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The geometric construction inhabits Devotion Gallery is the focus and product of a project/performance by musician and multimedia artist Morgan Packard titled Dihedral Product. The work is a crowd-sourced sculpture that evolves according to the donated manpower and creativity of gallery visitors.
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Even if your bohemian dolce vita in Bushwick is all you ever wanted, sometimes it’s necessary to (temporarily) leave this blooming neighborhood, and visit Ridgewood, another neighborhood emerging as part of the city's art geography.
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Underground in Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, a Williamsburg basement covered from floor to ceiling with neon toys, furniture, disco-balls, and murals where Scharf holds dance parties, last Saturday night, I, along with about 250 attendees, traveled to the place where the wild things are with Michael
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Paris — I'm traveling today, so there may be less posts than usual but I couldn't resist sharing one of the games I love to play in museums. I choose a theme, topic, color or some other attribute and walk through finding it in the collection.
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It's a well-known truism that the internet in China is lousy. But business has to be done and file transfers have to be made. New media artists in particular, who can work with large complex files, would be at a loss if they relied on Western sites like YouSendIt (blocked), DropBox (blocked) and eve
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This past June, artist and curator Aimee Lusty [http://aimeelusty.com] took over as Booklyn’s gallery director. Lusty proposed a program that promotes artists primarily working in print: each show she curated would include print artists showing fine art work, and each show would result in a zine cat
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Mad Homes is a fascinating lo-fi community approach to public installation. A local nonprofit, Mad Art, invited 14 artists to create interventions in homes that are soon to be demolished in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The result is a mixture of installations that consume, infiltrate and sur
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Drawn by an over-900 people attending Facebook events page and a plug on GAYLETTER two months ago, I wandered into the opening of :) by FriendsWithYou at The Hole and left feeling a mixture of what Dr. Hunter S. Thompson described as "fear and loathing." Now, a few days before the exhibition's closi
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When Apartheid was abolished in 1991, probably the worst thing to be symbolically in South Africa at the time was a white male, as it embodied everything associated with being the oppressor. With the abolishment of Apartheid came a number of important more subtle shifts.
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A deadly train accident in China becomes a source of social media street art on the highly censored Chinese microblogging site, Sina Weibo.
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With the exhibition Pretty on the Inside, co-curators KAWS and Erik Parker reveal that they must be fans of the Courtney Love-led band Hole's debut album and song for which it is named, but they also make us wonder about the show's connection to the music.
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Lost in a Metro-North commuter train daze, I watched the Wassaic Project pass by the train window without recognizing it. But the giant slingshot and makeshift teepees that decorated the lush green grass next to a towering grain elevator hinted that artists and their ilk may be nearby. Inside, I wou