Amanda Ryan

Amanda is the NYC Events Editor at Artlog. In her free time, she occasionally writes for fashion and culture blog Cellar Paper and collaborates with digital publishing house RATIOGOLD. She completed her BA in Political Science at NYU with a focus on international relations and development.

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This Week in NYC
02/01 | Amanda Ryan

Winter getting you down? Escape NYC this week in Flux Factory’s utopian village, also known as Banquet for America. A group of conceptual and performance artists will inhabit a mock village for the week and explore the ritual and communal aspects of the banquet table in their town square. At Salon 94 Bowery, Jon Kessler’s multimedia installation The Blue Period explores the pitfalls of a consumerist society mediated by technology. Cameras throughout the exhibition will display both live and prerecorded footage, blurring reality and artifice.

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The New Cultural Center of Miami
11/21 | Amanda Ryan

101/Exhibit opened in the Design District in 2008 and has become a fixture on the Miami gallery circuit. Since 101/Exhibit opened, Schaffer says,“The area has come 180 degrees in the past few years. The Design District has seen such a rapid transformation, and I think it’s destined to be the new cultural center of Miami. This area is like the mecca for galleries and it has some of the greatest private collections in the world nearby."

Finding the Mayhem in Sherrie Levine's Retrospective
11/14 | Amanda Ryan

When Sherrie Levine debuted her famous series of photographs After Walker Evans at Metro Pictures in 1981, the pieces provoked outrage, confusion, and most importantly, conversation. In the series, Levine rephotographed Walker Evans’ iconic depression-era photographs, raising questions about authorship and context. How are Levine’s artworks distinct from the originals by Evans? Does the new context change their meaning?

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Latin American Art at ABMB, Satellite Fair Highlights
12/09 | Amanda Ryan

Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest art fair in the country, returned for its tenth installment last week, and the event continues to take on epic proportions with numerous satellite fairs, scores of nightly events, an estimated one billion dollars in sales at the main fair, and record attendance of fifty thousand.

Action or Sculpture?
12/20 | Amanda Ryan

Since the 1980s, Erwin Wurm has created “one-minute sculptures,” for which a participant strikes an unlikely pose with an object while being filmed or photographed. Demonstrating that the performance is more important than the end product, in some videos Wurm attempts impossible balancing acts, failing again and again for the duration of the minute. He explains that, “I want to deal with with the idea of ‘is this an action or is this a sculpture?’ When does one turn into the other?”