B Scene Zine

08/09/2025

“Exaltation, curated by Plato owner Elena Platonova, is framed as a contemporary take on Mannerism, the art historical movement that emerged between the High Renaissance and the Baroque period.” LINK IN BIO

07/11/2025

Almost 50 years after she arrived on 43rd Street and two decades after she quit it, Jane Dickson’s non-Times Square work is drawing new attention. And it’s about time. Read about it in Whitehot. With photography by LINK IN BIO

06/22/2025

It’s about time New York got a proper dose of the great Marcel Duchamp, who called 14th St. home for the last 25 years of his life. Read my piece on the career retrospective being mounted by MoMA. LINK IN BIO.

06/19/2025

Right now, New York City has more Johannes Vermeer paintings on display than any country, including the artist’s homeland of the Netherlands. Ten of his 35 known works are on display just 11 blocks apart at the Frick Collection and the Met. With photography by LINK IN BIO

06/06/2025

The new book from Brooklyn’s Lori Zimmer, “I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries” “reads like a manifesto wrapped in meticulous scholarship.” Read my review LINK IN BIO

05/28/2025

Vincent Valdez, the 48-year-old Chicano artist whose canvases read like visual testimony from America’s shadow zones, is stepping up at precisely the moment when artists across the nation are ducking for cover. His first major museum survey, Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…, opened May 24 at MASS MoCA. Read about it in Whitehot. LINK IN BIO.

05/23/2025

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s recent announcement that it will stop selling the iconic yellow MetroCards by Dec. 31 means the end of the line for MetroCard art, a peculiar New York City art form that has thrived for decades at the intersection of transportation, art and culture. Brooklyn’s Juan Carlos Pinto and artist Thomas McKean of the East Village are two of the city’s leading MetroCard art practitioners. Read my piece in Observer. LINK IN BIO. Photography by and

05/19/2025

05/18/2025

Read about the new book by with photography by in B Scene Zine. LINK IN BIO. The book succeeds by “excavating the vibrant underbelly of a city whose artistic pulse beats strong in its overlooked corners and ephemeral surfaces.” .chat_france

05/15/2025

David Zwirner’s new gallery in Chelsea was unveiled with a press tour that coincided with the opening of Crucible, a solo exhibition by Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage. LINK IN BIO

05/09/2025

Just days after the announcement of its sale to a Hollywood mogul, Frieze New York opens with a ferocious lineup of new art. But is it enough to face down market headwinds? Here are six reasons to believe it can. LINK IN BIO .andrew.nguyen

05/03/2025

Christie’s is selling a raft of fabulous contemporary art and you can go to their Rockefeller Center Gallery and see it all for free starting today. Read about it at B Scene Zine LINK IN BIO. The offerings read like a canonical playlist of modernism’s greatest hits: Basquiat, Calder, Chagall, De Kooning, Dubuffet, Frankenthaler, Haring, Hockney, Indiana, Kandinsky, Katz, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Kusama, Lautrec, Leger, Lichtenstein, Magritte, Matisse, Mitchell, Miro, Monet, Mondrian, Motherwell, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Richter, Rothko, Ruscha, Stella, Van Gogh, Warhol.