Opinion
The Way Forward For Social Media Art
My latest thoughts on the evolving discussion about the use of social media in art and where it should (in my opinion) go.
William Powhida
Opinion
An Artist Ponders What's Wrong & Right With Art World
Ever wonder what's right and wrong with the art world? William Powhida has some ideas. I thought it would be nice to post the stuff that's "right," but it's fun to read what he thinks is "wrong."
Opinion
An Artist Ponders What's Wrong & Right With Art World
Ever wonder what's right and wrong with the art world? William Powhida has some ideas. I thought it would be nice to post the stuff that's "right," but it's fun to read what he thinks is "wrong."
Art
Wandering Through Bushwick Open Studios
Never have I been so happy to see a portrait of Betty White. After three trains and two shuttles, and a few failed attempts to get a taxi, I was finally in Bushwick for the 2011 Open Studios.
Art
Dark and Stormy at Storefront Gallery
Dunkle Wolke is a show at Storefront Gallery in Bushwick curated by William Powhida, our favorite art world curmudgeon. The title translates to “dark cloud,” a perfect match for the small exhibition's mood, a mixture of bookish depression, modernist angst and goth vibes.
Art
Back to the Future, the Williamsburg that Waz
After watching Bushwick's visual arts scene grow and usurp the energy of Williamsburg's two decades of dominance as the epicenter of the city's artistic edge, curator Larry Walczak decided it was time to put together an exhibition that investigates the neighborhood's recent art heritage. The show, W
Opinion
William Powhida Opines About New York Art Critics
For tonight's Triangle Arts Association benefit at Beacon restaurant in midtown Manhattan, artist William Powhida submitted this wry drawing of his thoughts about some of the city's art critics.
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Required Reading [UPDATED]
This week on Required Reading … responses by William Powhida and Tom Moody to two Hyperallergic posts, poet Elizabeth Bishop's other art, John Ashbery on R. B. Kitaj, a conservative's opinion on street art, contemporary art as Mannerism and megalomaniac Zahi Hawass interviews himself …
Art
A Populist Attack on the Art World Pulls Punches
According to Eric Doeringer, the artist-curator of I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me, the exhibition’s title—a nod to Joseph Beuys’s 1974 performance “I Like America and America Likes Me”—is meant to convey the “fraught relationship between emerging artists and the art-world establishm
Opinion
Required Reading
This week on Required Reading … William Powhida has devised a new power axis of art world affirmation … New York Observer explains the thing called the "professional collector" … at Idiom they ask an important question "Can an art experience be authentic even if the status of the work of art remains
News
Are Plutocrats Collecting Art or Collecting Artists?
Felix Salmon just posted an incandescent piece on the State of the Art World seen through the lens of Davos. At a meeting of plutocrats and artists, Salmon sees collectors buying art not for its aesthetic quality but for its aura: the respect and awe that comes with owning something really expensive
Art
Angry Art Letters on the Lower East Side
Ridykeulous, founded by artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner in 2005, describes itself as an effort to “subvert, sabotage, and overturn the language commonly used to define feminist and lesbian art,” primarily through exhibitions, performances, and zines. Attacking the marginalization of queer a