“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party to celebrate artist George Condo’s first retrospective, “Mental States,” which opened last Wednesday at the New Museum. This is no small show. In fact, it’s a tour de Read More
“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party last night to celebrate artist George Condo’s first retrospective, Mental States, which opens today at The New Museum. Condo is known for painting his subjects as wild-eyed gaping clown Read More
On October 17, Kanye West took to his Twitter account, as he is wont to do, to reveal to the world the art for his fiercely anticipated new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Well, it was the intended artwork.
“Banned in the USA!!!” the tweet read. “They don’t want me chilling on the Read More
Game-Changers: Well-connected gallerist David Zwirner won the right to represent the Donald Judd Foundation, hard on the heels of Pace’s win of the Willem de Kooning estate.
Winner of the Week: Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang, whose 1993 painting Chapter of a New Century–Birth of the People’s Republic of China II sold for $5.9 million Read More
In a letter to The New York Times Magazine, Caroline Homard of Farmington Hills, Mich., engages in some pre-emptive art criticism. Responding to an article about the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art, Ms. Homard worries that the “scholastic squabbles of the curators” will “drain [MoMA’s collection] of all life.” Likening the new galleries Read More
Mike Weiss, a would-be impresario of the art world, has seen the giant lofts of SoHo and he wants in. But as he puts together his first show, he hasn’t exactly made the best impression on some members of the New York art establishment.
“I think he has lousy manners,” said Holly Solomon, the 65-year-old Read More
