Featured Profile

 

ArtifactoryNYC, in conjunction with Icosahedron Gallery, announces a juried competition open to all artists. We are searching for new talent to showcase and promote in the art capital of the world: New York City. Winners of the contest will be awarded a cash prize, along with a 2011 exhibition at Icosahedron Gallery's 3,000 square foot ground floor showroom in the heart of Chelsea, NYC. Winners have the opportunity to gain unparalleled exposure for their work both in print and exhibition through this competition.  ALL entered artists will receive a FREE one year Premium Membership to ArtifactoryNYC. The contest runs until December 31st, 2010. Awards will be given to First, Second and Third Prize winners. Total value of prizes: $13,000.

 

YOU MUST PAY TO UPGRADE YOUR ACCOUNT TO BE ENTERED IN THE CONTEST

 

Search Artist

 

 

Highlights

$68.9 Million Modigliani Gets Auction Season Off to a Health...

Classic images from art history, a doe-eyed female nude by Modigliani and a seminal Monet waterlily attracted bidders from around the world on Tuesday night at Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and modern art.

Lichtenstein Around The City

On view now, the great Pop Artist is featured in museums and galleries all over the city. Be sure to check out the famed commercial-esque Art. Some on view for the first time in New York!

Spotlight on Landscape Art

Icosahedron Gallery has had the pleasure of showing many works by Contemporary Landscape painters. By reflecting our environments upon us these artists help us to understand our history and our relationship with the world around us.

Christie's Auction Presents: The Dennis Hopper Collection

This November, as part of Christie's fall auction season, more than 30 works from Hopper's celebrated collection will be part of Christie's New York post-war and contemporary art sale

The Smithsonian Magazine's 6th Annual Museum Day!

This year's museum day is Saturday September 25, 2010

Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian Media in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket.

The Private Collection of Larry Gagosian

Renowned art dealer Larry Gagosian will be showing his art collection in Abu Dhabi for a first- time public viewing at the Manarat Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi. The exhibition is entitled RSTW, an acronym for “Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Serra, Twombly, Warhol, and Wool” the show’s ensemble of all male artists.

50 Years at Pace

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades.

Review: "Nueva York" (1613-1945)

On September 17, 2010 El Museo del Barrio in Spanish Harlem opens it's new exhibition documenting the influence of Latino and Spanish-speaking countries on New York culture over a period of four centuries.

Coming Soon: "Abstract Expressionist New York" at...

Fall has arrived and with it brings an exciting new show from the MoMA on view October 3, 2010 -- April 25, 2011

"Abstract Expressionist New York" will display a collection of work drawn entirely from the Museum's incredible collection.

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big BambĂş

If you haven't already had the opportunity to see the site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden be sure to take advantage of the fall weather before the exhibit comes down on October 31, 2010

 

News

THE WINNERS

Please offer a big round of applause to Rashid Cornish, Michinori Maru and Doug Angleton!

Suddenly, SoHo Heeds Law Limiting Lofts to Artists

As SoHo’s iron-boned, sprawling lofts became gold mines over the past two decades, co-op boards, banks, brokers and the city itself winked at a rule requiring that they be reserved for working artists. But over the last year or so, something odd began to occur...

Police Arrest 20 Who Tried to Sneak Into Unused Subway Stati...

The New York City police have arrested 20 people for trying to enter an abandoned subway station housing the formerly secret guerrilla exhibition of underground street art that was revealed to the public this month.

Met Is to Repatriate to Egypt Artifacts From King Tut’s To...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is voluntarily returning 19 artifacts to Egypt that had been in its collection for decades and that Met curators recently determined came from Tutankhamen’s tomb, the museum said on Tuesday.

The Improvised Remedies of an Art Healer

Eleonora Nagy remembers the first time she got a close look at “Untitled,” a 1966 sculpture by the artist Paul Thek. One of a series of works known as “meat pieces,” it looked like a fresh limb fragment that had gone bad — very bad.

BlackSnow: Volume I

BlackSnow: Volume I
Fine Art and Couture by Micah (Blacklight) Lee and Opie Snow.
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Art Show 7-10pm. Fashion Performance 8pm.
Icosahedron Gallery. 606 West 26th Street, New York, NY, 10001. www.icosahedrongallery.org
BlackSnow: Volume I is a cross-pollination of fine art

Paris Rediscovers Monet’s Magic at Grand Palais

Like white noise, he’s everywhere and invisible, the staple of countless dentists’ offices. Old hat for more than a century now. Is it too late to recapture some of the shock and thrill that caused horrified Parisians in the 1870s to perceive his work as “leprous”?

Richard Serra Sculpture Rusts in Bronx Yard

To see gargantuan steel sculptures fashioned by Richard Serra, you could visit the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, or the Dia: Beacon, 60 miles north of New York City. Or you could go to a crane yard near a heating-oil terminal in Port Morris, an industrial corner of the South Bronx.

The Nineteen Most Stylish People at Icosahedron Gallery's NO...

Last night saw several Fashion Week kickoff parties go down, but one of the more underground affairs took place at Chelsea's Icosahedron Gallery. The NO!R party, curated by Rachel Reid Wilkie and Ezra Mabengeza, drew emerging artists (and their fans)...

NY MAGAZINE