Tag: Art
Joyce Hope Suskind and Olaf Ringdahl: Manhattan arts couple commit suicide
Joyce Hope Suskind and Olaf Ringdahl: Manhattan arts couple commit suicide, life imitating art. Long term married couple make pact to end life together after illness.
A Manhattan arts couple who spent their lives together on Sunday afternoon committed suicide.
Found...
Casey Nocket photos: Unremorseful Graffiti artist banned after vandalizing national parks
Casey Nocket graffiti artist: Was she creating art or simply vandalizing public land for her own ego? How public outrage led to one 'artist' being punished.
Casey Nocket an upstate NY graffiti artist has been banned from national parks after...
The Art World and The Glitterati Converge Over Cheese Sticks
By: Sarah Hartshorne
On February 3rd the French Institute in New York City hosted the opening reception for Greg Laurens’s installation Counter Couture. Lauren’s piece consists of beautifully constructed men’s clothing, all made of paper. There are elaborately constructed suit...
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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December 26, 2009. The Brooklyn Rail, founded in 1998, is a scrappy, independent cultural/political broadsheet that...
Kid Sister and Hendershot Gallery take over the Delano Hotel.
Having events for events sake is Arts Basel's insidious allure. Self promotion is rampant-- whether it is ladies going out at night in as little clothing as possible advertising their availability, or galleries giving the proverbial middle finger to...
Art World Celebrities and figures. Which came first the chicken or egg?
After a frenzied rush to get VIP passes into the exclusive Art Basel lounge, I sat back and observed my surroundings. The place reeked of money. However, in the light of day (and with no celebrity in sight) it...
Art Basel Burns Up Miami.
The Emmanuel Perrotin gallery opening was just one of the many amazing events last night. While there was certainly a lot happening in every gallery in Miami’s Design District, this event was well attended and arguably the coolest party...
Love for Sale at the National Art Gallery, London.
Well, not love exactly, but rather sex and as we all know when all else fails ‘sex sells’. It’s this fundamental concept that seems to be turning London based art curators ‘on’ of late.
Unpredictably, however, the most...
Tea and a Chat: Roger Daltrey at Times Square.
It's not all that often you get to see a legend in action, but Roger Daltrey definitely fits that bill and he was most certainly in action on Friday night at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square. The crowd...
Coalition for the Homeless Artwalk Party: Oh, the Glamour!
Tuesday night's benefit, Artwalk Coalition for the Homeless, brought in a sundry of discerning social types to help raise awareness and funds for a wonderful cause that has now been 15 years in the making. Chaired by Alec Baldwin...
Williamsburg mourns the loss of another hipster.
When falling into elevator shafts is never a good career move.
According to pain-in-the-ass Gawker, Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer that played in bands including !!! and Maserati, fell to a gruesome death over the weekend when he apparently...
Thomas Barbey: In the Grip of Illusions.
Thomas Barbey is a master at mixing pictures. His art known as photo montage is the process of artfully combining two or more photographs to come up with a convincingly real art piece. For all of those who just...
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 in the middle of composing his first of twelve photographs in a set depicting the...
The Unveiling of Michelangelo’s “The Young Archer” at the Met— Oh the Pizzaz!
Photography by James Palmar. Daphne Guiness.
Was the sculptural unveiling of ‘The young archer,’ a work purported to be that of Michelangelo’s (on loan from France), beautiful irrespective of whether or not it actually belonged to Michelangelo?...
Paint to Preserve Memory.
Art in all its existing forms speaks to our emotions and our memories so it’s no wonder that art could be healing as well. Recent studies are showing that art has a medicinal quality that...
