Sitemap - 2025 - Art & Ponder by Liam Otero

Exhibition Review: "Tread Water - jiwoong" at Blade Study, Chinatown (November 6 - December 19, 2025)

LizaBanks Campagna: The Art Museum Tour Guide & Stand-Up Comedian Redefining Arts Education and Accessibility

Art Criticism from Afar: “Elizabeth Alster: Leisure Centre” at MEZZANINE, South Bermondsey, London, UK (November 20 - 23, 2025)

Artful Healing and Grief During the Holiday Season: A Case Study Between Me and a Photography Project at Pratt Institute

Artist Feature: Sebastienne Mundheim - Performance Maker, Installation Artist, and Arts Educator

History in the Making and History Made: "The 55th Anniversary People’s Flag Show” at Judson Memorial Church, Greenwich Village (November 9 - 15, 2025)

Exhibition Review: "Edge of Illusions: Zoya Frolova, Janis Jakobsons, and Vasyl Mironenko" at Mriya Gallery, Tribeca (October 23 - November 5, 2025)

Exhibition Review: "Wang Ye: Legume Blossoms in Blue" at YveYANG Gallery, SoHo (September 5, 2025 - November 1, 2025)

Opinion Piece: Good Art, Bad Exhibition. What Does This Mean?

Exhibition Review: "Derek Franklin: The Shadows That Haunt the Rooms Behind Our Eyes" at Freight + Volume Gallery, Tribeca (September 6 - October 11, 2025)

Exhibition Review: "Domina - Sima Schloss" at Temple Gallery, Chinatown / Lower East Side (September 5 - October 18, 2025)

“Growing Takes Time” by Karley Wasaff - A Performative Playtime Extravaganza in SoHo (August 2025)

Exhibition Review: "LAYERS: An All Trans Art Show" at Brooklyn Art Cave, Williamsburg (September 5 - 7, 2025)

Photozine Feature: "Melbourne" by Iain Muir (2025)

Exhibition Review: “Mutable Molds” at New York University’s (NYU) Interactive Media Arts program, Downtown Brooklyn (August 15 - 31, 2025)

Book Review: "American Photography: A Century of Images" by Vicki Goldberg and Robert Silberman (1999)

Exhibition Review: “James Katsipis: Adrift” at VFA Gallery, SoHo (on view through September 9, 2025)

Exhibition Review: "The Making of a New World: Art of the 1980s" at Hollis Taggart Gallery, Chelsea (on view through August 30, 2025)

NO WORLD CINEMA Diary Films 3: A Structuralist Film Happening

Wordless Essay #8

Exhibition Review: “Open Call: Portals” at The Shed, Hudson Yards (on view through August 24, 2025)

Exhibition Review: “Felt Memory” at Gloria’s Project Space, Chinatown / Lower East Side (on view through Monday, August 11, 2025)

"The Weird, The Wild, and The Whimsy": The Fashion Archive of Cool French Girl

A Scavenger Hunt of West Harlem's Wooden Sculptures (and Others): A Lesson in Community Arts Altruism

Exhibition Review: "Danny Sobor: April and After" at Kasmin Gallery, Chelsea (July 15 - July 25, 2025)

Book Review: "The Necessity of Sculpture: Selected Essays and Criticism, 1985 - 2019" by Eric Gibson (2020)

Exhibition Review: "Philip Gerald: Art Mystery" at The Hole, The Bowery / Lower East Side (on view through July 13, 2025)

Photobook Feature: "Today's Special: New York City Images, 1969 - 2006" by Jeff Rothstein (2017)

The Sublime Beauty and Painterly Effervescence of Francis Danby (Irish, 1793 - 1861)

Special Issue: SPRING/BREAK Art Show: A Deliciously Ribaldrous Affair (May 6 - May 12, 2025)

Artwork Feature: Robert Longo's "Men in the Cities" series (1977 - 1983)

Wordless Essay #7

In Celebration and Praise of the Grand Reopening of The Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Wing (The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition Feature: "George Condo - Pastels" at Hauser & Wirth, Wooster Street, SoHo (January 29 - April 12, 2025)

Book Review: "How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art" by David Salle (2016)

The Photographic Humanism of Marianne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (1919 - 2025)

Book Review: "Inside the Art World: Conversations with Barbaralee Diamonstein" by Barbaralee Diamonstein (1994)

Wordless Essay #6

Photobook Feature: "Jon Rafman: Nine Eyes" (2016)

Museum Feature: The Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art

Exhibition Feature: "Monument Historique: 19th Century Photographs by Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement and Other French Photographers" at Westwood Gallery, The Bowery, New York (on view through April 5)

Boo-Hooray: The Archival Haven for Underground, Avant-Garde, Non-Conformist, Vanguardist Cultural Movements of the 20th & 21st Centuries

International Women's Day Edition: Supersisters! Feminism, Counterhistory, and the American Trading Card

Wordless Essay #5 - NYPL Picture Collection Edition

Book Review: "Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings" by James Elkins (2001)

William Strutt’s Black Thursday, February 6th 1851: An Exemplar of Australian History Painting

Art Book Feature: “A Ray of Light: A Book of Science and Wonder” by Walter Wick (2019)

Artist Feature: Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870 - 1966)

Gallery Feature: Jan Kath Carpets, Chelsea

Wordless Essay #4

Exhibition Feature: "Ambrus Gero - All My Thirties" at Elza Kayal Gallery, Tribeca (On view through February 8)

The Intersections of Experimental Music & Art History: A Case Study Through Spike Wolters's "E.S. Rever" (1983)

Artists 4 ERA - An Artist Collective and the Pursuit of the Equal Rights Amendment