Archive for the ‘artist projects’ Category

Artist’s Life: Cut, Nip, and Tuck at Apexart in TriBeCa (NY Times) Across Borders Few Could Imagine: Outsider Art (NY Times) When is a Work of Art Finished? Tinkering with the Ideal (WSJ) Artist vs. Blight: Pioneering Artist Communities (WSJ) Linz to Return $15 Million Klimt to Holocaust Heirs (Bloomberg) Hirst Skull Frowns at Whitechapel […]


We live in an age of texting and twittering and over saturation with logos, slogans, and billboards.  So it is only natural that both emerging and established artists are grappling with layered meaning in language and texts.  Gagosian Gallery’s Lauren McCaffrey and Allyson Spellacy are co-curating a groundbreaking group exhibition of over 25 artists’ language-inspired, […]


By Emily Waldorf Damien Hirst oversaw the art direction of hot British indie group, The Hours’, recent music video for their new single, See The Light, starring actress Sienna Miller.  The rather dark video casts Miller as a mad woman, dressed in a hospital gown, wandering through a claustrophobic Hirst fantasy that takes off in a luxury boutique […]


By Emily Waldorf Jori Finkel wrote a fascinating article in The New York Times on the American artist, Jim Dine’s, current installation at the Getty Villa: Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets).  She explains that although we may know Dine as a famous painter, sculptor, and printmaker, one of his lesser known passions is […]


By Laura Gatewood Resisting the pull of the tortured soul cliché, painter Edgar Arceneaux has managed to attain both artistic and commercial prominence while also taking up the mantle of community service as director of the Watts House Project in South Central Los Angeles.  His often conceptual artwork explores themes of memory, perception, and how […]