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July 12, 2013 Marina Galperina

“There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you’re getting in,” Pace rep told my editor. She’s been getting calls about Jay-Z all day. “It’s a closed set.” Jay-Z was shooting a Mark Romanek-directed music video inside a gallery in Chelsea, lip-syncing and dancing with half the New York art world as cameos. When Tweets alleging “Jay-Z is doing performance […]

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July 10, 2013 Kyle Chayka

As if Jay Z‘s new song “Picasso Baby” from the upcoming album Magna Carta Holy Grail wasn’t already art enough, the rapper has decided to perform the song at the Pace Gallery — for six hours without stopping. Pace Gallery is “a leading contemporary art gallery representing more than 70 artists and estates, with galleries in New York, […]

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March 13, 2013 Eugene Reznik

Los Angeles-born artist James Turrell, known for visceral immersive installations like Bindu Shards, works primarily with light and “indeterminate space” to alter his audience’s visual perception and consciousness. Towards that end, since 1974, Turrell has been developing a monumental land art project known as Roden Crater, a three-mile-wide extinct volcano near Flagstaff, Arizona. One of […]

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