Edges of Ailey, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is an exhibition that investigates, reveals, and honors the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey. Ailey was born in Rogers, Texas in 1931 and suffered the harsh realities of the south, before relocating with his mother to Los Angeles, California in 1942.
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When gallerist Guy Lyman answered the phone for our Art & Object interview, he had just driven ten hours from his gallery in New Orleans to his daughter’s home in Texas to escape the potential consequences of Category 2 hurricane Francine as it was making landfall in Louisiana.
To say Olafur Eliasson is a light and space artist is to reduce him to the fundamental elements of his practice.
Movement-based sculptor Brie Ruais– whose work was featured in Phaidon’s 2017 global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic– currently has a solo show in New York City.
The distinct accent acquired during an untraditional childhood raised on a hippie commune in the Australian outback can still be heard in the voice of gallerist Om Bleicher, who now divides his time between his native Brisbane and bG Gallery, the art emporium he founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, California.
Ballet played a formative role in the life of gallerist Susan Eisner Eley. In an interview with Art & Object, Eley explained, “I danced through my entire childhood. I danced through school. But when I majored in Art History at Brown University, it was a discovery. I knew this was it!”
One of the art world’s rising stars, Paris and NYC-based French painter Alexandre Lenoir (1992) captivates audiences with his otherworldly, mysterious creations of paint and masking tape.
Miami, Florida— once only thought of as a source of sun, sand, and sea offering winter refuge from cultural centers in the northern cities of New York, Boston, or Chicago— has become one of the fastest growing art markets in the country.
A celebrated Pop artist in the 1950s and '60s, Marisol faded from the limelight in the 1970s and '80s as her style changed and the art world embraced new movements. When she passed away in 2016 at age 85, she left her estate, including artworks, photographs, library papers, and even her New York City apartment to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Museum), which was the earliest museum to acquire her work in 1962.
San Francisco-based artist Chelsea Ryoko Wong and her multi-colored paintings might mark the close of Jessica Silverman’s summer season, but their figurations are a timeless reminder of what it feels like to remain in a “summer state of mind.”
