A Sky filled with Shooting Stars

Tweet At Bruce Silverstein’s gallery on West 24th Street currently there is a show that any public museum could take pride in: “BEYOND Color: Color in American Photography 1950-1970)” is a quite riveting exposition of an era which is now difficult to imagine: A time when the majority of fine art photographers – a pretty [...]

Claes Oldenburg, 1997 [full photo credits can be found at the foot of this post] Last Tuesday I wrote here that “50 Years at Pace” was “without a doubt the best gallery show opening this week – and probably this year, to be frank.” The four Pace galleries are littered with some of the greatest art of [...]

Had I not stumbled upon performance art in the early 1970s, it is very possible that I would have dedicated my artistic efforts to abstract painting after the particular example of my compatriot Richard Smith (born 1931). When I was a young British art student there were very few artists for whom I had more [...]

I have sung the praises of the Guggenheim’s “Third Mind” show repeatedly here on A Sky filled with Shooting Stars. What I haven’t mentioned here yet is the “Third Mind Live” series that continues through April 17, though I have already written about Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson’s performances for Total Theatre in London. Last [...]

To an outsider like myself who comes to live and work in New York’s art world, one of the most refreshing characteristics of the place is just how much ongoing respect people have for the history of the arts that have been made here. This attitude is anything but nostalgic, and in no way a [...]