Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York

By MG Lee

MAR 2019 | Dance

While there’s been a flourish of big name choreographers and residencies cropping up in Upstate New York—Stephen Petronio and Jonah Bokaer, among others— emerging, local groups are also looking upstate for space and solitude to rehearse.

Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space

By Louis Block

MAR 2020 | ArtSeen

Shaun Leonardo’s current exhibition posits a simple act of resistance: to excavate these optical memories, sifting through their noise. In his repeated drawings of news photographs surrounding violence against Black men, Leonardo builds a system that questions a singular image’s capacity for truth-telling.

Pay to play: the costs of carving new space for dance

By Benedict Nguyen

FEB 2018 | Dance

What about all the artists who don’t register on the curatorial grid? The recently defunct Createquity has published a lot of research on who gets to be an artist and how saturated the field is with aspiring creatives. Many dance makers are finding space to present or perform their own work outside of the usual venues.

Jack Whitten: Transitional Space, A Drawing Survey

By Hearne Pardee

MAR 2020 | ArtSeen

Deeply involved with materials, Whitten is well known for having devised novel tools to make massive paintings. Here, he shows himself equally at home on a modest scale and with a range of new mediums.