Art takes Manhattan is back for the New York Art Week at Caelum Gallery (508 W 26th St.) from February 28th to March 6th. “The idea behind the show is offering highly skilled art from all the corners of the world in Chelsea, in Manhattan. And we also want to impress. We'll literally have giants wandering the gallery, ten feet long paintings and projections. On Saturday at 6pm we'll held a video art projection session that's both stylistically sound and profoundly entertaining." Manuel Rodriguez, director of Art takes Manhattan told us.

The stated mission of the New York Art Week Show 2017 is opening Manhattan's art market to highly skilled artists from all over the world in any possible media, but we wonder why their Sunday roundtable only features New York artists.

The monumental sculptural group The Wanderers by Spanish artist Maria Lago will greets you as you begin exploring a collection of precious delighting art. You will experience an audio visual installation created by a Chinese-born artist Guang Zhu, who uses the confluence of mathematics, philosophy and music to create fluid visual representations. You will gaze at the suspended figures of Cuban artist Franklin Álvarez Fortun, who explores the relationship between freedom and power. A painfully beautiful sculpture Ring Around the Rosie by Brazilian artist Simone Kestelman aims at reminding us to protect those who are helpless. An award-winning photographic artist Carol Sharp invites you to dive into the Underworld of the delicate yet chaotic universe with her series of photographs of nature.

So we ask the director what's the ethos of this show really? "Our approach is all about the artist. The artist knows about art, art historians critics and curators know about periods theories trends... The data is clear: the only reliable predictor of the art that will be culturally relevant tomorrow is the taste of the artists today. Magnus Resch and others have grinded the numbers. We have to listen to the artists, and that's what we're going to do on Sunday. We'll have a roundtable with artists that live deep into New York's art scene, they know what artists like and what's going on below the surface of the commercial art of the day. So come Sunday at 6 and discover something new"

Other exhibiting artists include: Alexandra Averbach, Connie Freid, Daniel Rosenbaum, Donna Lomangino, Edelweiss Calcagno, Fiona Kinsella, Jack Rosenberg, Jamie Martinez, Javier Infantes, Karen Lemmert, Leila Pinto, Mariko Swisher, Mariusz Navratil, Natalia Berschin, Nicholas Down, Rae Broyles, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Ryota Matsumoto, Sima Schloss, Simone Kestelman, and Tim Hoover.

Exhibition Schedule

February 28th – March 6th 2017

February 28th
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Press & VIP pass
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)

March 1st
10:00 am - 08:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)

March 2nd
10:00 am - 09:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)
6:00 pm - 09:00 pm Opening Reception (Free Entry)

March 3rd
10:00 am - 8:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)

March 4th
10:00 am - 6:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Video Art Projection Session (Free Entry) with artists Shahar Tuchner, Guang Zhu, Ela Goldman, and Willy Hartland

March 5th
10:00 am - 6:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Round Table (Free Entry) with artists Jamie Martinez, Paul Morris and Daniel Rosenbaum

March 6th
10:00 am - 3:00 pm Public viewing (Free Entry)