Los Angeles–based Ace Gallery was taken over by a bankruptcy trustee after founder Douglas Chrismas defaulted on a $17.5 million court-ordered payment in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Ace consists of two gallery spaces located in LA and Beverly Hills and an estimated...
This video follows Clarissa Esguerra, Assistant Curator, and Melinda Kerstein, Mount Maker in the Department of Costume & Textiles, while they get a mannequin dressed and ready for the exhibition "Reigning Men". The ensemble shown here features a a silk...
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son, Joe Corré, has issued a press release stating his plans to burn his £5 million punk memorabilia collection in Camden on 26 November, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of punk. The designer said; “When the Queen gives a...
Scott Hove's installations are at once decadent and repulsive, seductive and vile, playful and grave, immersing the viewer in multilayered and tantalizing worlds. His acrylic frosted works draw our attention to the dualistic nature of every vice – we enjoy them, even...
Iggy Pop served as the nude model in a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The session was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by British artist Jeremy Deller. The resulting drawings, created by 21 artists ranging in age from 19 to 80, will...
DIEM: Talks Design symposium on November 13, 2015, curated by Mallery Roberts Morgan with KCRW's Frances Anderton.New York, Paris, London, LA, Berlin, Hong Kong... in major capitals the big story is art. Why? Is it pure commerce, a new form of spirituality or a branch...
Our favourite art moment scene from season 4 of Louie featuring Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon.
In The Space Between Us Parducci investigates images of disaster sites. This imagery signifies a continued investigation of prior concerns as Parducci has long been interested in the desperation that is born of catastrophe and violence. Her 2007-2011 “Survival...
Aaron Curry, Creator Creator, 2015, painted aluminum and stainless steel, 131 7/8 x 127 1/2 x 85 7/16", courtesy David Kordansky Gallery.
Billionaire hedge funder Ken Griffin has bought two paintings, a de Kooning and a Jackson Pollock, for a total of $500 million, setting a new record for contemporary art. CNBC reported that music mogul David Geffen was the seller, and that the 1955 de Kooning,...
The Court of Appeal of Paris on Friday ruled that a case opened against Facebook for censoring a 19th-Century nude painting can be tried in France.The court rejected Facebook's argument that it is governed exclusively by Californian law, upholding a March 2015 lower...
New York University’s Fales Library & Special Collections has acquired the papers of writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus, who rose to fame for “I Love Dick” (1997) and “Aliens & Anorexia” (2000), among other written works combining autobiography, theory, and...
Anwar Congo is a stone-cold killer.He is also a petty gangster, a wealthy if somewhat eccentric paterfamilias, something of a dandy (never wear white to an interrogation or a political execution), a local celebrity with connections to an abysmally corrupt government,...
Artist Derrick Adams curates Something I Can Feel, the debut Curated Section at VOLTA NY. Watch this 2 min video as he discusses his creative intent in assembling the participating artists in this thematic exhibition exploring elements of provocation.
I LOVE THIS MUSEUM.I wanted to visit at least one local arts institution before leaving town, and I’ve heard good things about the Perez Art Museum, so that’s where we went Sunday. The new director there—Franklin Sirmans—was the curator for contemporary art at LACMA,...
Yesterday, I highlighted the artworks in the South Tent at Pulse Miami Beach. Right now, I’ll explain my reaction to the North Tent: it’s a little complicated. I never want to denigrate anyone’s taste, so believe me when I say I’m not judging when I describe the...
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