PHOTOGRAPHY | José Picayo snaps striking portraits for Sept. 16 exhibit - Cuban-born Jose delves into paired portraits, one photograph of the back of a model’s head and another of the front.
NUYORICAN FIND | Caught in the glories of race in Rodriguez Calero’s urban paintings - I was so fascinated by the man in Calero's "Transcendent" that I kept circling back to it. Is it a black man? Oh, wait. The painter is a Nuyorican. What gives?
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM | Cuban-American Conceptual artist delights with his curtain of golden beads - Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” Golden (1995) asks of gallery owners and curators to use these beads as room dividers through which any viewer must pass.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM | Seen live in New York, Van Gogh’s two “Irises” will knock you out - It provides a singular opportunity to reconsider Van Gogh's artistic aims and the impact of color fading on his intended results.