KPCC Jason Shelowitz — also known as Jay Shells — is the New York-based artist behind the Rap Quotes project. For the past few years, Shells has been traversing New York City, posting red and white street signs with location-specific rap quotes, in an effort to make...
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Let there be clouds
As the Los Angeles Aqueduct celebrates its 100-year anniversary this month, many art institutions and organizations are showing support in their exhibition programming. Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) in downtown Santa Ana erected a monumental installation in...
LACMA Launches Art + Technology Lab
UNFRAMED An exciting thing happened today: we launched our new Art + Technology Lab at LACMA. The Lab is an experiment in bringing artists and technologists together to develop projects that we plan to share with the public here at the museum. . . . READ MORE
Jeffrey Deitch Mistakes P. Diddy For Kanye West at Art Basel
Perez Hilton Talk about embarrassing! Sean “Diddy” Combs was at Art Basel in Miami on Wednesday last week, when he got mistaken for Kanye West!!! Jeffrey Deitch, an art dealer and collector, walked up to Diddy at the event and said, “Hi Kanye…” . . . READ...
Food Stamp Art: A Struggling Family’s Grocery List Sells For $12K At Art Basel
NewsOne New York Source: Artfcity via Danielle Young on BPNEXTArtist named Meg Webster is showcasing “Food Stamp Table” at Miami’s Art Basel in the Paula Cooper Gallery and the minimalist art comments on something we already know--people living on food stamps have it...
Leonardo DiCaprio to Brian Grazer Stalk Art Basel
BloombergHollywood producer Brian Grazer, the Oscar winner who has collected art for more than a decade, made his first trip to the Art Basel Miami Beach fair yesterday.He chatted with entertainer-entrepreneur Sean John Combs, music producer Jimmy Iovine and Google...
Kanye hires Warhol kin to paint Kim
Page Six Monica Warhol's next project: Kim Kardashian. The cousin of the famous pop star has painted several celebrities, like rapper Flo Rida (right)Photo: Film Magic (left) and Monica Warhol (right)The one thing that not even Kanye West can buy? A Warhol painting of...
Turner Prize 2013: Laure Prouvost
The Daily Mail French artist Laure Prouvost has been named winner of this year’s Turner Prize for a video of a tea party. The £25,000 award was presented by Irish actress Saoirse Ronan at a ceremony in Londonderry, Northern Ireland last night. Miss Prouvost’s video,...
Ryan O’Neal accused of snatching $12 million Warhol portrait
The Daily Mail Ryan O'Neal snatched an Andy Warhol portrait of his ex-lover Farrah Fawcett from her home shortly after she died, even though he knew it was not his, it was claimed this week. But as a long-awaited trial opened in Los Angeles, a lawyer for the veteran...
Michael Landy
Michael Landy is hardly the kind of artist you would expect to see named artist in residence at London’s National Gallery. For one thing, he’s a charter member of the Young British Artists made famous by Damien Hirst’s legendary "Freeze" exhibition. Known for their...
5Pointz Pilgrims: One Last Visit to the Doomed Graffiti Mecca
New York Observer “I’ve been coming here for years. It’s always been a great place where people will get together for art and peace and positive vibes,” said Rhonda Elhosseiny, gazing up at one of the exuberantly graffitied walls of 5Pointz, the Long Island City...
Brooklyn Banksy for Sale in Miami www.telegraph.co.uk/ A broken heart and a graffiti-covered car door will be the first two pieces from street artist Banksy's New York series to go up for public sale next month in Miami. The sale by an artist whose pieces have gone...
‘Monuments Men’ veteran predicts more Nazi-seized art will surface
Reuters When news of a hidden trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich came to light this month, an 87-year-old man in a quiet retirement community in New Jersey straightened a copy of a Rembrandt self-portrait hanging on his wall, completely unsurprised. The picture is a...
Escape from LA
Paolo Soleri’s eyes sparkled from under bushy eyebrows, deep-set in a grizzled face; they projected intelligence tinged with a spark of irony. When I met Soleri (who died in April) the first time, back in 2000, he could at times appear weary, like a man called upon to...
McCARTHY ROCOCO
It is tempting—though not entirely accurate—to report that this past spring and summer, Paul McCarthy’s new work made a big splash in new york. First we had “Paul McCarthy: Sculpture” at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea: an exhibition noted for several large, complex,...
Table of Contents – Summer 2013
Hooking up with Margie Schnibbe LA Studio Visit by Ezrha Jean Black / Edit Margie Schnibbe has a jungle thing going on in the front reception area of her house, as it seems to »read more IN LOVE WITH THE ANIMALS Chris Kraus tours Mexicali with neo-muralist Fernando...
Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson is a maniac with paint. His current retrospective is a testament to the gargantuan ambitions and massive amounts of energy he has displayed over a 40-plus-year career. The exhibition’s title, “Ain’t Painting a Pain,” is indicative of his commitment to...
Editor’s Letter
Not so long ago on a return flight to LA, I was sitting next to a young Boston couple who had never been to the West Coast before. I asked them what the first thing they wanted to do was when they landed. They said they wanted to eat at Del Taco. I tried to hide my...
