cmonstah:

Kehinde Wiley, improved.

AMAZE’D

(via conscientious)

hyperallergic:

Show Your Support Now for Locked Out Sotheby’s Art Handlers 

SIGN THE PETITION!

1st signature: susan sarandon

black kids homage (via ben steward)

Anyone want an invitation to Art.sy?  I hear it’s great.

artlistpro:

Aaron McKenzie Fraser via getguerilla.com - Issue #31 – Feature #4

FOLK ART

Also looking forward to meeting filmmaker and activist Catherine Gund tomorrow. No relation?

Rarely do I love my job, but one of the few pleasures it affords is the chance to visit the beautiful homes of New York’s finest artists and collectors.  Tops among the latter might be Agnes Gund, who I have the honor and pleasure of visiting next week. Photo tour here.

Word Above the Street:  the water tank project in NYC. Coming spring 2013.

Radioactive chandeliers. “Safe”, say the artists. “Uh huh…”, says everyone else, as we slowly back away towards the exit.

Ken + Julia Yonetani
Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations (Japan, Finland, Germany), 2012

On view now at Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV) in Wiesbaden, Germany.

(via TAN)

"Art wasn’t a career, I just wanted to paint. I moved to New York to become a famous waitress."

—Deborah Kass, to WSJ reporter Anne Kadet in “The Art Scene, Then and Now”, an interview with Kass and artist Amy Lincoln (via wsj)

Whitney Biennial artist Elaine Reichek: some early work.

“Sampler (Kruger/Holzer)”, 1998

Follow the LACMA Rock, aka Michael Heizer’s sculpture “Levitated Mass”. (via LATimes)

Not your average muse: Francoise Gilot, Picasso’s partner for over 10 years and the mother of 2 of his children.  Also an undeniable badass.

Convicted art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi now making (and selling) original paintings under his own name.

I actually kind of like this idea. Too bad the work is um…not attractive.

(via Beltracchi Project)

“A Reluctant Defense of Damien Hirst’s ‘Spot Painting’ Spectacular” by Ben Smith, aka the voice of reason.