Opinion
Think contemporary art's going mainstream? It doesn't end with Louis Vuitton bags and album covers. Joining the cartoon figures and name-brand mascots at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were superstar contemporary artist Takashi Murakami's signature surreal characters, KaiKai and KiKi, two anime crit
Art
Even if illustrator-cum-post-modern-artist Norman Rockwell initially titled his iconic work about Thanksgiving, “Freedom From Want [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_%28Norman_Rockwell%29]“ and never mind that it was published in March 1943, the painting has come to exemplify the picture-pe
Opinion
We already mention [http://hyperallergic.com/12906/italian-pm-gives-roman-statue-a-new-penis/] that the scandal-prone Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ridiculous request to provide an antique Roman sculpture with a new penis and hand but The Telegraph shows us what the before and after of
Books
This month's Brooklyn Rail didn't just update me on the critical reception of the past months' art exhibitions, it also kept me well-informed about the state of vegetarian burritos, Indian call centers and the misunderstood G train! The November issue (my copy is elegantly covered in a Jonas Mekas l
Art
This Saturday, November 27, we’re wrapping up the exhibition portion of #TheSocialGraph with a listening party for Paddy Johnson's "Sound of Art" vinyl. The festivities will take place 6-9pm. Yes, you may have been to the Sound of Art launch party, bought the t-shirts, even won the Candyass football
Opinion
… And just in time for the Miami art fairs! You'll remember Peter Fuss as the Polish artist who posted a billboard of a dead Obama during the 2008 US Presidential campaign, well, now he's taking aim at someone with more art world cred … the king of global gallery domination, Larry Gagosian.
Opinion
A not-unexpected surprise awaits visitors to the Miami-based Rubell Family Collection's website [http://www.rfc.museum/]. Scion of collector royalty and son of Don and Mera, Jason Rubell is releasing a catalogue of a show memorializing the works he collected from ages 13 to 21, an illustrious and ma
Opinion
Once again, it's time for the annual migration of Winter-bound art worlders to the sunny climes of Miami, Florida for Art Basel Miami Beach. The bad news is that outside of Art Basel Miami's official fair, most of the surrounding events and shows are pretty bad. Good thing Paddy Johnson has your bac
Interview
Over the years, various artists including Maya Lin, Marina Abramovic and Keith Haring have presented artwork in Times Square, often on one of the large video screens that dot the space. But why not turn every advertisement in Times Square into art? Justus Bruns, an enterprising Dutch guy, started a
Interview
Los Angeles-based artist James Gilbert has been exploring the nature of privacy online with Tweeted, Googled and Inappropriately Touched. The cleverly named series incorporates smaller sub-projects, like "Privacy Is Dead Because We Said So, 2.0" (2010), which is included in #TheSocialGraph [http://h
Interview
Last Saturday's All City Block Party [http://rwkstreetspot.blogspot.com/2010/11/bushwick-block-party-this-saturday.html ] at Factory Fresh in Bushwick attracted street art fans and artists to cover the walls of the block-long Vandervoort Place with murals and art work by Brooklyn talents, including
Opinion
The Financial Times kicks off a polemical article with the knock-out sentence, “Europe as a cultural centre is in danger of being eclipsed by the Middle East as western heritage industries struggle with swinging austerity measures.” Speaking to the recession-induced cuts to Western cultural organiza