Laura van Straaten has written about art and culture for Departures, Art Review, The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Magazine, The New York Times Style Magazine 'T,' The Hollywood Reporter, Harper's Bazaar Art Arabia and other print and online publications. In the past year, she has reported from Aspen, Budapest, Krakow, Miami, Rio, Rome, São Paulo, Stockholm, Venice and the United Arab Emirates. She has produced many award-winning news broadcasts and multi-media projects for NBC News, CNN, AOL, PBS and other media companies. She lives in Manhattan where she is at work on a theatrical adaption of a Henry James novella.
“It’s our own little Chelsea.” That’s what the American-born, Dubai-based art collector and arts patron Dana Farouki calls Alserkal Avenue, Dubai’s privately developed arts community.… Read More »Dubai’s Art District Expands with Alserkal Avenue
Anderson Ranch Arts Center sits at an elevation of 8,200 feet, at the head of the Brush Creek Valley, just above the town of Colorado’s Snowmass… Read More »Visiting Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado
In just the second half of this year, the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Richard Meier’s firm will have ribbon cuttings in Israel for a 39-story tower;… Read More »Inside Richard Meier’s Architecture Studio
When people think of cutting-edge art and design in Eastern Europe, they think: Berlin. But they’d do well to think of another B town, even… Read More »Is Budapest the New Berlin?
At the opening of the 56th Venice Biennale this week, is a seemingly unlikely presence: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose reputation of more than 150 years has… Read More »Joan Jonas Goes to Venice
Why does a New Yorker travel nearly 5,000 miles to see art? We had our reasons, when we flew to Brazil 10 days ago: to expose… Read More »10 Days in Brazil: Bienal de São Paulo, ArtRio, Feito por Brasileiros, and Inhotim
This year’s Frieze New York made me feel like a man who has preferred blondes for decades only to encounter, in one afternoon, a handful… Read More »Love and (Art) Lust at Frieze
New York photographer Lynn Savarese has a tiny, unusual exhibit up this month at Umbrella Arts in New York featuring her portraits of ancient taxidermied birds, many from the American… Read More »Fair & Fowl: Lynn Savarese’s Still life Aviary at Umbrella Arts
Art photographer Diane Tuft’s images read more like abstractions than landscapes. But landscapes they truly are, depictions of perhaps the least hospitable landscape on earth: Antarctica.… Read More »Diane Tuft: Abstractions of Antarctica
Three new shows of abstract paintings in New York share a musicality and colorful beauty that merit a mid-winter’s visit. The first is painter Margaret… Read More »Margaret Garrett, Emil Lukas, and Melissa Meyer
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