Art

Waiting for a Twitch

Jan Herman | Posted 12.02.2008 | Style

Read More: Memoir, William Burroughs, Malcolm Mc Neill, Books, Manhattan, Excerpt, Art, Book Excerpt, William S. Burroughs, Art Shows, Gallery, Style News
Jan Herman

Malcolm Mc Neill's memoir about his longtime collaboration with William S. Burroughs, Observed While Falling, is just as spellbinding as his show at Salomon Arts in Manhattan.

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Ask E. Jean: How Do I Get a Celebrity To Marry Me?

E. Jean Carroll | Posted 12.02.2008 | Style

Read More: Jeff Koons, Models, Art, Superstars, John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Nicole Kidman, Sex, David Beckham, Damien Hirst, Dogs, Celebrities, Celebrity Love, Celebrity Relationships, Unrequited Love, Monogamy, Less Monogamy, Unrequited Emotions, Style News
E. Jean Carroll

Forcing someone to see you more often is impossible. You can't control what he does any more than Frieda Kahlo could control her eyebrow tweezers.

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Arts Community to Obama: Here's What We're Fighting For

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 12.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Art, Nonprofits, Arts, Americans for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Barack Obama, Arts Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, Obama Arts, Living News
Randall Bourscheidt

We are fighting now to recover our prosperity but also our sense of purpose and pride as a nation. Like all other nations in history, our culture stands at the center of our identity.

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Obama Art

Charlotte Appleyard | Posted 11.21.2008 | Style

Read More: Chuck Close, Republican Party, American Dream, Barack Obama, Obama Culture Jam, Art, Obama Artwork, Style News
Charlotte Appleyard

Tuesday night's spectacle proved just why Barack Obama has inspired a lot more than most candidates, much of which up until recently had been smart poster-like and kitsch.

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Dead Meat: Art That Even Palin Would Love

Pam Bristow | Posted 11.20.2008 | Style

Read More: Raw Meat, Pam Bristow, Meat Art, Art, Fashion, Sarah Palin, Victoria Reynolds, Richard Heller Gallery, Style News
Pam Bristow

Los Angeles-based artist Victoria Reynolds creates strangely beautiful paintings of meat of every variety.

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Financial Crisis Changing Art Gallerist's Approach To Buying, Selling Gold-Plated Excrement

New York Observer | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Javier Peres, Financial Crisis, Art, Economy, Terence Koh, Slideshow, Business News

Javier Peres, an influential art gallerist with unusual taste, says that the economy is slightly affecting the way he does business, reports the New Y...

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Con Ojos Abiertos, Pinta Art Fair Opens in New York City

Sarah Greenwalt | Posted 11.14.2008 | Style

Read More: South America, Art, Pinta Art Fair, Fine Art, Contemporary Art, Spain, Art Fairs, Pinta, New York City, Latin American Art, Style News
Sarah Greenwalt

Money may come and money may go, but the art world will always love a party. That couldn't have been more evident than at the lively opening of the Pinta Art Fair in New York City.

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Anti-Condo Art in Toronto

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Toronto, Travel, Art, Development, Urban Planning, Street Art, Living News
Alison Stein Wellner

The towers rise inexorably -- first in metal scaffolding, then in shiny glass, eventually to be lit from within by the glow of flat-screen television...

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"Leave It To Beaver" Actor To Show Sculpture At The Louvre

AP | Posted 11.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tony Dow, Art, Louvre, Tony Dow Louvre, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Eat your heart out, Eddie Haskell. Tony Dow, best known as the actor who portrayed The Beav's big brother, Wally, in the '50s TV s...

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McCain's South Seas Nightmare

Wes Tyrell | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: South Seas, Art, John McCain, Humor, Sarah Palin, Cartoon, US Navy, Politics News
Wes Tyrell

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Reverse Graffiti: Activist Art Extraordinaire (SLIDESHOW) (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 10.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Graffiti, Slideshow, Pollution, Activist Art, Reverse Graffiti, San Fransisco, Video, Art, Clean Graffiti, Clean Tagging, Green News

San Francisco's Broadway tunnel is a busy thoroughfare in the midst of the city. Its walls are thick with grime and patched with remnants of spray-pai...

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The Voting Booth Project

Paddy Johnson | Posted 10.20.2008 | Style

Read More: David Zwirner Gallery, Art, Marcel Dzama, Contemporary Art, Voting Booth Art Show, Voting Booth, 2008 Election, Voting, Style News
Paddy Johnson

Five of the original voting booths used in the 2000 Florida election have been repurposed by artists, with all but one just as rickety as they were in their original state.

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Culture Zohn: Elizabeth Peyton Lets People In

Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Elizabeth Peyton, Art, Portraits, The New Museum, Michael Jackson, Art Basel, Frida Kahlo, Marie Antoinette, Lisa Yuskavage, Gavin Brown, Picasso, David Hockney, Napoleon, John Currin, Georgia O'Keeffe, King Ludwig, Saana, Delacroix, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2008-10-14-PULL.jpg Juxtaposed with the highly colored rock stars and fashionistas, the portraits are notable for the virtuosity and the way they make their subjects look utterly contemporary.

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How the Obama "Hope" Poster Reached a Tipping Point and Became a Cultural Phenomenon: An Interview With the Artist Shepard Fairey

Ben Arnon | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Art, Hope, Tipping Point, 2008 Presidential Race, Obama Hope Poster Shepard Fairey, Yosi Sergant, Malcolm Gladwell, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Political Art, 2008 Presidential Election, Street Art, Politics News
Ben Arnon

"I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support."

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Vote "Yesh!" on Prop 2

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Art, Prop 2, Comics, Animals, Comic Strips, California, Patrick McDonnell, Mutts, Media News
Michael Markarian

Patrick McDonnell, the creator of the comic strip MUTTS, has dedicated a full week beginning this Sunday to the theme of protecting farm animals from cruelty.

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Immigration Art Haunts; Teaches

Jane Dwyre Garton | Posted 09.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: National Museum of Mexican Art, Art, Field Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Sebastiao Salgado, Stephen Wilkes, Immigration, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Harold Washingtom Library Center, Ellis Island, A Declaration of Immigration, Chicago News
Jane Dwyre Garton

Four summers ago I bumped into the work of Sebastiao Salgado by chance. I have never recovered.

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Gone, But Not Forgotten

Victoria Lautman | Posted 08.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Painting, Muriel Newman, Metropolitan Museum, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionists, Art Collectors, Sculpture, Art, Art Institute, Muriel Kallis Steinberg, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

It seems like the end of an era: Chicago's own art-collector and bon vivant Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman died last week at age 94.

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Waterboarding as Political Sideshow

Nato Thompson | Posted 08.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Politics, Waterboarding, Waterboarding Thrill Ride, Entertainment News
Nato Thompson

Located smack-dab in the center of Coney, this project tackles a dark political issue with the zeal and terrifying hilarity reserved for conditions so abysmal that laughter is a natural, if not perverse, response.

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Forget Jeff Koons: Try a Pomegranate...

Victoria Lautman | Posted 08.21.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Jeff Koons, Fine Art, Sculpture, Pomegranates, Art, Art Installation, Grenades, Fine Arts Building, Grenade Art, August in Chicago, Chicago Art, War on Terror Art, Anti-Koons, Finestra Gallery, Muse, Barbara Koenen, Barbara Koenen Jeff Koons, Pomegranate Grenade, Chicago Musuems, Chicago Galleries, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

Here is an installation that bravely and wildly exposes the creative process, throws it in front of your face, in all its messy, hand-made, stream-of-consciousness glory. It's literally like peering into the mind of an artist, and in this case an extremely talented, witty, thoughtful one.

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Art, Politics, and 1968

Nato Thompson | Posted 08.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Students for a Democratic Society, Cesar Chavez, Art, 1968, Creative Time, Port Huron Project, Entertainment News
Nato Thompson

Reenactment is quite popular in contemporary art today, but in essence, art is simply a reflection of larger social currents operating in our daily lives. Contemporary politics, as well as art, seems to be in the grasp of the past.

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Euro Designer Turns To Ecology

New York Times | Alice Rawsthorn | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Art, Philippe Starck, Green Art, Green News, Green, Environment, Green Living, Wind Turbines, Rooftop Wind Turbine, Green News

THERE'S no point in arguing with Philippe Starck, because it generally goes like this: (1) The world's most famous product designer makes a well-meani...

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Britain From Above: GPS Performance Art (VIDEO)

BBC | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Britain, Bbc, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Art, Light Art, GPS Devices, Technology, Business News

Sometimes it's easy to worry about Big Brother abusing all the amazing technology around us -- the cameras in our computers, the chips in our phones, ...

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Rosie the Recycler? Posters Aim to Halt Climate Change

Maura Judkis | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Art, Advertising, Ohio, Going Green, Climate Change, Public Transit, Green Living, Posters, World War II, Green News
Maura Judkis

The Green Patriot Posters project is beginning its campaign with a series of bus posters in Cleveland, Ohio, designed by local artist Michael Beirut.

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Let's Bring Back ... 10 Things That Are Ready For A Comeback

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 07.28.2008 | Style

Read More: Let's Bring Back, Nostalgia, Style, Monet, Clark Gable, Zaha Hadid, Art, Elsa Schiaparelli, Claudette Colbert, Diana Vreeland, Surrealism, Klimt, Moma, Fashion, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Ladies and Gentlemen: To honor the launch of Huffington Post's new Style section, I present the seventh installment of my Let's Bring Back series. A...

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I Know It's Satire, But I Still Don't Like the Obama New Yorker Cover

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Art, John McCain, The New Yorker, Political Satire, Barack Obama, David Remnick, Cindy McCain, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

The New Yorker cover art depicts Obama in a way that McCain simply never could be. Obama is "the Other." Something "foreign" and "un-American."

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