21. (Downtown)

By Raphael Rubinstein

OCT 2020 | The Miraculous

A young artist full of admiration for Mark Rothko and abstraction in general is unsatisfied with her own paintings because they don’t seem to address the pressing problems in the world around her.

John Giorno: The Life and Death of a Poet

By Penny Arcade

DEC 19-JAN 20 | In Memoriam

On October 11th 2019 the pioneering poet, painter and artistic entrepreneur left his body at 222 Bowery, the Queen Anne Romanesque Revival style building built in 1880 as the first YMCA in New York. Giorno lived there since 1962, spread out over three lofts in this building, which was once honeycombed with the studios of countless artists including Mark Rothko and Fernand Léger