By Drew Grant 2/02/12 4:30pm

3rd Ward

3rdWard's Food Incubator

3rd Ward Adds a Culinary Incubator So Everyone Can Know if Their Chicken was Happy

Brooklyn’s 3rd Ward is a great place to take classes on art, sculpture, and hipsterdom. Where else can you drink PBR while drawing nudes, with the only cost being a basic membership fee of $129 a year (not including classes)?

But in addition to woodworking and jewelry-making, 3rd Ward is now offering a new opportunity for young 20-somethings with too much money and time on their hands: a “Culinary Incubator,” which will teach classes on asking a waiter with the proper amount of condescension: “But were all the ingredients grown locally?” Read More

By Drew Grant 12:43pm

Occupy Wall Street

Shepard Fairey's original image for OWS

Shepard Fairey, Jay-Z Reprimanded by Occupy Wall Street for Co-Opting Movement Message

Once upon a time, Shepard Fairey went to war with the Associated Press for creating his iconic 2008  “Hope” poster for Barack Obama off one of the wire’s copyrighted images. Though they settled the case, the 99% (as it existed back then, in the form of young, pro-Obama liberals who loved street art) were on his side.

Similarly for Jay-Z, a crossover hip-hop artist/entrepreneur that managed to never lose his street cred even while posing for in-flight magazine covers.

So it’s natural that both artists would think that the Occupy Wall Street movement would appreciate their support, even if–just by coincidence–they happened to be profiting from the protests that are all about the wealth disparity in this country. Wrong! Read More

By Drew Grant 11/02/11 12:44pm

Celebrities

James Franco. Art. (Photo via Patrick McMullan)

James Franco and Harmony Korine Team Up To Do Something Horrible to Selena Gomez, Emma Roberts, and Vanessa Hudgens

Look, we all love Harmony Korine here. Well, not all of us, but some of us think that Julien Donkey-Boy was pretty good, all things considering. Trash Humpers we didn’t like. And we certainly aren’t fans of Mr. Korine enabling James Franco‘s artitude by making a movie starring him getting pounded on by female bikers for the Venice Biennale where the actor carved Brad Renfro into his arm. What? What.

But even if we allow Mr. Korine and Mr. Franco some leeway into their ideas on what constitutes “art,” we would appreciate it if they didn’t try to work it out using all the Disney princesses. Read More

By Guelda Voien 10/06/11 10:30am

Red Carpet Real Estate

Imagine... 4,000 bucks for a weekend!

Yoko Ono Comes to Soho for John Lennon’s 71st Birthday

Well, well, well. Look who’s leaving the Dakota for Soho.

Yoko Ono has leased 10,000 square feet along the cobblestone streets where she will exhibit her late husband’s artwork for four days this weekend. 76 Wooster Street, a four-story brick building between Spring and Broome, will house Gimme Some Truth, a “visual tribute for John Lennon’s 71st birthday,” on view October 7-10. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/27/11 2:20pm

Art

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The Rubell's forthcoming museum will be located adjacent to their hotel.

(e)merge Art Fair Strives to Stir D.C.'s Art Scene

“I’ve never done a hotel fair before,” Petra Leene, the director of Amsterdam’s Amstel Gallery told us, sitting on her bed in a room on the second floor of the Capitol Skyline Hotel, in Washington, D.C. “I thought the purpose of a hotel fair was that you slept in your room. I didn’t know!”

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By Andrew Russeth 9/26/11 11:45am

Art

Art dealer Daniel Reich.

Dealer Daniel Reich Closes Chelsea Space, Plans to Relocate [Updated]

Art dealer Daniel Reich, who began operating his gallery out of his tiny Chelsea apartment on West 21st Street in 2001, has announced that he is closing his current base of operations, on West 23rd, and will reopen at some point in the future at a new location.

“While our 23rd Street location was very successful,” Mr. Reich said in a letter sent to his mailing list, “we will scale back for a term and then do a space with more the feel of the time–however that is manifest.” He did not set a timeline for that transition to a new location. Read More