Performance
Tuesday night's premiere of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset's "Happy Days in the Art World" at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts kicked off this year's Performa "new visual art performance biennial." A commissioned work, the piece was clearly a work of theatre and not performance art,
Art
Picture it: a skeleton with a keen eye for color paints a Zombie-pin-up-girl with severe angular outlines against a cartoonish background. What is it? It's Ryan Ford’s "Humanary Stew" (2011) at Factory Fresh, and it proclaims the talent of the undead. This comic scene is the perfect introduction to
Art
This week’s Work of Art begins with a staple of Bravo reality competition shows: children and foreboding music. Ah yes, this is the week our artistes must show that they can handle the youngins. But then, another surprise! OMG IT’S CARRIE BRADSHAW. She gives them their challenge: the artists have to
Opinion
This week's prescription is a heavy dose of Performa 11 with just a taste of the must-see highlights of this year's festival. The three-week event can be overwhelming, but thankfully the Hyperallergic doctor is in to help you through it.
News
If you thought the recession stopped the architectural boomtown that is North Brooklyn, then you'll have to think again. If Bushwick is getting all the buzz because of the art-borhood that is sprouting up there, the experiments in architectural verticality are happening a little west in Williamsburg
News
Occupy Wall Street is heading into its third month and continuing to spread across the country. Here at Hyperallergic we have been doing our part to spread the word on art coming out of the movement. Below is a brief round-up of OWS art related news for Occupy movements around the country and events
Art
Lisa Yuskavage and Nicola Tyson have solo shows three blocks from another in Manhattan's Chelsea art-borhood. Both focus on the appearance of the figure and how it responds to or appears in certain situations, both real and imagined. The results could not be more different.
Art
SAN FRANCISCO — With all this extra time to daydream about the perfect relationship, I’ve composed a list of the top 10 art world figures I’d like to do the nasty with. Some are expected, some are not. Some are for social climbing purposes, some are not. But really, all are for love.
News
First Sotheby's locked out their art handlers, and now they are locking out the general public. GalleristNY reports that the auction giant is limiting access to its 10 floor galleries where some of the houses' most valuable lots are on view before this week's sales.
News
We posted about the Abstract Expressionist print auction last week at Swann Auction House in New York and today we learn that Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45), set a print record for the artist.
Art
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — The Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center has been in existence since 1986 and it began with monthly art events that have turned into a four-roomed exhibition space and a monthly contemporary art walk (CAM) that collaborates with the local McNay Museum and most other San Antonio ar
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Looking at the proliferating cross-pollination of fine artists and fashion design (Nan Goldin for Jimmy Choo, Terence Koh for Opening Ceremony, Ai Weiwei for W), we decided to take a look back and remember some of the truly successful collaborations within these two fields.