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Artists Space
By Nancy PrincenthalJUL-AUG 2020 | ArTonic
Shocking but true: Artists Space, essential model for a generation of feisty, funky, youth-driven nonprofits, is nearly half a century old. More surprising still, initially it depended entirely on government support, at a time when both the governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller) and the US president (Richard Nixon, newly re-elected) were Republicans. Promising to make up for a dearth of opportunity for young artists, Artists Spaces founders rounded some up and offered them the chance to call the shots, all on the states dime.

Julie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour
By William CorwinDEC 20-JAN 21 | ArtSeen
In this new body of workactually three different sets of paintings and etchingsJulie Mehretu is inscribing marks from a series of hands: her own, the fingerprints of digital interventions, and even the hand of the Almighty (at least by implication), on a series of roiled and undulating backgrounds.

Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York
By MG LeeMAR 2019 | Dance
While theres been a flourish of big name choreographers and residencies cropping up in Upstate New YorkStephen Petronio and Jonah Bokaer, among others emerging, local groups are also looking upstate for space and solitude to rehearse.
Titus Kaphar: From a Tropical Space
By Dan CameronNOV 2020 | ArtSeen
In comparison to Kaphars earlier work, these enigmatic new paintings are asked to bear a heavier burden of direct narrative, and the lack of an obvious relation between the absences and presences that Kaphar highlights here leaves us with a new and unfamiliar kind of disorientation.