Adam Dressner, a lawyer turned portrait artist, began painting eccentric New Yorkers a few years ago. Many of them made an appearance at a recent exhibition.
Category: Art & Museums
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Some of America’s Best Art Is in the Yard
For people who have historically been excluded by museums and galleries, their own properties have became a source of inspiration.
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Lloyd Macklowe, Leading Purveyor of Art Nouveau, Is Dead at 90
He and his wife began buying pieces to furnish their apartment. They wound up with a museum-quality collection and a pre-eminent retail business.
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What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?
In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead.
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Yvette Mayorga Bakes Family History Into Her Show ‘The Golden Cage’
This Mexican American artist, whose favorite tool is a pastry bag, explores her parents’ journey and her own identity in “The Golden Cage,” a show in Guadalajara.
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It Was Their Dream Home. But Could They Grapple With Its Dark Legacy?
After a Berlin couple discovered who’d once lived there, they still wanted to make the house their own.
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How to Cross-Stitch — and Make it Queer
Siret creates a needlepoint canvas filled with L.G.B.T.Q. symbols and historical references.
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An Art Installation She Called Home on the Upper East Side
The artist Apryl Miller is selling her colorful, full-floor apartment at 188 East 76th Street for $8.75 million. Psychedelic chairs and couches sold separately.
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An Artist Whose Furniture Is a ‘Bat Signal’ to His Loved Ones
Ryan Preciado’s designs evoke his childhood memories and first architectural influences.
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The Final Hours of a Tastemaker’s Trove
The society fixture, decorator and philanthropist Mica Ertegun helped define the tastes of an era. Now her great collections are going on the block.
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Uncrustables Painting by Noah Verrier Sells for $4,999
Noah Verrier’s painting of a sandwich (minus one bite) sold for $4,999. Accused by some of being too commercial, he said he prefers objects “connected to who we are today.”
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Trading New York for Michigan, and a Home With ‘Fun Pops of Color’
Many of their friends from Grand Rapids were “moving back home and telling us how great it was.” So they followed suit.