Jean Shin

It was “March Madness” at downtown gallery Fort Gansevoort on Thursday — although some of the artists in the sports-centered show that shares its name with the NCAA basketball playoffs weren’t necessarily following the tournament.

The week is of course dominated by two news items: The Whitney Biennial and The Wintery Downfall.

In her studio in the Red Hook neighbourhood of Brooklyn, Jean Shin puts keyboard keys on a large mat the size of a kitchen table.

The Second Avenue Subway opened earlier this month, with artwork by Chuck Close, Jean Shin, Sarah Sze, and Vik Muniz, and something strange happened: New Yorkers didn't complain. Instead, city dwellers welcomed new offerings like Close's mosaics of musician Lou Reed and Muniz's Perfect Strangers, which celebrates the diversity of New York City and features what is believed to be the first permanent, not explicitly political art installation in NY to depict a gay couple.

This week it was all about public installations for Art21 artists. Jenny Holzer’s text piece for the New York City AIDS memorial officially opened to the public.

[W]hen commuters descend into the new Second Avenue subway’s four stations, at 96th, 86th, 72nd and 63rd Streets, now set for New Year’s Day — or perhaps a little later if things don’t go as planned — they will find one of the most ambitious contemporary art projects in tile work that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has ever undertaken.

Recycled rebar will make the Seattle North Transfer Station more beautiful

Second Avenue subway in New York, sometimes referred to as “The Line That Time Forgot,” has been in the works for more than 75 years.

While the weather has cooled considerably with the onset of fall, the southern states continue to sizzle with the hottest art exhibitions and events. We’re marking our calendars and heading for the (presumably) sunnier states to see some of the season’s most varied exhibits below the Mason-Dixon line. Whatever your taste, we’ve got you covered...here's our round-up of the hottest shows sure to please every art-loving palate: MutualArt.com's top 10 southern highlights selection!

Second Avenue subway in New York, sometimes referred to as “The Line That Time Forgot,” has been in the works for more than 75 years.

While the weather has cooled considerably with the onset of fall, the southern states continue to sizzle with the hottest art exhibitions and events. We’re marking our calendars and heading for the (presumably) sunnier states to see some of the season’s most varied exhibits below the Mason-Dixon line. Whatever your taste, we’ve got you covered...here's our round-up of the hottest shows sure to please every art-loving palate: MutualArt.com's top 10 southern highlights selection!

When a host takes out the good silverware, it signals the party is important, right?

Famed painter Chuck Close has been commissioned to install a roughly $1 million giant work of mosaics, a series of portraits representative of the city’s straphangers, at the East 86th Street subway station, according to officials from the MTA’s Arts for Transit.