Art
During the Biennale, innumerable numbers of events take place outside of the official Biennale grounds of the Giardini and Arsenale, especially from countries that couldn’t afford pavilions inside the Arsenale. They either rented out abandoned spaces near it, like the Iraqi pavilion did, or, if they
News
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, will now also boast one of the world's most impressive art collections. Forbes reported today that Judge Stanley Ott upheld his ruling that allows the Barnes Foundation to move its estimated $25 billion art collection from the suburb of Merion, Pennsylvania
Interview
This week I had the pleasure of talking to British conceptual artist Patrick Brill, better known as his alter ego Bob and Roberta Smith. We talked about visiting the Occupy Wall Street protests, starting a new political party and the history behind his alter ego. The conversation was charged with on
Art
Tillie is not most artists for many reasons. For one, she is successful. She has had more than twenty solo exhibitions in Europe and United States alone. She has earned more than $100,000 dollars from sales of her work. The television media has invited Tillie to discuss her work on numerous occasion
Art
Sarah Crowner's newest exhibition at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery on the Lower East Side continues the artist’s vein of inquiry but does so in a manner that is far more engaging and maybe a little bit riskier than the other stuff I have seen.
Opinion
What happens when the suave gentlemen of the New York-based womenswear and accessories brand Proenza Schouler cross paths with the provocative trash-humping auteur Harmony Korine? This shit, apparently.
Art
BEIJING — Anecdotally, Beijing, like New York, definitely feels like a city of immigrants and migrants. Few people I meet actually grew up in Beijing. For Beijing Design Week, Beijing artist Chen Ke partnered with Beijing curatorial lab ChART Contemporary to find a retro, more personal way to connec
Art
Makes Brooklyn art Brooklyn. I’ve been thinking about this for the last week, and I have to admit that I’m stumped.
Opinion
Usually associated with long-winded art historical articles and page after page of gallery ads, Artforum made an unexpected but exciting move in their October issue by placing Asco, a politically radical Chicano artist collective from the 1970s on the cover. Perhaps igniting a real art historical in
Opinion
Liza Eliano and I stopped by Occupy Wall Street yesterday and we picked up a copy of the first edition of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. A four-page broadsheet, the back had a funny map marking that made us laugh out loud. "Art / Signs" are marked with a ♥ but Abstract Expressionist sculptor Mark
Art
Our next event will explore "What does it mean to be a modern ecological being amidst a proliferation of networked environments — biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks and the World Wide Web?" Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint founded
Art
Art in Odd Places relies on a lot of serendipity, but when it happens it's wonderful. The annual art event is bringing small and large acts of ceremony with over 60 artists performing, installing, exhibiting and interacting all along 14th Street from October 1 to 10. Following this year's theme of R