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Marina Abramović’s Chair Now Tweets
This is a great day for the Internet: twitter.com/marinaschair [http://twitter.com/marinaschair]
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New York’s Latest Public Art Idea: Street Pianos
The Village Voice reports [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/05/the_street_pian.php] that New York’s latest public art idea is street pianos. Yes, this summer, America’s Next Top Pianist will be performed in the streets of all five boroughs (map [http://www.streetpianos.com/ny
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Two Coats of Paint Launches Online Painting Channel
Seems like a simple idea, but writer, blogger, academic and artist Sharon Butler has put it into action. She tells us about her latest online project, “Suddenly it struck me: We need a TV channel about painting — so I decided to create one for Two Coats of Paint [http://vimeo.com/channels/twocoats#1
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Eames Chairs Get Street Art Treatment For Charity
Yesterday, Barneys installed 20 Eames plywood chairs in one of their world famous Madison Avenue store windows, but what made this display at the department store different was the mashup of high modernist 20th C. design icon with the brash individual style of some of the New York’s most active stre
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Blogger Bigwig Joins Artinfo & Modern Painters … More News for Louise Blouin Media
This morning, a pioneer of the indy art blogosphere Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes announced - with the help of artist William Powhida - that he will be joining Modern Painters as a columnist and Artinfo as a blogger. But it’s worth noting that this isn’t the only major news announced by Louise Blo
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How to Barter Art for Healthcare
According to Brokelyn [http://www.brokelyn.com/brooklyn-artists-barter-for-your-next-physical-exam/], one North Brooklyn hospital at the corner of Flushing & Broadway, Woodhull Hospital, is offering artists a means to barter art for healthcare.
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Shepard Fairey “May Day” Mural Is Illegal
First spotted by the Animal New York [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/05/is-shepard-faireys-legal-mural-illegal] blog, the New York Times [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/fairey-mural-gets-thumbs-down-from-buildings-department/] reported that Shepard Fairey’s May Day illegal mural on Hous
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Why Does the US Pavilion at Expo 2010 Suck?
If you’ve been looking at the spectacular photos coming out of Expo 2010, which opened in Shanghai last weekend, then you’re probably wondering the same thing everyone else is, “Wow, what a spectacular display of modern architecture and design, but … wait a minute, why does the United States pavilio
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Will the Jersey City Museum Close?
Art Fag City has published an extensive report on the financial crisis facing the Jersey City Museum. She paints a grim picture of an institution that is vital to the area’s visual arts community.
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Art-trafficking Ring Surfaces at Paris Auction House
The New York Times reports on a serious scandal that’s rocking the Hôtel Drouot, which is “France’s oldest, largest, most storied and most profitable auction site, a frenetic three-story bazaar of marvels and junk: Picassos and Basquiats, stamps and used handbags, dusty carpets, couches, clattering glassware.” Insiders don’
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Targeting Shepard Fairey's “May Day” Mural
Animal New York has been documenting the steady stream of defacement that artist Shepard Fairey’s May Day exhibition mural on Houston Avenue has been subject to. First it was targeted by a graffiti writer [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/04/naw-on-shepard-faireys-mural/], then holes [http://animalnewy
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Whack-a-Warhol at the Brooklyn Museum, “Long Live the Art-ocrats!”
If the image of the Warhol piñata at the Brooklyn Museum didn’t freak you out enough, the videos of everyone from Jennifer Rubell to Jerry Saltz taking a whack at the thing (and right in the mouth no less) will surely disturb you to no end. If the art world ever needed a good therapist then now is t