On May 4, a series of books by the Italian photographer Jacopo Benassi were showcased at The Milan Image Art Fair. Among the featured work were the set of photos, The Ecology of Image, and two collaborative works with Kubiat Nnamdie and Pete Voelker titled LaSpezia is Not Miami/ Miami is not LaSpezia and LaSpezia [...]
Category Archives: Art
Maryam Nassir Zadeh
May 15, 2012 – 10:55 am
This Thursday, May 17, come view video art by the shape-shifting ladies of Symbols + Rituals, listen to music by 51717, and stare wistfully at all the beautiful objects and clothes at Maryam Nassir Zadeh. The event will be at the store at 123 Norfolk St., NYC, from 8 – 11 pm, with a live [...]
American Beauty
May 14, 2012 – 3:00 pm
Up this month at LAX/ART is a group show combining two non profit art spaces, New York’s Participant Inc. and Los Angeles’s LAX/ART. Curated by Participant’s Lia Gangitano, the show thoughtfully exhibits the work of artist Laura Parnes with the duo Lovett/Codagnone. Parnes’ video installation, titled County Down, takes from the aesthetics of traditional horror movies [...]
A Look at Frieze New York
May 10, 2012 – 1:57 pm
London’s perennially popular Frieze Art Fair descended on New York City for the first time last week with a roar, bringing with it Frieze’s famous custom-designed tent (this iteration designed by Brooklyn-based SO-IL), and unique programming around the fair’s temporary home on Randall’s Island. The Frieze Art Fair, organized by the inimitable duo Amanda Sharp [...]
Mint&Serf and the PPP Portraits
May 10, 2012 – 10:43 am
Our recently debuted issue features interviews with members of the New York graffiti collective the Peter Pan Posse, lead by Mint (a.k.a. Mikhail Sokovikov) and Serf (a.k.a. Jason Aaron Wall), along with a group photo by Michael Avedon. Get a preview by perusing Michael’s individual portraits above and below, then order the issue here. Above: [...]
Art in Wonderland
May 7, 2012 – 9:35 pm
I heard a story that Frieze Director Amanda Sharp found Randall’s Island on Google Earth – the perfect location to introduce New York to the art wonderland she created with Matthew Slotover almost a decade ago in London. It was a clever move to have visitors leave the main island by ferry or school buses to [...]
Outings
May 1, 2012 – 1:08 pm
New York-based photographer Weston Wells presents Outings, a seventeen-panel collage piece that examines the places and characters he has captured between his travels and day-to-day encounters. Shot entirely on film, each saturated plate delivers a tableau with loose narrative. The collages’ often bucolic and adventurous spirit reflect the photographer’s wanderings, both near and far. Click [...]
D4D and OHWOW Present The Pocket Guide to Politics
April 26, 2012 – 9:54 am
With campaigning for the 2012 general election well under way, Downtown for Democracy, the political action committee established during the 2004 elections, is back. Aimed at motivating and engaging the creative community to political action, the organization has begun this cycle’s crusade with the publication of a 75-page civics primer. D4D and OHWOW Present: The [...]
Posting One’s Self
April 18, 2012 – 5:06 pm
Few of us enjoy the annual ritual of mailing our annual income taxes into the Feds. For Dustin Grella, getting a letter in the mail can be a literal drag. Grella, an artist and a C-7 quadriplegic who resides in Tribeca, has been mailing himself a letter daily for the past 10 years. The letters, [...]
