Energy drink company Red Bull is shutting down its New York art space, a short-lived venue on West Eighteen Street that invigorated the city鈥檚 art scene with audacious programming that hewed toward the emerging and overlooked.
The long-running nonprofit exhibition space Art in General will permanently shut down operations as of October 31 owing to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic.
Irene Mei Zhi Shum, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection in Houston, has been appointed Executive Director of Art in General, a Brooklyn, NY non-profit art organization that assists artists with the production and presentation of new work.
You often stress that you are primarily a performance artist, although apparently you do like to see the fleeting moments somewhat materializing, while the exhibition environment either anticipates or prolongs the existence of performative events.
Like so much else in Brooklyn these days, the art scene there seems to be in flux. Galleries that were familiar presences have closed; others have changed names and moved to Manhattan.
In Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, 1967 book by Gilles Deleuze, the author contradicts the convergence of sadism and masochism, that in clinical practice were and still often remains integrated into the entity of sadomasochism.
In any given week, the art galleries of New York 鈥 and there are hundreds 鈥 are brimful of exhibitions showcasing works old and new, conventional and avant-garde, by the established and by the just discovered.
Despite seeing a drop in sales in 2016, Christie鈥檚 continues to think big, with the announcement of a new location in Beverly Hills, whilst Hauser & Wirth now represents one of the leading German photographers of the 20th century.
Art in General announced today that it has named Laurel Ptak, currently the director and curator of the artist-founded space Triangle in New York City, as the nonprofit鈥檚 new executive director.