Since its inception is 2016, Tribeca Art & Culture Night has become a quarterly festival bringing together galleries and spaces attuned to emerging talent. Taking place in lower Manhattan with over 50 locations and open to the public, attendees can follow along with the map or mix-and-match in accordance to personal taste. The map contains…
On Monday, October 24, the 25th annual “Take Home a Nude®“ art party + auction to benefit the New York Academy of Art was held at Sotheby’s in New York. For the first time, the event raised more than a million dollars. Guests from the worlds of media, fashion and the arts attended, including Glenda Bailey, Francisco…
“Public, Private, Secret” International Center of Photography 250 Bowery, NY 10012 June 23rd, 2016 – January 08, 2017 The International Center of Photography has packed up and moved to their new downtown Manhattan location on Bowery Street. The ICP Museum opened their doors on June 23rd with a new exhibition entitled, “Public, Private, Secret“ which…
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh June 4th – August 28th, 2016 The Warhol’s current exhibition explores Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei’s similarities in theme and their influence on contemporary culture, while showcasing the differences of the artists practices. Although the artists were contemporaries during the 1980s, Ai Weiwei had a…
On Saturday, April 30th, SoHo Arts Club hosted an auction at 76 Wooster Street. Works by 25 contemporary artists were on display and also available for bidding. Artists that participated in the event include: Alexander Calder, Anthony Lister, Chad Muska, Judith Supine, Mr. Brainwash, Retna, Bradley Theodore, Tripp Derrick Barnes, and others. The founder of SoHo Arts…
In Greek Mythology, the Muses were the goddesses of science, literature and the arts. The source of knowledge for all creative endeavors, no man could create their master work or piece de resistance without their divine intervention. Art history is full of these celestial beings, come down to earth in human form. Like their namesakes, these…
The art market is a world in itself, and often goes unmentioned within the discussion of what art is being created, but it is an undeniable force which is driving what is being created now. In 2014, the market had a record year, with Christie’s leading the way, having announced art sales of $8.4 billion,…
I’ve long been in awe of Richard Tuttle’s works. At first, as a child: I despised his work and my taste instantly went towards Warhol and Koons. But soon, as an adolescent, my heart awoke to the splendors of the finely grained beauties of the world – those dappled rarer things – and my eyes crawled…
When Warhol Superstar Jane Forth met Andy Warhol, it was in his Madison Avenue brownstone in 1968, and she was just fifteen going on sixteen. One year later, while working in an upper east side antique shop, she received a phone call inviting her to star in Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol’s film, Trash. From…
“When I was eighteen, my sister saved me from doing a beauty course in Southampton and insisted I come up to London, stay on her sofa and go to music school,” says London-based singer/songwriter Louisa Rose Allen. “After a year of living out of a suitcase, I ended up dropping out of music school, as it…
At the center of his influence stood The Factory. Between 1962 and 1984 The Factory would inhabit three locations, residing first in Manhattan’s Midtown neighborhood at East 47th street, until it moved downtown to the Union Square West neighborhood where it remained until 1973. Then it moved again just slightly north of Union Square Park.…
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, better known as Ultra Violet, has passed away at the age of 78. Once a muse for the likes of Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali, Ultra Violet appeared in several of Warhol’s films. During her later years, Andy Warhol’s Superstar was living as an artist in her own right. This past Spring,…
Fred W. McDarrah: Save the Village January 30th – March 8th, 2014 Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City Save the Village is a collection of over 130 rare and iconic vintage prints spanning the years 1958 to 1979 which seeks to demonstrate that Fred W. McDarrah was the most curious, knowledgeable, and indefatigable photographer of the…
John Giorno 106 New Bond St London W1S 1DN, United Kingdom November 20 – January 18 New York based, John Giorno is considered to be one of the pioneers of Performance Poetry. With a career spanning over 50 years, many influential figures of the contemporary art world, as far as the 1960s rank of writers and…
Many a New Yorker is making a pilgrimage to Ludlow St or Lexington and 125th to pay tribute to one of the greatest songwriters of our time, with Lou Reed’s ‘I’m Waiting For The Man,’ blasting hypnotically from their cans on the way. The notoriously brooding co-founder of The Velvet Underground and legendary New York…
An icon, by definition, is an object whose image symbolizes an ideal, from beauty to strength to piety, depending on whom you ask. Over time, these images become enduring myths, transcending global zeitgeists and their respective cultural mores. Icons themselves have been the source of inspiration for a wide range of artistic genres over the course…
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, TISCH GALLERIES REGARDING WARHOL: SIXTY ARTISTS, FIFTY YEARS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SEPTEMBER 18-DECEMBER 31 1000 5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY Twenty-five years after his death, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) continues to exert an immeasurable impact on the global stage. His transformative contributions to the worlds of art and media are cultural milestones…
WATERHOUSE & DODD 25TH ANNIVERSARY: POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART IN AMERICA OPENING SEPTEMBER 19, 6:00PM – 8:00PM (INVITE ONLY) OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SEPTEMBER 20 – OCTOBER 13 958 MADISON AVE 3RD FL, NEW YORK NY Waterhouse & Dodd New York presents the gallery’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition at their new Madison Avenue space, which will be…
OLYMPIC RINGS GAGOSIAN GALLERY JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT/ ANDY WARHOL 17-19 DAVIES STREET LONDON W1K 3DE During the 1980’s, there was a resurgence in the art world and there were two artists with very distinct and different styles seemed to be leading this wave. Andy Warhol, who was the older of the two, explored pop culture and…
The Hole gallery on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan currently has on display the exhibit “Portrait of a Generation” from now until August 10, featuring the work of over 100 New York artists. The show includes artists such as Yoko Ono, Aurel Schmidt, Cass Bird, Terence Koh, Olivier Zahm, Cynthia Rowley, Dash Snow, Gordon Hull and Ryan McGinley,…
