Museum memberships are incredibly gratifying in whichever tier one participates, not simply for the euphoria of charity, but because it creates a self-selecting community for the philanthropically inclined and intellectually hungry. Also, it reveals avenues of access to something as [...]

For its benefit this year, the nonprofit arts organization BOFFO is presenting its supporters with a menu of charitable ways to indulge one’s vanity. The event, winsomely called the Narcissists Ball, includes an auction that features 40 contemporary artists working [...]

Name: Serena Qiu Occupation: Art Writer Where you were born: Beijing Where you live now: Brooklyn What are you currently working on? My fifth attempt to finish War and Peace, and cooking presentably. What does good energy mean to you? [...]

In the commotion that has been dubbed Armory Week, we hope you got to see Volta, one of the younger and more experimental of the art fair-siblings. Volta NY this year was the fair’s fifth edition (a companion to the [...]

The whirlwind of the Armory show is over. Here is a list of 5 of our favorites, whether you want to compare notes, or you didn’t get a chance to see it all for yourself.   1. Paintings, Julia Dault: [...]

The long-overdue monograph on the influential milliner Philip Treacy arrived as a delicate and quiet volume that sneaks beneath the glossy and immobile surfaces of high fashion to animate a man and his hats. Treacy—who supplies hats to a glittering [...]

A survey book of contemporary fashion faces the hard task of convincing its reader not only of its authority and soundness in judgment, but also of its enduring relevance in an industry that is defined by flux. Phaidon, now known [...]

Jacob Tobia has an unapologetic (and frankly, unforgettable) stride, and a physical build to suggest an aptitude for running competitively. Last December, he employed both in an inspired fundraiser for the Sandy-devastated Ali Forney Center, a shelter for homeless LGBT [...]

French-born Anne-Lise Coste is a painterly poet and poetic painter whose text-based works are teasingly familiar and not completely legible. Her practice migrates in medium and motif, but there is something persistently introspective or perhaps autobiographical in Coste’s work; her [...]

This first U.S. exhibition by Monterrey-based Leo Marz boasts of the artist’s familiarity and dexterity in manipulating cultural imagery and text. Dead Ringers is a multi-part and poly-media exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary that adopts the moods and spaces of [...]

Depending on the year it was written, the Bernadette Corporation’s autobiographical introduction reads very differently. It has, since its inception in 1994 in New York City, been responsible for the production of parties, fashion lines and their runway shows, exhibitions, [...]

In a timely reaction to the rousing and the return of galleries from summer hibernations, Chris Dorland has assembled an ominously enticing body of work at Winkleman Gallery, presented under the title “PERMANENT VACATION.” Rather than a press release, Dorland [...]

“People love dioramas,” Joianne Bittle once observed, “They get emotional about them. It has something to do with making the real non-real.” Bittle is no amateur creator of full-scale environments, having worked as a dioramist for the American Museum of [...]

Churner and Churner’s Wooster Enterprises, 1976-78 is some mix of a historical art exhibition and a paper goods boutique set up in a previous generation of downtown New York City. It is a small monument to the tremendous undertaking of [...]