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"The observation of nature is a crucial part of an artist's life," said Henry Moore, and here in an ideal setting is 'Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture' at the New York Botanical Garden, an installation of 20 major pieces of sculpture for three seasons, flowering, rains, hazy heat, and resplendent fall colors. Moore who made and installed his work on the rolling hills of his grounds in Hertfordshire, England, wanted these sculptural beings seen alone on vistas of green with a big sky above... read more...

Do talented critics shape a group of artists working within a time, or do the best critics have a talent for identifying what is already occurring? 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art 1940-1976', currently on view at The Jewish Museum, shows that de Kooning and Pollock could in the final analysis make a "painting that has a life of its own," yet clearly Rosenberg and Greenberg positioned the work in a critical conversation that was pivotal.
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Artist Katherine Dolgy Ludwig is all about music, and undergoing a feverish dance workout in her Brooklyn painting studio, bopping till she drops with the Ramones, Ice T, Patti Smith blaring. Bending, pulling, stretching, she's hard at work framing her lavishly large and bold collection of new watercolor paintings.

Jasper Johns' extensive retrospective reveals a lifetime of essentials, bringing together for the first time paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from US and international collections. Concurrent with this exhibition at the Met is a show of drawings at Matthew Marks in New York. To watch James Kalm's tour of the drawings exhibition click here. ... read more...

For fourteen years Tom Bogaert documented genocide and human rights abuses in Africa and Asia as the lawyer for Amnesty International, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN Representative to Rwanda. Five years ago he resigned to become an artist. One of the works on view at his first solo show in New York is 'This is Rwanda', which consists of video footage recorded during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which Bogaert has turned into a video-game animation. Click here to play the video .... read more...

Since 1972 the AIR Gallery in New York has been promoting women artists and serving as a venue for Feminist events and projects, popular evening meetings where women share their work in the arts and critique each other, a book club, lectures, workshops, movie screenings, music presentations, as well as gallery showings, all free and open to the public. The three artists currently on view indicate the diversity of work that can regularly be found at the gallery. ... read more...