Rough-hewn wood, deer antlers, sagging back-porch screens. Call the hot new look in design early Beverly Hillbillies.
On Monday, the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) hosted its annual gala at Pier 94–the final of five days of events built around elaborate tables created by interior designers, event planners, architects and fashion designers. For the Read More
Given the earthquake in Japan, this is perhaps not the ideal week for the city’s art dealers and auction houses to be showcasing a raft of spectacular Asian art treasures. But ‘Asia Week,’ probably the city’s largest and lushest version of the annual event ever, begins today, March 18.
Asia Week, despite its name, is Read More
Longtime PS 1 veteran Tony Guerrero is out at the Museum of Modern Art satellite, and insiders said more departures are expected.
In an email sent to friends and colleagues yesterday and today, Guerrero said he was leaving March 1 after 17 years and “My commitment to this incredible art center was the essence of Read More
It’s fitting that Ellsworth Kelly looks like a mathematician. Poised, appearing younger, easily, than his 87 years, dressed as sharply as the lines that cut his steel and aluminum sculptures, he has a kind of preppie geometry. The black-eyeglass-wearing acolytes who flanked him at his Matthew Marks Gallery opening did a little nerd dance at Read More
The art world is giddy in London this week, where a slew of auctions of million-dollar art are taking off. There’s been record prices for a Rodin that caused a queasy sensation in its day, a Salvador Dali of a floating poet and Warhol’s candy-red “Self-portrait”, which Larry bought (likely for a client).
Here, Read More
Dear Julie,
So we just saw Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Paid $79 a ticket, mezzanine seats. It was, how to say this? Breathtakingly bad.
That said, you didn’t force us to see it. You haven’t even opened the thing yet. You’re in beta still, busily untangling the crossed wires and retooling the show for Read More
A triumvirate of art collectors, along with Philippe de Montebello, who served as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a generation, gathered at the Frick last week to talk art. Old Masters to the present. But they wandered far afield into such issues as thorny conflicts of interest, stepping on museum Read More
