Tag: Exhibits
Over $12,000 was raised at the silent auction fundraiser ANIMAL threw for embattled “Drone” artist Essam Attia last night. Hosted by renowned photographer Clay Patrick McBride, a couple hundred people showed up to our Hell’s Kitchen offices to bid on art, drink things, and listen to live music provided by the likes of Ben Morgan, […]
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 […]
Next week, we’re throwing an event to help keep Essam out of jail! Remember Essam? He’s the artist who got the NYPD all worked up when he started posting signs critical of drones all around New York City. ANIMAL presents Free ESSAM! There will be live music and an open bar. Hosted by rock photographer […]
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 […]
“Transfer,” what a perfect name for an IRL AFK net art gallery. L Magazine/Art F City reports: opening on March 16th, indie curator Kelani Nichole’s Transfer kicks things off with Alexandra Gorczynski (seen above.) Nichole (of the get>put> project) has previously worked with our favorites F.A.T. Lab. Kelani Nichole tells Whitney Kimball: “We’re building a stripped-down e-commerce platform, where we’re going to sell smaller […]
After decades of putting work on the streets (for free), Bronx-born graffiti bomber COPE2 continues his pursuit of a more legal career by selling his art (for money). This past weekend, a new exhibit of his work opened at Gallery 69 in Tribeca. The solo show, entitled “Hypnotic,” is comprised of painted canvases, with all […]
Fifty years of crimes scene and accident photography by the legendary Enrique Metinides a.k.a. “Mexican Weegee” go on view at Aperture Gallery tonight. The work, hand-selected by Metinides and curated by Tisha Ziff, editor of the monograph 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides, will be paired alongside original newspaper tear sheets and other contextualizing ephemera. Accompanying […]
For a piece titled Sikka Magnum, artist Daniel Canogar repurposed 360 DVDs creating what he calls an “audio-visual mosaic.” The interdisciplinary artist known for incorporating old and outdate media into his work, arranged the the DVDs into the shape of a digital mandala, projecting onto its surface bits of their content, resulting in uber-trippy reflections […]
An exhibit at L.A.’s Subliminal Projects gallery will showcase the art of dancehall reggae, from 1979 to the present. Entitled “Art in the Dancehall,” the show includes album covers from the likes of Yellowman and Josey Wales, Gregory Isaacs, and Jah Shaka, as well as dancehall-inspired art and posters from artists and designers like Tony McDermott, Sassafras, and […]
This morning, every art media outlet ever descended upon New Museum’s much-hyped “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” exhibit preview. Yes, like the Sonic Youth album. Sonic Youth is very 1993. Attempting to seriously critique an exhibit like this somewhat echoes the challenges of curating it (except for the curating part): How does one express, encompass, […]
