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Synapse, by Yasuto Sasada. Eye-catching and whimsical.
Yasuto Sasada premiered his first American gallery at CATM Chelsea one recent Friday ago. Combining traditional Japanese cultural tropes with a sci-fi sensibility, he gave a collection that was both eye-catching and whimsically interesting.
Working primarily with pen as his...
The Art of Occupy Wall Street
This time Occupy Wall Street hit the jackpot. Right in the face of the stock exchange, at the corner of Wall St. and Broad St., our heroes managed to get their hands on a huge abandoned building and turn...
Inside the tortured mind of torture-device artist Killian Skarr
From the street it looks like any other rundown home in any other industrial town in the Midwest rust-belt. It isn’t really until you gain access to the front room that you begin to realize just how much truth...
With Vampires and A Wedding, Michael Alan’s Living Installation Proves Its the Next New York Art Sensation
On one recent Friday night, Michael Alan’s Living Installation did the unthinkable—performed two completely different shows with different music on each side of ABC No Rio. Not only did the two shows—one a brightly-lit Wedding and the other, a dark...
The Prettiest Girl in the Room: Frank Benson’s Human Statue (Jessie) at Taxer & Spengermann
With Fashion Week, Fashion’s Night Out and the first openings of the September Chelsea gallery shows, it seemed near impossible that an exhibition of a singular sculpture could hold its own in the visual overload happening on the streets. ...
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 biggest turnout of the summer. Why had everybody braved the rainstorm
and risked weepy...
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 what you thought of his work. And the truth is we all loved his work...
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 release of her first solo book project: 'Femme Fatale: Female Erotic Photography," with 1000 of...
Morrison Hotel Gallery Presents a Bob Dylan Photo Experience
Bob Dylan’s music career is the stuff of legend. This is not news. What is newsworthy is the limited release publication of Ken Regan’s photographs of Dylan from 1975. Morrison Hotel Gallery, a charming Soho storefront with a taste for...
The new oxymoron of street art: Vans ads or vandalism?
You’ve seen them everywhere around the city, those bigger-than-life murals touting various brands of alcohol, fashion, video games, movies, and art exhibits. The company behind the majority of these impressive, giant ads is none other than Colossal Media- the...
Celebrating the Life of Clark Hulings, an American Master’s final exhibit
Tuesday night saw the unveiling of master realist, Clark Hulings at the Forbes Gallery. Honoring various entities and persons that Huling had come across during his lifetime travels, Hulings' watercolors on papers, oil paintings on canvas and board, pen,...
Damon Johnson, The Beautiful Chaos: A Style Installation.
Not even half an inch of “Winter Mix” could keep NY’s artists and fashionistas away from Wednesday’s trendy Art opening. Held at Gallery Bar on 120 Orchard ,the opening reception (Party) for Damon Johnson, (The Beautiful Chaos: A Style Installation),...
Jose Parla: Walls, Diaries and Paintings
Brooklyn based Cuban-born artist, Jose Parla exhibited fifteen new paintings, this past Thursday at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. Entitled “Walls, Diaries and Paintings,” I hadn’t seen such a small space so tightly packed in years—and the lively acoustic drummers outside the 24th street gallery,...
RETNA: The Hallelujah World Tour, presented by Andy Valmorbida & Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
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RETNA: Hallelujah World Tour from viejas del mercado on Vimeo.
Valmorbida & Roitfeld kick off Fashion Week with RETNA’s first New York solo show .
New York, NY – Thursday, February 11, 2011:...
The Sleek set turn up for Albert Watson at Milk.
If you are in the business of gawking at sleek looking children with perfect jawlines and too high cheekbones we certainly hope you were in attendance this past Thursday night over at Milk where a beguiling crowd turned up...
