NY Observer > Puck Building http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/25212/feed Articles from Observer.com en Art or Artifact? The Dilemma of 'Outsider Art' http://www.observer.com/2008/art-or-artifact-dilemma-outsider-art

Last weekend, 34 galleries from around the world set up booths in the Puck Building for Sanford Smith's 16th Annual Outsider Art Fair.

Most of the art shown was not very good, but it is instructive to see so much of it together. The viewer learns that naivete and obsession are not magic bullets: for every Bill Traylor, whose simple drawings of animals are as elegant and beautiful as the greatest cave paintings, there are dozens of artists whose work is not apparently but actually naive.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/art-or-artifact-dilemma-outsider-art#comments Arts & Culture George Widener Outsider Art Puck Building Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:47:04 -0500 Will Heinrich 64184 at http://www.observer.com Frustration at Puck http://www.observer.com/node/27653
Freddy gave a strong speech last night, more coherent and more passionate than Anthony's. He did sound like he'd won something.

But the real result at the Puck Building -- 39.9% makes Freddy something like the Job of city politics; perhaps boils are next -- was visible on the faces of Ferrer's close aides.

As the speech would up, advisor Roberto Ramirez and Ferrer's campaign lawyer, Stanley Schlein, stood by a curtain on the East Side of the room. As Freddy concluded with the words "God bless New York," Schlein exhaled glumly and Ramirez, in a gesture of pure frustration, smacked his palm into his forehead.
]]> http://www.observer.com/node/27653#comments Politics Puck Building Roberto Ramirez Stanley Schlein Wed, 14 Sep 2005 05:52:00 -0400 Observer Staff 27653 at http://www.observer.com Midtown's Brasserie Reopens But Where Are the Revelers? http://www.observer.com/node/42951 The friend who drove me to Brasserie for dinner was not in great shape.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/42951#comments Arts & Culture Italy Philip Johnson Puck Building The Seagram Co. Ltd. Sun, 21 May 2000 20:00:00 -0400 Moira Hodgson 42951 at http://www.observer.com