Entertainment - Thursday, October 23, 2008 14:16 - 0 Comments
The Street Art Expansion Hits NYU Hangout Asian Pub
Street artists generally leave their work on, y’know, the street. But then there was that one time Banksy hung his art in the Louvre (and the Met, and the Natural History Museum, and MOMA…). And now Nick Walker, another artist from the U.K., is leaving his mark on… Asian Pub? Continue…
City - Friday, October 17, 2008 10:07 - 0 Comments
Illegal Waterfront Art Makes A Splash
Since the summer waterfall extravaganza just ended this weekend , it’s great that we now have some new water art to take us into the fall season. This new collaborative project and exhibition combines the works of Eltono and MOMO, and is entitled PLAF–Autonomous Mechanisms. The indoor exhibition is hosted by Anonymous Gallery on Broome Street, and the water structures can be found in 6 outdoor locations around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
City - Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:26 - 1 Comment
Pets Can Be Tasty: Art in the West Village
In Banksy’s world, you and Fluffy the pet rabbit can sweep pink blush against your porcelain cheekbones (and, er, fur) as you get ready for a night of wild club hopping together. The enigmatic British street artist has designed a mock-pet store in the West Village in which animals adopt human mannerisms and are displayed as manufactured edible and material goods. Titled “The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill”, the art exhibition bridges animal and human behaviors and habitats into a trippy world of encaged frat boy chimps and makeup-applying Peter (or Patty, more accurately) Cottontails. A monkey sits behind an episode of mating chimpanzees on the Discovery Channel, a crushed beer can under his foot and headphones perched on his ears. The white rabbit perfects her appearance in a vanity mirror complete with used nail polish bottles and eye shadows.
Entertainment - Wednesday, October 8, 2008 11:24 - 2 Comments
Elizabeth Peyton’s Work Shines in New Museum Opening
Democrats are more beautiful (after Jonathan Horowitz), 2001 (via New Museum)
Elizabeth Peyton has been widely credited with “bringing back” portraiture. Perhaps she brought it back from wherever Warhol dropped it when he died. She paints portraits from clippings, photographs, and sitters. To study her subjects is to get to know who she is or what she wants to be: classical, yet relevant; intellectual, yet sincere; attractive, but shy; independent, but still fragile.
Elizabeth Peyton is very serious about her work. But not in the same sense as Koons, Hirst, or Murakami with their 100+ studio assistants. Peyton is the only person touching her canvases. She treats her studio like her own private chapel.
In her new show, which opened last night at New Museum, you can find portraits of those who fascinate her (or at least did at one point in time). Live Forever features historical figures, rock stars, fellow artists, ex-lovers, fashion designers, and even herself. Elizabeth Peyton only paints those she feels some connection with, allowing sincerity and earnestness to be present in her work.
“My work is my life,” she said to me over a cup of tea. Continue…
City - Monday, September 29, 2008 12:47 - 1 Comment
Betelnut Girls: Girls Selling Stimulants = Art
Don’t feel guilty if you want to buy a semi-addictive stimulant from a skankily-dressed Asian girl in SoHo – It’s art!
Entertainment - Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:43 - 4 Comments
You Are Nothing Without Your iPhone and Facebook Status
On September 13th, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, a seminal gallery that launched the careers of many of today’s big contemporary art-stars (commence eye-rolling?), opened their new Rob Pruitt show, “iPhotos.” No, you heard me right: iPhotos. Continue…
Entertainment - Thursday, September 11, 2008 0:09 - 2 Comments
The Met Goes Younger… (Well, Younger Than McCain)
As the art school kids already know, The Metropolitan Museum of Art have named their next director. Back in January, current director Philippe de Montebello announced that 2008 would be his last year in the position and the museum has been searching for a new director ever since. The job, one of the art world’s most prestigious, is obviously an honor, but is also doubtlessly pretty damn hard.
Apparently up for the challenge, Thomas Campbell was named on Tuesday as the Met’s ninth director in 138 years. Unlike vice presidential slots, they apparently don’t just hand this job out. Continue…
Entertainment - Monday, September 8, 2008 11:23 - 1 Comment
Woman Says “Shave Me,” Calls It Art
On Sunday, August 31, performance artist Irina Danilova invited audience members to shave her head. Bald.
The Quadrennial Shaving Performance was hosted by The Tank, a non-profit organization that provides space to emerging artists of all disciplines, and occurred at the Manhattan Children’s Theatre. It was, however, not child’s play. Continue…
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