Tag: Art
Today is Martha Cooper’s birthday. In tribute to the stalwart graffiti photographer, LADY PINK, HOW, NOSM, FREE5, TERROR161, CRASH, DAZE, BIO, FREEDOM and other graffiti writers are currently working on this mural, to be finished later today. The mural was a surprise. They told Martha to come by 12 and there it was. “It’s more […]
Artist Angelo Musco invites models to his Chelsea studio, about a dozen at a time, to pose for him in the nude, in various kinetic arrangements against green backgrounds. The final results are photographic murals made up of upwards of 2 million of adult nudes floating like overgrown, spindly cherubs in a boundless ether, spiraling […]
There’s something incredibly appealing about subtle, repetitive, perpetual motion seemingly absent of the human hand, whether it’s a massive mobile by Alexander Calder, a creepy portrait GIF from the Beijing subway, or a porny/arty looping six-second subversion series of a new social media app. Artist Laurent Debraux, whose work was recently on view at the […]
Inspired by Liz Magic Laser’s artistic direction of transparency for the Armory Show, here are our photos of the actual people who go to this prestigious art fair to look at art… sans said art. Please notice how alive John Waters still is. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the […]
“They don’t have a Stella and we don’t have a Rauschenberg,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan says, as simple as that. Yesterday, the LA institution made a formal proposal for a merger with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angles. Govan says it was MOCA board members’ idea originally, according […]
Opening tonight at the Waterfront Tunnel event space in Chelsea is the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, featuring installations by over 30 exhibitors including Eva and Franco Mattes‘ haunting, critically acclaimed Emily’s Video. Other notable works on view are Zhao Zhao’s serene, ambiguity-laden I Cannot Sleep Sadly by Your Side, Cathy Begien’s deadpan party-night narrative Black Out […]
Sometimes art just says, “grind on me.” Here’s an atmospheric video directed by Brett Novak, featuring well-groomed skater Kilian Martin gliding over sculptural objects, seemingly designed for gliding up on. Yes, the abstract geometry lends itself well to OH WHAAAT DAMN HE IS SKATING ON TWO SKATEBOARDS. And that arrangement of flashing floor panels really brings out […]
Lookit yonder: Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transits teamed up to bring you these funky, confusing Metrocards adorned with shaggy psychedelic horses to celebrate Grand Central Terminal’s centennial. March 25-31, at 11am and 2pm at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central, a herd of beasts will begin to “cross” the main concorse, busting into choreographed dance moves, now and […]
Spanish artist Eugenio Recuenco’s fashion portrait series as homage-to-Picasso is impressive. The fragmented composite frames and prop-styling work to emulate some of the 20th century master’s most famous cubist paintings in a tasteful, restrained, more-than-straightforward-imitative manner. They may not have the conceptual rigor of Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia’s Webcam Venus, the populist appeal of Hillary Smith’s […]
Bronx-born “Godfather of Graffiti,” SEEN, known for his full-color, top-to-bottom throw-ups on New York City subway cars dating back to 1973, has been undergoing a radical departure from the street style he helped pioneer. For his latest work, on view right now at Fabien Castanier Gallery in California, he weaves thick layers of drips and […]
