and translates to “needlework”, which the artist has been doing since she was a child.  The installation reflects the ongoing political instability in the Middle East.  By combining gendered outfits — male army uniform scraps stitched into handmade […]

Basements are good places to play, licitly or not.  A person can tinker or experiment out of sight of people going about their day-lit lives.  Leeza Meksin has landed a body of new artworks into Airplane, a basement gallery in Bushwick, New York, that takes full advantage of its cellar opportunities.  She pinches, perforates and […]

Maybe it’s cold outside on the streets of Manhattan and the forecast calls for snow tomorrow, but nothing can stop us from celebrating SPRING/BREAK.  A. Moret, Editor-in-Chief of Installation Magazine makes her curatorial debut for the fourth edition of NYC’s curator-driven art fair.  This year the theme is TRANSACTION and to help realize our interpretation of our […]

“Sophistafunk, aristocrats Distinguished stars, clean up your acts Pull up your pants, ladies and gents Please, act like you got some sense” -Outkast, Behold A Lady (2003)  Rare is the moment when a musician (specifically within the realms of Pop, Rap, R&B, and Rock) effectively crosses over into the wilds of Contemporary art without either […]

With a pop- up solo exhibition Tales from Hood, a collection of paintings inspired by their childhood in Chattanooga the duo are now a driving force in the art world.  Brothers Sidney and Thurman Sewell (aka The ATL Twins), are consummate collaborators and are celebrating their second project with fashion house Rochambeau.  Founded in 2007 […]

Coinciding with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was invited to slip his subversive, defiant installations and sculptures among the stately rooms at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, the same home where Sir Winston Churchill was born. Founded by Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill and directed by contemporary art advisor and market commentator Michael Frahm, […]