Tag: Artist
When billions become involved the knives come out…
When befriending French aristocrats comes with a price tag.
It’s a tale worthy of intrigue, jealousy, high society and how one goes about grooming that love of high society at either great reward or in this instance great...
A Midsummer Homage to Warhol.
Although I was but a mere distant dream of my parents in the 1960s, I became so aware of Andy Warhol and his generation by the constant chatter of my art school friends and the movie 'Factory Girl.' Eagerly...
Sally Golan- ‘A Hint of the Dark Side.’
Teetering along in my heels, I tentatively looked around in search of The Gallery Bar. Having never been there as well as have never attended Sally Golan’s Social Night of Exposure, I had no idea what to expect. As...
‘No Discipline,’ at the MOMA.
“No Discipline” is a fitting title for Ron Arad’s latest exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. In a city where nomenclature is everything, where exhaustive definition is a prerequisite for cultural deference, Arad’s is an exhibit that is...
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 couple of skips and a shimmy past the Williamsburg Bridge, it was easily accessible enough...
Art of Fashion- discovering beauty in the rough.
Webster Hall was just like I once remembered it; glittery disco ball, flashing lights, sideways glances and heart-pounding music blaring out of speakers. The crowd was familiar, with the occasional hipsters, the model-esque women clomping around in their platform...
POP Art…
When a special event is held to showcase the work of several New York artists, it is sometimes hard to ascertain by what criteria the event should be judged. Does one evaluate it based on the talent of the...
“Chase”; Machine does not equal man, unless inclined…
The thing with Liz Magic Laser is she doesn’t like banks, which is ironic because she’s in our opinion going to be banking quite a bit going forward. When we say doesn’t like banking what we ought to say...
BOMB Magazine gives us more Intellectual Ethos…
Outline: Artistic venue. Unusually fascinating performances. Laid back atmosphere. BOMB magazine’s release party for their summer issue perfect fit with their cultured intellectual ethos… again.
BOMB did good work making Galapagos Art Space their own. As the eclectic deejay spun, images...
Sally Golan Night of Social Exposure
The starving artist is a character that appears often in romantic renditions of New York City life. In a city whose door is always revolving, where the young and novel are soon shunted aside as old and stale,...
CJ Reilly- From one tip of Bushwick to South America.
The Bushwick Open Studios and Art Festival is a bit of a Renaissance Fair where intrepid travelers can return to the Williamsburg of yore. Dressed in the costume of hipsters, they can participate in cheap-beer swilling contests, weave golden...
Alix Smith: “The Dislocation of Self.”
According to Alix Smith celebrated photographer/artist the moment of self arrives not with the construct of self but the deconstruction of self. In a society intimately concerned with appearances, the look of things, what often goes on is that...
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...
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,...
