Tomorrow, wednesday 24th, Symphony Space, a great performing arts center on the Upper West side will have Laurie Anderson performing Hannah Tinti’s “Milestones” inspired by Miles Davis‘ and  Brandon Lewis (trumpet), David Frazier (drums) and Michael Forzano (bass) will perform a selection from  ”Milestones.”
Kelli O’Hara and two-time Tony winner James Naughton sing and read [...]

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The Barnstormers are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances.  They interpret and communicate the visual, cultural, and spiritual awakenings inspired by their trips to the south. Their work is shown at the Joshua Liner Gallery in Chelsea till April 17th. Check it out.

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Brian Alfred is an artist based in Brooklyn. His work rooted in his time has a strong personal insight. Compelling.
Till feb 20 at Haunch of Venison Gallery.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
Between 48th and 49th Street
20th Floor
New York, NY 10020
T +1 212 259 0000

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Amongst the peculiarity of NYC, there is the birth of graffiti i.e the birth of a new culture in the 70’s. In 1974, the iconoclast Norman Mailer wrote an essay about this art pairing Jon Naar’s stunning photography. The Faith of Graffiti became a milestone. Yesterday, Jon Naar presented a slideshow of his pictures followed [...]

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Jeffrey Deitch is a figure in the art world, an art dealer and a renowned independent Curator and. He has a Harvard MBA and was the vice president of the City Bank’s art department. NYC is its hometown celebritywise and now he runs three galleries : two in Soho and one in Long Island. His [...]

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Look Magazine was one NY eye where writers but mainly photographers reported on what the whole country called the most exciting city in the world. Stanley Kubrick sold his first photo to the magazine. He was 16 years old. The magazine closed in 1971 and gave its photos collection – 5 millions – to the [...]

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Fetching, enchanting, funny, clever, astute, smart, quick, witted, witty, great, I could go on and on and on. Every single piece – 700 !- of Tim Burton displayed at the MoMa is worth seeing it. The way the drawings, photos and puppets are set is beautiful.
Today was the preview with Mister Burton himself.  The MoMa [...]

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This is me, this is you, is Roni Horn probably most known piece. She photographed a girl during two years and therefore shows exactly her obsession on how we change  identity over the years. It’s so compelling and tender that it’s worth seeing it. Sorry I didn’t download the photo wall she did. The size [...]

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Who Shot Rock & Roll is an exhibition on rock and roll where photographers are in the foreground. I would say finally ! Photographers were part of  the rock-and-roll revolution. Their images show the social and cultural transformations that rock has fostered since the1950s. The exhibition is in six sections:
- behind the scenes
- Careers beginnings
- [...]

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Powerhouse, one of our favorite bookshop, released, later this september,  High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Pageants a startling and surprising book. Well, we all know that some parents take their girls for dolls but it remains shocking to look at these photos. Susan Anderson lives in LA where maybe this disfunctionnal behaviour is [...]

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