Art
We Tasted (and Reviewed) Kenny Scharf's NEW Donuts
When we first heard that artist Kenny Scharf would be teaming up with Doughnut Plant to create a limited-edition line of donuts, we knew we had to have them … and then review them.
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Marco Brambilla Brings Star Trek to Times Square
After Hours is a new joint venture of Times Square Arts and the Clocktower Gallery, and it's aiming to bring creatives back to the hub of Times Square. Each month, After Hours will invite leading artists, musicians and performers to a very New York venue to expand the minds of visitors. Hyperallergi
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The Affordable Art Fair: Where Contemporary Art Meets Fun
The Affordable Art Fair's press preview and opening party on Wednesday was a clusterfuck par none. You'd think there were hundreds of eager collectors chomping at the bit to enter a race to obtain star works early, before the riffraff arrived to pick through the rejections. But this is not Art Basel
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The End of the World as We Know It
Radiator Arts continues to energize the Long Island City art community. Its mission of showcasing new and emerging artists and curators makes for a remarkably varied program from show to show, but the installations are always topical to a particular theme. Their new exhibit, curated by painter and w
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In the Digital Era, Old Media Still Packs a Knockout Punch
I want to preface my review of Radiator Arts's current show So Real with a brief shout-out to Bernard Hopkins. On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Bernard Hopkins defeated Tavoris Cloud to win the Light Heavyweight World Championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. At 48, Hopkins became the oldest f
Comics
Finally, a Good Use of Drone Technology
Imagine if for every drone the Pentagon purchased they also had to buy one for the NEA to loan out to artists. We could have some fun.
Opinion
Following Child Indecency Convictions, Artist's Work Removed from Tate
Art museums are known to show and uphold some artists whose work continually incites controversy, among them Robert Mapplethorpe and Chris Ofili. But when does art become too controversial for a museum to openly support or display it? The artist Graham Ovenden, who became famous in the U.K. in the 1
Opinion
Frank Gehry’s Flourishes too Flashy for Facebook
A powerful company deserves a powerful building for its headquarters — Apple is getting a UFO-style office building from Foster + Partners in Cupertino, after all. So Facebook’s decision to ask none other than Frank Gehry to design their new space in Menlo Park, California.
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Screw the Art, We're Going to Frieze for the Food
Some people may be elated at the list of 180 galleries showing at New York's Frieze fair this year — yawn — but we're just really excited by the food options. Today, Frieze announced that they are throwing their own version of what sounds like Williamsburg's Smorgasburg artisanal food fair on Randal
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Photographs Turn New York City into a Stage for Humanity
Like so many people who come to New York, part of what attracted me was the spectacle of the city itself. I wanted to wander streets thick with history and creative currents, to watch and become part of the human drama just outside my door. That also describes my experience of Susan Wides’s stunning
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Artist as Monk, Manga, and Pilgrim
BRIGHTON, UK — While laid up in Freud's final consulting room, artist David Blandy was moved to recall a childhood trauma: “I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side.” A hypnotherapist encouraged him to continue: “Yo, dwelling in the past, flashbacks when I was young. Who ever thought tha
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Woman Arrested for Instagramming Street Art
20-year-old artist Jennifer Pawluck was arrested Wednesday morning at 10:30am after posting a picture of anti-police street art on her Instagram feed a few days before.