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Affordable Art that’s crazy, if only we could afford that too.
There is no universally acceptable definition of "affordable," and thus I'm fine with the Affordable Art Fair's self-description as such; Manhattan being what it...
Femme Fatale: Reka Nyari, master of the female erotic form.
Last night I was exposed to a fabulous crowd, amazing music, and titillating photography. What was the occasion you may ask?
Reka Nyari celebrated the...
Beware Reka Nyari! Brilliant Photography.
Being born in Finland, and growing up in Budapest is an unusual beginning and one which, thanks to her parents, has given Reka Nyari...
Bambaseled: The Pleasures and Follies of Art Basel Miami 2013
Art Basel Miami 2013. Here we go again...
Our party posse crept stealthily into Miami's South Beach over the MacArthur Causeway as the moon rose over Biscayne Bay looking...
The last dandy- Sebastian Horsley.
Sebastian Horsley the last dandy remembered; Why he mattered.
For those who never knew Sebastian Horsley while he was alive was only what the tabloids...
Melanie Bonajo Book Launch; a loss for words.
Photography by Paul WR Perez.
A large, yellow school bus lumbers past the fire escapes of Brooklyn tenement buildings.
Hebrew letters sprawl across its side, seemingly...
Lucien Freud gone. What will we do without him now?
For all intensive purposes Lucien Freud was the rake of the art world. The dandy that didn't care what you thought of him, just...
William Powhida in A Tale of Three Covers
William Powhida, How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality, cover art, Brooklyn Rail, November 2009
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Shepard Fairey admits the obvious: NYC artists can’t afford to live here anymore, fleeing...
It might come as a tinge of irony and cynicism but million dollar street artist Shephard Fairey has come out to tell that NYC...
Silhouette Building Sets the Gold Standard of Green
There are moments—those rare, freak occurrences where all the pieces come together to create something marvelous. It’s...
Artists 4 Israel. You make up your own mind…
One of the most scandalous articles published on this site concerned (S)kin, a monthly, meaningful life drawing class hosted by Artists 4 Israel. The...
After Hours at Krause gallery.
A large crowd of beautiful beatniks spilled out of Krause Gallery and into Orchard street Friday night as the After Hours event saw it's...
The downtown set hit Collective Hardware.
In the depths of the Bowery, between the shuttered down shops and chipped doorways to walk-ups, lies Collective Hardware, otherwise known as 169 Bowery.
Anticipation and...
Did you get into Vito Schnabel Aby Rosen’s Bowery exhibition?
It seems the real art this weekend at the newly opened First Show/Last Show as curated by model chaser, Vito Schnabel and Aby Rosen’s...
Agathe de Balliencourt- ‘Expressway to your skull,’ a mind numbing blow out.
Friday nights saw us heading over to chic art laboratory and salon (as they like to call themselves) Lu Magnus, a co...
