Ira Wright

Ira Wright

There are many artists who might be said to channel the impulses of childhood into their mature works—Picasso, Klee, and Dubuffet are three who come to mind. But few I know of carry over a talisman from their earlier years as an important subject in their so-called...
Art Dealers Face Down the Pandemic

Art Dealers Face Down the Pandemic

The fallout for small businesses—restaurants, shops, law offices, movie theaters, nail salons, you name it—during the global devastation wrought by Covid19 has been dire. And many art galleries, those not in the Gagosian or Pace stratosphere, qualify as small...
Barbara Rachko: I’ll Take Manhattan

Barbara Rachko: I’ll Take Manhattan

We’ve all seen the photos of a city self-isolating—empty restaurants, mournful faces at apartment-house windows, supermarket shelves stripped bare—but there is an upbeat aspect to the pandemic that has ravaged New York perhaps more than any other city in the country....
A Sculptor Turns to Urban Farming

A Sculptor Turns to Urban Farming

In the fall of 2018, Jamie Hamilton went looking for a place to dispose of scraps for compost in Los Angeles, his adopted home since moving from Santa Fe, NM, two years earlier. Through an organization called LA Compost, he discovered the Solano Community Garden in...
Shannon Wilkinson: Public Relations for Artists

Shannon Wilkinson: Public Relations for Artists

Shannon Wilkinson Public Relations for Artists SoundCloud Facebook Shannon Wilkinson, founder and president of Reputation Communications in New York, has a long and respected history of working with artists and arts groups on publicizing their projects to editors,...