Layers, collages, cut-ups and cut-outs — it’s mixed media madness at Perry Rubenstein Gallery. The group show “Shred” features Eric Foss’s found vintage vagina face photo mash-ups, a ’50s zoophobic collage by Jess, the Brooklyn duo FAILE‘s mas-tear-piece above and more. Read more »
With a wide curatorial grasp on artistic obsessives from Maya Deren to Shirin Neshat to Dash Snow, the James Cohan Gallery’s group show “The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 2)” explores the “dissolute scenarios” of emotional turmoil as fed through the lens. Because without Nan Goldin’s camera that Heart-shaped Bruise wouldn’t be quite as aesthetic. Preview some works below. Read more »
It’s been a while since we’ve seen any worthy tributes to SACE, but now RIME enters the fray with this striking piece.
The year 2009 is quickly coming to a close, and with that comes a barrage of retrospectives of famous people who’ve died. Here’s one you can wear: the Faces of Death 2009 t-shirt. Read more »
Last night, the Cooper Square Hotel celebrated, not only the completion of its 5th street façade, but also it’s acceptance into the East Village. Thanks to the unifying powers of public art, the noisy hotel’s neighbors will no longer use dirty underwear and douche bags to signal their displeasure because they simply have none anymore. Read more »
An illicit tribute to graffiti writers has been vandalized, just days after going up. The lino-print portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE have been mutilated, their heads lopped off and lacerated. Street artist Noh J. Coley plans to recreate his paper piece, which now illustrates why dead graffiti artists are rarely memorialized in anything but paint.
Photo by Noh J. Coley
After a series of tributes to deceased graffiti writers, street artist Noh J. Coley created a group tribute, reprinting his linoleum-cut portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE. His “Sprayed N Stone” piecedepicts the trio of graffiti writers breaking through Heaven’s pearly gates, located in Queens.
Photo by Noh J. Coley
The first night of Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art auction saw modest sales and nothing like Sotheby’s $39 million haul for Andy Warhol’s cash print. With the pop master’s soap box selling for $842k and Dash Snow’s Polaroid prints going for $50k, most sales fell within pre-auction estimates. Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to stand on Andy Warhol’s soap box or paper your walls with someone else’s party photos, tomorrow’s your chance at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art sale. In addition to one of Warhol’s wooden Brillo boxes, valued up to $900k, the smaller-than-normal auction features Dash Snow’s “Polaroid Wall,” estimated at the posthumous price of $40k to $60k. Also up for a bid is Jeff Koons’ $200k ice bucket, Banksy’s “Insane Clown” painting, Olafur Eliasson lightbox as wells as some pictures of nearly nothing by Felix Gonzalez Torres. Read more »
The artists hired to help the Cooper Square Hotel blend in, have been busy making it stand out. Joining VIZIE’s tribute to Dash Snow, Shinique Smith has covered the side of the building with her abstract calligraphy, Nick 1 is in the midst of a 4 train piece and Joyce Pensato is blowing-up her drippy painting of Homer Simpson.
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