Honey in the coffee

At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. We are in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. An old Sugar factory, Domino Sugar Refinery, dated from 1882, a refinery that was producing sugar for nearly half of the entire Unites States, stands on the East River. The refinery stopped functioning in 2004. Nowadays it is a symbolic monument that it is about to be destroyed. Visitors entering the enormous space will be greeted by a 35.5 feet high sphinx-like figure by well-known African-American artist, Kara Walker. The sugar-coated sphinx will stand in the space for one more week. “Watching Kara Walkerʼs work come to life in the unadorned, expansive space of the Domino factory, with its molasses covered walls and natur...

Tonight I was just captured by this amazing cafe' in New York. Designed by Front Studio Architects , here images of beautiful McNally Jackson Books Café .  The flying books and the 'printed pages' wall are a good way to look above in search of the next good book to read or the pleasure to find a sentence on the wall, just right for the day.    photos by Maggie Soladay Photography 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette and Mulberry) New York, NY 10012 212.274.1160

  Yesterday, in the evening, I had a chance to attend an interesting conference at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Adachiara Zevi, Art historian and Architect, was introducing the work of American artist Sol LeWitt.  This conversation was offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Empire State, art in New York today" . Mrs Zevi not only had the chance to be the last one to interview the artist, but she also curated a recent exhibition at Museo Madre (Napoli), "Sol LeWitt. The artist and his artists". Adachiara Zevi Art historian and architect Adachiara Zevi, who penned the first collection of essays by and on Sol LeWitt as well as producing a recent book devoted to Wall Drawings in Italy, will be introducing her audience to the work and thought of this American artist - the man behind a revolution in artistic vocabulary without which it is impossible to understand today's art - and to his unique approach to conceptual art. ...

Nick Cave HEARD ·NY  March 25-31, 2013 Grand Central Terminal Vanderbilt Hall @11am and 2pm every day If you are in New York these days I recommend to pay a visit to Grand Central Terminal, but you don't need to take a train, you just wonder around the Vanderbilt Hall, feel the people around you and wait for thirty horses to arrive. Beautiful and colourful life-size horses will make their appearance twice a day. Passers-by will assist to a well arranged choreography.  Unless they are informed in advance, the travellers will be surely surprised and pleased. Photograph: Caroline Voagen Nelson Those creatures are the new public art project by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave . Cave opens to people his "Soundsuits", wearable sculptures. They will be in display when they are not being worn. At a closer look, the spectator will recognise patterns from different countries from India to Morocco to Tibet. Each horse will embrace a whole racial and cultural...

Last week I received an email by London-based artist Zak Ové announcing his New York debut show at Volta, the successful art fair taking place these days at 7W 34 th Street, directly across the Empire State Building. I was very pleased to hear it!! Ové attained a BA in Film as Fine Art at St Martins School of Art in London, and from there pursued a career in both film and photography. He is an extraordinary Film Director, Photographer and Sculptor. I 'met' Zak's work many years ago while working at the tv series Funky Black Shorts for the Community Channel in London. His short film ‘I Have a Dream’ (2002) caught my attention immediately. It is absolutely brilliant! The film was the winner of the best short film award as well as Best Director and Best Up and Coming Talent at the Black Film Awards in the UK, and was screened at various film festivals around the world. ‘I Have a Dream’ was shot in New York where Zak lived for many years. It mu...