53rd Street on a weeknight evening is witness to a medley of pedestrians: midtown commuters bustling to the subway, visitors departing MoMA and tourists heading to ogle 5th Avenue storefronts. Most move briskly through the stretch between 5th and 6th …
Walking into an exhibition of Ezra Stoller photographs induces a specific kind of vertigo. Tightly grouped zones of square, white frames regiment the wall planes of the white-cubic gallery space; within the frames, monuments of 20th century modernism continue to reflect their mysterious light, vanguards of the era now as embedded in the collective mindframe as the temples of antiquity. Stoller’s articulation of the various species of…
After several years obsessively following a cluster of artists, investigators, cartographers and academics interested in varied approaches to human interactions with the land, I was excited to learn that the Experimental Geography exhibition, which showcases many of these projects and …
Spanish-born, Rotterdam-based artist Lara Almarcegui’s Guide to the Wastelands of Flushing River — at Ludlow38 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — carves an interdisciplinary niche at the intersection of photography, urban studies, and performance — a terrain every bit as …
Now on view at the Museum of the City of New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams. In an effort to encourage Omnibus readers to check it out, we asked another cartoonist, Amy Hwang, to review the show in the medium that made Addams famous: the cartoon.
Waterfront planner Carter Craft offers a preview of what to expect, and what to look for, when MoMA’s new design show, Rising Currents, opens next week. The exhibition will display the design schemes of five interdisciplinary teams, charged with …
As a design professional, I’m used to the concept that communities don’t like change. When I read that the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) was presenting an exhibit to examine how urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate …
Drinks with performance artists tend to keep you on your toes. You’re always wondering if something they say, the way they walk, or the thing they’re holding in their left hand might be part of the act: a highly scripted, …
Approximately one million people trample through Times Square everyday – some incessantly pausing to snap pictures of all the chaos while others beeline without ever looking up. On November 11 at 2pm on the corner of 46th and Broadway, Tony Conrad, clad in a neon green T-shirt, used a power drill to open a wooden box half his size that featured a wooden lever, a doorbell, and a sound hole.
Almost 35 million vehicles use the Holland Tunnel each year to pass between New Jersey and Manhattan under the Hudson River. Probably very few of these drivers think twice about the inner workings of the piece of infrastructure that makes their commute …
