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ROA Spills His Guts
Colossal posted this great new ROA piece from London yesterday. Walking in one direction, you see ROA’s signature fury critter, each tuft of hair and fur detailed to the fullest extent. But if you turn around….ah! The rabbit’s insides are painted on the opposite side of the fence. The site also points out that this ...
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Will Facebook’s Obscenity Police Ever Accept Photos as Art?
© Gerhard Richter, 2012 Détail de “Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe),” 1966 de Gerhard Richter When will Facebook’s running battle with art end? Art fans will be familiar with the steady drip of stories about the social media giant taking works offline for obscenity. It’s become such a common story that we decided to ...
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Three Years of Street Art in a GIF
Racked NY put together this awesome GIF, showing three years of street art on the Rag & Bone wall in the Lower East Side, facing Elizabeth Street. We spot RAE, Aakash Nihalani, DAL, Young & Sick, and BAST. Know the others? Comment below!
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Sticky Situation: We’re loving Aakash Nihalani’s Latest Work
Aakash Nihalani seems to be getting some attention now that he’s part of NYC’s Arts in Transit program, and gets my vote for most awesome/nauseating website. Lately, we’re loving his newer pieces highlighted by Design Milk‘s Noah Kalina. We’re kind of bummed however, that his latest piece on Elizabeth street got destroyed by mother ...
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Hanksy’s Egg-cellent Adventure
It looks like our favorite “street fartist” had some fun with Easter Eggs this weekend! Images courtesy of Hanksy’s instagram and tumblr
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7 No-Nonsense Twitter Tips for Galleries During Armory Week
This post was originally featured on artinfo.com While preparing for the Armory Show, aside from hydrating and getting out our networking flash cards, we started researching a list of galleries you might want to follow on Twitter during the fairs. However, after seeing tweet after tweet containing non-clickable names and robotic-sounding text, or noting that ...
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Olek’s Kaleidoscopic Crochet Room at Jonathan LeVine
A mermaid swishes a golden crocheted tail back and forth as she sits on a swing, a pair of strategically placed starfish pasties covering what’s left to the imagination. She playfully invites you into New York-based crochet master Olek’s world at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, wherein the artist’s troubles have been transformed into the pirate ship full of ...
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Heard it Through the Art Vine: A Tour of Bushwick’s Gallery Nite in Six-Second Clips
The unknown can be a scary place, especially for those exploring the deepest darkest and furthest corners of the Bushwick art scene. Thank goodness someone created a map! We’re talking about Beat Nite, a recurring event created by Jason Andrew of the gallery and arts non-profit Norte Maar, designed to showcase different and emerging Bushwick ...
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Spray the Question! 8 Tenderly Tagged Street Art Marriage Proposals
While many spend their days trying to remove graffiti from their fences and walls, these couples are keeping it forever in their hearts! With marriage proposals becoming more elaborate than ever, as couples use tactics like movie trailers, flash mobs, and even through a series of memes to pop the question, those looking to get down on one knee ...
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Calling All Cats: Broadway’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Seeks Thespian Feline for Integral Role
If you’ve ever dreamed of joining the ranks of the stage mom (or dad) elite, like those of “Toddlers and Tiaras” and Mama June, you no longer need a toddler that’s hopped up on “go go juice.” All you need is a cat. The Broadway adaptation of Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” scheduled to premier in early ...
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Behind the Scenes: Faile Preps for Success
This week, I wrote about the New York City Ballet and Brooklyn-based art collective Faile‘s awesome collaboration at Lincoln center for Artinfo.com. Here are some photos I snapped in Faile’s studio in Greenpoint about three weeks before the show. The team inside was super busy but at the same time seemed relaxed, almost like they were ...
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NYC Ballet’s Audacious Faile Show is a Pirouette in the Right Direction
NEW YORK — This weekend, the New York City Ballet launched its new Art Series with “Les Ballets de Faile,” a performance and art exhibition in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based street art collective FAILE. The company has a long history of taking risks with more abstract dances and pieces of music, and prides itself on having collaborated with ...
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I Can Haz Jamie Warren?
The Pepto-Bismol pink floor of The Hole gallery’s current show, “The Whoas of Female Tragedy II” immediately makes your pupils shrink up, especially after stepping inside from the dark Bowery. That, combined with the smell of cigarette smoke, is actually disorienting. But the atmosphere isn’t the only thing disorienting. The art on the walls ...
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Robin Rhode’s Playful New Show Crowdsources Art From a Classroom of Bronx Kids
An installation view of “Take Your Mind off the Street” / Courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery All photos Courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York and Hong Kong What would you think if you walked into a gallery and saw children drawing all over the walls with crayons the same size ...
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Step out of Your Comfort Zone with Grace Exhibition Space
Photos from NON GRATA series at Grace Exhibition Space by Therese Maher for Bushwick Daily Imagine the unimaginable, the uncomfortable, the unexplainable There is no designated stage area, blurring the line between audience and performer, and seating is sparse, as participating in the performance is encouraged. The unknown terrifies you, and yet something, maybe ...
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The Cats of Street Art, From Hanksy’s “Ferrell” Felines to Norway’s Kitty Riot
We have come to terms with the fact that the Internet was created as a vehicle to connect people across the world using cat images, cat videos, and cat memes. But this holiday season let’s reflect on a simpler time, a time when people left their computers to immortalize their kitty companions on city ...
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Jay-Z Chats with Adorable Artist in New Jay-Z/Barclay’s Center Doc
What’s more astonishing, a celebrity so famous that it’s unbelievable he or she would take any mode of transportation other than a golden chariot? Or said celebrity confronting a plebeian who has no idea who he/she is? The new (and short) documentary about Jay-z’s christening of the Barclay’s Center, “Where I’m From,”reveals a bit of ...
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No Doubt Tapped Street Artist El Mac for the Cover of its Comeback Album, “Push and Shove”
No Doubt, the ska and punk band of 1990s fame, released their first new album in 11 years last month, “Push and Shove.” After many musical developments, breakups, side-projects, and lead singer Gwen Stefani going solo, the group has gone back to its California roots, both musically and visually. While the album successfully incorporates the ska ...
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From Renoir to Warhol: The Craziest and Most Lucrative Thrift Store Art Finds
Thrift stores are no longer hunting grounds for indie vintage fiends and elderly knicknack hunters — more and more, unsuspecting kitsch fans are picking up bargain-basement paintings at flea markets and garage sales only to later discover that they’ve purchased master works by art legends, with value to match. While these finds often ...
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Seth Price’s Price Problem
Chelsea is still, believe it or not, recovering from hurricane Sandy. On a stroll around the gallery district this past Saturday, I saw galleries still running on generators, leftover sandbags on the sidewalks, ropes, boards, other rehabilitation tools, and many signs on gallery doors apologizing for remaining closed due to Sandy. When I began ...
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GILF! Out the Vote: The Brooklyn Street Artist on Her Enigmatic Political Work
Courtesy the Artist From left: “Untitled #2, 2012″ and “Untitled, 2012″ NEW YORK — If you happened to venture out onto Mulberry and Grand streets the day after Hurricane Sandy, you might have noticed a lone panel with a portrait of president Barack Obama, hoisted up on puppet strings like a marionette on a stage. Right ...
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VIDEO: Chelsea Galleries Pick Up the Pieces Post-Sandy
NEW YORK — Like many parts of the city, the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan — home to some of the art world’s best-known galleries — was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Yestereday, ARTINFO’s Tom Chen and Terri Ciccone went to survey the damage, finding dealers focused on recovery and still cleaning out deluged spaces. Originally featured on ARTINFO.com
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Urban Elements
Boris Loder’s photo series “Urban Elements.” The photographer eliminates the backgrounds of the items that make up a city so we can focus on their isolated beauty.
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Street Art in the Clouds, Under the Water
Just enjoying the fact that Space Invader is putting up work both in outer space and under the sea. Who said street art is limited to the street?! http://www.space-invaders.com/cancun2.html
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Hottea in Soho
Yarn is all the rage in art apparently! Check out this new piece by Hottea in SOHO, and see more images and a video of him in action on AnimalNY
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A Prognosis of Street Artist EKG’s Irregular Heartbeat
If you keep your eyes open, you can actually see a pulse of New York City everywhere. And I don’t mean “pulse” the way news anchors refer to it in a teaser that shows a montage of reporters knocking on doors and ‘coming to you live’ from helicopters. I mean a beat, an ever streaming ...
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PS: MOMA is Not Yet Involved
All images by courtesy of Mark Skwarek and Sander Veenhof. Is your art museum-worthy? We’ve all seen the video of Banksy attempting to hang his own work in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and other major museums. Is this a gag? A stunt? Is he the shock jock of street art? Perhaps. But one question he ...
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Is the Honeymoon Over for Artists in Bushwick? Gallerists on the Bohemian Neighborhood’s Latest Mutation
This post was originally featured on Artinfo.com NEW YORK — “I thought they must have killed the other art teacher,” said photographer Meryl Meisler, explaining what went through her head when she was offered a teaching position in Bushwick in the ‘80s. “It looked like a cross between Beirut and Hiroshima.” Her images, on view at ...
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Shepard Fairey Isn’t the Only Hopeful Artist in Chelsea These Days
Check out this post and more on my blog on Artinfo.com! With art popping up on the high line faster than dandelions, it was less of a surprise and more of a breath of fresh air to see this cute street art piece on west 20th street between 10th and 11th avenues. Below a ...
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Recent Awesome Things I’ve Seen
In an effort to get the creative juices jumpstarted, I thought I’d ease into it and share some iPhone pictures I’ve been taking of some great stuff I’ve been randomly seeing. I swear there will be actual journalistic posts to come….but until then….here are some pretty pictures! Seung Mo Park at 56 Bogart. It’s ...