It's McCarthy across the board at Hauser & Wirth this month. The gallery is showing the Los Angeles-based artist's action-performance psychosexual, popular culture influenced sculptures, video works and installations at both London locations (Piccadilly and Savile Row), and in St. James Park, as well as at the Upper...

In 2009, when interviewing Serpentine Gallery co-director and MIF artistic adviser Hans-Ulrich Obrist at the last edition of the Manchester International Festival (MIF) -- a biannual interdisciplinary arts festival in Manchester, UK -- he noted that the MIF is in the spirit of British architect Cedric Price,...

On Saturday, two simultaneous events take place at David Zwirner Gallery in New York -- a wonderful exhibition is in its final hours, ticking down to the last minutes of doors closing; and on the flip side, a celebration of one of New York's most prized postwar artists,...

This past weekend New York City celebrated everything that is contemporary design with one of the world's most well-regarded design fairs, the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). While the 145,000-square foot Jacob K. Javits Convention Center was brimming with over 500 booth of designers from 39 countries,...

Untitled, 2010. Oil on linen, 44 1/4 x 40 inches (112.4 x 101.6 cm).

This Friday a solo show by artist Alexander "Alex" Ross opens at David Nolan Gallery in New York. Ross is an artist that I feel has been...

This week a major cultural initiative will be launched, The Festival of Ideas for the New City, coordinated by the New Museum and scores of cultural and community organizations and institutions in downtown New York, including the Swiss...

Photo by Béatrice Hatala, courtesy Gagosian Gallery. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

You have an interesting face. I would like to do your portrait. I have a feeling we will do great things together....

Jenny Saville, Pause, 2002-03. Oil on canvas, 10 x 7 ft / 305 x 213 cm.
Exhibitor: Thomas Gibson Fine Art

TEFAF is Dreamy. Let me explain why.

This was my first year visiting the European fine art fair

Every March for the last ten years, art lovers flock to New York's Piers 92 and 94 on the Hudson River to attend The Armory Show, hosting more than 250 modern and contemporary galleries from around the world.

The Armory Show, which opens tomorrow and runs through...

In the fall, I visited the studio of Rachel Rose, a young American painter based in London. When she spoke about her work and her use of materials, she referred back to an interview I did with American sculptor Lynda Benglis for Frieze magazine. Like Benglis, Rose doesn't see abstraction...

George Condo (Photograph by Antony Crook)

George Condo is a prolific painter whose career spans almost three decades. In the last five years his work has also crossed into commercial realms. Condo collaborated with designer Adam Kimmel on a casino-inspired line...

It's a rare occasion that I venture anywhere near midtown during the holiday season but last month I ventured into the sea of tourists, braced myself in the cold gusts of wind and stepped into the rather aloof atmosphere of Louis Vuitton's...

There are many artists who have "emerged" in 2010 with great force -- Ryan McNamara, Michele Abeles, Liz Magic Laser, Jacob Kassay, Alex Hubbard, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Johannes Van Der Beek , and Ida...

Year One, 2010. Oil on panel, 24 x 30 in.

I first saw Echo Eggebrecht's work at Horton Gallery in Chelsea, in a solo show titled "Spells, Spoils & Lucky Charms". Her lucky charms were in the form of paintings -- seven...

I spoke with photographer Bruce Weber about his exhibition "Bruce Weber: Haiti/Little Haiti," which opens today at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. In 2003, The Miami Herald published a magazine supplement of Bruce Weber's extraordinary photographs of Miami's Haitian community, a style of street photography that...

Seventeen years ago this week, on October 31st, 1993, River Phoenix died after overdosing on drugs at The Viper Room in L.A. At the time he was working the film Dark Blood. In the film, River Phoenix plays a young widower whose wife...

Two weeks ago I saw a beautiful exhibition of late German-born Swiss art Dieter Roth's table tops or tischmatten at Hauser & Wirth New York. Roth was an phenomenal character, a 1950s and '60s radical individualist whose extensive practice included artist's books, prints, drawings, sculpture, graphic works, assemblages, sound recordings,...

Last week, the U.S. premiere of the 2010 Abraaj Capital Art Prize opened at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). In only its second year, the prize is pretty exceptional for a few reasons: the incredibly generous $1 million prize to the recipients (Abraaj Capital is the...

In the weeks leading up to Rob Pruitt's recent two-gallery solo show, "Pattern and Degradation," there have been a handful of big profiles on the artist, with words like irreverent and splashy describing his rise, then his fall, and finally predicting the trajectory of his career. But I feel even...

It's only autumn and we're already gearing up for the next edition of the Manchester International Festival (MIF), among the only arts festivals to commissions 100 percent of the works included. The UK city has long been known as...