Freshly surfacing from delayed trains, school closings, and work hiccups this past week, New Yorkers struggled to stay warm and to secure adequate groceries amid the interminable subzero temperatures. Such constraints compelled creatives, celebrities, and art enthusiasts to show up in maximal self-expression to the Whitney Museum of Art’s infamous Art Party this past frigid […]
I learned a few things by attending the Collaborative Art Fair at 80 Wooster in SoHo last Thursday. First: I’m seemingly drawn to organic creations made of resin, and second: Resin evokes organic imagery for a reason. Drawn immediately to Maria M. Mohiuddun fractal-like evocations— flowers, concentric petals and shapes—made from what appeared to be waxed […]
Questioning the functionality of the Visual, Written and Classic Arts has become an epidemic, via the advent of the portable web and iphone. Who has time to paint when filters and image reconstruction apps exist? Why carry heavy books around–with the inventions of Audible, Kindle and Utube–only to strain the eyes? Who attends plays, operas or […]
