The GuardianI think a good curator is like a good chef. They understand the city's needs – and fulfil and challenge them. How do curators and artists work with each other? Ideally, it's a collaboration in which one inspires and challenges the other. The best thing a...
NY TimesIn “Relationship,” a photo exhibition currently on view at the Whitney Biennial, the two have chronicled that process and the evolution of their own love affair. (In a recent preview of the Biennial, Holland Cotter of The New York Times wrote that the...
uncompromising tangPaige Wery’s latest endeavor takes her full-circle back to her interest in self-taught artists with the opening of The Good Luck Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, which will exclusively exhibit non-formally trained artists. The Good Luck Gallery’s...
And all the Rest: ADAA, Independent, SCOPE, (UN)FAIROn Friday, I started the day off with another VIP event, this time at Scandinavia House hosted by the Nordic consulates. (You’ve got to hand it to the Scandinavians. In addition to everything else they get right,...
The veteran color theorist has a four decade-plus career, including works in the permanent collections of institutions like the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) and the Moderna Museet (Stockholm). Berg is equally versatile in sublime color spectrums and...
GothamistAs hundreds of tourists and art lovers enjoyed the Guggenheim's evening of free admission last night, scores of activists briefly took control of the museum, blaring a bugle, dropping banners from the spiral balconies, and raining leaflets on visitors.. ....
The Washington PostThe Corcoran Gallery of Art and its college through the years: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington’s oldest private art museum, and its venerable college of art and design will cease to exist as an independent institution, and its components —...
CNNHe's been photographed dropping vases before -- but that doesn't mean it's OK for just anyone to do it. Ai Weiwei has made a name for himself by not only creating visually arresting and thought-provoking art, but for his uncompromising activism in opposition to the...
Marketing MagazineGoogle has partnered with The Saatchi Gallery to launch a photographic contest judged by Baz Lurhmann and Tracey Emin that embraces the popular gif technology trend.. . . READ MORE
DefamerOn Tuesday, serial plagiarist and "not famous" famous actor Shia LaBeouf invited the public to join him at his latest cry for help in Los Angeles. According to the press release for his new performance entitled "#IAMSORRY," LaBeouf will be "in situ" at an art...
The San Francisco Museum of Art is closed for the year while its downtown facility undergoes a major renovation and expansion. But that hasn’t meant the end to SFMOMA exhibitions. Pursuant to the slogan “We’ve temporarily moved… Everywhere,” the museum is staging...
BloombergFlipping has picked up as wealthy collectors chase paintings by emerging artists with the goal of reselling them quickly for a profit, a strategy some advisers say may be a sign that the contemporary art market is taking on characteristics of a financial...
Starting this Sunday, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is admission free. And the free-for-all will have a new exhibit that tells viewers they can take it or leave it.Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology is the first large-scale exhibition to...
New York Times“I’ve never worked a day in my life,” Rene Ricard, then 32, wrote in an essay for The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1978. “If I did it would probably ruin my career, which at the moment is something of a cross between a butterfly and a lap dog.”.. ....
New York-based nonprofit foundation Art Matters has announced its grant winners for artists who are working on socially engaged projects. And the winners are . . . Claudia Alvarez Support for travel to Mexico City for research at Museo Nacional de Antropología and the...
DefamerShia LaBeouf is sending messages to "every" gallery in LA, desperate for space. In his message he writes:I am in need of a performance space in Los Angeles I'm looking to put on a show. Your gallery is perfect. My plan is to repent in the way of...
The WireGeorge Zimmerman goes Shepard Fairey for his latest piece of 'Art' which goes on sale tomorrow.. . . READ MORE
The GuardianRussian socialite, Dasha Zhukova, sparks outrage with 'racist chair' photograph where she is pictured sitting on a contorted, near-naked mannequin of a black woman. . . READ MORE
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