Opinion
How the New Bowery Wall Commission Puts Rape Culture on Display
The latest artist commissioned to paint the influential Soho wall is a man who has bragged about his predatory sexual behavior.
Faile
Art
A Giant Prayer Wheel in the Heart of Times Square
A giant, beautifully hand-carved, wooden prayer wheel has appeared in the heart of Times Square, courtesy of Brooklyn-based artist duo FAILE.
Art
The Best Art-cade in South Beach
MIAMI BEACH — Faile's Deluxx Fluxx is an artist-designed video arcade that taps the rich memories of childhoods spent communing with 8-bit graphics and quirky adventures.
Opinion
Les Ballets De #FAIL
Alternatively, "You vultures are not supposed to steal this thing! Are you stupid or just greedy? Sit and watch the dancing," but that might have been too long.
Performance
What Happened at Les Ballets de Faile?
Last Friday's launch of the New York City Ballet Art Series was a confusing affair. I was not the only person to arrive at Lincoln Center expecting that art collective Faile's "collaboration" with the New York City Ballet would be more than lobby art.
News
New Faile Mural Lands in Williamsburg
Attention street art aficionados: a new public work by Faile has landed in Williamsburg! The piece, helpfully titled "104 N. 7th," departs from the pop-art collage aesthetic the duo's best known for and features instead thousands of hand-painted, sculpted ceramic tiles covering the facade of a comme
Art
Sleepy Time for Faile at Perry Rubenstein
The Brooklyn street art collective Faile is so hot and cold that I'm starting to wonder if they have some type of artistic condition that borders on the bipolar. After showing some renewed promise in a slew of street art pieces around New York earlier this year their Bedtime Stories show at Perry Ru
Opinion
The Underbelly Project Wants to Create an "Underground"
Unbeknown to the vast majority of New Yorkers, a street art project has quietly been taking place under the streets of our fair city, artist by artist and flashlight by flashlight. The Underbelly Project is a reaction against the overwhelming commercialization of street art. Project organizers Workh
Art
Aiko's "Blog Post of an Exhibition" in Shanghai
Aiko’s recent exhibition at Andrew James Fine Art in Shanghai was actually made entirely in that Chinese city while she participated in the gallery’s residency program. This locality lends the work a different significance, a home-grown quality that’s reflected in the mix-in of Shanghai street signs
Art
New York Street Art: Alive & Kicking
2010 has begun with some fascinating street art, including works by Bansky, Shepard Fairey, Kid Acne, Ema, El Sol 25, TrustCorp …
Art
Art World Ikeas
A new generation of websites selling prints by contemporary artists are emerging as the Ikeas of the art world — they sell editions, from large to small runs, of different kinds of work, from traditional prints to paintings and drawings. At high volume and low prices, these sites make the most of th