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Overheard in the Art World
Every Friday (or so), we post things “Overheard in the Art World.” #OHAW Honestly, art world, don’t take yourself so seriously.
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We Tasted (and Reviewed) Kenny Scharf's NEW Donuts
When we first heard that artist Kenny Scharf would be teaming up with Doughnut Plant to create a limited-edition line of donuts, we knew we had to have them … and then review them.
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Marco Brambilla Brings Star Trek to Times Square
After Hours is a new joint venture of Times Square Arts and the Clocktower Gallery, and it's aiming to bring creatives back to the hub of Times Square. Each month, After Hours will invite leading artists, musicians and performers to a very New York venue to expand the minds of visitors. Hyperallergi
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The Affordable Art Fair: Where Contemporary Art Meets Fun
The Affordable Art Fair's press preview and opening party on Wednesday was a clusterfuck par none. You'd think there were hundreds of eager collectors chomping at the bit to enter a race to obtain star works early, before the riffraff arrived to pick through the rejections. But this is not Art Basel
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The End of the World as We Know It
Radiator Arts continues to energize the Long Island City art community. Its mission of showcasing new and emerging artists and curators makes for a remarkably varied program from show to show, but the installations are always topical to a particular theme. Their new exhibit, curated by painter and w
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In the Digital Era, Old Media Still Packs a Knockout Punch
I want to preface my review of Radiator Arts's current show So Real with a brief shout-out to Bernard Hopkins. On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Bernard Hopkins defeated Tavoris Cloud to win the Light Heavyweight World Championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. At 48, Hopkins became the oldest f
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Photographs Turn New York City into a Stage for Humanity
Like so many people who come to New York, part of what attracted me was the spectacle of the city itself. I wanted to wander streets thick with history and creative currents, to watch and become part of the human drama just outside my door. That also describes my experience of Susan Wides’s stunning
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Artist as Monk, Manga, and Pilgrim
BRIGHTON, UK — While laid up in Freud's final consulting room, artist David Blandy was moved to recall a childhood trauma: “I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side.” A hypnotherapist encouraged him to continue: “Yo, dwelling in the past, flashbacks when I was young. Who ever thought tha
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2012 Museum Attendance Numbers Show a Diverse Global Art Scene
The Art Newspaper's annual museum attendance figures for 2012 were recently released and there were no real surprises, except that the Tate Modern has overtaken the National Gallery in the fourth spot, DC's National Gallery of Art slipped to 8th, and Seoul's National Museum of Korean fell out of the
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The Monumental and Malleable Worlds of El Anatsui
It hangs in the air like paper, like drapery, like a metal curtain, transparent yet solid, monumental and unreal. The space around it, the gallery walls, and you yourself become secondary to this vast and majestic thing. It is red and gold and black and shines as the light ripples across its surface
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Who Is the Master, and Who Is the Slave?
I’ve seen it twice, and it still makes my brain feel like it's been violated in some sublime way. Visually, The Master is an incredibly beautiful piece of work: the effect of filming a reported 80 percent in glorious 65mm. The movie is saturated with color and tone courtesy of cinematographer Mihai
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Carrying on a Political Absurdist Legacy
CHICAGO — Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was best known for his depictions of "inventions" that imagined complicated contraptions with far too many moving parts built to solve the simplest of problems. These “Rube Goldberg machines” appeared in his work, and were used as devices to poke fun at