News
At a conversation held with Hide/Seek curators Jonathan Katz and David C. Ward at the New York Public Library December 15th, a few things became clear about the censorship scandal: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery director Martin Sullivan is far from repentant over the decision, and the Catholi
Art
Regional Painting (2010), at Winkleman Gallery, is not a remarkable presentation; the casual viewer could be excused for thinking it is just another painting show. Twelve paintings on linen, each twelve by sixteen inches, beautifully framed in walnut, greatly varied in technique and style, are hung
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Artist Blu has just blogged about his surprise that the word "censorship" is disappearing from the discussion of his whitewashed mural and being replaced by the word "curatorial choice." He also reveals why the mural isn't as finished as some of his other work …
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New York-based artist and artistic director of the Institute of Art, Religion and Social Justice AA Bronson has sent an email to the National Portrait Gallery requesting that his work "Felix, June 5, 1994" (1994/99) [pictured above] be removed from their Hide/Seek exhibition in light of the recent c
News
In a protest that has become practice in China, Karen Patterson is starting a movement to flood imprisoned Chinese artist Wu Yuren (AKA “Little Ai”) with Christmas cards as a gesture of support. The artist has been imprisoned for his participation in a protest against studio demolitions since May 31
Art
There has been so much talk about Blu's commissioned mural but few people are talking about the work itself and what it could mean. As a critic who has been looking at a great deal of street art for years, I want to weigh in on the topic. Some art critics have been dismissive of the work and thought
Books
In Chris O. Cook's first book, called To Lose & To Pretend [http://www.brooklynartspress.com/Chris-Cook.html], published by Williamsburg's own Brooklyn Arts Press, the poet creates a collection of poems that are perfectly suited for subway rides. The brief passages are at times funny, at times ambiv
Opinion
The Bygone Bureau's Jimmy Chen imagines what it would be like if Picasso had used eBay [http://bygonebureau.com/2010/12/15/picassos-ebay-period/]. Hilarity ensues. Great line, "bitch i’m trying to make a living. check out my new painting."
Opinion
Now the man who gave us Hope and then made us Hope-less is weighing in on the Blu mural controversy [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/shepard-fairey-weighs-in-on-mocas-mural-controversy.html] and it's rather embarrassing. The good part …
News
Just when you thought this story may be dead, Italian street artist Blu, whose mural was whitewashed by MOCA [http://hyperallergic.com/14367/mural-whitewashed-la-moca/] last week, has shot back at Jeffrey Deitch's brush-this-all-under-the-rug mentality [http://hyperallergic.com/14672/deitch-explain-
Art
Filling an entire gallery with the repeated face of Osama Bin Laden might sound like a bit of Warholian task for an artist interested in interrogating politics: an international criminal turned celebrity. But James Esber's exhibition You, Me and Everybody Else at Pierogi in Williamsburg actually aim
Art
Blu is a street artist. One of the points of being a street artist is freedom to express yourself publicly, without rules. Once a museum commissions a street artist to paint a mural on an outdoor wall does it then become public art and institutional? I think so. And I don’t blame Blu for taking a mu