Read Uriel Landeros's Thoroughly Entertaining Facebook Exchanges With His Critics
Judging by the reaction to this week's news of a painting by Mark Rothko being defaced in London, it seems the mainstream press is not yet tired of chasing the work of a lone artist-vandal to an ...
BREAKING: Ordinance to Lift L.A.'s Mural Ban Passes
Ten years after a citywide moratorium on wall paintings in public view was instituted in Los Angeles, the Department of City Planning has passed an ordinance to lift the ban, inviting a wave of ...
VIDEO: Royal Watercolorist Alexander Creswell on the Magic of His Medium
by Tom Chen, Alanna Martinez Published: October 16, 2024 Watercolor has long been dubbed the most difficult medium among artists. Share This Story Visual Arts, Contemporary Arts, Traditional Arts, ...
15 Questions For Wry Conceptual Artist Peter Coffin
Occupation: Artist City/Neighborhood: New York City Current Exhibition: "A, E, I, O, U" at Venus Over Manhattan, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, through November 2, 2012. What can you tell us about ...
Old Media, Digitized, Make New Forms
On July 6, 1507, Michelangelo wrote from Bologna to his brother, Buonarroto. He was engaged in casting a colossal bronze sculpture, of Pope Julius II, and because he was not an expert in bronze ...
Artist Who Gave Birth in Brooklyn Gallery Returns for First Birthday Party and Exhibition
One year after "The Birth of Baby X, " performance artist Marni Kotak - one of ARTINFO's Women Who Shook Up the Art World in 2011 - returns to Brooklyn's Microscope Gallery. This Saturday, Baby X, ...
Mayhem Meets Fashion at H&M's Maison Martin Margiela Launch
by Lee Carter Published: October 24, 2024 Last night's launch of H&M's collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela was one for the books, even if the Belgium-founded, Paris-based house doesn't do ...
The Story Behind Richard Artschwager's Whitney Survey and High Line "blps"
by Charmaine Picard Published: October 25, 2024 "Art can take you to funny places," says Richard Artschwager on a rainy August afternoon in the modest one-bedroom apartment he shares with his ...
10 Crazy Artist-Branded Products, From a YBA Cat Bowl to Pop-Art Sex Toys
by ARTINFO Published: October 29, 2024 It's not usually a good sign when a celebrity shows up in a Valtrex or Viagra ad. With the list of artist endorsements growing longer and stranger, ARTINFO ...
ARTINFO Itinerary, Sept. 5-9: What Art Openings to See in NYC This Week and How to Get There
Dennis Adams: "Malraux's Shoes" at Kent Fine Art , 6 - 8 PM 210 11th Avenue, through October 20 "Amid a reconstruction of the study where French writer and art theorist Andre Malraux snapped his ...