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It's just another day in the life of the art world and we just learned that New York-based Canadian art legend AA Bronson will be ritually blessing New York/Shanghai/Rotterdam-based Defne Ayas' new program at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
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The Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s mission is partly to highlight the achievements of artists who have been historically marginalized in the mainstream art world on the basis of race or gender. Benny Andrews, Alice Neel and Bob Thompson, the gallery’s current exhibition, executes the institution’s obje
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Next Wednesday, March 14, Gerhard Richter Painting will open at Film Forum in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The feature length film is the follow up to a 2007 short by filmmaker Corinna Belz called Gerhard Richter’s Window.
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We JUST received a photo of Serkan Özkaya's "David (inspired by Michelangelo)" sculpture as it makes its way through New Jersey on its way to downtown Manhattan tonight.
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LOS ANGELES — The POETRY App has been selected as a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Digital Media. As their press release noted, this is remarkable because the award basically recognizes that poetry — at least in the form of a cool app — has utility in our lives.
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LOS ANGELES — A new report in China Daily points to "former billionaire" Wang Yongchao in Shaanxi, China, who's been snatching up priceless antiques and cultural relics. But rather than sell them for profit, he's become a one-man movement to preserve China's cultural heritage.
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LOS ANGELES — A good portion of New Yorkers' lives are lived underground. Whether riding the train or waiting for the train, the subterranean world of Gotham is famous the world over for its grungy, dirty character. Few people, however, actually want to hang out underground. The Delancey Underground
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Tonight's Whitney Biennial VIP Party brought together two sectors of the art world that continue to butt heads in this post-Occupy Wall Street world. Chic art world partygoers were lined up on Madison Avenue waiting to drink champagne at the Sotheby's-sponsored Biennial, while a few dozen protesters
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This week, the Whitney Biennial opens but Occupy Wall Street's Arts and Labor working group has already started to question the usefulness of the exhibition for artists and cultural workers, many of whom are unpaid to participate.
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The artist Christo continues to battle to realize his “Over the River” project in Colorado, announcing last week that the controversial work hopes to go up a year later than planned. The new exhibition date for “Over the River,” which involves the creation of a canopy of shiny polypropylene fabric o
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LOS ANGELES — LA's art world has been in mourning ever since artist Mike Kelley died earlier this month, an apparent suicide. At the College Art Association conference and at various events, artists and art lovers are finding ways to remember him and keep his work alive. The most poignant and effect
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Getting a cease-and-desist letter from a major corporation pretty much sucks, but it can’t exactly be a huge surprise if you’ve been using, say, the name Coca-Cola, only slightly modified.