Forget vampires or werewolves, New York-based artist Meryl Smith has created her own world of magical animals called Cryptids. Based on mythological beasts whose existence has been implied throughout history, but never proven, such as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot, these lesser known cryptids are rendered in meticulous true to life detail, making them [...]
Category Archives: Art
Artsy Fartsy
March 9, 2012 – 2:27 pm
Each year when The Armory Show comes to town, I feel like more and more things happen surrounding it. This year is particularly interesting as everyone anticipates the Frieze Fair taking over Randall’s Island in May. Will it be bigger, better and more interesting than the Armory? Probably. Will more things happen surrounding it? I’d [...]
In Conversation with Myla DalBesio
March 6, 2012 – 9:01 am
Who would think a former Miss Teen Wisconsin’s pearly whites would extend from ear to ear when talking about bathing in blood or starting a cult? But this sums up the complex, varied and arguably balanced nature of artist and Ford model Myla DalBesio. The modeling industry has pegged her as the next Crystal Renn [...]
Puppy Løve
February 28, 2012 – 6:00 am
In person, Mia Hansen-Løve’s face still carries the same waxy alien clarity it held on screen thirteen years ago in Olivier Assayas’ Late August, Early September, the movie the one-time actress credits with launching her directing career. Seventeen in the film, she played the adolescent girlfriend of a middle-aged novelist, her satiny innocence in stark [...]
Three is the Magic Number
February 27, 2012 – 1:15 pm
This weekend, The Total Look opened at LA MOCA’s satellite space in West Hollywoood. The show is a celebration of the collaboration between designer Rudi Gernreich, model Peggy Moffitt and photographer William Claxton. The late designer, an LA-based Austrian transplant, was well known for inventing the topless monokini (popular in Europe in the 1960′s) and [...]
Terrywood
February 27, 2012 – 6:00 am
This weekend was all about Hollywood. In addition to the Oscars, which were as always, a bit lagging. (David Letterman: “The oscars are like a JetBlue flight, you wait for four and a half hours and don’t take off.”) This weekend was also the opening of photographer Terry Richardson’s Terrywood. This marks the first solo [...]
SA MI 75 DZ NY 12
February 24, 2012 – 11:00 am
I am not sure that it can be done, but I will attempt to describe the experience precipitated by Doug Wheeler’s installation SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 (2012). Through the use of something—fiberglass and lights—Doug has created nothing, or perhaps everything, as the exhibition is often referred to as the Infinity Room. There is [...]
Wall Works
February 8, 2012 – 6:00 am
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I clipped things out of magazines and stuck them to the wall. I remember vividly having Jodeci, Milla Jovovich and Marilyn Monroe in close proximity. The fact that everything these days is viral and that this might date me makes me slightly sad. I [...]
Head of a Lover, Waist of Traitor, and Legs of a Friend
January 26, 2012 – 6:42 pm
Caris Reid is one of the most creative people around. She creates, curates, writes, dances, sings, sends coded messages and does all sorts of cool things (including contribute to Dossier.) When we put on an week-long party during fashion week and asked everyone to host an event, Caris was one of the first to respond [...]
