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High Cheekbones only at the National Arts Council.
Whether by design or scheming dogma the wonderful Andrea Tese brought a certain panache to Monday night’s young innovative awards (which she coincidentally won) at the National Arts Council. Standing in front of her daring pictures and equally daring...
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 believe this to be an acceptable segue.
The Black Honky art show of works by former...
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 get in. Of course this weekend this glam lad went for the jugular when he...
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 piece created some powerful back and forth in the comments field as well as a...
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 strange in the urban corner of Williamsburg where, two blocks ago, Bedford Avenue buzzed with...
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 is, there are plenty of collectors who can afford to throw down five grand for...
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 were in place, the gestures, cheek bones and the art that hung along the walls...
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 own art and void comes Lauren Ross’s wonderfully curated video ensemble – ‘Reflections on the...
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 stream leaked out from the inner depth of the great gallery to swallow innocent bystanders...
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 an endless supply of hors’ deaves and jalapeno tequila cocktails. The answer it seems is...
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 are treated to an intriguing dialogue on the passage of time, the idealization of youth,...
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 list – ‘the top 10’; ‘the best 50’; ‘the most important 100’”. Such ranks are...
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 empty little souls with any kind of perverse painkiller entertainment. This obviously creates the ultimate...
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 as a symbol of something very wrong with the world, or perhaps something very fine...
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 Portrait Project.” Interestingly enough, the art goers also seemed to have an underlying anchor -...
