Jeffrey Deitch, en route to MOCA directorship in Los Angeles, held one last blow out opening at his SoHo gallery in NYC for his final show, May Day. Deitch Project’s doors will be closing with the end of this show which spans the month of May. May Day is an exhibition of new work by [...]

As it turns out, people love playing with toys.  And if these toys happen to be interactive automated multimedia sculptures, then people love playing with art.  And for this reason the art happening, Automata, at the Candle Factory in New Orleans, was a hit. The Call to Artists asked for “kinetic, automatic, mechanic, and robotic [...]

Consistent with nearly everything Marina Abramovic has done in her career as a performance artist, she put no breaks on shock value to her current retrospective at MoMa. The signs that flank the entrance to the exhibit, warning that it “may be disturbing to some,” are surely a symbol of both concern for viewers and the [...]

If you thought Mark Ronson’s talents end at music production, DJing hot parties and collecting Grammy awards, think again. Spreading his musical wings, and perhaps borrowing inspiration from designer sister Charlotte Ronson,  Mark Ronson has just finished his collaboration with Gucci, for some hot new kicks. The Gucci Ronson series birthed 18 exclusive styles, 16 [...]

Sometimes the lines between art and fashion blur. Look no further than Alexander McQueen’s sculptural space age heels or pretty much any piece from the Comme des Garcons runway for a form and aesthetic that seems far from “ready to wear.” So where else do these enmeshed fields truly meet? In a museum, naturally.

Since his art world debut in 2000, Ryan McGinley’s photos have become emblems of American youth culture, or at least some idealized version of it. They are otherworldly views of slender young folks parading around caverns, setting off fireworks, jumping into lakes, and riding in the backs of trucks. They do this against a backdrop [...]

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, international [...]

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 he [...]

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 pieces [...]

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 be worth [...]