Opinion
Leave it to the art world to make everything about them, a tendency that has become crystal clear over the past few weeks since the Occupy Wall Street movement began last month. First the race of anonymous Twitter handles, then it was museums, now it's (of all places) Artist's Space with the compuls
Art
There I was, sitting in a rocking chair at the Microscope Gallery in Bushwick but I felt like I was visiting a friend in her own home and we were just sitting around bullshitting. No, it wasn’t one of those snobby holier-than-thou art shacks in Manhattan. It was Marni Kotak’s show, The Birth of Baby
Books
Jai Arun Ravine’s The Spiderboi Files: Volume 1 is a careful, intentional work of book art with themes that reverberate delicately through the book’s physical structure. Its content rattles a cage of constructs: commercialism, California and gender identity.
Opinion
This week, it's a mixed bag of artist interviews, design and social media infographics.
News
On Wednesday morning, 30-year-old artist and rising star Mathieu Lefevre was killed in a hit-and-run on Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg. His death is the fourth cycling fatality in Williamsburg in the past four months.
Opinion
Will Brand at Art Fag City has responded to the idea that Occupy Museums is misguided. He says they should target government-funded institutions, but wait, how much government funding do the targeted institutions actually get? I'm afraid not much.
Opinion
Channel Thirteen's Metrofocus blog spoke to the art handlers who have been locked out since August 1 from Sotheby's. Their stories are endearing and give you some insight into who these working men are.
Art
Earlier this week I posted a review of MCASD’s current show Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface. Reading this, you might have thought, “Cool! Perceptual deprivation! Now I’ll know what it was like doing LSD in the 1960s and 1970s without worrying about passing a drug test at work!” Which is
Opinion
The photographer who documented real 1980s New York grit, Nan Goldin, now points her lens towards…peacocks, horses and shoes? In a new ad campaign for luxury shoe line Jimmy Choo, Goldin lends her signature to some awfully confusing images.
News
Today's protest at the Sotheby's corporate offices on York Avenue was enlivened by dozens of people from #OccupyWallStreet who joined the Sotheby's art handlers in their efforts to get a fair agreement with the auction giant.
Art
So … by now we are all familiar with the critical fanfare surrounding MoMA’s de Kooning retrospective. Jerry Saltz is a big fan of the exhibition, Peter Schjeldahl thought it was awesome, Tyler Green keeps writing about it, even MSNBC covered the opening. I’m going to go ahead and agree with the com
Art
Sometimes art happens by accident, like teenage pregnancy. On occasion the mishap can be fortuitous.