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Looking for Plato at Collective Hardware.

Plato’s theory of forms holds that there exists a perfect other in a removed world of which ours is a sad, poor copy. I...

Glamour Boy Andrew Levitas gives you Mean Painting.

Glamour Boys are generally to be found in front of the screen or smoking European cigarettes at low key locales that you can never...

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...

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...

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...

Glamour arrives at the Artseen NY Benefit. If only you were there too…

Arriving last night to the NY Foundation for the Arts, 'Artseen' Benefit was like coming to a wonderful performance art piece, all the characters...

Beyond the Jugular: The New Feminists arrive.

In an art world and a wider culture that so often portrays women as models and muses as opposed to the creators of their...

Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian. Beyond the box…

Due to some abnormal external forces, the gallery-goers at the Gagosian opening last Thursday knew to automatically lock themselves into a queue. This magnetic...

Clic Gallery, and how they all flocked.

Here’s the question on my mind. Does art sell better when it’s surrounded by lots of beautiful people, correct cheek bones, foreign accents and...

Miss Subway Girl: Then and Now.

Beauty. It is the thing that our society craves and rewards. In Fiona Gardner’s upcoming photo exhibit ‘Meet Miss Subway,’ at Rush Gallery we...

The Impossible Collection comes to Assouline.

 “when editors are bored, they drink” said Moran Bar-Kochva, recalling his old days as a journalist, “and then they decide to do some sort of ranking...

JOHN WATERS-“Old Chickens Make Good Soup.”

We love the recession. Seriously, it’s great. Why? Because people maddeningly pant around town, tongues hanging loose like rabid wolves, looking to quench their...

Being Broke, Disillusioned and Suicidal Creates Better Art.

One can imagine that living in Berlin during the long period in which city was bisected by two rival, globe-spanning uber-entities – thereby serving...

Say ‘Cheese’- Glitterati Pop-up Shop Explores Our Identities. 

  Tuesday night, artists, musicians, supporters, and friends gathered at Rush Arts Gallery on West 26th to take part in Glitterati Magazine Nicholas Fahey’s “Your...

Sun K. Kwak- Undulating and Winding deep into your Soul.

  When you first walk into the Brooklyn Museums vast 5th room floor (the B.Gerald Cantor Gallery) your first impulse is to run your hands...