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Julie Ragolia and Carlos Campos at his autumn 2011 presentation.

Stylist and Fashion Consultant Julie Ragolia Goes Giddy for Barney’s and Hates on Bloggers

Julie Ragolia has seen more stars in their skivvies than you could dream of! After sinking her teeth at MTV and a slew of glossies eons ago, she moved up the nasty and competitive ladder of fashion editorial… These days, she serves as the fashion editor of 7th Man Magazine and styles mega-stars, such as Rihanna and Sean Combs. Despite his Napoleon complex, street photo Scott Schuman even made her the cover girl of his treasured tome, The Satorialist. The Observer tried to find out if she gets to sleep with any celebs and what exactly stylists do aside from playing with clothes and acting bitchy in the Prada showroom… Read More

By Matt Chaban 2/10/12 10:48am

Starchitects

What Facades! Is the New Museum Gaga?

Is there more to Lady Gaga and the New Museum than a Lower East Side home and a book signing? That is what travel and design web show Great Spaces argues in this video, which is a little bit shallow but nonetheless intriguing. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 9/15/11 12:00pm

fall arts preview

The Fall of Relational Aesthetics

Occasionally exhibitions of contemporary art are eerily timely. Curatorial programs click into step with the zeitgeist, and notions that have been floating around in the air coalesce in concrete form, in a museum near you. Such will be the case in New York this fall, as the Guggenheim and the New Museum unveil retrospectives of two midcareer European artists who have never before had surveys in the U.S. The two are old friends and collaborators, and their concurrent shows are almost certain to provoke heated debates about the health and importance of contemporary art.

Meet Italian prankster Maurizio Cattelan and Belgian mad scientist Carsten Höller. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 7/20/11 9:56am

Art

Artist Michael Holman has reunited the band he started with Basquiat, Gray. Photo courtesy Patrick McMullan Company.

Silent for Two Decades, Basquiat's Band Plans Two Shows at the New Museum

Last year, more than 20 years after the legendary downtown artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a drug overdose in his Great Jones Street studio, artist Michael Holman reunited Gray, the abrasive noise band that he started with Mr. Basquiat in 1979. Tomorrow night, in two shows at the New Museum, the group will Read More

By Andrew Russeth 7:00pm

Art

East Is Best: Art From the Former Soviet Bloc Is Having a Moment

“When the Berlin Wall came down, I understood it was a historical moment, but not really,” New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni said over the phone last week. “I didn’t have the alertness to jump on a train and go see.” Mr. Gioni, now 37 and director of exhibitions at the New Museum, was a teenager Read More

By Matt Chaban 5/11/11 12:05am

Starchitects

Rem, the Destroyer: Prada Patsy Plans Preservation’s Eviceration

Twelve percent of the Earth’s landmass is untouchable by Rem Koolhaas’ count. Whether a U.N. World Heritage site, plush nature preserve or lowly landmarked brownstone, architects are running out of room, with only 44,700,815 square-miles left to build. It is for this reason that the severe Dutch architect–The New Yorker once accused him Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/10/10 1:58pm

Kickstarter

Am I Real?, Kickstarter Gets Existential

Every month, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of dollars on Kickstarter to projects in music, film, art, technology, design, food and publishing. But what does it all mean?

Kickstarter is another creatively-inclined, high-minded New York startup in the vein of Etsy or Art.sy, and it’s waxing existential:

What underlies Read More

By Matt Chaban 11/16/10 2:09pm

Culture-ish

Giant Rose Now Blooming on the New Museum

Hell no!

The New Museum has now replaced its infamous lapel pin with a boutonniere, as Isa Genzken’s Rose II took the place of Ugo Rondinone’s love-it-or-hate-it “Hell Yes” sculpture on the Bowery museum’s facade yesterday.

Many people were unaware that Rondinone’s work was merely temporary, and the same goes for Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 10/01/10 1:58pm

New Museum Promotes Massimiliano Gioni, Curator Who Loves Art He Can’t Understand

When The Observer profiled him last year, Massimiliano Gioni was described by others in the art world as an extremely ambitious, socially gifted curator who at just 35 years old had risen to prominence in his profession with impressive speed.

The New Museum announced last night that Massimiliano Gioni, who has worked there since Read More

By W.M. Akers 8/25/10 1:32am

Art Calendar

The Big Think

Intellectuals, unite. This fall, the ideas and ideologies will be flying at New York museums. Here’s a look at some of the more important, or interesting, lectures and readings coming up.

The Morgan Library & Museum

Reading Mark Twain

Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

$30 for non-members

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Stylist and Fashion Consultant Julie Ragolia Goes Giddy for Barney’s and Hates on Bloggers

What Facades! Is the New Museum Gaga?

The Fall of Relational Aesthetics

Silent for Two Decades, Basquiat's Band Plans Two Shows at the New Museum

East Is Best: Art From the Former Soviet Bloc Is Having a Moment

Rem, the Destroyer: Prada Patsy Plans Preservation’s Eviceration

Am I Real?, Kickstarter Gets Existential

Giant Rose Now Blooming on the New Museum

New Museum Promotes Massimiliano Gioni, Curator Who Loves Art He Can’t Understand

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