Art News and Reviews from the perspective of two emerging artists, Jon Beer and Lily Koto Olive.
Art-Rated Special – How to help after Hurricane Sandy
Dear Friends, With so many people in and around New York struggling to cope with the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy we at Art-Rated have decided to dedicate this week’s post to ...
Elegantly Wasted – Rococo Revisited at Littlefield
Art-Rated recently had the opportunity to attend the opening of Elegantly Wasted – Rococo Revisited, an exhibition curated by painter Boris Tyomkin. The show was held at Littlefield, a performance and art space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. ...
Unwritten Spaces: Natalie Frank at Fredericks & Freiser
by Jonathan Beer Natalie Frank’s paintings are decidedly literary works. Not only because of their figurative nature or the descriptive articulation she concentrates on the surface of each canvas, they become literary works at precisely ...
Artist Interview: Uwe Kowski
Art-Rated: What is your background? Were you always interested in pursuing the art, and in particular painting? Uwe Kowski: I already experienced as a child that painting and drawing is the meaningful activity to me. ...
QUAY BROTHERS: Creepy Career retrospective at MoMA
On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets August 12, 2012–January 7, 2013 The Quay Brothers retrospective at MoMA (on view until January 7th, 2013) creates a dark eerie space within the institution, revealing the ...
Artist Interview – David Schnell
AR: What is your background? Are you from Leipzig originally? Did you know always that you would pursue painting? DS: The idea to study art came quite late, when I was 22 or 23. Before ...
Studio Visit – The Lounge Underground
One of the biggest indicators of New York’s transition from summer to fall is not a change in weather but the reawakening of the art world. By the first week of September the excitement reaches ...