B Scene Zine

10/29/2025

Louis Vuitton unveils its first New York art exhibition: two Gustave Caillebotte masterpieces installed on the fifth floor of its temporary 57th Street store. Read my piece in Whitehot. With photo goodness from LINK IN BIO

10/28/2025

Paul Richard turns up in the most unlikely of places, like perched on top of a counter in a tony townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That’s where he was the other day, standing next to a bigger-than-life portrait and other works for sale. It was the latest in Richard’s decades-long tradition of placing art in unpredictable venues—from city sidewalks to a New York City K-Mart to the Dominick Hotel in Soho. LINK IN BIO

10/23/2025

Flora Yukhnovich, the British painter whose work occurs at the unlikely intersection of Rococo and abstract expressionism, is having a moment—two of them, in fact, three thousand miles apart.There’s a site-specific mural installation amid the great masters of The Frick Collection in New York followed by the opening of Bacchanalia, her first Los Angeles solo show Oct. 30 at Hauser & Wirth. Story in LINK IN BIO

10/14/2025

“Whether the graffiti hotspot becomes the scene of a dialogue between art worlds or another example of cultural appropriation may depend on how both sides navigate an unprecedented arrangement.” Read my latest piece in Observer. LINK IN BIO

10/14/2025

09/30/2025

This could be the most punk rock art exhibit ever: no name, no Instagram tag, nothing. Just art for its own sake. And great art too. Read what little is known about it at bscenezine.com. LINK IN BIO

09/24/2025

Lévy Gorvy Dayan’s Downtown/Uptown: New York in the Eighties captures a “messy, contradictory, and occasionally brutal” era in NYC art. Read my latest piece in. LINK IN BIO
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09/20/2025

“If there was no such thing as trouble you wouldn’t need hope,” stencil artist Joe Iurato said on the eve of his latest solo show at Taglialatella Galleries in Chelsea. Read my latest piece in Whitehot Magazine LINK IN BIO.

09/07/2025

Read coverage of the 2025 Armory Show by with photography by . LINK IN BIO. Michael highlights the work displayed by .mcenery.gallery .nyc .nyc

08/27/2025

My latest piece in Observer shows how street art finds its way into private hands, sometimes it’s legit, other times it’s downright criminal. LINK IN BIO

08/25/2025

08/19/2025

“The era was one of seismic shifts set off by a hungry new generation of New York art masters. The location was The Odeon in Tribeca, then the downtown HQ of Manhattan’s art cognoscenti. And the genius was the newly minted king of neo-expressionist cool, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who took control of the night and ordered for the table.” The driver that night, BTW, was art critic who was then a chauffeur.
Read my profile of Jane Dickson, one of New York’s most important and enduring artists, in Observer. LINK IN BIO Photography by