In the wake of the Frieze Art Fair in New York, we tried to make sense of the overwhelming amount of mirrored objects, food sculptures and shelving units masquerading as art. We don't know about you, dear readers, but we find the emperor's new clothes effect to be...

Billy Childish is the iconic mustachioed English singer/songwriter and artist who has been plugging away at his work for decades. The iconoclast is not one for joining groups, though he did start the art movement known as "Stuckism" in the late '90s. In 2006, the lovable...

Rockaway Beach, a Queens neighborhood hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in October, is still rough around the edges. Five months later, houses near the water look abandoned, and the boardwalk is still in shambles. But weary residents received some great news on Friday, when they...

Michel Gondry enters my office and I ask if he would like something to drink: coffee, tea or water? He says, "hot chocolate." Wanting to please him but also not knowing if my office kitchen has the requested winter beverage, I momentarily panic, then see the appropriate button on the...

Welcome to "Moving Image," our slideshow of the best photos of the week from around the world.

The following photos tell the story of the most compelling events this week, capturing happenstance moments and monumental occurrences with a single click. The images that stopped us in our tracks the past...

Today the ambitious online art database known as Artsy launched a preview of works to be displayed at this year's Armory Show in New York, which runs from March 7-10.

Carter Cleveland, Founder and CEO of Artsy, referred to the page as "a visual Twitter but...

LongHouse Reserve recently held their winter benefit at the iconic Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan. Guests were able to see in the atrium "The Eye Has to Travel," a private exhibition dedicated to Diana Vreeland's Harper's Bazaar years (1936-1962). Our favorite part of the show (besides Vreeland's many looks) was...

In "Paul Williams Still Alive," the documentary about the popular 1970s singer/songwriter -- and Johnny Carson cut-up -- Paul Williams, we see the musical icon reveal his life and desires to the lens, pointing to larger truths about the industry and the ways we regularly sabotage...

Last night, I had the opportunity to see the world premiere of "Mechanics of the Dance Machine," the latest production from Armitage Gone! Dance.

In my humble opinion, Armitage remains one of the unsung heroines of the performing arts world, despite her many years at the forefront of the...

When James Bond (Daniel Craig) meets a young, tech-savvy Q (Ben Whishaw) for the first time in "Skyfall," 007 drily asks, "So why do you need me?" Q replies: "Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled."

"Skyfall" confronts the...

In the opening scene of "Tabu," the latest film by director Miguel Gomes, we learn "you can run as long as you can and as far as you can, but you cannot escape your heart." This warning will haunt Aurora, a glamorous but mentally unstable elderly...

Most people think of the classic album "Dusty in Memphis" if they think of Dusty Springfield at all. But Kirsten Holly Smith and Jonathan Vankin are working to expand the unique soul sensation's legacy with an off-Broadway musical, "Forever Dusty." Scroll down...

Ann Hamilton is an artist who understands what it's like to fly, if only for a moment. She writes on her website, "Time stopped -- and then suddenly rushed again toward us," when she describes early experiences of swinging on the playground. This feeling of

Caveh Zahedi is a New York based filmmaker known for pushing people's buttons. In "I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore," he tries to get his Persian father to take Ecstacy with him, and in "I Am A Sex Addict" he confronts lust and fear...

In 1989, Howard Brookner died of AIDS in Manhattan. The talented "downtown" New York filmmaker was only 34 years old, although he already had three solid films under his belt: "Bloodhounds on Broadway (1989)," starring Madonna, "Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987),'' and...

Last night, "Global Rainbow," Yvette Mattern's laser light installation atop The Standard hotel in Chelsea made its New York debut.

Art Production Fund teamed up with the hotel to present the project, which beams seven colored lights from the roof toward the areas hardest...

"I have thousands of architectural documents, some over a hundred years old, and they've been submerged in water for days," a man told the audience this past weekend at an event held at The Museum of Modern Art, aimed to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy's unwelcome vist...

Hurricane Sandy is coming, and the next few days will be a real test for those of us living on the East Coast. Inspired by the New Yorker's Hurricane Playlist, we've decided to make an indie version to give you a boost while you work from home or...

Wendell Castle has been working in the realm of furniture design for decades, but despite the fame he's achieved, his work hasn't ever lost its absurdist appeal. This November, the renown designer and "father of the art furniture movement" will celebrate his 80th birthday among friends...

She's the fighter.

“I wanted to jump thought the TV set and say, 'Mr. President, move over, I got this,'” Fran Lebowitz says, recalling the frustration she felt watching Barack Obama fumble during his first debate with Mitt Romney. "These are not wily people who are beating us."

He's...