May 1, 10:40 a.m., Acquavella Gallery, 18 E. 79th St. Riva and I meet our friend (the almost-a-relative kind) Herb, an artist still active in his 90s who lives in NJ and takes public transportation to and from Manhattan to tour galleries. We have two of his large paper cuts hanging in our home. Herb’s …
Artist Fred Terna is a Holocaust survivor. It is no surprise that much of his work centers on the trauma of that experience, and of surviving multiple concentration and work camps. A new show at Manhattan’s Czech Center Gallery at the Bohemian National Hall consists mostly of 1980s pieces, plus a few more recent ones. …
Yoko Ono’s work from 1960-1971 on view at the Museum of Modern Art in NY through September 7th is as avant garde today as it was then. What has changed is that her explanations of why the works were created and what they mean are no longer laughable but the reflections of a quite serious …
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