Visual Arts
  • 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 ...

Pages