Artsicle artist Charlie Grosso’s gallery, Baang and Burne Contemporary, is not a typical Chelsea affair. On the gallery’s website is a cultural manifesto of sorts: there is a send up of the typical white cube gallery with its icy attendants from...

The band was playing “The Girl from Ipanema” as I entered Catharine Lorrilard Wolfe Art Club 116th Annual Open Juried Exhibition at the National Arts Club. The CLWAC was founded in 1896 as an organization to promote the work of women artists....

There was a small hubbub coming from Mighty Tanaka as I ascended the stairs to the second floor gallery. I had arrived a bit late, and could see through the front window that the gallery was full of people. The works from Artsicle artist John...

We all have multiple selves, versions of who we are, who we were, and who we want to be. We have the version of us that wakes up early, the version that sleeps in late; the self that plays well with others, the self that wants to be alone....

The problem of the white cube. 

Every gallery laments, at point or another, the sterility that the standard white interior environment creates for any show. Though a blank canvas of a space, so to speak, can enhance the pieces within a show,...