The art world is used to a little controversy, but how about from two established art titans? In the trail of scandal that has surrounded it for months, Skin Fruit opened last week at the New Museum in New York. The show features the notorious collection of Dakis Joannou, who is a Greek magnate, [...]

There’s a territorial dispute over the walls of New Orleans. On one side are the ever more prominent street artists and the other is the anti-graffiti vigilante known as the Grey Ghost. Fred Radtke, aka the Grey Ghost, is notorious for his tag, a simple swatch of grey paint applied with a roller, which [...]

Whether it’s finding out too late that your cell phone hasn’t been receiving calls or fretting over whether it’s okay to respond to a Facebook message with a text, we all know that technology makes communication both limitless and painfully complicated. Annie Abrahams is exploring these fragile relations via a series of networked performance [...]

It’s pretty safe to say that being an established blogger makes you something of an authority on the pulse of your field. So if the mind behind Art Fag City, Paddy Johnson, says there is an artistic resurgence in Romanticism and that she’s curating a show with this theme in mind, it must [...]

What with the whole nineties revival thing making itself known with the resurgence of Doc Martens, crop tops, and Clintons in the White House, it seems like a brand new girl power trend might not be far behind. Kiki Smith has long been a champion of feminine awareness and is known for incorporating social and political [...]

Galleries around the globe, particularly those of a smaller variety, are delving into mixed media and graphic art in a big way. Channeling modes of illustration, street art, graphic design, and animation, New Faces opened last week at Recoat in Glasgow, Scotland. This show explores the territory of character design, which is, in [...]

A group of young artists exploring young media in a youthful spot are bringing a group show, The Company of People, to Urban Outfitters. UO’s Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles, a part retail and part gallery spot, has hosted a range of art shows and cools bands since its opening. Now with the new [...]

New Orleans art stars Miss Pussycat and Quintron are gearing up for the opening of their show, Parallel Universe, at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Despite being staples of the local scene, this is the first time either of them has shown in a gallery. Instead, they built their cheeky monikers on their [...]

Jeremy Kost, known for provocative nightlife photography, is shaking up the Washington establishment by bringing his work to Conner Contemporary Art. Titled Anyone Other Than Me, the exhibition of Polaroid grids and collages captures the club scene’s famous and extravagant nighttime wildlife.

Mulholland Drive meets music and art? Cult filmmaker David Lynch has allied with musicians Sparklehorse, and Danger Mouse on the collaborative visual and musical exhibition Dark Night of the Soul. Lynch provides the visual component (and sticks to what he knows best) through fifty photos, hung in groups of three or four, which look like [...]