Recently, by Rena

21 October 2011

Patt Smith: Camera Solo | Bomb Magazine

She sings, she writes, and she takes photographs.

18 August 2011

Chelsea Exhibit ‘Don’t Quit Your Day Job’ Examines the Art of the Dealer | BlackBook Magazine

From Peter MacGill to Jeffrey Fraenkel, some gallerists are photographers, too.

08 June 2011

An Inside Look at the Lives & Art of Those Who Guard the Met Museum | BlackBook Magazine

It turns out, the guards at the Met Museum are just as interesting as the work they protect.

14 February 2011

Mark Seliger's Listen at the Steven Kasher Gallery | BlackBook Magazine

Mark Seliger, Susan Sarandon, and platinum prints.

10 January 2011

The Return of the Culture Wars: How a Conservative Reporter Fought the Smithsonian & Won | BlackBook Magazine

Regarding a censored video at the National Portrait Gallery.

30 November 2010

The Serendipitous Moments of Sally Mann | BlackBook Magazine

On Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, a new exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts...Take me there...

20 October 2010

Recollection: Posing for Gregory Crewdson on the Occassion of his New Show at Gagosian, ‘Sanctuary’ | BlackBook Magazine

About photographer Gregory Crewdson's trip to my summer camp, and also his latest exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery...Take me there...

13 September 2010

A Room of Her Own: artist Daphane Park | xxxx magazine

Visiting an Open Studio in Chelsea...Take me there...

13 September 2010

Fashion Victims, Police Unite: Memories of Fashion’s Night Out | BlackBook Magazine

Some notes on my experience of Fashion's Night Out in New York City this year...Take me there...

16 August 2010

Kiki Smith: Photographs | Photo -eye Magazine

Throughout her thirty-year career, artist Kiki Smith has repeatedly employed techniques warranting the recognition of her artistic process. Her photographs fulfill a similar purpose, documenting everything from the onset of inspiration to the final result.... Take me there...

15 June, 2010

For Soiree Au Louvre… | New York Art Beat

Indira Cesarine makes a language of her videos; a narrative-free visual language that somehow, through only a fleeting image, evokes the strongest emotional response, a most hunted talent among those in the “branding” industry....Take me there…

4 June, 2010

Review: “Pictures By Women” At The MoMA | Examiner.com

Perhaps it was spring cleaning that lead the Museum of Modern Art to throw its entire photographic collection into a pile and excavate “Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography.” Still, curators Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Meister, and Eva Respini, pulled it off. The show, which occupies all 5 rooms of the Edward Steichen…Take me there.

29 May, 2010

A Focus on Creativity: AOL Celebrates 25 Years at the New Museum with Chuck Close | New York Art Beat

NYAB writer Rena Silverman reports from AOL’s ‘arty’ birthday party, and the launch of Project on Creativity....Take me there.

1 May 2010

“Staged and Startled”: An Interview with Joseph Kraeutler | New York Art Beat

An interview with Joseph Kraeutler of the Hasted Hunt Kraeutler gallery in New York. Take me there...

17 April 2010

Pioneers of Color; an exhibition at Edwynn Houk | Examiner.com

What do the photographers Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and William Eggleston have in common? The answer almost certainly hangs from the Houk Gallery walls in Pioneers of Color, an exhibition revisiting the emergence of color photography through the earlier works of Shore, Meyerowitz, and Eggleston....Take me there.

4 April 2010

The Fifty-One Faces of Matthew Dine | Examiner.com

Matthew Dineis an oboist and a photographer. He is also obsessed with the number 17. In the beginning, Dine intended to hang over 200 prints for his debut exhibition....Take me there.

17 March 2010

"Everybody Knows" and everybody goes | Examiner.com

Ryan McGinley's, "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." Take me there.