Drift's Documentary to Show at DOC NYC

Drift film poster

Awarded Best Breakthrough Documentary at the San Diego International Film Festival, the documentary is set to premiere in NYC this November.

A documentary about Drift will premiere at the DOC NYC (documentary film festival) this November. It will be screened on November 15 and 17. The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Deon Taylor, producers Roxanne Taylor and Inbal Lessner, and Drift. The second screening will be followed by a Q&A with Drift. The documentary follows the photographer in his death-defying climbs and dazzling documentation of skyscrapers, monuments, and iconic structures across the world. In the film, Drift’s ensuing legal battles reveal the artist's fight for justice and free creative expression. The film was recently awarded Best Breakthrough Documentary at the San Diego International Film Festival.

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Behind the Lens & Through the Needle, Reviewed by Musée Magazine

Orly Cogan, The Book Within, 2026

By Ella Wilbur

"Artist Orly Cogan intricately fuses together both photography and needle work embroidery to explore themes of femininity, identity and craft. I was personally able to view this exhibition myself, and could see the richly layered world where stitched images and photographic prints combine to challenge traditional narratives surrounding women’s roles, sexuality, and creative expression." -Wilbur

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Artist Mary Mattingly Explores Commoning Tufts’ Campus Ecology

Mary Mattingly, Image courtesy of The Tufts Daily 

The Tufts University Ecologies visiting artist discusses a proposal for a functional living installation

Mary Mattingly speaks with The Tufts Daily about her work with Tufts University on the Question of the Commons project, which imagines the campus' future as a commons. The project proposes building an accessible, edible perennial landscape on a campus lawn. These gardens would serve as a site for "gathering and learning, and would be an experiment in what can grow on campus,” including the many relationships that stem from sustaining such a project.
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“I came into this project thinking that I would love to co-build more public food forests, because I think that is a way to bring people from outside campus [to campus], but it’s also a form of food security and something that students can learn from and enjoy,” Mattingly said. “What I learned was there’s a lot more that people want than that, and I think it has to do with just convening and having space that people feel is accessible on the lawn. ... There [were] equal amounts of excitement around being together, and I was thinking of it more as an access point. It’s made me really reconsider the importance of those other spaces that are outside the classroom but you feel welcomed into.” 

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Five Artists Who Treat the Earth as Both Medium and Beneficiary

Floating Garden, Erie Canal, Medina, NY, photo by Amanda Reis

Mary Mattingly Featured in The Observer 

Agnes Denes, Mary Mattingly, Maya Lin and their peers plant eco- and climate-conscious art in civic spaces to raise questions about land, food and who has access to both.
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It’s work that naturally and intentionally blurs boundaries. Mary Mattingly’s installations have included water filtration systems and floating gardens like Swale, a barge of edible plants launched next to a concrete plant in the South Bronx in 2016. As the artist told Observer, “An activist campaign often needs a clear demand, and education generally assumes that something known is being communicated. Art can remain unresolved. It can be contradictory, symbolic, impractical, beautiful or strange. And art gives me permission to work differently. Swale, for example, wanted to make a contradiction visible: food was growing abundantly in front of you, it was freely available, and the fact that this felt unusual exposed something about how we organize public space.”

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Orly Cogan and Robert Mann: Behind the Lens & Through the Needle

Behind the Lens & Through the Needle installation

Art Spiel Interview with Orly Cogan and Robert Mann

Artist Orly Cogan and director and owner Robert Mann sit down with ArtSpiel to discuss their decades-long partnership and Cogan's solo show at the gallery, Behind the Lens & Through the Needle. They elaborate on the union of fiber and photography, their artistic influences on each other, and the creative act of viewing art.

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Mary Mattingly Named a Winner of 2026 Environemental Grants

Mary Mattingly’s Floating Garden, Erie Canal, Medina, NY, image by Dawson Andrews, courtesy Medina Triennial

Artforum discusses the newly announced winners of the AWAW Environmental Art Grants program

Mary Mattingly has been announced as a grant recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) Environmental Art Grants program. In collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts, AWAW announced the recipients this month: "Twenty-seven projects led by women-identifying artists from across the United States and its territories whose work addresses ecological concerns will receive grants of up to $20,000 apiece, with funding totaling $498,180. The winners were chosen from among a pool of 1,206 applicants—the largest number to date—and include those whose projects are located in California, Guatemala, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Panama, and Puerto Rico."

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Interview with Orly Cogan

Orly Cogan, Held Abundance, 2026

By Helen Adams for Textile Curator

In anticipation of her solo show with the gallery, Orly Cogan discusses the development of her artistic practice, her evolving efforts to infuse feminist principles into her work, and her recent integration of photography within her new body of work. 

"At a certain point, it felt natural to bring these two languages [photography and textiles] together. A photograph captures a particular moment, while stitching is slow, physical, and accumulative. By adding thread, felt, and other textile elements to a printed image, I can interrupt the photograph and move beyond what it initially records. The surface becomes both an image and an object, combining the immediacy of photography with the intimacy, touch, and labor of my hand." -Cogan 

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Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial

Mary Mattingly, Floating Garden, 2026, Courtesy of the Medina Triennial

Mary Mattingly featured in Hyperallergic's review of the Medina Triennial

"MEDINA, N.Y. — It was artist Mary Mattingly, known for her large-scale, often livable floating structures that address climate change in the form of rising water, who first told me about the Medina Triennial about a year ago. Knowing that Mattingly was launching her Floating Garden (2026), a new, permanent iteration of Swale, a publicly accessible edible garden she first launched on New York City’s East River in 2016, was enough to get me to Medina. But having attended the opening weekend of the Venice Biennale the month before, I was wary of traveling to see art at a time when so much of the world is in crisis."
-Sara Reisman, Hyperallergic

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"The Door Slid Open and My Jaw Dropped": the Astonishing Sculptures Only Ever Seen by 20 People

Image from Jem Southam’s book, Ray’s Sheds

Jem Southam's new book reviewed in The Guardian

Ray Exworth (1930–2015) spent six decades creating one of Britain’s most extraordinary bodies of sculpture – and almost nobody has seen it. Hidden inside a labyrinth of sheds on a remote Cornish smallholding, his vast, obsessive constructions have remained locked away from the world, visited only by a fortunate few. Even his wife Susie, 92, was largely kept out. “I could not visit without an invitation!” she recalls.
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A new book by photographer Jem Southam, Ray’s Sheds, provides unprecedented access to Exworth’s stunning work for the first time. Southam believes only 20 people have seen inside Ray’s sheds. His book is not only a detailed document of an exceptional art practice that may never otherwise see the light of day, but an intriguing inquiry into what it means to be an artist – and what the purpose of art is – when it is never publicly seen.

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Orly Cogan Brings Images to Life with Needle and Thread

Orly Cogan, Stitching Schiele, 2021

By: Dorothé Swinkels

Orly Cogan's practice is featured in the Dutch magazine, TxP (Textiel Plus). The article explores the artistic development of her practice, her hybrid approach to textile art, and transforming a photograph "into a tangible, living surface" through embroidery.

"Orly redefines embroidery not as decoration, but as an intimate, poetic, and contemporary language that simultaneously evokes a surrealist embrace of dreams and the irrational. Subtly yet emphatically, her embroidered tableaus draw upon the feminine as a source of sensitivity, humor, and resilience. The softness of the yarn forms a stage for disarming truths, where childlike wonder coexists with cultural criticism. Her practice builds upon the feminist revaluation of needlework, pioneered by artists such as Miriam Schapiro, Louise Bourgeois, and Judy Chicago."

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