Art

From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic features of the disease and the viruses causing it, using as research such subjects as conscientious objectors, prison inmates, the mentally ill, among others—including children. Drawing from archival research and in-person interviews, Sydney Halpern, a […]

After his debut last November with Carminium, Italian artist Federico Vezzaro has returned to New York for his second solo exhibition in the Big Apple, Beyond the Surface, which opened yesterday, April 3, at the Temple Gallery in New York. Once again, he brought with him a medium he himself has described as “new,” one

This week, the Philippe Labaune Gallery introduced “Together” to the art district’s community. Critics and art lovers packed the small gallery to take in the 16 acrylic paintings in Ponzi’s new collection. A traditional medium for a not-so-traditional process. Ponzi’s process began with pen and paper: “I began by writing some diary pages, as if

It’s fair to say that New York City’s modern art scene has seen it all. An Italian artist is on a mission to disrupt this reality with his invention of a brand new medium. Federico Vezzaro spent 15 years developing a way to imprint designs onto metal sheets by exploiting surfaces’s natural oxidation process. The