Peter Fischli, David Weiss and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Brunelleschi invents perspective and Francois Premier receiving Leonardo Da Vinci last breath   Fischli and Weiss meet Jean August Dominique Ingres   From the Suddenly this overview series (ongoing since 1981) on view at the Guggenheim museum New York in Peter Fischli and David Weiss: How to Work Better curated …

Rachel Rose and Jens Hoffmann at AM at the JM

Am at the JM – January 20th 2016 Once a month, the Jewish Museum organizes AM at the JM, a salon style discussion series taking place in a coffee shop in New York on the early side of the day. This morning brought together the New York based American artist, …

Artforum mashup cutout, January 16th 2016

Including shows Glenn Ligon, We Need To Wake Up Cause That’s What Time It Is at Luhring Augustine gallery, Bushwick, New York (January 16th – April 17th 2016) Mark Ryden, Dodecahedron, at Kasmin Gallery, Chelsea, New York (December 10th, 2015 – January 23rd 2016) Deborah Kaas, No kidding, at Kasmin Gallery, Chelsea, New York (December 9th …

Zenobia of Palmyra: the girl of the Syrian desert by E. S. Brooks

[Afterward known as “Zenobia Augusta, Queen of the East.”] A.D. 250. MANY and many miles and many days’ journey toward the rising sun, over seas and mountains and deserts,—farther to the east than Rome, or Constantinople, or even Jerusalem and old Damascus,—stand the ruins of a once mighty city, scattered …