The New York art world’s most anticipated summer event, the arrival of London’s Frieze Art Fair, kicked off last night on Randall’s Island. Open to the public from Friday, May 4th to Monday, May 8th, the fair spans three football … Read More
A rare gallery show of Dare Wright’s creepy-plush creations. Through April 28th, Fred Torres Collaborations gallery in NYC is showing what purports to be the first photographic exhibition of images shot by the author of “The Lonely Doll” series of … Read More
Here, seven visual iconoclasts of the art world captured exclusively in their spaces doing what they do: creating brave (and damned imaginative) new worlds for the rest of us to view. DONALD BAECHLER PROFESSIONAL: Born in Hartford, Conn., Donald Baechler … Read More
Mike Kelley and Antoni Tapies left their stunning marks in the night gallery Catalan abstract artist Tapies, a pal of Dali and Miro, was famous for his purposefully rough-hewn artworks that took cues from “ready-mades.” His controversial work, “The Sock,” … Read More
The king of caught off-guard photography has a new show. Here’s what Marvelli Gallery in Manhattan says about their upcoming retrospective, slated to be on exhibit later in 2012: “This selection was drawn from several of Fink’s perennial series, sometimes … Read More
The portraitist gets a bow with a new book and show featuring Queen Elizabeth II and Co. “He was like a five-course dinner with amazing friends by candlelight,” said the great fabulous-people photographer Mario Testino of the great royalty portraitist … Read More
National Portrait Gallery does the fatty-folds master-stroker right. Running from February 9th through May 27th, “Lucian Freud: Portraits” awakens the genius of one of London’s and the world’s rawest painting greats. To us, he may be the last master (tell … Read More
The Manhattan art scene’s favorite London conceptual artist (with nutso hair) abides at the Tate Modern. Go. From February 9th through June 5th, Yayaoi Kusama’s self-titled retrospective runs at London’s Tate Modern. What a crazy kid! Marc Jacobs would die … Read More
Yippy-tie—ay! Deal-o-wheel-o on classic music prints. Danny Clinch, who’s famous for his indelible portraits and videos of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Tom Waits, among others, is offering a winter discount on his prints. Buy any sized print, and Clinch … Read More
Coolest ghetto blasters captured by Lyle Owerko. Currently on exhibit at Whisper Galery in London through January 15th are dope “portraits” of boom boxes by Lyle Owerko, who spent years locating vintage ’70s boom boxes, from Tokyo to the States. … Read More
Nick Cave’s wildly imaginative ‘soundsuits’ would make Duchamp take notice…and the CFDA. As a “where the wild things were” encore to Art Basel, last week the artist Nick Cave showed off his “soundsuits” in a spectacle curated by our Manhattan … Read More
The great and oily Weegee has the camera turned on him with a terrifically tawdry (and often oddly sweet) new MOCA exhibition. You have to hand it to Jeffrey Deitch: MOCA’s director sure knows how to draw a crowd. The … Read More
New photo show proves the impossible. “My parents split up when I was four,” said porny-artsy photographer Terry Richardson. “It feels good for me to have them back together again, even if it’s in a gallery and only for a … Read More
Rizzoli releases the New York funhouse artist’s first book of monographs. We love Will Cotton’s joie de vivre, his big-arse nudes, his candy palate. We’ll be there to wish him well at the Partners & Spade book release party this … Read More
Husband and wife team’s nature-branded art collective, Clamdiggin’–the darling of LA designers–gets LA exhibition. Clamdiggin’ is more than an artist’s moniker—its founders, artist Kevin Johnson and designer Alexandra Fisher, describe it as “15-year relationship with love and art.” Founded in … Read More
