Paul Fryer — Let there be more light

Thanks to Dazed & Confused for pointing out this Paul Fryer installation that was up for the duration of Frieze.
At the Church of the Holy Trinity Marylebone, Paul Fryer replicates the heavens and earth to demonstrate man´s megalomaniacal folly.
He [] displays the consequences of man´s hubris with a figure of a child-sized angel trapped in […]

MoCCA Gets a Mini Makeover

 
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will be closed from February 1-March 5 while they reconfigure the gallery space. This little institution resides in a huge, anonymous building at Houston and Broadway and is approaching its 7-year anniversary. With a new chairman of the board, Ellen S. Abramowitz, and ambitious plans for 2008, I […]

The 16th Annual New York City Outsider Art Fair

It’s Outsider Art Fair time again, and the Puck Building will be swarming with buyers, tourists, and other curious folk today through Sunday, January 27. This year there are 34 galleries exhibiting work by artists who are on the fringes of society and have no formal artistic training.
Having attended twice before, I recommend this fair […]

ACAF NY: Asian Contemporary Art Fair

Surprisingly under the radar, New York’s first art fair dedicated entirely to Asian contemporary art opened quietly yesterday with the invite-only cocktail and performance by Sin Cha Hong and the band, Second Hand Rose. An event of this magnitude should have had a more intense marketing blitz, and I’m still scratching my head over why […]

SCOPE NY

SCOPE New York is in full swing today, closing out with the Culture on the Verge party at Element tonight.