Month: August 2013
Erica Simone created quite a stir in 2011 with her “Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen” photo series that featured her doing every day things around the city while posing completely nude. And apparently it’s not over yet. “To celebrate two more years of a work in progress on my project…I am finally […]
Here’s the visual aftermath of the art and rap world colliding when Jay Z recited “Picasso Baby” for hours on end during an invite-only performance at Pace Gallery a few weeks ago. In the video’s intro, Jay Z says this of the relationship he shares with the likes of Marina Abramović and Lawrence Weiner: “We’re […]
These 1,500 tiny speakers create a sound texture that changes as you walk along Tristan Perich’s Microtonal Wall. See it at MoMA’s “Soundings: A Contemporary Score” exhibit, opening August 10th. (Photo: Pete Matthews, Feast of Music/Flickr) […]
In anticipation of International Cassette Store Day (September 7th), here’s a short documentary about a man named Micke from Stockholm-based collective Filibuster. This is The Magnetist. Most of Micke’s time is spent on varius tape-related projects; he blogs about them, he makes music with them and he got a monthly tape club in his hometown Stockholm. Sometimes it’s a struggle. Here […]
When I was a kid, I’d comb through huge boxes of LEGOs to find the perfect piece for whatever I was working on — a two-floor Miami condo, an epic fighting robot, a replica of the Mona Lisa (or not). Today, I’m a little embarrassed I still have huge boxes of LEGOs at home (DON’T JUDGE […]
There’s a lot of coverage of China’s mass reproduction industry — from the Dafen Oil Painting Village documentary shots by Haibo Yu to Michael Wolf’s portraits of the copy artists with their copies of Francis Bacon, Chuck Close and Ed Ruscha. There are also conceptual art projects like Phil Thompson’s censored art in museums on Google Streetview reproduced as […]
“I’m so excited to be on Fifth Avenue,” says CLAW gleefully to me as she stands outside of Lord and Taylor on Thursday evening. The graffiti bomber turned fashion designer was waiting for the luxe department store to unveil the backdrops they commissioned her to create for their main window displays. Moments later, one of […]
Manhattan is the island of skyscrapers, traffic jams, art, and nightlife, each of which can be whimsically accompanied by its own fair amount of garbage and inconveniences… and a beach? There are plans to construct a beach right on Manhattan’s own waterfront, not too far from the aforementioned skyscrapers. (Perhaps they’ll provide some much needed […]
What do you get the mega-collector who has everything? Why, a sculptural self-portrait, of course! And what better subject than, oh, that time when the art-world patron was caught choking his now ex-wife, star chef Nigella Lawson, at a London restaurant, an incident that he referred to as a “playful tiff” rather than domestic abuse? The […]
Located on East First Street off of First Avenue, the Centre-fuge Public Art Project is a rotating outdoor gallery featuring work by mostly street artists. Every two months, new artists are invited to paint a construction office trailer that has been occupying the block as part of the constructions of the Second Avenue Subway. It’s […]
