Tag: Exhibits
Last June, Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary media artist Jonas Lund developed ThePaintshop.biz, a collaborative online platform for creating, buying and selling reasonable algorithm-priced art in real time. Many paintings were made, though not so many were sold–only about three of 3,500. In an effort to reach a wider market, to extend beyond the standard art collector type milieu, he […]
Calm down. Those aren’t real cigarrettes. Photographer Frieke Janssens used chalk, cheese sticks, candles and incense to stage these fictional and yet, gracefully unnerving portraits of smoking children. She says she was prompted by the viral speared of videos of East-Asian toddler smokers on the internet, as well as complaints that the Belgium-based photographer heard from […]
This week, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the winner of a contest to design the future of NYC living — 300-some-odd-square-foot micro apartments, packing in more people into smaller spaces with higher ceilings and still comically high rents. (Bloomberg plans to skirt legislation that prohibits building new apartments smaller than 400 square feet by constructing the first […]
“Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde,” currently on view at MoMA, goes to show that Modernism was plural — not a Western aesthetic exported across the world, but concurrent post-war global movements centralized in various urban “incubators” — an era of Modernisms. Towards the end of the exhibition in the final gallery opposite masterful photographs by Daido Moriyama […]
Only a damned cretin would deny the colossal impact that the late Allen Ginsberg had on the 20th century literary world. His divinely manic, sometimes-drug-fueled rants, punctuated by themes of sexual liberation, gritty urban romanticism and countercultural activism came to define the Beat Generation. And then James Franco played him in Howl. His aptitude as a […]
Close to 70,000 American youths are incarcerated in detention centers around the country on a daily basis. The cost to keep them there for a 9-12 month period ranges anywhere from $66,000 to $224,715 at the most in California. “Juvenile-In-Justice,” one of Richard Ross’ most socially engaged series yet, documents the conditions of this system […]
“Oyster-tecture,” a 16-foot digital collage by environmental architect Kate Orff and the firm SCAPE, envisions New York harbor as part marshland, part mollusk paradise. The work, among those on view in a new group show of 10 extradisciplinary artists and cultural innovators at the National Academy Museum, proposes an inexpensive, efficient method for bracing against […]
Here are some cute and pithy illustrations from French artist Jean Jullien that reflect on our very internet daily lives. Ooh, depressing! Or maybe not. That all depends on whether you’ve made peace with the fact that you cuddle with your smartphone at night, one eye open for friend status update alerts, your existence justified solely by […]
For its latest art sale, online gallery Dirty Pilot has curated a show featuring black book pages from some of graffiti’s most legendary pioneers and train painters. With work from the likes of STAY HIGH 149 (RIP), SEEN, CES, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, GHOST, COPE2, and others, no introductions are really necessary. The pages range in […]
It’s “lipstick for the between the legs,” a chair-tub, a floating bed and Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother drew these “products” as part of her treatment for schizophrenia, the Gallerist explains. It’s all manifested inside a unhinged CGI world and paired with intimate family photographs. And so, the 26-year-old New York artist Jacolby Satterwhite makes a solo debut at the Monya Rowe Gallery. When I […]
