Category: Gallery
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A group show featuring two dozen graffiti and street artists opens tonight at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Curated by longtime author/documentarian/organizer-of-things Roger Gastman, “Cruel Summer” includes work from the likes of BLADE, HAZE, RIME, REVOK, POSE, Mark Bode, Shepard Fairey, DABS MYLA, and many other notables gaining ground on the graffiti/street circuit. The exhibit will be […]
Over the weekend, members of street safety group Right of Way commemorated pedestrians and bicyclists who had died from traffic collisions by putting up spray-painted stencils all around the city. The stencils were created by Robyn Hasty — a pair of wings surrounded by roses. Below the design, the group and families of victims added the name of the […]
Chinese artist Ren Yue lets bees make his art for him. “I wanted to try to eliminate the subjectivity of the artist and the mediation of bees served this purpose,” he says of his series, Yuansu II. To make the art, he used totally symmetrical clear plastic polyhedrons to allow the bees freedom to create their honeycombs […]
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 […]
John Knoll’s 1988 photo Jennifer In Paradise aka “first Photoshopped image” has been shared so many times over the internet (losing detail each time) that the high-res original version has been totally lost. Artist Constant Dullaart’s excavation of this photograph’s history is the inspiration for his Jennifer In Paradise Series. Dullaart takes a photo, “so recognizable and ingrained in […]
“Urbes Mutantes,” a new exhibit at New York’s International Center of Photography, explores 70 years of South American photographic movements. The show reveals the strong personalities and diversity of South American locales, something that’s been overlooked by many Western-based histories of these places. Double Wrestle III, Lourdes Grobet “As the 20th century progressed, amidst struggles for social justice and […]
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 […]
As internet-based art proliferates, it’s fascinating to watch work that is rooted in the digital as it migrate into the world of physical art spaces. The success of these transitions is varied, but Jon Rafman‘s practice is endlessly fascinating. His exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis opening tomorrow feels likely to bridge that gap. As curator […]
Journalist Esther Honig sent an unedited photo of herself to 25 graphic designers around the world, with the instructions “make me beautiful.” The resulting series, Before & After, is both moving and humorous in its representations of beauty ideals embodied by these designers of varying ability. You only need to look at the American image […]
The Welling Court Mural Project entered its fifth year last week. For 2014, more than 80 graffiti and street artists painted over 100 spots. Curated and organized by Ad Hoc Art, it first launched in 2010 as as a way to “slay some aesthetic blights” and continues to expand. With each passing year, more and […]
