Independent curator, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, has put together the group show titled I Died for Beauty, which opens tomorrow night at the Newman Popiashvili Gallery:
The underlining concept of the show is based on the idea of personal transformation as a liberating, powerful change from one state of being to another.
The process of transformation requires the […]
You should already know about Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years, the massive retrospective at the MoMA that opened June 3rd. Anyone and everyone has been nattering about it, but as the buzz subsides, what you have left is the cold, contemplative grandeur imposed on you by one of the last living and compelling late Modernists.
You […]
Parra was in LA two months ago, and now he opens Random Tits, a solo show at reed space. in New York.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 7th - 8-10pm
RSVP: mrreed@stapledesign.com
Exhibition runs from June 8th to June 28th, everyday 1-7pm
reed space.
151 Orchard Street (b/w Stanton + Rivington)
ph: 212.253.0588
[Thanks for the tip, Elizabeth]
From MSNBC.com:
Mark McGowan, 37, said he ate “about three bites” of the dog meat, cooked with apples, onions and seasoning, to highlight what he called Prince Philip’s mistreatment of a fox during a hunt by the queen’s husband in January.
“It was pretty disgusting,” McGowan said of the meal, which he ate while appearing on a […]
I’ve been meaning to check out the assume vivid astro focus show at John Connelly Presents for quite some time, and what better time to attend than tomorrow night — Tristan Perich will be performing 1-bit music in the installation.
tristan perich: 1-bit music
live in an installation by
assume video astro focus
john connelly presents, 625 w. […]
Mr., one of my favourite artists from Takashi Murakami’s KaiKai KiKi Co., Ltd. has his first New York solo exhibition. From the press release in Lehmann Maupin’s current exhibition section:
Lehmann Maupin Gallery will present the first New York solo exhibition of the artist Mr., whose work typically examines Otaku culture in Japan with cartoonish, anime-like […]
The BBC (and everyone else) reports on For the Love of God, Damien Hirst’s oeuvre of oppulence:
Artist Damien Hirst has unveiled a diamond-encrusted human skull worth £50m - said to be the most expensive piece of contemporary art.
The 18th Century skull is entirely covered in 8,601 jewels, while new teeth were made for the artwork […]
