Tag: Exhibits
Today, glitChicago opens at Chicago’s Ukrainian Institute of Art (UIA), featuring 22 glitch artists from around the country. There has been a renaissance of new media art in the Windy City over the last few years, which hosted the GLI.TC/H in 2010 through 2012. Tonight will include live performances from many of the show’s participants, including A. Bill Miller and Nick Kegeyan, […]
“Disobedient Objects” is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the role of objects in social movements. Currently on view in London, the show addresses the drive of “design ingenuity and collective creativity” motivated by activism, defying “standard definitions of art and design.” From a Suffragette tea service to protest robots, this exhibition […]
Currently on view in London, the exhibit Automatic Art presents a retrospective of art created according to formal rules of mathematics. The exhibition presents 50 years of British art that is generated from strict procedures. The artists make their work by following rules or by writing computer programs. They range from system-based paintings and drawings to evolving […]
Wayne White’s upcoming exhibition “Invisible Ruler” at the Joshua Liner Gallery will feature new work, from his 15-foot kinetic sculptures to works on paper created by the artist during his residency at the Rauschenberg Foundation. The exhibit will also feature White’s signature word paintings, the frankness of which we’re rather partial to. The “NO SHIT” painting seems to speak […]
Over the last few weeks, KET, Vor138, Rubin415, Bisco Smith and others treated nine5 gallery’s white walls as blank canvases. Last night, ANIMAL joined the party to check out the finished work at the “Group Ink” show. The finished art, dubbed “uncurated, unregulated, and unsellable” by the gallery press release, was a bright congregation of tags and colorful indoor murals. “It’s not […]
The Met has announced its first fall fashion show since 2007, and it’s very special. “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire” focuses on the Victorian & Edwardian fashions of the bereaved between 1815 and 1915. The exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. […]
Over the past twenty years or so, Detroit has become a symbol of a failed city, to America and to the world. Yet, recent reports show that artists are flocking there, believing it’s the new hellhole that can be revitalized to provide cheap rents, urban inspiration, and deep artistic roots. But unlike the Lower East Side […]
On Sunday, online gallery Dirty Pilot went live with its latest exhibit of graffiti art for sale: the “Vintage Label Show.” Graffiti greats such as BLADE, CES, CLAW, T-KID, DR. REVOLT, YES2 (picture above) and other notables, painted paper labels stripped off of spray cans from old school brands like Tragic Magic, Lucas, Rust-Oleum and Krylon. It’s […]
Harmony Korine (writer of Kids, writer and director of Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Trash Humpers and Spring Breakers) is having an art exhibit at the Park Avenue Gagosian Gallery this May. Here is a preview: Blue Checker (2014), from “Shooters.” We have collectively decided that this is a Magic Eye painting with a person sitting on another person’s shoulders in it and the […]
Long time graffiti writer CHIP7 opens a solo show in Bushwick tonight at lifestyle retail space Scumbags & Superstars. The Queens native first started painting in the early 90s and has been bombing the streets of New York (and New Jersey) for nearly two decades. But for the past four years, he has lived in […]
