Category: The Arts

Commuting between Hawaii and New York, Debra Drexler thrives on living at the edge of two oceans. Hawaii has a unique form of tropical light diffused through blazing skies, resplendent with colors so intense that they can seem almost synthetic. New York has its own urban pulse with twenty-four seven illumination, flashing the frenetic energy…

A series of works by the renowned hyper-realist sculptor, Carole Feuerman, is now on display at a new event space located in the lobby of 55 Broadway (at the corner of Exchange Alley). The show, called “Perception,” features a series of life-sized (and disconcertingly lifelike) female figures, clad in bathing suits and positioned in swimming…

The George Gustav Heye Center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (located at One Bowling Green) will host “Native Fashion Now,” the first large-scale traveling exhibition of contemporary Native American fashion opening today, Friday February 17 The show celebrates indigenous designers from across the United States and Canada, from the 1950s to…

Konstantin Bokov has demonstrated an unusual and peculiar insight into the mixed-up, contradictory world we live in right now, even though many of the works in this exhibit were created more than a decade ago. Growing up in USSR-dominated Ukraine, and unable to show his art in that political climate, he sought the freedom associated…

The South Street Seaport Museum launched a new exhibition, The Original Gus Wagner: The Maritime Roots of Modern Tattoo, on January 29th. The exhibition explores the life and work of Augustus “Gus” Wagner, who almost singlehandedly invented the art, while traveling the world as a merchant mariner from 1898-1902. Upon his return to the United…