Paul Sharits made his first film Wintercourse (1962) at age 19 while studying painting at the University of Denver. There he became a protégé of Stan Brakhage, 10 years older and already in the forefront of the international film avant-garde. more

Maybe it’s the season and the dropping temperatures. Maybe it’s Sideshow Gallery and the haimish atmosphere it cultivates. But mostly it’s the paintings of Tom Evans. How else to explain the wave of heat radiating from far-off Williamsburg? more

As I walked down Mulberry Street toward the Openhouse Gallery in the Lower East Side, I was mesmerized by a photograph visible through the glass exterior of the gallery’s storefront. As I gazed at the image of a woman, bare-chested and marked with a large scar along her breast, I was for a moment paralyzed by its implication—so much so that I did not immediately realize that I had, in fact, arrived at my destination. more

The method is unusual and the results are striking, and both are coming direct from Tunisia to the Art Students League this month. The venerable art school will host two Tunisian painters and an Ameri more

The exceptional installation at Craig F. Starr Gallery and its Upper East Side atmosphere might not immediately signal Barnett Newman’s lifelong commitment to anarchist politics (a philosophy more

City Arts has the scoop on the best items going up at the city's biggest auction houses... more

Rude And Reckless will feature over 200 works—about 20 percent of Krivine's collection—is made up of works that gallerist Kasher decided were strong enough to exhibit even though he's not himself nostalgic for X-Ray Spex flyers or Essential Logic paraphernalia. more

How do you feel when you see teenagers kissing, fiddling with each other and their phones simultaneously while sitting across from you on the subway, holding up sidewalk traffic ahead of you, splaying limbs all over the outdoor seating at the coffee shop? Repulsed, nostalgic, jealous, worried? Now, thanks to pro skater and artist Ed Templeton, you don’t even need to locate real teenagers to observe underage relations. The photographer captures these tender moments in his series, Teenage Kissers, which runs through July 25 at Half Gallery. more

It’s human nature. When you see something that isn’t familiar, you match it up with something that is familiar.” Artist Henry Chung, 41, is showing off his latest project, more

Most of us think of memories as things that happened one time, fragments of our personal history that can be jarred at random by a smell or a pop song. But for Thomas Lowe, memory is a constant, an ever-present collection of connections he carries around in a pocket and is reminded of and inspired by. In They think it's all over, his first solo show in New York, English-born, Lower East Side-based Lowe explores what collective consciousness is created when an artist stops trying to speak universally and concentrates on himself. more