--- title: 2018_Oakes_New York Magazine_Weschler date: 2018-02-21T13:24:00-05:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018-oakes-new-york-magazine-weschler" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) There’s a Human Camera Obscura in the New York Public Library New York Magazine Feb 20, 2018 The good folks beavering away at their long tables in the magisterial north Rose Main Reading Room on the third floor of the New York Public Library’s main building might be excused for feeling spied upon. “What is that thing?” they’ve been asking the guards over the past several months, pointing up at the eerie, tripod-mounted, radarlike dish mounted on the narrow balcony at the far end of the airy, vaultlike space. Much of the time, the object is unmanned. But every once in a while, a lanky, long-haired young man will amble along the mezzanine balcony and squeeze himself into the narrow cockpit behind the dish, wedging his skull into a white helmet, and start taking measurements, or inventories, or calculations, or something. All very still, his arm jammed into the concave shell, scratching away infinitesimally, for hours on end (and indeed long after the place has otherwise closed down for the night). “What the hell is that guy doing?” **[Read more here](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-human-camera-obscura-in-the-new-york-public-library.html)** Related News & Press Feb 12, 2018 [ ![Oakes Flatiron Building 2014 Hero](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Flatiron-Building-2014_hero.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018-armory-show-oakes-twins) Feb 12, 2018 Ronald Feldman Gallery [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [The Armory Show 2018: Ryan & Trevor Oakes](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018-armory-show-oakes-twins) Mar 15, 2017 [ ![Oakes Bond Street Terrace 2014](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Bond-Street-Terrace-2014.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-oakes-nautilus) Mar 15, 2017 Nautilus [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-oakes-nautilus) Jun 05, 2014 [ ![Oakes Have No Narrow Perspective Field Museum 2009](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Have-No-Narrow-Perspective-Field-Museum-2009.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2014-oakes-livescience) Jun 05, 2014 Live Science [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [Double Vision: Twin Artists Create Curved, Lifelike Landscapes](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2014-oakes-livescience) May 28, 2014 [ ![Oakes Frac Orange And Green 2005](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Frac-Orange-and-Green-2005.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2014-oakes-huffington-post) May 28, 2014 The Huffington Post [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [Identical Twins Combine Art And Math In Hypnotic Exhibition](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2014-oakes-huffington-post) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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