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If Seven art fair has been getting some buzz because of their "original" approach to bypassing the art fair system and creating their own art fair of sorts, then you should know that Fountain Art Fair was the originator of the out-of-the-box approach to the art fair. Begun by three galleries, McCaig
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About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside Transformer's gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That's not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from p
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The National Portrait Gallery has caved under Republican political pressure and removed a potentially “offensive” video work by David Wojnarowicz, a multi-media artist who was felled by AIDS in 1992, from its Hide/Seek exhibition. The exhibition, deemed brave and important by critics, uncovers previ
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Kenny Scharf, druggy painter of 80s fame, has covered a Bowery wall with his psychedelic blobs. This isn't just any wall, though. Previously curated by Deitch Gallery, now The Hole NYC, this wall originally played host a Keith Haring mural and has recently been the site of Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos,
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Christian Marclay's video piece “The Clock,” shown at London's White Cube gallery [http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/] last month, was the runaway hit of the Frieze art fair hullabaloo. From buzz on the blogs to rave reviews in print, Marclay's piece sounded like a must-see. Now it's hitting o
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France's Libération newspaper is reporting that the former electrician of Pablo Picasso claims to have hundreds of works by the modern master from his most important periods (1900-1931). See a slideshow of works here [http://next.liberation.fr/arts/11011160-picasso-un-tresor-redecouvert]. But the BB
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"The only way to stop the city’s blatant and illegal activity is by going for the pocketbook.” — 3x arrested Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher for drawing on the sidewalk with chalk [Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2010/11/26/chalk_artist.php] via Brooklyn Paper [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/3
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Dan Koeck's image above was one of the finalists in last year's Picture Black Friday competition. This year the organizers welcome new submissions on the impact on consumerism. The website explains that the contest is "an open call for photographers throughout the US to go out and produce images tha
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Photographer and art historian John D'Addario [jonnodotcom.tumblr.com] has been capturing images of the new Swoon pieces going up in the Crescent City. Judging by the designs she has big plans for the city, oh right, she's planning an art house [http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/11/street_arti
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Yesterday, PBS talk show host, Charlie Rose, interviewed musician Jay-Z at the Brooklyn Museum. The hip hop star is promoting his new book, Decoded, which, in addition to telling his personal story and decoding his lyric, includes unconventional typography, line drawings, and photographs, which acco
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It somehow seems fitting that the womanizing Prime Minister of Italy has suited an ancient Roman statue with a new penis: "Government officials confirmed today, however, that a valuable statue of the god Mars, on loan to the prime minister's office, had been fitted with an artificial penis … La Repu
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MY BOGUS 'GRAFFITI' CASE, IN WHICH I WAS ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED FOR 23 HOURS FOR PAINTING ON MY OWN WATERCOLOR PAPER- WAS DISMISSED TODAY!!less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/julieannetorres/statuses/5331755749867520] via web[http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1108990018/Whatever_small_norma