A Sky filled with Shooting Stars

Carolee Schneemann was one of the first artists I met when I arrived in the United States in 1979. I was 25 years old, and I am ashamed to admit I knew little about feminist art in those days, or about Ms Schneemann herself. As I have told her on many occasions since then however, [...]

Today ASfwSS performs a public service. I don’t know why it’s so difficult to find all this information in one place: each year I have to make myself a diary of the main fairs’ opening hours during Armory Week. This year it occurred to me to post it here. These are simply the hours that [...]

Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching are the eponymous owners and directors of one of New York’s genuine gallery success stories of recent years, the Klompching Gallery in DUMBO. During its short life, Klompching has won a real reputation as a Brooklyn destination for anyone interested in the more stimulating various directions being taken by [...]

Second week of the new season and there are still great new shows opening pretty much every night of the week. This week it’s been a little bit harder to steer away from some of the obvious choices (my final pick today is more or less unavoidable – though none the less wonderful for that) [...]

Many readers of A Sky filled with Shooting Stars have asked me about getting behind the scenes of the New York art world in the same way that I am able to.  This year’s Armory Show week offers an ideal first opportunity to make this possible, with a series of exclusive walking tours of the [...]