Metrograph and Grimm Gallery Collaborate on Louise Giovanelli’s New Works

Louise Giovanelli, Arena, 2020

DOWNTOWN—British artist Louise Giovanelli is now showing new work at Grimm 54. The exhibition, Still Moving, goes through June 21, 2025, and features a bunch... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Popes and Dancers With Sculptor and Illustrator Francesco Messina

Francesco Messina

ROME—In 2022, the city of Rome hosted a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Francesco Messina at Villa Torlonia. Titled Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporaneo, the show brought... Text by Dannik.
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Art Focus: Elegance in a Post-Ironic Era

Slip House, the brand new gallery opened at the base of a 19th-century, three-story former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street.

DOWNTOWN—Every two decades is a response to the previous two. After decades of irony, the purposeful ugliness of the 80s and 90s (“Anything that’s beautiful... Text by Cici Thompson.
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Language of Bamboo: Tradition and Innovation at Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters

Image courtesy of Gucci.

MILAN—Italy’s long affection for bamboo can be found everyone, no less in Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands... Text by Cici Thompson.
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The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith

Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.

Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental constraints and move toward abstraction. In Concerning... Text by Marguerite de Ponty.
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Basel: All For Sale

Painting by Maaike Schoorel

BASEL—Going to Art Basel is always a unique experience. For the majority, the art on display is merely entertainment; after all, any work, whether mighty... Text by Madina Tulakova.
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The Poetry of Materials

Janice Lourie's computer-driven loom transformed textile manufacturing. Photo courtesy of IBM

Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains.... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Five Questions for Franco Maria Ricci

Franco Maria Ricci in 1984, at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.

Caverns were probably the first labyrinthine structures human beings came into contact with, in a distant past. And I, too, rummaged through my own past,... Text by fmr.
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