Opinion
Weekly Art Rx
This week's prescription is full of exciting show openings that will have you running around like a feverish art fanatic. We should mention that is a potential side effect.
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Art
Work of Art Recap: Hitting Da Streets, Tiger Penises
OMG guys, the artistes have arrived in Brooklyn. China Chow announces the challenge. They artists have to do street art! In Williamsburg! So hood. It’s a team challenge, too. Apparently art is the new Quidditch.
Art
Post-Raid OWS Pushes Back Stronger
The police raid on unsuspecting Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning was a disturbing sight. Cops in riot gear smashed tents, arrested groggy protesters from the park, confiscated possessions and books from the People's library (although we have confirmed that the mat
Opinion
The Bad Celebrity Art of Richard Phillips
Holy shit, I can't believe how bad someone who shows at Gagosian can be. Honestly, WTF!?!?! I love embracing artists of all stripes but this dude essentially makes high-brow-ish fan art.
Art
Traveling the Visual Highway
Day trips beyond New York City for visual art can feel decadent, especially with all the spectacular shows we don’t have time to see. And although it might be a small hassle to get there, the Brant Foundation’s current solo show of David Altmejd is really worth every minute of the trip to Greenwich,
Books
De-stress and Deconstruction of Books
Equally wild and soft, the book art of UK artist Louisa Boyd is an animated discourse on the distress and destruction of analog media. She breaks and reconstructs books into sculpture, wondering loudly with the rest of us, what’s going on with the world of print? In a book lover’s nightmares, librar
Art
Being Neither Here Nor There
Blue Curry is a Bahamian artist living and working in London. If his name doesn’t make you smile the materials in his artwork and his sense of irony certainly will. Curry is having his first US solo exhibition at the LES's Toomer Labzda Gallery this month.
Opinion
Printing Is for Punks
Secret Project Robot hosted the 6th annual Prints Gone Wild fair November 4 and 5 in their new location in Bushwick.
News
OWS Library Safe, According to NY Mayor's Office
Since this morning's raid of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement began, there have been questions about the state of the movement's symbolic 5,000+ book library.
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Cranbrook Museum of Art Re-Opens
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN — In the middle of the lush suburban academic oasis of the 319-acre Cranbrook educational community sits the Cranbrook Museum of Art, which re-opened last Friday November 11 after a two-year $22 million expansion and renovation.
Art
A Few Rounds in Philadelphia's Hard-Knuckle Art Scene
Smokin’ Joe Frazier, dead at 67, was a former heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist of the world. He succumbed to liver cancer at his home in Philadelphia on November 7, 2011. What does Frazier have to do with art? Like Smokin’ Joe, Philadelphia artists embody their hard-knuckle home
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Artist Lawyers Up After Realizing Starbucks Swiped Her Style
Last Friday, artist Ophelia Chong had the kind of day most artist's dread. On that fateful day she was told by one of her students that Starbucks was using graphics that looked a great deal like hers that … well, judge for yourself.