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Airan Kang, The Luminous Poem at Bryce Wolkowitz

Asian Wall Scrolls
All Photos By Gail

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is currently hosting The Luminous Poem, a new body of work by Korean artist Airan Kang. If you’ve seen Kang’s work before (she’s previously shown at the Wolkowitz Gallery), then you know that she makes these fantastic illuminated sculptures of books.

Luminous Poem Book Shelf

This show has lots of her illuminated books (and it seems also what look like VHS Cassette Boxes – nostalgia!), but it also explores other printed mediums, such as scrolls and room-sized projections. My favorite part of the exhibit was a small room where shelves of softly glowing books lined the walls.

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Yayoi Kusama’s Give Me Love at David Zwirner

Obliteration Room
Obliteration Room By Yayoi Kusama (All Photos By Gail)

David Zwirner’s 19th Street space is currently hosting Give Me Love, the New York gallery’s second exhibition with our favorite living artist, 86-year-old Yayoi Kusama. On view are new paintings from the celebrated My Eternal Soul series, new polka-dotted pumpkin sculptures, and the artist’s seminal installation The Obliteration Room from 2002. Whether you are a long-time Kusama fan, or even if you are new to her work, Give Me Love is a Must See Exhibit!

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Paula Hayes Gazing Globes in Madison Square Park

Gazing Globes
All Photos By Gail

Discovering cool public art in NYC is part of what makes being an art lover in this city so rewarding. Even though they have been up since February 19th, I just read about Paula Hayes’ Gazing Globes installation in Madison Square Park last week, and with less than a month left to check it out, I felt encouraged by the promise of less frigid weather to head over there this past weekend.

Gazing Globe
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1,305 Millas / 1,305 Miles, Part 1: Atemporal at Magnan Metz Gallery

Gallery View
All Photos by Gail

I wonder if Magnan Metz Gallery appreciates how much they benefit from people who just happen to walk by and are drawn into the gallery because of what they can see from the sidewalk through its huge picture window that looks out on to 26th Street. I think that the past three times I’ve written about one of their exhibits (this one included) it’s been because something cool caught my eye from the street and I went inside to check it out.

José Angél Vincench Cambio
Cambio by José Angél Vincench

1,305 Millas: Atemporal / 1,305 Miles, Part 1: Atemporal is a group show of work by Hispanic/Latin artists, curated by Solveig Font includes contributions by Alexandre Arrechea, Roberto Diago, Glenda León, Carlos Quintana, Julio Cesar Llópiz, Adrian Fernandez, Adriana Arronte, Jose Angel Vincench, and Reynier Leyva Novo. The pieces range from sculpture to installation, paintings and prints and it is quite diverse.

Adriana Arronte
Adriana Arronte’s Historia (Intervención Sobre Platos Antiguos)/ History (Intervention on Ancient Dishes)

Lotus Dish
Detail from the Above

I couldn’t find any information or press release about this show on the gallery’s website, but there is some interesting stuff to see. It’s worth checking out if you are already on an art crawl in the area.

Here are a few more things we liked:

Works By Reynier Leyva Novo
Paintings By Reynier Leyva Novo

Document for print (ARTnews)
Julio Cesar Llópiz, Document for Print (ARTnews)

Alexandre Arrechea Dancing Moscow
Alexandre Arrechea, Dancing Moscow

1,305 Millas / 1,305 Miles, Part 1: Atemporal will be on Exhibit Through April 25th, 2015, at Magnan Metz Gallery, Located at 521 West 26th Street, in the Chelsea Gallery District.

Velvet Chair and Dancing Videos

Velvet Chair and Dancing Videos
All Photos By Gail

The antique velvet chair seen above is part of the exhibit Maira Kalman Selects, on now at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Embedded in the seat back of the chair is a small tablet screen which shows videos of dancing ballerinas. Thus the work’s title, Velvet Chair and Dancing Videos. Clever.
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