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Dress Codes: ICP Triennial of Photography and Video.
The third triennial video and photography exhibit at the International Center for Photography, was aptly entitled “ Dress Code.” Featured artists provided their own...
INVEN.TORY Exhibition: The Point Suite Pop-Up Show.
In our short-attention-span culture, the idea of the pop-up show, exhibits, or just about pop-up anything seems rather appealing and exciting....
The Yale MFA Photography thesis Show at the Jason McCoy Gallery
The Yale MFA Photography Thesis Show opened this Wednesday at the Jason McCoy Chelsea gallery. Curated by Sabrina Wirth, founder and director of...
‘Buy some love.’ So how much would you pay for a dollar bill?
Here comes food for thought via artist du jour Skye Nicolas who once again pushes the envelope with his newest piece 'Buy Some Love.'
Ostensibly what...
Collector accidentally breaks Jeff Koons $42K balloon dog: so what is art?
Jeff Koons $42K balloon dog sculpture accidentally broken by curious art collector at a Miami gallery re-ignites question of what constitutes art and how...
Cultural Disarray; Starring ‘Google,” “Michael Jackson,” and “Paris Hilton.”
Given the recent capitulation of society at large being parlayed in vast banking failures, improbable political imperatives (invading Iran and Russia brought to you...
Akut and Hera- if only you were as beautiful as us…
If you Google “Redflagg Herakut opening”, you will undoubtedly be directed to a number of art forums, each with multiple frantic posts from Herakut...
Retina Overload— the Photography of Scott Alger.
"One-one thousand, two-one thousand," Scott Alger counts time as he shines a bright yellow light in the face of a frozen Juliet. He is...
Here & Now at the Lyons Wier Gallery.
If the measure of an art exhibition is the degree to which it gains maximum exposure for its artists, then the opening of the...
Why Jana Romanova took pictures of sleeping pregnant parents to be.
When asked what provoked her to start taking pictures of pregnant parents to be Russia's Jana Romanova answers at the time when she first undertook...
Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness
The issue of race is not black and white. And what isn’t grey is the fact that this fictitious idea of “race”...
Ellis Gallagher: Urban Legend?
New York nightlife abounded at Ellis Gallagher’s New York City-reflective art exhibit on Bowery and Delancey at the Collective Hardware Gallery Thursday night. A...
Gender/bender…
Art. Social commentary. Personal discovery. How should these concepts interact? All three can comment on the others, so does one deserve precedence over the...
With Vampires and A Wedding, Michael Alan’s Living Installation Proves Its the Next New...
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...
The 10 most famous artists. From Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dali
The 10 most famous artists reflected: From time to time, true geniuses were born among mere mortals to bring beauty and awe to ordinary...
