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I haven’t been traveling to any new areas of the city lately, but I do spend a lot of time in my area, which has the unlucky moniker “The Upper East Side” which makes it sound less diverse than it really is. When people hear those words they immediately think of Madison or Park Avenues. But that’s just one veneer of an area that has so much going for it.
The downtown art scene in New York City has a long and illustrious history that can hardly be contained in any one exhibition. Yet The New Museum’s “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery 1969–1989” makes it possible to say a great many things. Organized by Ethan Swan, “Come Closer” is about the many individual forms of expression that included the active and sometimes volati...
All meaning begins with a mark. Whether intentional or accidental, it begins the long path from innocence to wisdom. We make or leave a mark, and then we judge its merit. Soon we add another mark, which is perhaps complementary to the first. Soon we have either a picture, or a language, or both. Whatever it is, it complicates our view of reality. Is it necessary? Absolutely. ...
