Measuring the Universe, by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák, is a performative collaboration which engages and incorporates the viewers in the evolution of the installation. Over the course of the exhibition, museum docents mark the visitors’ heights, first names, and date of the measurement on the gallery walls. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.

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Black Light at Deitch Projects presents preliminary photo compositions that Wiley uses to create his stunning heroic large scale paintings of urban youth. Moving away from the triumphant religious iconography, these warmer romantic portraits capture a early Dutch still life subtlety.

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Young Curators, New Ideas II is a collaboration examining new voices in contemporary art through the perspective of seven New York based curators at P.P.O.W. Highlights, Norma Markley’s Pom-Pom Clouds in dialogue with Tom Fruin’s Untitled neon nooses. Las Hermanas Iglesias Lost Glove, collection of 62 single gloves found in Paris, with a hand made replacement of the lost partner made of gouache on paper. Taylor Baldwin’s I ain’t afraid of no ghosts, mixed media installation has many great elements […]

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British artist Yinka Shonibare was born in London to Nigerian parents, and grew up between UK and Nigeria. His sculptural work features typically headless mannequins that are dressed in eloborate costumes. Refrencing English painting and literature of Wilde and Hogarth, Shonibare creates a fictious narrative by use of Africanized fabric design (Dutch wax printed cotton) and colours in creating his brilliantly tailored elaborate victorian dresses. The best part of this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is Shonibare’s infiltration of the […]

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