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The Donald, the Dems and the Damage Done

Quoting myself from a piece first published before the 2016 election and subsequently here (The Donald, The Damage and the Do-Over): http://art511mag.com/2017/06/16/the-donald-the-damage-and-the-do-over/ “I think there is at least a little part in each of us that tries to agree with Trump. Why? Because it’s safer. “No, not saying that he’s safe […]

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Funky-Hip, Visual Dynamic Showcase: Spring Break Art Show 2024

The fall art season in New York City is always a spectacle, and this year was no exception. With over a dozen art fairs and exhibitions happening across the city in September 2024, I began my journey at the Spring Break Art Show, a bold and ever-experimental favorite that consistently […]

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FINAL VERSION: ”Robert Frank: 20 Photographs from 1948 to 1968”

Robert Frank was a Swiss-American photographer of remarkable range and depth. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Jewish family, he and other members of his family were able to survive Nazi rule by staying in Switzerland, a neutral territory. In 1947, Frank moved to America, where he worked, at first, […]

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“Minimal/Maximal” at the Lichtundfire Gallery

Priska Juschka, the co-founder and current director and curator for Lichtundfire, is presently offering a large group show of nearly thirty artists. Juried by Juschka herself “Minimal/Maximal” embraces a complex set of ideas and ideals, mostly inherent in philosophy. Juschka, always gifted in her curating choices, once again embraces (mostly) […]

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WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow

I dropped by the Westwood Gallery’s on the Bowery Thursday evening, May 16, 2024, for the opening of Loft Law: Photographs by Joshua Charow’s solo exhibition. An amazing show  which is a historic documentation of New York City’s artistic past. Charow’s lens focused on the New York artists who live […]

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Discos and Dancers: Pulse of the Next Generation?

A true painter’s painter, George McNeil fills the walls of Picture Theory Gallery with dancers, bathers and curious ephemera from a time seemingly now passed and gone. A self-described humanist bemused by raucous disco nights, in this little-known era of his work, McNeil brings to life the lauded 80’s underground dance […]

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Darkness and Light: The Paintings of Karen Gunderson

Light and contrast are two of the simplest building blocks of a work of art. It is then telling when an artist can take these fundamental concepts and create breathtaking pieces with a profound depth of meaning. For sixty years, Karen Gunderson has done just that. She is best known […]

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Rorschach Blots for Change?

PROJECTIONS – a new body of work by artist Harrison Tenzer – is now on view at The Empty Circle in Gowanus through February 3rd. Emerging from the Pandemic pits of psychological survival, queer artist Harrison Tenzer turned to drawing as a defense against loneliness and anxiety, finding a new […]

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Ed Ruscha at MOMA: A Pop Art Career Fueled Along Route 66

By the time 18-year-old Ed Ruscha lit out on Route 66 in 1956, enroute from his home in Oklahoma City to study art in Los Angeles, the venerable U.S. highway had already been carrying motorists from Chicago to the coast and back for 30 years. Bobby Troup’s famous song, (Get […]

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Barkley L. Hendricks Joins the Old Masters at Frick Madison

The work of Barkley L. Hendricks, the American contemporary artist whose early portraits captured the courage, strength and style of Black America at a critical moment in its history, returns to the site of his first museum appearance this week with the opening of a widely anticipated solo exhibition at […]

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J. Scott Orr is a career writer, editor and a recovering political journalist. He is publisher of the East Village art magazine B Scene Zine. He can be reached via @bscenezine, bscenezine.com, or bscenezine@gmail.com.

Nicole ABE Titus is a photographer, writer, artist, gallerist and collector. She can be reached via @avantgardeabe, juliaseabrookgallery.com, or info@abeartllc.com.

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Tokyo’s New Art spot, TERRADA ART COMPLEX, Tennoz is booming! Full of Zen spirit and Kawaiiby Saori Takeda

Tokyo offers a comfortable, safe vacation and a collection of unique galleries that are home to some of the next generation’s leading artists. In addition to the art districts of Ginza and Roppongi, which have been well-known to the world’s high income people, Tennoz on Tokyo Bay is now booming. […]

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Lynn Stern: “A Photographer with a Painter’s Psyche”

Although photographer Lynn Stern does not use the medium of painting to create, Stern and her photography are very much in conversation with the painter’s psyche—she thinks like a painter and her photography captures much of the texture, details, contrast, and vibrancy of painting. Contrary to conventional definitions of photography, […]

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Bockhaus in Black and White

Brooklyn artist Ryan Bock dislikes labels; though his work suggests so many, but bows to so few. Ode to Duchamp; a Liar, Bock’s latest solo show at Manhattan’s Ki Smith Gallery, is typical of his latest work. One room is dominated by his interactive masterwork, a giant chess set made […]

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The Shining Stars of Terry O’Neill

Stars, the new exhibition of work by renowned British photographer Terry O’Neill at Fotografiska New York, is a rhapsodic celebration of celebrity beauty and style during the closing days of the analogue photography era. This latest show of O’Neill’s work is a transcendent time machine that transports viewers to the […]

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Andy Warhol in the East Village

You know how they say you always remember your first? Well Peter M. Brant, the globally important collector of contemporary art and long-time pal of pop art godfather Andy Warhol, certainly remembers his. “The first piece I bought is that drawing right there of a stack of soup cans. I […]

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Scott Orr is a career writer, editor and a recovering political journalist. He is publisher of the East Village art magazine B Scene Zine. He can be reached via @bscenezine, bscenezine.com, or bscenezine@gmail.com.

Nicole ABE Titus is a photographer, writer, artist, gallerist and collector. She can be reached via @avantgardeabe, juliaseabrookgallery.com, or info@abeartllc.com.

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Artist Iliyan Ivanov exhibition: The Silent Sessions and The Lost Pets featured at Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC online gallery

Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Bulgarian/American artist Iliyan Ivanov. The exhibition will feature pieces from his series The Silent Sessions and The Lost Pets. SOUNDS OF SILENCE, APRIL 17 – MAY 31, 2023 THE SILENT SESSIONS The series examines situations where verbal communication is limited or entirely absent, […]

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ART FAIR TOKYO, a jewel box of Tokyo-Pop and delicate Japanese arts

ART FAIR TOKYO, one of the most prestigious art show in Asia, was successfully held from March 10 to 12, welcoming 56,000 visitors. The Japanese government’s immigration restrictions have been greatly eased, attracting fans of pop and delicate Japanese contemporary art from Asia, Europe, and the United States, and the […]

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“I became an artist when I became a Lobster.”- UK hyper-pop artist Philip Colbert’s Lobsteropolis inspires Tokyo!

Be true to yourself! Decide who you are by yourself! With such a positive message, Philip Colbert’s solo exhibition Lobsteropolis, popular among young art fans and celebrities, is being held at M5 Gallery in Ginza, the center of contemporary art in Tokyo. The show is organized by Pearl Lam Galleries in […]

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The ADAA 34th Annual Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory opened with a stellar Press and Benefit Preview

The ADAA presented its annual Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory in full swing with a gala event on Wednesday November 2nd. The press and benefit preview opened its 34th edition with a stellar evening, raising over a million dollars for the Henry Street Settlement – the social services […]

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Your Brain is Your Bedroom – Stepping Into an Artist’s Mind

Have you ever thought about stepping into the mind of an artist? Well, that is what you can do at the High Line Chelsea Open Studios starting at 508 West 26th St, NYC during the Fall Art Preview. During this time, you have access to almost five floors of open […]

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“Freiheit”, Freedom, is a central concept of the painter Max Ernst Exhibition, at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy. The Milanese exhibition displays 400 works.

“Freiheit”, Freedom, is a central concept of the complete work of the painter, of German origins, Max Ernst (1891-1976). Man’s free expression through spontaneous and irreverent artistic expression, and freeing Art from a certain aesthetic formalism, especially through the arbitrary association of images and distinct realities, are the artist’s ambitions. […]

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The Affordable Art Fair opened September 22, 2022, continuing New York’s fall art season circuit

The Affordable Art Fair opened September 22, 2022, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, continuing New York’s fall art season circuit on the heels of the Armory Show, Independent Art Fair, Spring/Break Art Show, Art on Paper, and the Clio Art Fair. The art world is just now starting to […]

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Big Brassy Art takes over the Armory Show 2022, NYC

A showcase of big, brassy art takes over New York’s Javits Center, Thursday afternoon, September 8, 2022, with the opening of the Armory Show’s 2022 edition. New York’s premiere contemporary art fair returns to New York’s Javits Center for the second iteration of the fair since the COVID-19 pandemic. This […]

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AIDS Memorial Quilts, 35 Years of Love, Activism & Love Exhibition Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

I had the opportunity to be in San Francisco during the historical public exhibition of the “AIDS Memorial Quilts, 35 Years of Love, Activism & Legacy”, on view outdoors at the Robin Williams Meadow, in Golden Gate Park. The Exhibition featured 3,000 panels of the AIDS Quilt. The exhibition was […]

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“Cosmic Storm” at Lichtundfire

The six artists whose works are currently found at Lichtundfire, the Lower East Side gallery, all deal with the sidereal dissonance produced by the clashing of galaxies. Their art consists of visual noise that may or may not be coherent or free-form. Capturing celestial events in the universe is more […]

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A Wave of Tokyo Ginza Pop! A fusion of “Zen, Japanese beauty of blank space” and “modernity”

Ginza is one of the major centers for contemporary art in Japan and Asia. It has been famous for selling works by established and well-known artists such as Yayoi Kusama or Yoshitomo Nara, but recently there has been a movement to discover talented young artists. Although Japan has produced many […]

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Abstract Singularity

Priska Juschka, co-founder of the gallery Lichtundfire and curator of “Abstract Singularity,” is particularly good at putting together group shows of abstract painting. In this exhibition, she maintains her standards. It is hard now to fully commit one’s perception to the kind of expressionist abstraction we find in the New […]

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We are in the afterglow – Symbiosis with Poison – Yokohama Triennale 2020, A meaningful event under Covid-19 crisis

By Saori Takeda While major international art fairs around the world have decided to cancel or postpone one after another, Japan’s Yokohama Triennale 2020 opened in last July and successfully completed. About 70 artists’ works were on display at the main venue, Yokohama Museum of Art and other venues. Many […]

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New Latinx Art Collective Exhibition: Dissolving Borders

Dissolving Borders is a group exhibition featuring the works of members of the New Latinx Art Collective. The exhibition opened its doors on April 18th, and will run until May 9th, at JVS Project Space in New York City. The participating artists ponder the concept of borders beyond their conception […]

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Female Voices

“Spring Forward, Vibrant Visions and Voices of Women Artists from around the Globe” is the first project in which Arantxa X. Rodríguez (AXR) experiences another facet of art, this time as a curator. This exhibition was pulled together with Heidi E. Russell, founder and director of International Women Artists’ Salon, […]

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Mexican artist Arantxa Ximena Rodríguez inaugurates a community mural at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York.

The Mexican artist Arantxa Ximena Rodríguez (AXR as she is also known) was selected to create a mural at the entrance to Lincoln Hospital located in the Bronx New York. Within 200+ applications, AXR along with ten other artists were selected and divided among ten different hospitals to create murals. […]

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Covert-19: Part 2, Parabole of Unity at Lichtundfire

Curated by Lichtundfire director Priska Juschka (the concept was originated by gallery artist Augustus Goertz), “Covert-19: Part 2, Parabole of Unity” presents six artists who have made work during the quarantine. The artists included in the show are as follows: Jane Fire, Mark Kurdziel, Eveline Luppi, Robert Solomon, Alan Steele, […]

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Fear & Pity on the Campaign Trail*

by Linda DiGusta October 3, 2020 It was gambling. All along. We all knew it somewhere. So when it was announced that Donald Trump, after months of bravado in the face of a face mask, was infected with the coronavirus that causes Covid 19, it was a bad roll of […]

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COVID-19, Protests against police brutality and the artists. Somewhere in NYC, sometimes in May

 

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Booth 201 — Pendulum of Time at Lichtundfire

Listen to “Pendulum of Time at Lichtundfire” on Spreaker. Installation view, Pendulum of Time, All images courtesy Lichtundfire. Greetings from Lichtundfire- and a few words upfront. Our exhibition PENDULUM OF TIME, with Macyn Bolt, Leslie Ford, Jay Jae Won Jung, Sallie Strand, Martin Weinstein and Gina Werfel, has been sequestered […]

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“Time has been reinvented.”

April 2020 Italy has been shut down for the second month in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Time and habits have been frozen. Nothing has changed that much in everyday life:  April copied and pasted March, with people locked in their homes trying to get acquainted with a […]

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Booth 101 — Ian Mack

Ian Mack was born in England and spent his early years studying and painting in London. He then lived in Mexico where he discovered the vibrancy and emotional power of color. Ian moved permanently to the United States in 1981, spending twelve years in Colorado before moving to the east coast. […]

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Art review of Amandine Urruty’s solo exhibition-what can artists do with Instagram under COVID-19 crisis

Visit us on Instagram, we continue the show online, we never give up!! COVID-19 has been rapidly spreading in Europe, Italian government decided to halt all businesses, and Italy has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world as of March 20. But Dorothy Circus Gallery based in Rome […]

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The A-B-C’s of Immersive Art

“It’s time to celebrate the beauty of every individual letter, to discover the architecture of spaces and to contemplate the dynamic geometry of these everyday signs. It’s time to take away the intrinsic function of type and to shift attention to the aesthetic dimension.” — Lorenzo Marini All of us […]

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Armory Week Insider Picks

New York is the magnet of the Art World in the coming week, drawing artists, collectors, and dealers from, well, everywhere, to see, to sell, and to select, from the best there is on offer, works to add to those collections… You already know what’s on the circuit, so please […]

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The Art of Warriors

by Linda DiGusta “Many veterans and their family members want to tell their stories, but those conversations can be difficult to start. Often, art can be a starting place to communicate with others.”    —  Salmagundi Club President Elizabeth Spencer Every truly creative artist uses craft to transmit their pure experience […]

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Mary Hrbacek at Elga Wimmer PCC

Veteran New York artist Mary Hrbacek also has a rural house in northern Vermont. So she is close to nature, and to the woods especially, as this strong show of art, called “Human Nature: Pefka and Sycamore,” about trees with a human presence demonstrates. The black-and-white painted drawings of human-tree […]

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Photo LA 2020

Snapping into the New Year, Photo LA was in the Barker Hangar for the second year. Remembering the Civic Center early days when it was more like a flea market with vendors in an open room of cardboard boxes on tabletops. It has grown into a fine art photo fair. […]

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LA Marler (Louise Anne Marler) is an American Contemporary Photographer and Pop Artist, She weaves her publishing experience into her artwork. Her early work in the typewriter business lead to the daily newspaper and moonlighting on other local publications, owning a commerical printing company and becoming the artist and Los Angeles Managing Editor of Art 511 Magazine.
Marlercreatesmixed-mediaimagesfromoriginalphotography,graphicdesign, illustrations, printing, painting and other techniques. She is best know for Vintage Typewriter, Retro Camera and KeyWord art.
LA Marler recently curated a group exhibit saluting the literary arts at the Mike Kelley Gallery in Venice, California. Louise's artwork has been included in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Tom Hanks' art collection and she has appeared in “The Typewriter in the 21st Century” and books. Her art has also been in 13 primetime TV shows. LA Marler exhibits and ships internationally.

Website: http://www.lamarler.com

Email: lamarler@mac.com

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Flowing a Force of Nature

“The immensity of our oceans and open bodies of water can be nearly incomprehensible as it relates to the scale of one human. It is the artists that translate this into a way of understanding our relationship to this vast expanse of blue that divides, unifies, and is ever changing […]

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Max Ernst at Kasmin

Paul Kasmin Gallery is presenting a selection of forty collages by Max Ernst, a number of which are being shown publicly for the first time, emphasizes the innovative importance of the artist’s contribution to the genre, along with the recognition that collage was central to Ernst’s creativity from the start. […]

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Between Waters

When I think about the works of Francks Deceus and Heather Holden, together in one room, I’m struck more than anything by the power of these two artists’ images to tell us new stories, to create a fresh narrative in our minds.  These artists believe deeply in their images- in […]

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“Cutting Edges: Nordic Concrete Art from the Erling Neby Collection” at Scandinavia House

The Scandinavia House has an excellent, worth seeing exhibition of concrete art from Nordic countries collected by Norwegian collector Erling Neby, mainly consists of hard-edge geometric paintings. Since the 20th century, the Scandinavians are especially known for their design abilities, and one of the strengths of the exhibition is the schematic […]

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Brooklyn Artist Diana Shpungin at the MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson

Diana Shpungin recently sent ART511 Magazine an invitation to her upcoming 2020 solo exhibition. “If you are out west early next year I would love for you to visit my upcoming solo exhibition at MOCA Tucson. I will for the first time in a decade be exhibiting my hand-drawn animation […]

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Janghan Choi at the Korean Community Center (Tenafly, New Jersey)

This show of large-scale works do not emphasize geographical particularity in any way; instead, they reflect his ongoing interest and exploration in regard to human themes, in ways that cannot be tied easily to either Asian or American culture. The works, mostly a mixture of abstractions made up of what […]

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“Remember When It Winter Was” at Lichtundfire

ARTIST TALK (also addressing climate change): FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM Curated by gallery director Priska Juschka, “Remember When It Winter Was” is a collection of works by seven artists (five women and two men), whose colors and imagery demonstrate the influence of wintry visuals in […]

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European urban art is hot! A review of District Art Fair in Paris

Let’s follow Banksy, Futura2000!! The second District Art Fair was held at the end of September in Paris, one of the world’s urban art centers. Urban art has become one of the mainstreams of contemporary art, so the fair was full of many rich, young European contemporary art collectors and […]

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Queer Abstraction in 2019

During the month of October, Lichtundfire on Rivington in the Lower East Side exhibited the painting solo, “Standing on the Shoulders of Queer Martyrs and Saints,” an exhibition of mixed media paintings by New York-based artist Christopher Stout concerning queer abstraction, and his third solo show at the gallery. Artist, writer, […]

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Chih-Hui Chuang: Coding&Decoding – (莊志輝紐約個展『記。符號』) 新聞稿

2019 October, Manhattan, New York] With the collaboration of the Hsinchu City Cultural Affairs Foundation in Taiwan and the Taiwanese American Arts Council, Chih-Hui Chuang will hold his first New York solo exhibition. The opening reception will be October 24 at E. TAY Galley in TRIBECA, New York City, and […]

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Biennale d’Arte Venezia, 2019 (fino al 24 Novembre, 2019)

Romanticismo, bellezza, silenzi e bonta’ gastronomiche, e un eccessivo turismo inclusivo di enormi diaboliche navi da crociera, questa e’ Venezia. Quest’anno,’ tra maggio e novembre, e’ possibile perdersi per i vicoli stretti della romantica citta’, ma anche ammirare le opere di alcuni dei maggiori maestri dell’arte contemporanea con l’Arte Povera […]

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental

films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

www.wildside-media.com Laurence@wildside-media.com (917) 213 1917

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Harbingers and Oracles

Our earth is mortal. Like any child, she was born, and like any living being she will die. Her life will have been made of trillions of moments, and within each moment will live an infinite microcosm of tinier moments. The emergence of the Hawaiian islands from the violence of […]

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Remembering Steve Dalachinsky (1946-2019)

Who was Steve Dalachinsky? I met Steve Dalachinsky in 1974, when he was selling books and records on Spring Street in SoHo. From him I bought rare books by underground poets and collagists, and later his own limited-edition books. He was a post-beat poet, a friend of Ted Joans, Ira […]

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Valery Oisteanu is a writer and artist with international appeal. He has 10
books of poetry in English, 3 in Romanian, a book of short fiction “The
King of Penguins” & a book of visual poetry collages “Lighter Than Air”
Oisteanu is a recipient of Aker Award (2013) for avant-garde poetry
performances “Jazzoetry”.

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Making Art Fun Again!

“Mystery and intrigue have long surrounded the Triangle Building, but the truly fantastical stories pre-date the building by thousands of years to the time of the ancient Aurora-Rhomans. Joshua Goode is currently excavating the ruins of a pre-historic zoo deep below the foundations of the Triangle Building that held creatures […]

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Let’s Play Tag!

With the season heating up, let’s show the social networks what REALLY going down in NYC. How? See are you like in a gallery show, museum, open studio or public space? Post it on Instagram (and share out from there if you wish) and tag us — #Art511mag and also […]

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Art Biennale Venice, 2019 (till November 24, 2019)

Art Biennale Venice, 2019 (till November 24, 2019) Romanticism, beauty, silences and gastronomic goodness, and an excessive tourism inclusive of enormous diabolical cruise ships and many a private dinner cruise in Cancun, this is Venice. This year, between May and November, it is possible to get lost in the narrow […]

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental

films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

www.wildside-media.com Laurence@wildside-media.com (917) 213 1917

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Pistoletto: la celebrazione dell’arte e della natura

Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933) nel 1968 aveva annunciato il suo inno alla natura in una performance. Oggi, il 7 Maggio, in occasione della  Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, trepidanti intrepidi spettatori, quasi in punta di piedi hanno raggiunto la cima di un ponte per rivivere con gioia quel saluto, oggi tristemente attuale. […]

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental

films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

www.wildside-media.com Laurence@wildside-media.com (917) 213 1917

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Signs of the Times We Live In…

“We all need to find ways to cope with the daily assault of the Trump regime. I am fortunate that I have not been gripped by the sort of despair that I’ve seen others succumb to. Making the signs, and using them in street actions of various sorts has done […]

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Pistoletto: Celebration of art and nature, Art Biennale Venice 2019

Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933) in 1968 had announced his hymn to nature in a performance. Today May 7, in occasion of the Venice Art Biennale, anxious intrepid spectators, almost on tiptoe, have reached the top of a bridge to relive with joy that greeting, today sadly current. He is the genius […]

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental

films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

www.wildside-media.com Laurence@wildside-media.com (917) 213 1917

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Thank you, Richard Timperio

In 2015 I was living the writer’s nightmare, a piece about  NYC real estate and art promised to this publication, deadline looming, and 3 dropout interviewees.  I was strolling with a friend in Williamsburg, quite late one evening, and there was Rich on Metropolitan Avenue. I realized I could morph […]

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Joy of Topping

Topping is a show that mixes queerness, humor and the magic of botany together. Both using terms such as topping to mean different things, the sexual or the basic idea of what’s on top! Going into the small room it feels larger than it actually is; you’re faced with Split, […]

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The Inequity of Wealth…

Editor’s Note: I published this nearly 2 years ago, but it is still something I think of whenever discussing Politics and Economics, because it is resonant with the truth, that we are all in this together and that, when asked on a personal basis, 80% of Americans would like to […]

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Linda DiGusta has been writing at the crossroads of visual art and culture/politics/social psychology since 2005. Gigs include HuffPo, Resolve40 and Cognoscenti, and 4 personal blogs. In addition to being a life coach, Linda has been deemed responsible for curatorial ventures in NYC and Miami, as well as the socially acceptable number of unproduced screenplays, and several works of short fiction published in print and online.

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ARTIST, ART & INSTAGRAM – 2 million followers!

A melon is the earth, high heels are escalators, an apple peel is a red carpet, croissants are clouds …. Miniature photographer Tatsuya Tanaka has been presenting new works on Instagram every day since 2011. He uses daily goods and diorama dolls for his works using a technique called “Mitate”. […]

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Saori is an art journalist based in New York and Tokyo, specializing in interviews with art fairs on the east coast of the USA, street Culture in Tokyo, US and Japanese galleries, and artists. Saori has been a staff writer for Fashion at the independent paper The Asahi Shimbun, The NY Times of Japan, for 23 years, covering fashion shows in Paris, Milan, London, and New York. Saori pioneered a bilingual magazine (in English and Japanese), a first in Japan. Currently, she is writing on cross-cultural themes.

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Zafos Xagogaris, Greek Pavillon, Biennale Venice

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental

films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

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Joan Jonas “Moving Off the Land II, at Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice, ArtBiennale2019

  A comment on Joan Jonas Performance, May 7, 2019 still standing in the courtyeard of Ocean Space  

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental

films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

www.wildside-media.com Laurence@wildside-media.com (917) 213 1917

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Venice Biennale 2019: Artists’ Diary – Claire Zakiewicz – Part 2 – Updated Daily

May 21 I work in my gallery today. It is late-May yet summer hasn’t arrived and I still need the heater at my feet – although mosquitoes are starting to emerge. Various people come inside, some of who ask questions and leave their names in the visitor’s book. Anita, the […]

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Claire Zakiewicz is a British multi-media artist working in New York and London. Recently named one of New York’s “Top Ten Artists Working Today” by Art511 magazine, Zakiewicz’s practice examines the physical and metaphorical relationships between sound and drawing. It is a scientific and philosophical practice-based enquiry - thinking through making. Her films have been shown at Alive In The Universe during the 2019 Venice Biennale as well as Tate Tanks and Tate Modern (London) in the exhibitions Tweet Me Up, 2012 and Label, 2012. Zakiewicz has exhibited regularly throughout the UK, USA, Italy and Norway and has produced and performed in numerous productions and international institutions including Resonance FM (UK); ARTI3160 (Venice, Italy); USF (Norway); Bill Young's Dance Studio (NYC); Mothership NYC; Last Frontier NYC and Itinerant Performance Arts Festival (NYC). https://www.instagram.com/clairezakiewicz/?hl=en

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Venice Biennale 2019: Artists’ Diary – Claire Zakiewicz – Part 1, Updated Daily

  The first time I went to Venice was for the contemporary art biennale in 2009. It felt like an overdose of culture and I wondered whether it would kill my love for art but after a short recovery an addition grew and I have been back to Venice more […]

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La tela di Lorenzo Marini, un’interpretazione sovversiva delle sue opere, scritta da Laurence Hoffmann

[English version below] Lorenzo Marini e’ un poeta antico che ti incanta con il sussurro soave della sua voce, con parole che evocano visioni docili e immagini che risvegliano dolci sentimenti. Lorenzo e’ artista e scrittore, ma anche pubblicitario. Usa i colori velati dal bianco, disegna griglie di architetture immaginifiche […]

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Laurence Hoffmann (Switzerland)

Laurence graduated in Analytical Philosophy with a PhD. in “Metaphor: A Ghost at the Edge of Language”, where she examined the parallels between games of words and the “The Empire of Lights” by Magritte.

With her Wildside Media, established to create and promote cutting-edge projects, she went on to produce international documentaries (notably “I Only Wanted To Live” an Italo-Swiss-USA production co-produced with Steven Spielberg) and to work extensively in short and long feature films and in cultural events.

In 2009 she moved to New York City. She has collaborated with film festivals and international film producers. She creates documentaries and experimental
films to be published on Wildside-Media.com and youtube.com. Some of her art work have been exhibited in NYC (WestBeth Gallery in 2012, Burger and Lobster group show on City Views and in 2018, Eminent Domain: Intersectional feminist Art Exhibition curated by Art511 Magazines at the Former Miller Gallery) and her more recent video will be screened during the Biennale in Venice (2019) at the Palazzo Papafava, curated by Alive in the Universe , UK.

In 2013 she started reporting on socio-cultural phenomena for the art magazine published on print by Scotto Mycklebust and since 2017 she is the contributing editor to Mycklebust’s online Art511 Magazine.

Website: http://wildside-media.com/

Email: laurence@wildside-media.com

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IMPRECISION: The Aesthetics of Failure examines the tensions between failure and perfection

ARTI3160 Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition IMPRECISION: The Aesthetics of Failure featuring new works by Claire Zakiewicz, with an opening reception and performances on May 11, 2019. IMPRECISION: The Aesthetics of Failure examines the tensions between failure and perfection: the techniques, limitations and the implications. “In my drawings, I’ve noticed that aiming for something ugly can produce […]

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Fu Wenjun Digital Pictorial Photography

Chinese artist Fu Wenjun premiers new work in a solo booth at this year’s Photography Show at Pier 94. In its 39th edition and the longest running institution of its kind, The Photography Show presented by AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) showcases work by lead contemporary artists represented […]

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Fu Wenjun has presented work at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Museu Europeu de Arte Moderno (Barcelona), The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangdong), Old Summer Palace Museum (Beijing), Today Art Museum (Beijing), United Nations Headquarters (New York), Guangdong Museum of Art (Guangzhou) and others. He has participated in a number of important international art exhibitions including the Esposizione Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, London Art Biennale, the Biennale Internazionale d’Arte del Mediterraneo, the Triennale dell’Arte Contemporanea, the 1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial, the XVIII Bienal de Cerveira, NordArt, and the collateral exhibition of Biennale di Venezia 2013. He has been honored with numerous awards, including the “The Best Artist in the World” at Tour Eiffel La Grande Exposition Universelle and the Global Art Award. Wenjun’s artworks are included in the permanent collection of the National Art Museum of China, Museu Europeu de Art Moderno, University Museum and Art Gallery The University of Hong Kong, Today Art Museum, the Old Summer Palace Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, University Museum and Art Gallery The University of Hong Kong, Kennedy Family, World
Council of Peoples for the United Nations, Dazu Grotto Museum, Chongqing Art Museum, Guangdong Museum of Art, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts of France and Egypt Ahmed Shawki Museum among others.

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Got a Geiger Counter?

Have any of you walked along the Highline in Chelsea? Most people answered, “Yes.” “Sure.” “Of course.” She asked if anyone knew about the warehouses nearby where the Manhattan Project stored uranium during the 40s. Everyone was silent. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, […]

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After all, is the gallery still necessary? Yes, because we love it!

Artists, gallerists, art fans—we all love galleries. The white wall is like a big canvas; it becomes the artist’s stage. In this way, the audience also becomes part of the art. But the eternal problem is that galleries carry an enormous cost. In New York City—the capital of art-meets-business—there are […]

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Conjuring the Sex Positive: WITCHES, SLUTS, FEMINISTS

Conjuring the Sex Positive: WITCHES, SLUTS, FEMINISTS by Kristen J. Sollee, with illustrations by Coz Conover, is a pristine work of critical theory spruced up with enough stylish words to keep the modern woman thirsty with curiosity and flushed with diabolical pride. Kristen Sollee, professor of Gender Studies at The […]

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Exploring Your Extraordinary, Elaborate, Ever-unfolding Miracle

Katie Cercone: Really excited about your upcoming Dream Tending workshop. I have heard that you can follow your initial impulse when it comes to interpreting a dream, although I also believe our dreams dredge up unconscious shadow work we don’t want to look at. In that sense, our ego could […]

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Intentional Creativity Lineage Meets Be the Light

By Jan Sara Jorgensen RN, MA, CMP “There is a red thread that connects all those who shall eventually meet…”  is the wonderful message of the Red Thread community, a loose collective of women bound together through Intentional Creativity, anchored in the pioneering work of West Coast artist Shiloh Sophia […]

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Jan Sara Jorgensen, RN, MA, is a Certified Music Practitioner and Minister. “Healing from the Heart of God through Sound, Science and Spirit,” she is a Messenger and Visionary for the New Paradigm, a Vibrational Field and Healing Specialist Educator, a Speaker on Women’s Media TV and Radio, a Divine Feminine Leader, Author, Recording Artist, and Workshop Leader. Jan Moves Energy and teaches you how to “run” yours. And it’s time to “lighten up.” Let's run Joy into our life practice and release the vibrations and energies of sadness, anger and confusion. In 2018, she added “Intentional Creativity” Painting to her toolkit for Women’s Workshops. She is a Singer Sound Specialist and a multi-faceted Leader in the expanding field of Vibration and Quantum Energy Transformation. As a “Messenger” of these new principles, her gift is to make the esoteric simple and fun, and empower Community Leaders to employ these tools in powerful Circles for Change. She initiates Creative applications for Healing and Aligning Individuals in Health, Entertainment, Education and Women’s Leadership. Jan is an Author, Recording artist, Professional Singer, Profound intuitive healer and recognized Visionary who is focused on one thing…supporting the transformation of Earth and her people to a higher path. Like a Flower of Life Geometry, we are creating Circles of Light with our Tribes to light up our communities! Her Women’s Leadership project is called “SOAR.”

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American-Pakistani Artist Qinza Najm Challenges Islamophobia in the West & Smashes Sex Taboos Back Home

Late August, following her impressive #NoHonorKilling performance during Art 511’s flash feminist art exhibition EMINENT DOMAIN, I visited multidisciplinary Pakistani artist Qinza Najm at her studio in Hell’s Kitchen to explore some of the deeper messages in her work. Gender, sexuality and (em)powerment orient her practice, which these days takes […]

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Hospitality & Art is Booming in NYC

Top-notch art events are being held in some of New York City’s most sophisticated hotels. Perhaps, hotels are responding to a host of cultivated New Yorkers with a desire to be surrounded by cutting-edge contemporary art. For artists, it presents a valuable opportunity for exposure — if they are willing […]

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Pablo Melchor and “Fuzzy Puzzle”: A Profile

Paris born, Manchester bred artist Pablo Melchor’s projection piece, “Fuzzy Puzzle”, marks the NYC closing ceremony of Manchester-based collective Alexandra Art’s third year of the Pankhurst in the Park Festival. It illuminated the walls of the Mothership in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint on September 21st.  Melchor describes “Fuzzy Puzzle” as “a prism […]

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In Conversation With Helen Wewiora

Helen Wewiora became the Director of the Castlefield Gallery in central Manchester at the end of 2016. Here she speaks to Amy Clancy about Manchester’s place in the art world, addressing challenges and a new artistic exchange program. Q. You were born in Manchester and are now at the helm […]

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Alien Armageddon, Empathy & The Vine of the Soul: A conversation with Melanie Bonajo

KC: In your new film Progress vs. Sunsets (2017), you use the voice of children, the next generation, to center some profoundly fresh insights about animal rights, bio-politics, dwindling global resources, ecology, anthropomorphism, and the general welfare of our planet. How did come to work with youth in this way? […]

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Spiraling Smoke

SOL KJØK I met SOL KJØK in May 2017 at her loft in Brooklyn when I became one of her artists in residence. Her studio is the size of two tennis courts, and you can see both the Empire State and Chrysler buildings through a pair of factory windows. Acrobatic […]

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IN DEFENSE OF THE LINGA

By KATIE CERCONE “The Last Taboo Is the Penis,” white male dealer John Cheim, one half of Cheim & Read, announced to the art world in 2016 when he organized the group exhibition “The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Looking at Men,” which boasted works by some of the art world’s […]

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From Manchester to NYC: Pankhurst in the Park Salon

The final installment of Alexandra Arts Pankhurst in the Park was a salon-style gathering for artists and art appreciators held at the Last Frontier in Greenpoint. A space stewarded by the Norwegian artist Sol Kjok, Last Frontier is a rustic open space with high ceilings, fixtures for hanging massive works […]

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We Carry Our Mother’s Pain

by KATIE CERCONE “We Carry Our Mother’s Pain” was the comment that lingered in my mind for some time after meeting Rebecca Goyette recently and taking a walk together through Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at MOMA. In my last studio visit with Rebecca in Bushwick, the artist had shown […]

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The Merry Wagtail Jades, The Breeches They Do Carry: Impudent women and cuckold’s horns.

The title of the work I exhibited at Eminent Domain derives from the broadside ballad ‘A new summons to all the merry wagtail jades that attend at horn fair.’ Printed and sold by J. Pitts in England in 1802 and 1819, it reads: “Come all you wagtail jades, Who love […]

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Feminism is For EVERYONE

It was a languorous mid-summer night in NYC – the streets lulled, people sparse and unhurried – but you wouldn’t know that if you happened upon West 26th St. in West Chelsea on Thursday, July 12. Droves of people from every cross-section of life were crowding the outside of the […]

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EMINENT DOMAIN Opens Thursday

ART511MAG PRESENTS: EMINENT DOMAIN EXHIBITION – A DYNAMIC, INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST ART EXHIBITION IN THE HEART OF THE WEST CHELSEA GALLERY DISTRICT curated by Katie Cercone. In response to the International Women’s Movement that has captivated the Worldwide Collective Conscious and Unconsciousness of so many people, ART511 Magazine has acted and […]

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The Sick Role

Samantha Conlon’s The Sick Role, 2018, is part documentation and part ritualistic photography accompanied with text composing a contemporary portrait of the mundane reality of mental illness. From a new body of work developed in Kuvataideakatemie, Helsinki, The Sick Role interrogates the experience of physical and mental illness in female […]

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Joe Overstreet: Innovation of Flight

Joe Overstreet’s spectacular flock of paintings from the early ‘70s presented at Eric Firestone Gallery masterfully deploy modern painting principles as flight instruction laden with social meaning. The physical feat of flying starts with moving forward. The exhibition’s multi-dimensional selection of works begins chronologically with “North Star” (1968), whose title […]

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Anne Sherwood Pundyk is a painter and writer whose work also manifests in performance, dance, and video. She is based in New York City and Mattituck, on the North Fork of Long Island. Her work will be featured this September in Worlds Within Worlds, a two-person installation of video and painting with Bridget Elkin at the Borghese Gallery, Cutchogue, NY. Pundyk has exhibited and performed in many commercial galleries and at MoMA PS1, Guild Hall Museum, Fordham University, The University of Bridgeport, LIU Brooklyn, University of Virginia, Art Miami, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. She co-edited with artist Bianca Casady, the feminist magazine Girls Against God and is a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Hysteria, artcritical, Art21 Magazine among other periodicals and artist magazines. She is currently working on a collection of fictional fables called Tales to accompany a selection of her abstract paintings.

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Turning Around and Speaking Back

The overarching theme of this year’s Wonder Women radical feminist festival in Manchester has to do with women’s representation and influence in our political and cultural institutions, responding to the centenary of the Representation of the People Act. 1918 was the first time that any women were able to vote […]

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The Ritualistic Healing of the Suffragettes

The suffragettes’ militant activities were shocking for their time. June Purvis describes them as ‘transgressing the gender expectations of Edwardian society’; they unconsciously drew on a history of riotous actions and ritual behaviour that Julius R. Ruff portrays as ‘almost instinctual conduct’. Their rebellious behaviour can be read in the context of both early modern riot and festive […]

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Anna FC Smith is a Wigan (UK) based multimedia artist. She studied Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2007, and has exhibited internationally. Smith has a longstanding obsession with the overlooked in history, folk culture and communal traditions. As a practitioner, she locates herself between artist, historian and anthropologist, with historical and anthropological research forming the basis of much of her work. Through her practice, Smith celebrates ‘low culture’ relating with concepts of the carnivalesque, bawdiness, irreverence and ambivalence. She explores the role of history and the archive, and the links contemporary society has with its predecessors. '[T]he rituals of modern mass culture have created a shifting and transient sense of the sacred, now invested in the political ideology of the moment, romantic love of nature, charismatic leaders, jingoistic nationalism, idealized domesticity, or endless cults, fads, ephemera. If societies demand rituals, then changing societies will produce changing rituals'.

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OPEN CALL FOR INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST ART EXHIBITION- July 12-14, 2018 in West Chelsea Gallery Distract

EMINENT DOMAIN: A Flash Art Exhibition in the former Robert Miller space in West Chelsea is a curated selection of radical feminist art by female artists, eco-femmes, ghetto brujas, elders, queer/trans artists and other magical gender nomads reclaiming their rightful space in the Art World. We can unpack Feminism here […]

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Women Hold Up Half the Sky: A Look at British Artist Ekua Bayunu

Ekua Bayunu just finished mounting her first solo exhibition at Manchester’s Chuck Gallery. Aptly titled Re:Birth, her show centers around a body of sculptural work reflecting women’s power and draws on aesthetic motifs of her African cultural heritage. After receiving a few rave reviews of her show, she was selected […]

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Sacred Sadism, Gaia’s Cord & The New Matriarchy

by KATIE CERCONE Recently hailed with her partner Themba Alleyne “the first eco-fetishists” by i-d Magazine with the release of their new sex-toy line Sacred Sadism, Genevieve Belleveau is an artist you should know. Her recent body of work traverses the territory of eco-sexuality, bridging new age/ecofeminist discourse and sensibilities with […]

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WHERE THA EARTH DAWG$ AT?

Art 511 is pleased to host the exclusive premier of Where Tha Earth Dawgs At? by ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS, a new Urban Mystery Skool on Manhattan’s lower east side creative-directed by UNDAKOVA & High Prieztezz Or Nah. The video is a collaboration with Kelly Shaw Willman, a performance artist, priestess and […]

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A Look at LA’s Art Fair – ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY

The casual and discreet ALAC (Art Los Angeles Contemporary), an art fair I had never heard of (but have now experienced over the weekend as eager observer and art enthusiast), contained hidden gems of masterly painted and strangely fabricated art objects. Caramelized sugar, cross-sections of animal bones, and virtual reality […]

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American Innocence

by Saori Takeda Work by Native Americans dating from the late 19th to early 20th century comprise scenes of ceremonial life and courtship. A record of life drawn out in notebooks – currently on view at Donald Ellis Gallery in New York City. “Outsider Art Fair,” featuring works of artists without any specialized formal art education, took […]

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Saori is an art journalist based in New York and Tokyo, specializing in interviews with art fairs on the east coast of the USA, street Culture in Tokyo, US and Japanese galleries, and artists. Saori has been a staff writer for Fashion at the independent paper The Asahi Shimbun, The NY Times of Japan, for 23 years, covering fashion shows in Paris, Milan, London, and New York. Saori pioneered a bilingual magazine (in English and Japanese), a first in Japan. Currently, she is writing novels and essays with feminist themes.

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Remembering Toyo Tsuchiya

On November 23rd, 2017 artist and photographer Toyo Tsuchiya prematurely passed away in his Lower East Side apartment. He was 69. A sensitive and curious observer of life, Tsuchiya definitely shaped New York’s art world as a devout and poetic chronicler of an underground art scene of which he was […]

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You’re Kitsch but You’re Beautiful

“The walls were covered with a pink-flowered Lucca damask, patterned with birds and dotted with dainty blossoms of silver…” (Oscar Wilde, “The Birthday of the Infanta,” The House of Pomegranates) After throttling myself through the Miami Beach Convention Center, I entered NADA at the inappropriate speed of 1,000 mph, stinking […]

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L.A. Marler “Keywords,” an exhibition at DNJ Gallery

Last year, a Lyft driver told me “Los Angeles will always be an entertainment city first, and an art city second,” describing his experience as a gallery assistant in the City of Angels. Hollywood, television, and the market for entertainment should be taken into consideration for artists based in L.A., […]

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ADEHLA LEE: Post-Medium with Grandmother’s Dark Chi

Born in South Korea, Adehla excelled in art longer than she can remember. Her parents encouraged her up until a point, but as she came of age, she was strongly encouraged to find a “decent” job. After attending art school, Adehla went on to earn a degree in Art Therapy […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah

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ART511 Magazine Launched With A Party New York City Won’t Easily Forget

ART511 Magazine debuted with a massive, multi-faceted launch party in the former Robert Miller Gallery September 19th in the West Chelsea Arts District. The blank-walled, high-ceilinged space – which once handled the estate of artist Lee Krasner – was brought to life with a visually stunning, aurally pleasing, enlightening array […]

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TRUE NATURE, OR NAH?

True Nature Experience was a sacred arts festival on Why Nam Beach, Koh Phangan October 8-11th bringing together a milieu of globally renowned healers, artists, musicians, shamans and activists from Bali, Phangan’s Tri Bay Area and beyond. Produced by Dragana Nozica and Francie Fishman, two of the area’s beloved leaders, […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah

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Toxicity through Proximity: The Wonderful Filth of a Queer Group Show

“The New Museum presents “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” a major exhibition investigating gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in […]

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Sotheby’s Rocks Monday!

The Upper East Side’s premiere auction house put on quite an opening night extravaganza on September 25th… including performances! The evening’s focused highlight was an exhibition of the works of California Sculptor Robert Graham, new to me and totally intriguing. Then to the collection of iconic American playwright Edward Albee, […]

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The Importance of Digital Detox

Although the science of how digital technology impacts human behavior is in its nascent stages, what research there is consistently churns out new statistics indicating technology has unforeseen and underestimated negative impacts on our lives. A summary of the most recent scientific evidence includes: 61% of people admit to being […]

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10 Organizations Helping Artists Build Community

  BEAT Global www.beatglobal.org BEAT Global bridges the gap between arts and education by engaging and inspiring youth to create a culture of respect, collaboration, and freedom of expression. BEAT Global offers young people a platform to discover and express themselves without fear of judgment. Through a “cypher” based pedagogy, […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah

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GLORIFIED DEFORMITY: REI KAWAKUBO’S ART OF THE IN-BETWEEN

Visitors walk into a stark white labyrinth. Niches are seamlessly carved from the sweeping arch of towering forms, platforms elevated high above, and others seem to float in an endless expanse. This brightly lit edifice is the stage for Rei Kawakubo’s “The Art of The In-Between”, at The Metropolitan Museum […]

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A PUBLIC CERVIX ANNOUNCEMENT TO YUNG QUEERS:

We hereby apologize, on behalf of the collective formerly known as Go! Push Pops, for what we now recognize as an utter failure to live up to our own intersectional politics (as a queer, radical, transnational feminist collective) amounting to what could hardly be described as a “career.” At best […]

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Go! Push Pops are a queer, transnational, radical feminist collective under the direction of Elisa Garcia de la Huerta (b. 1983 Santiago, Chile) and Katie Cercone (b. 1984 Santa Rosa, CA). The Push Pops formed in 2010 at the School of Visual Art. The Push Pops have shown their interactive multi-media sculptures and performances in free public art festivals and Fine Art galleries throughout the greater metropolitan area including at The Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Bronx Museum, Czech Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, C24 Gallery, Momenta Art, Apexart, White Box and Grace Exhibition Space. Their work has been featured in Interview, MILK, DAZED, ART 21, Paper, Huffington Post, Japan Times, ArtFagCity, Posture, Slutist, QUARTZ, Brooklyn Paper, Revolt Magazine, BOMBLog, ARTNet TV, N.Paradoxa, Bronx Net TV and Catchfire Berlin. Go! Push Pops was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice in 2014.

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EAT BLOODY PUSSY

EAT BLOODY PUSSY, created and directed by Fitch Ball in character as “Blood Pussy,” is a queer feminist art project and zine with a live showcase that happened Saturday July 29, 2017 at Studio X in Bushwick. The evening length show featured juicy live performances and work in a variety […]

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The Modernity of the Whitney

The art world is vibrant. New artists rise to fame, already famous artists achieve record sales. Artworks find new owners, and sometimes disappear from the public view until the next auction. Museums invent ever-new occasions to show their collections or works from around the world, and occasionally offer studio-like opportunities […]

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WHY I HAD TO TAKE A SHIT ON PIPILOTTI RIST’S PIXEL FORREST

No offence to Ms. Rist, her recent 30-year survey at the New Museum Pixel Forrest is highly deserving of all the praise and accolades. Amidst the post-election mayhem, nearly every artist I know made a pilgrimage to see the show. It was like that song you knew because it rang […]

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Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life

by Laurence Hoffmann Le Conversazioni, a public conversation between visual artist Francesco Clemente and writer Jay McInerney with moderator Antonio Monda was an intimate affair for many reasons. Antonio Monda’s exquisite introduction honored the recent passing of Jonathan Demme.  An excerpt from Philadelphia (1993) shows Tom Hanks, in the final stages of […]

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Interview with Whitney Director Adam Weinberg

Interview by Katie Cercone with additional questions from Linda DiGusta, Laurence Hoffmann, Scotto Mycklebust & Randee Silv KC: You are considered an innovator in terms of your contributions to the field of museum education, what do you have planned for the new Whitney? AW: First of all we have very […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah

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Shimmering Sound of Silence

Shimmering Sound of Silence Lotte Karlsen’s NYC Solo Exhibition Thursday September 8 – 24th at Studio 511 West Chelsea Arts Building, 526 West 26th St. New York, NY by Katie Cercone This month at Studio 511, the small project space opened its doors for Norwegian artist Lotte Karlsen’s site specific […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah and learn more at KatieCercon.com

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How Many Zines Can You Make About the Artistic Uses of Period Blood & Underarm Hair?

Interview by Katie Cercone   Nestled inside the pastel green Mermaid Laundromat at the corner of Maria Hernandez Park is the TROLL HOLE, Bushwick’s pro-intersectional, queer, sex-positive zine shop and activist space. A “REFUGESS WELCOME” sign peeps out above the vinyl TROLL HOLE signage to bustling Knickerbocker avenue. An intimate […]

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Katie Cercone is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, yogi and spiritual leader. Cercone has been included in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Whitney Museum, Dallas Contemporary and C24 Gallery. She has published critical writing in ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, REVOLT, Utne Reader and N.Paradoxa. She is co-leader of the queer, transnational feminist collective Go! Push Pops and creative director of ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS Urban Mystery Skool. Cercone was a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo. Follow her on instagram @0r__Nah and learn more at KatieCercon.com

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Bedford Babylon

Remember those late-night pizza parties at Emilio’s in the Village? The East Village gallery scene? Concerts at the Academy of Music? New Yorkers love to talk about the good/bad old days and bemoan the fate of their neighborhoods, their unique residents and local businesses. Lovers of SoHo’s late art scene […]

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UNIVERSE. NATURALLY. DELIVERS. The Ecstatic Birth of Kali Xion

When you and your Kings pull up on Bellevue Hospital and give natural, ecstatic birth, you know you is a Spiritual Gangsta for real. Sometime around when I started channeling ancient fertility cults and chanting the Adhi Shakti mantra for primal power I met a very big man named UNIVERSE. […]

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Emotional Endurance

Picture a four-burner stove. Each of the four spots represent a different aspect of your life: work, relationships, health and family. It’s said that in order to achieve success, one burner needs to be switched off. In order to be really successful, you need to turn off two. So does that mean that […]

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Startling Unexpectedness is Inherent in all Beginnings

On Bunny Collective’s What We Are Doing In the prologue of The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt boldly states: What I propose in the following is a reconsideration of the human condition from the vantage point of our newest experiences and our most recent fears…What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is […]

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Eleven Subway Stops

Why am I still thinking about that incident with the loft & the dead cats? Or all the hateful names he called me before he started laughing? Or her request for that found footage to go viral? Or the theater piece about body as vapor and life w/o scotch tape? […]

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Facing Goliath

After a year without television, by intent, I now have access to a hefty dose of channels. For better or worse, in today’s media environment, we have access to a cultural time machine. We are able to tune in, to use an old construct, to content from virtually any part of […]

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Take Away

Today activists are asking “Where’s the outrage?” Jake and Lil thought things were breaking bad in the 1980s, but now, on every front, economic, environmental, women’s rights, racism, surveillance, you name it, we’re worse off than we were thirty years ago. Where’s the outrage? We know where it is. It’s […]

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