With Sales and Stars, the First Frieze Los Angeles Was a Major Hit. But How Much of That Was Special Effects?
Posted: Thursday February 21, 2019
Tim Schneider for Artnet peels back the euphoria around the first Frieze Los Angeles to examine the fair's prospects beyond year one. Tim Schneider, February 20, 2019 When a major new art fair arrives in town, people like me spend far more time talking about whether it will be—or in retrospect, was—a
Facebook Censors Art Historian for Posting Nude Art, Then Boots Him from Platform
Posted: Wednesday November 28, 2018
Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile. Curator and art historian Ruben Cordova thought that Facebook was the perfect platform to archive the photographic materials equivalent to
A Belgian Court Has Seized 58 Banksy Artworks Worth Over $15 Million From an ‘Illegal’ Brussels Exhibition
Posted: Tuesday November 27, 2018
The court determined the uninsured works, belonging to Steve Lazarides, were being held without the owner's permission. It turns out Banksy isn’t the only one hanging up works by Banksy without permission. A Belgian court has shut down a Banksy exhibition in Brussels, known as “Banksy Unauthorised,” as questions swirl around who
Artist Stephen Wilson’s New Work Brings Light To The Art Of Graffiti At Roman Fine Art
Posted: Sunday October 7, 2018
Sydney A. Braat Hamptons.com For years graffiti has been deemed a disgrace to the intended beauty of buildings, walls, cars, and other objects in our everyday lives... until recently. Artists are redefining the art of graffiti with up-and-coming murals that fill dismal urban streets with life. Artist Stephen Wilson is
A Museumgoer Was Hospitalized After Falling in an Anish Kapoor Installation.
Posted: Monday August 20, 2018
A man visiting the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, landed in the hospital last week after falling inside an Anish Kapoor installation. The piece, titled Descent into Limbo (1992), includes an eight-foot-deep hole painted black inside, “giving the illusion of a depthless void.” It is not known whether the man fell into the hole. The injured
Mermaids, Montauk Surfers By Dweck
Posted: Wednesday August 15, 2018
AUGUST 14, 2018 BY | JESSICA MACKIN-CIPRO “Michael Dweck: Iconic Images” is currently on display at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton. The show is a carefully curated selection of the photographer’s best-known works. Dweck, who lives and works in Montauk and New York City, is recognized for his seductive photographic
The “Internet-Famous” Kaplan Twins Arrive in the Hamptons
Posted: Tuesday July 10, 2018
by KURT MCVEY JULY 9, 2018 5:54 PM There were promotional T-shirts and tank tops handed out from the back of a van. There was a dub-heavy D.J. set, a gorgeous post-rainy-day sunset, and hordes of tanned partygoers living through the lens of their Instagram app. And at the fleshy pool
The Rothko Chapel in Houston was vandalized with white paint and fliers that read “It’s okay to be white.”
Posted: Tuesday May 29, 2018
On Friday morning, security at the Rothko Chapel in Houston surveyed the grounds and found what the director of the world-class Texas institution, founded by the collectors John and Dominique de Menil, called a “hate incident.” Security discovered white paint near the entrance of the chapel, along with handbills that
Decrying Real Estate Developer’s ‘Insolence,’ Judge Awards Street Artists $6.7 Million in Landmark 5Pointz Case
Posted: Saturday February 17, 2018
In a dramatic conclusion to a landmark case, a judge has ruled that a New York developer must pay $6.7 million to a group of graffiti artists to compensate for painting over their work without warning in 2013. The decision represents a decisive victory for street artists in a case
Bushwick’s Coolest Gallery Is Experimental, Collaborative, and Located in a Storage Unit
Posted: Saturday October 28, 2017
The innovative Secret Dungeon is unlikely to stay secret for much longer. Tatiana Berg for Artnews Bushwick is changing fast, and its gallery scene is changing along with it. While it has gained a few big galleries, it has been gradually losing the kind of young-and-trying-something spaces where thoughtful emerging artists can