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Andi LaVine Arnovitz (b. 1959) transformed her wedding dress, handmade by her grandmother, into the sculpture What We Bring (2023). Thousands of laser-cut women’s names – all 2,611 entries found on the Jewish women’s archive website at the time of making – fill the space that the artist’s body once occupied and spill out to form a teeming train.
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Just in time for peak summer vibes, Union Square has a new landmark that’s equal parts art and affirmation. Love Continuum (2024), a bold and brilliant public sculpture by London-based artist Yoni Alter, is currently turning heads — and perspectives — on University Place between 13th and 14th Streets.
Continue reading Love is All Around: Yoni Alter’s Love Continuum in Union Square
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The phrase immortalized on this canvases, Wen Out For Cigrets (1985), refers to an American cultural trope in which a father leaves the house to buy cigarettes and never returns, abandoning his family.
Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Ed Ruscha, Wen Out For Cigrets
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Paying attention all the time is an interesting way to go through the day. When you’re a tourist, however — in my case, traveling in London — it pays off, because you can spot all the hidden weird things that residents never notice.
Continue reading Made You Look By Banksy
The Winner of Pinkest Booth at the Fair is London’s C. Thomas Projects for Ideel Art (All Photos By Gail)
If I am ever asked to name my three favorite pastimes (which really is not often) I will respond as follows:
I like to Eat
I like to Look at Art
and
I like to Watch TV
You can see that my love of Art is way up there, ranking just behind my love of sustenance, TV and also (not mentioned previously) sleeping. Art Fairs are a terrific way to get a huge and diverse art fix in one place and my favorite is the twice-annual Affordable Art Fair (AAF), which I have been highlighting and photo-recapping since 2015! I can’t believe how much I rule.
Continue reading Favorite Art From The Affordable Art Fair, Fall 2022!