An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Contributed by Adam Simon / One of the most evocative and lyrical artworks I’ve experienced recently was not located in a gallery or museum, but in the woods on the western edge of the Catskills, behind the Catskill Water Discovery Center in Arkville, New York. To be clear, mine was not the ideal encounter. I was aware of the project, “Headwaters,” and set out to find it.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Diana Cooper’s new public art project “Double Take” is rich with art historical references and playful wit, breathing life into an otherwise unsightly ventilator shaft installed opposite the egress from the Roosevelt Island subway tunnel, where it blocks a magnificent view of the city across the East River. The mosaic, crafted in collaboration with glass artists in Italy, incorporates fractured and twisted linear perspective to create the illusion of roiling depth, blurring the boundary between static skyscrapers and the roaring East River.
NYC artist Peter Dudek‘s recent undertaking, “House Dreaming (and then some),” is a mural project that includes several related images of architectural structures displayed around […]
