Lucien Smith was an up-and-coming art star — until he quit his galleries. Now he’s reviving the legendary Soho artists restaurant Food.

“Gordon Matta-Clark: NYC Graffiti 1972/3” has the feel of a time capsule that never veers too far into didacticism, while the art almost makes you feel like you’re there.

Gordon Matta-Clark's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 86 USD to 241,522 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record ...

In one corner hangs the poster for Circus – The Caribbean Orange, a 1978 installation by Gordon Matta-Clark, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. For that piece, Matta-Clark ...

Gordon Matta-Clark’s caged rosebush, hidden in plain sight for 52 years, is marked and restored Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is ...

Across the pond, the 1970s Soho eatery FOOD was envisioned by a group of artists, including the neighborhood fixture Gordon Matta-Clark, and set a precedent for artist-run culinary projects with ...

See All . In 1971, Carol Goodden, age 31, was living in a loft on East 4th Street with her artist boyfriend, Gordon Matta-Clark. His work was never restricted to something you could hang on a wall ...

See over 200 of Gordon Matta-Clark’s photos, many of which have never been on display in public, from the earliest years of New York’s graffiti scene during this show at Beyond the Streets.

In spring 1971, American artist Gordon Matta-Clark roasted a whole pig on a spit under New York’s Brooklyn Bridge in a performance aptly called Pig Roast, making 500 roast pork sandwiches from ...

In 1974, artist Gordon Matta-Clark set to work on a performance art piece. He took his chainsaw to an abandoned house in New Jersey and carefully, deliberately, cut the home down the middle. Once that ...

From Gordon Matta-Clark to Cecilia Vicuña, artists have explored New York's hidden ecology for decades, challenging human ideas about property rights and anticipating recent recognition that ...