Oct 2, 2015 | Art, Interviews, News & Trending
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has just released the list of this year’s 24 MacArthur Genius Grant winners, a prestigious award that comes with a hefty cash prize. The award goes to select individuals who show “extraordinary originality and...
Sep 21, 2015 | Art, Gallery, Interviews, New York
Here are a few upcoming event highlights for art to see and engage with in the Big Apple this week! Kevin Beasley’s Untitled Stanzas: Staff/Un/Site: Beasley will install and play a new piece of music, made entirely of sounds collected around the High Line over a...
Sep 14, 2015 | Art, Interviews, New York, Profiles
The gigantic art collection of Fredric Brandt, celebrity cosmetic surgeon and skincare guru, is going up for auction at Phillips Auction House. The collection, valued around $15 million, boasts over 200 pieces. Though his cosmetic surgery clients included Madonna and...
Sep 8, 2015 | Art, Gallery, Interviews, Profiles
The Museum Folkwang announced on Thursday that it would award the prestigious International Folkwang Prize to curator, art critic, and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist. Obrist currently serves as co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery and is highly regarded in the art...
Aug 13, 2015 | Art, Gallery, Interviews
Australian artist Stelarc is perhaps one of our most interesting. The 69-year-old is known for using himself as a canvas, suspending his own body from hooks in his flesh to swallowing a stomach sculpture to be followed via endoscope. Now, the artist is hard at work on...
Jan 12, 2015 | Articles, Interviews
Alanna Heiss is a NYC-based artist and self-described events “organizer,” pioneer of the “alternative space movement” of the 1970s, and founder and former Director of MoMA PS1. She is also the founder and Director of Clocktower Productions, a nonprofit arts...
