Upsize, supersize, largesize, megasize—there are most likely a dozen more of these contemporarily fabricated verbs that are necessitated by our want/need to consume at the current unprecedented rates. The commerce-based art world, not unlike the modern fast-food...
Our September/October cover is a portrait of Nicholas Bowers, the right-hand man for Shepard Fairey. Bowers goes where Fairey goes. Read about Bowers and his experience with Fairey and his own art, by Shelley Leopold.
Hyperallergic A man briefly disrupted the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum this afternoon, splashing his own blood in the shape of an X and signing the name Monty Cantsin underneath. . . READ MORE
BBC The 1998 work features an unmade bed and a floor littered with empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and condoms. The work, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize, had been put up for sale by millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi who bought it for...
Remaining anonymous coupled with becoming a globally recognized figure is no easy feat; it seems almost a requirement of celebrity status that the entire world know your name and face. The crux of what has catapulted some into the spotlight also necessitates a need...
New York Post Art star Jeff Koons triumphantly opened a massive retrospective at the Whitney this week, the museum’s last before it moves downtown.But less than 10 blocks away, he’s undertaking another huge project that’s been years in the making: combining two Upper...
Wall Street JournalThe Los Angeles-basedGrammy Museum is beginning to raise money for a traveling EDM exhibit that it plans to curate in partnership with art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, the former head of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where he curated a sweeping...
Curbed LAEveryone knows by now that rents across Los Angeles are shooting up wildly, but the story with the nonprofit Santa Monica Museum of Art at Bergamot Art Stationis something else altogether:. . . READ MORE
The GuardianA photograph in a Guardian article about Soho photographer John Deakin has been revealed as a picture of artist Francis Bacon in drag. However, there is still a cleavage issue ….. . . READ MORE
The GuardianSophia Wallace is a Brooklyn-based conceptual artist and photographer. Through mixed media, images and video, her work looks at constructions of gender, race and sex. Her most recent work, CLITERACY, was a multimedia project that included street art,...
The Telegraph A team of artists, computer experts and archivists have discovered dozens of previously unknown experimental artworks by Andy Warhol which have been gathering dust on ageing floppy disks since 1985. . . READ MORE
Los Angeles TimesMike Kelley's "Deodorized Central Mass With Satellites," 1991-99, mixed media, shown at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in November 2012. (Perry Rubenstein Gallery) The list of creditors in a recent bankruptcy filing for the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Los...
The Independent The works are stunning, rising like great pillars in a one kilometre corridor between the crumbling cliffs that make Zekreet a regular destination for residents and tourists. Although obviously modern, built in smooth steel already beginning to...
The GuardianHirst grew up in a pretty bad situation with his mother, and he and his gang – many of whom became YBA artists – spent half their time housebreaking, stealing, [indulging in] criminality, and the rest of their time indulging their passion for art, which...
DazedThose fortunate enough to get tickets (yes, it was ticketed, like Glastonbury) were invited to the former BBC London headquarters at 35 Marylebone Gardens, now a performance space for immersive theatre. The 120-strong crowd was shown into the gallery, which had...
TMZAn artist who defaced several works of famed graffiti artist Banksy has been charged with the crime of vandalism -- which is pretty incredible since Banksy's collection is itself an act of vandalism. David William Noll has been charged with FELONY vandalism. ...
The IndependentDuring the performance piece, which he first exhibited at CAIRN Centre for Contemporary Art in Digne last year, Poincheval will not leave the sterilised carcass for a fortnight - forcing him to eat, sleep, and relieve himself while being filmed by two...
"Images courtesy of @[362039667819:274:COREY HELFORD GALLERY] http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/shows/alexandra-manukyan/info-press/" From Alexandra Manukyan's "Beautiful Disaster" Opening Night. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/01/2014 (6 items) Alexandra Manukyan...
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