Art
A Tale of a Miami Art Fair Virgin
So the whole point of Miami Art Basel is the parties. Wait, no it’s not, it’s the ton-o-fairs available to man or beast. Before I even arrived I was totally confused.
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Art
Valentino's Virtual Museum Puts Fashion at Your Fingertips
It’s a testament to the time in which we live to be able to walk through the brilliant halls of a white-walled, glass ceilinged exhibition hall, quietly perusing couture from one of the masters of modern fashion, Valentino Garavani, all in front of a computer screen.
Art
District 9 Movie Prop As African Fetish Object
MIAMI — With all the visual overload and glimpses between suited shoulders it’s hard to find something that resonates amongst the Lego blocks of art fair booths at the main fair of Art Basel Miami Beach. With over 260 galleries and over 2,000 artists of which I probably saw half and absorbed a twent
Opinion
EXCLUSIVE: Video of a Secret Meeting of Jerry Saltz & Charles Saatchi in a Sauna
Our crackpot team of researchers has uncovered this video of a secret meeting between Jerry "I hate relational aesthetics today [http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2011/museums-as-playgrounds/]" Saltz and Charles "people are vulgar now that I'm not king [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011
News
Will Next Year's ArtPrize Be Different?
Today, ArtPrize, which bills itself as the most "radically open, international art competition and social experiment," announced it will be rejiggering its financial offerings to competitors with a more robust juried prize and less (but still) spectacular populist award.
Art
Politics and Art Meet on World AIDS Day
In the New York zeitgeist, you can’t have art without politics — especially not lately. As we enter the holiday season, strikes and marches continue throughout the city. Local and global politics are stoking creativity’s flames, and art has been a necessary backbone to supporting the Occupy movement
Art
Pharma-Cultural Landscapes
During a brief two-week run, Storefront for Art and Architecture was transformed into a laboratory by the creative team of Harrison Atelier (HAt) in their latest iteration of dance-installation titled Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo. Conceived, dramaturged, directed and designed by the husband
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — In the last two years I have interviewed more than thirty artists, writers and other creative people for my own blog, Praeterita. The creative process was a part of every discussion, so I thought I would invite these interviewees to submit a photo and a short description of their workspace
Opinion
Martin Boyce Snags Turner Prize … if you care
I have trouble getting excited by the Turner Prize anymore. British art isn't as central to the art dialogue as it once was a decade ago so it is feeling more and more like a regional contest. Congrats to Martin Boyce anyway. You can read more on BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-160
Art
An Artist Grapples With the Worst Documented Attack on Journalists
MANILA, Philippines — On November 23, 2009, just a little over two years ago, Esmael Magundadatu, the vice mayor of the southern Philippine city of Buluan, invited 37 journalists to accompany him as he filed for his certificate of candidacy. The group, along with a cadre of lawyers and family, never
Performance
Channeling Tragedy, Comedy and Judy Garland
So there I stood, sharing a cigarette with my friends on the curb outside of La MaMa. We were patiently waiting for the house to open for former NEA 4 defendant John Fleck’s show, "Mad Women," a dizzying one-man mash-up of the performance artist’s life with the final year of the legendary Judy Garla
Performance
An Offering of Three Shen Wei Dance Pieces at the Park Avenue Armory
I spent part of the third section of Shen Wei’s modern dance showing at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday watching a shoeless young woman (a member of the audience who was, like me, allowed to wander along the grid of 60 dancer-inhabited squares of performance space), stare slack-jawed and wide-eyed