Queen B. Goes West: The Art Has No Clothes

Kanye West's CD release bash in October featured a human installation piece by Vanessa Beecroft. West is known to have a penchant for contemporary art, exemplified by his long collaboration with Takashi Murakami.

From Piss To Shit : Art Ceases to Desist

With today's digital era so rich in explicit displays of virtually every aspect of the human experience — including amateur exhibitions of bodily functions beamed to us live via webcam — the idea of museum exhibits raising hell in America may seem, well, passé?

NY Studio Visit

It all started with a dream. "I was in a small library, and she opened the door. She put her file folders down and pinned me to the wall, kissing me," recalls painter Sarah Ferguson. "She was so, so forthright. I found it very refreshing." So it was in a group show by the founding members of the Fréderic Magazine collective at fette's gallery in Culver City, I found myself looking through the past year's apparently resurgent Surrealism to something that seemed to reach back even further — a graphic style of representation I once would have...

Private Eye

Steve Turner and Victoria Dailey have been following their bliss as co-collectors for 20 years. Their art collection is a huge project on three levels, encompassing collecting, dealing and nonprofit. For example, when they discovered 1920s African-American artist William H. Johnson, they traveled to Denmark on numerous discovery trips, collected his work, wrote a book, (William H. Johnson: Truth Be Told), organized a traveling museum show and created a nonprofit, which awards an annual cash prize to an emerging African-American artist.