Naomi Otsu

Sep 2, 2024 | family.style | Naomi Otsu |Joshua Glass |Rose Courteau

There’s one thing that New Yorkers do when they visit a city. They orient themselves by comparing various neighborhoods to the ones from home. I think it’s some weird security mechanism (at least for me) and attempted, while visiting Chicago for the first time. I quickly abandoned these thoughts after realizing it wasn’t what I expected. What makes Chicago special? For me, it’s the architecture and the river that runs throughout the city paired with their well designed public spaces.

Sep 2, 2024 | family.style | Althea Champion |Naomi Otsu |Joshua Glass

For Kameelah Janan Rasheed, text is never fixed. In her solo show at Anonymous, "beneath this sentence is a hole* and your words are leaking. i place my mouth at the puncture site, waiting to be engorged by your lactating punctuation,” the Brooklyn-based artist’s cryptographic work comes to an intimate New York gallery for the first time.

Apr 23, 2024 | grubstreet.com | Adam Reiner |Naomi Otsu

Thanks to dropping rents and the arrival of some younger residents, the UES’s reputation as a sleepy restaurant desert is changing. Take Hoexters, a tavern that mixes martinis with smashburgers and mortadella plates in a room adorned with a 17-foot mural that once hung in the original Hoexter’s Market (it was around the corner), depicting that restaurant’s regulars.