Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—October 2011
THE PEOPLE’S ART COLLECTIVE, “NO SLEEP ‘TIL BROOKLYN” The Bogart Salon, 56 Bogart St., through 10/17 At the center of the Bogart Salon, toys and trash make up a sprawling model of two…
Ground Control to Linda Griggs: long flight back from “cyberspace”
Is there such a thing as an altruistic person in our narcissistic art world? And, if there were a truly generous artist out there—a real artist, who still managed to promote his or her career while helping others—where or how would such acts of kindness take place?
Ai Weiwei Recognized by an American Scholar 25 Years Ago
… it was Gould who’d given the now infamously incarcerated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei his first-ever U.S. group show. To my reporter’s mind, interviewing him while sitting somewhere between the bronze rooster and bronze dog’s head of Ai Weiwei’s newest public sculpture …
Meredith Allen, Artist and Chronicler, 1964-2011
by Stephanie Cash 03/18/11 New York artist Meredith Allen died of cancer yesterday, March 17. As an artist and chronicler, Allen was a familiar face on the Williamsburg art scene in the 1990s, with…
Neighb Redux: Williamsburg2000 @ Art 101 by Sarah Schmerler
Larry Walczak has seen a whole lotta changes in Williamsburg’s gallery scene since he arrived here in 1994. Eyewash—the gallery he ran with the late Annie Herron from 1998 to 2002 on Williamsburg’s…








