NY Arts Magazine or NY Arts, was founded by Abraham Lubelski

Abraham Lubelski

Abraham Lubelski is an American contemporary artist and founder of NYArts Magazine, also known as New York Arts Magazine.He was born in Siberia, USSR, and emigrated to the United States with his parents, becoming a U. S. citizen in 1954....

 in 1995. NY Arts Magazine is published quarterly, as well as online, and is edited by Jason Stopa, a graduate of Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

. Jason Stopa replaced Suzie Walshe as executive editor in 2011.

NYArts has a readership of over 65,000. The magazine is available at over 2,000 U.S. and international locations including galleries, museums, artist supply houses, libraries and bookstores.

It is a contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 magazine that deals primarily with what's going on in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. Contributors have included Arthur Danto

Arthur Danto

Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (born January 1, 1924 is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy. He is best known as the influential, long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he...

, Robert C. Morgan

Robert C. Morgan

Robert C. Morgan is an American art critic, art historian, curator, poet, and visual artist.-Background:Robert C. Morgan received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975 and his Ph.D. in contemporary art history from New York University in 1978...

, Achille Bonito Oliva

Achille Bonito Oliva

Achille Bonito Oliva, is a recognized and respected Italian contemporary art critic, author of many essays on mannerism, and a professor of History of Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University in Rome...

, Valery Oisteanu

Valery Oisteanu

Valery Oişteanu is a Soviet-born Romanian and American poet, art critic, essayist, photographer and performance artist, whose style reflects the influence of Dada and Surrealism. Oişteanu is the author of more than a dozen published books of poetry, a book of short fiction, and a book of essays...

, Enrico Pedrini

Enrico Pedrini

Enrico Pedrini is an academic, theorist and collector of Conceptual Art. He is a professor of epistemology in Italy.-Research and curation:...

, Lee Klein

Lee Klein

Lee Klein is a poet, curator, essayist, and writer on the arts.-Career:He is the author of the "World's Biggest Shopping Mall Poem" about the taking over of reality by consumer culture...

, Stefano Pasquini

Stefano Pasquini

Stefano Pasquini, artist and writer. Received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna in 1991, then immediately left his country for Dublin, briefly, then London for seven years, and New York. He is currently based in Bologna, where he works...

and Dennis Bellone.

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