The fourth instalment of POSTSCRIPT, the performance art series hosted at MoMA PS1’s Printshop, is taking place this weekend. Described as “a performance series that explores the confluence of music, poetry and fashion”, POSTSCRIPT has in the past featured such artists as Timeghost, Boy Harsher, Gene Pick, Peter Seligman, Nick Klein, Dark Sister, Negation and I Lewis, and has expanded considerably, […]
Richard Misrach: The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings
Though, at first glance, his work doesn’t ring as such, Richard Misrach has been fascinated with the human figure throughout his extensive photographic career. His book On The Beach, published in 20113 in response to the 9/11 events, offered aerial images of bathers on various Hawaiian beaches which captured, almost voyeuristically, our interactions with nature. Now, Misrach is back with […]
The Zeitgeist: I Know You Think You Know It All, Dial-Up Modem Noise
The Zeitgeist is a new weekly column bringing you the best in bite-sized viral culture. I Know You Think You Know It All The book I Know You Think You Know It All, by artist Charles Black, is filled to the brim with the kind of indispensable advice for the modern world you really shouldn’t leave your home without. Selections include […]
Frieze New York 2015: The Best Views
Frieze New York, one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs, returns to New York’s Randall’s Island Park from May 14–17, 2015 for the fourth time. Since debuting in 2012, Frieze New York has grown into a veritable street-cred alternative to Art Basel Miami Beach, which has become a bit like the populist, less-cool big brother. Here are the selections […]
Fifteen Million Minutes: On Kim Kardashian’s Selfish
To say that Kim Kardashian divides the public is both understatement and overstatement. She herself actively does nothing; it’s the public that tears itself apart. The most maddening of conundrums are the ones that don’t have a clear beginning or end. When it comes to the Kardashians, it feels as if we’re stuck in an eternal middle act—I can hardly […]
Art Openings This Week in NYC
A curated list of the best art openings across NYC galleries this week. But Is It Art? Adriana Garces, Audrey Ryan, Bree Rubin, Carolyn Colsant, Heather Marie Scholl, Laura Tack, Marianna Peragallo, Maria Petrovskaya, Sessa Englund, Shaina Yang, Winter Mendelson, Tia Dunn, Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado, Daniel Lamanna, James Gardella, John De La O, Josef Pinlac and Saks Afridi […]
Form and Function: Mark Newson and the Art of Product Design
This week, the Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson has retained its title as the world’s most expensive design object, after fetching £2,434,500 in a sale at auction house Phillips in London. Newson’s aluminium and fiberglass chaise longue, designed in 1990, was first brought to fame when Madonna reclined in it in the video for her 1993 single “Rain”. […]
Art Openings This Week in LA
If you’re in Southern California this week, here is a curated list of the most noteworthy shows opening across LA galleries this week. Sculpture Iva Gueorguieva April 25 – May 30, 2015 ACME, 6150 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA, 90048 Bikini Factory Anthony Lepore April 25 – June 6, 2015 Francois Ghebaly Gallery, 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles […]
Instagram’s Cut-Out Rebel: Kalen Hollomon
New York-based collage artist Kalen Hollomon makes the kind of technicolour digital collages that would appear to be quite at home on an innocuous blog about the everyday lives of New York subway travellers. Hollomonís work is, at first glance, refreshingly simple yet bold in its execution. His whimsically playful collages, made by superimposing clippings from fashion and vintage porn […]