This week, my guest blogger is Judith Weber, a ceramic artist and President of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. In 1983, Weber co-founded Media Loft, the first Loft established for artists in Westchester County. At my request, Judith reviewed the eARTh exhibition on view at ArtsWestchester’s Peckham Gallery through November 23. Sixty-eight ceramic […]
I admit it. I am addicted to tag sales. In my rational moments, I sometimes ask myself, “What is it about other people’s junk that I find so alluring?” I have long ago given up the hope of finding an original Currier and Ives print in someone’s attic. Yet I still can’t pass up a sale that […]
How is an artist like a salmon? Well, they are both used to swimming upstream. Artists work hard to get their work out there, building a following and an impressive resume so that people get comfortable with their track record. Perhaps the public’s theory is that if an artist is “known,” he/she must be good. […]
An extraordinary thing happened in the 1980s. It seemed to come out of the blue. The East Village gave birth to a rash of galleries in every imaginable nook and cranny…storefronts, apartments, even abandoned buildings. That period in the annals of art history is explored in a new exhibition “Circa 1986” at the Hudson Valley […]
Ariel Plantz thinks of herself as a “community artist”…a creative brand I hadn’t heard of before. A community artist is different than, say, a community organizer. We all know he became President. A community artist, if he or she is lucky, may land an exhibition at a museum or alternatively get another gig and then […]
The word “earth” has (ART) within it. I didn’t think about that too deeply when we planned an exhibition called “eARTh” opening on October 5th in our White Plains building. Credit for that title goes to Leigh Taylor Mickelson, the curator, who selected the earth works of 68 artists in the region. She is the […]
There are very few things for which I will stand in line…not a movie…not a restaurant…not even an ice cream. Yet, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced extended hours for the last few days of the Alexander McQueen exhibition, I joined hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists on a seemingly never-ending line. Thinking back, […]
Is there any person in the New York metropolitan region who at one time or another has not recoiled from stepping on a used piece of chewing gum? Or worse, found a piece stuck on the bottom of a desk or table? Ugh. Though slightly gross, very annoying and morally disrespectful, it’s a part of […]
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