Shana Nys Dambrot

The book is must-read material for anyone interested in how art history shapes itself across time, place, and the lives of individuals. But for extra insight, Finkel is joined in conversation at the Hammer Museum on Thursday evening by Smith and Tiravanija, both socially engaged sculpture and installation artists whose powerful work was itself once the spark of ideas that came from legacy. Coffee and book signing post-conversation....

Alexandra Grant is a visual artist with an interdisciplinary love of language, specifically the written word. Across paintings, sculpture, photograp...

You can’t miss the towering red neon sign atop the Bendix Building. Once and partly still a bustling garment industry center of manufacture and merchandising, increasingly, it’s also home to a dance company (Heidi Duckler), artist studios (about 40) and independent contemporary art galleries (about 10 at last count). And this weekend, that number ticks up, with the inaugural exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery anchoring a night of opening receptions throughout the building....

Mollett’s current exhibition at MorYork Gallery's new Highland Park location features a number of his small and large spheres, ball-shaped tumbleweeds made of scavenged materials which can be rolled and shaken and played with, as well as a series of quieter sculptures and prints based on the urban/organic scavenging idiom. The exhibition is on through May 30, but Sunday afternoon it is activated by the Mudpeople and Bent City in a live performance event....

An array of visionary narratives is celebrated annually at the Fine Arts Film Festival, whose sixth iterations spans three days and two venues, screening around 50 international projects....

Part “Woman in Gold” and part family home movie, with shades of “Everything Is Illuminated” and Antiques Roadshow, the documentary “Chasing Portraits” is both funnier and deeper than even its compelling premise suggests....

Tim Youd makes lavishly textured abstract and word-based paintings, but to classify him as a painter ignores a massive territory in his interdisciplinary practice which involves literature, durational site-specific performances, and aesthetic physical artifacts generated therewith. In brief, Youd chooses important books and re-types them…...

In his exhibition of new paintings Let the Outside In, Simkins expands on his strangely romantic, finely painted, lavishly detailed, storybook surrealism, offering a new suite of anthropomorphic birds and beasts enacting symbolic, emotionally charged vignettes of courtly, literary whimsy....