When people talk about waning movie theater attendance, in my mind I attribute the phenomenon to a decline in the quality of the movies we’re being shown. To compensate for lazy storytelling, producers rely on showy effects and preexisting properties. Ironic then that Private Life, which so beautifully breaks this mold, was not released in Theaters, but on Netflix. Private …
Nightlife Review: How Did Our Dreams End Up Like This
At the end of the day, or more accurately, after a long, tempestuous night, I’m ultimately happy I got off my ass and went to Friday’s installment of “How Did Our Dreams End Up Like This,” a big Halloween rave co-produced by You Are So Lucky and MATTE Projects, which took place on Governor’s Island, a location that, according to …
The Gratuitous Glory of Gilbane Peck
It’s a mid-October afternoon and mixed media artist Gilbane Peck is working on a series of “fine art glory hole paintings” in his corner studio in the 56 Bogart gallery and studio complex. Peck was a clear standout at this year’s installment of Bushwick Open Studios, where he also put on a short-lived, pop-up solo exhibition called Sunshine and Rainbows in …
Brampton’s Own
BIG LEAGUE ROMANCE for the WORLD SERIES Audiences love having room to explore an array of different meanings in movies. Because outside of the filmmaker’s point of view, there is no “most accurate” permutation. The possibility for messages and personal attachments creates a specific accessibility for a movie viewer, and Brampton’s Own tackles this game of connotation in a much …
BAF House presents “Its Lit” – BELOVED: Dave East x Styles P @ Irving Plaza
BAF House was in the building when Dave East pulled up to Irving Plaza as part of his “Get It How You Live” Tour on October 17th, 2018. Enjoy the video recap below of Dave East’s “It’s Lit” featuring Styles P from his latest project “Beloved” Bafhouse.www.soundcloud.com/iamscramz
Kenny Scharf and Malia Scharf Create Art for the Masses
Malia Scharf would often wear clothes splashed with psychedelic pop-art designs, and when her friends would ask how they could get one, she would have to reply that they were one-offs, leftovers, as it were, from silkscreens created by Kenny Scharf, her artist father. Malia, who is a yoga teacher as well as a filmmaker, convinced her father to change …
INTIMATE INFINITE: Imagine a Journey
It is a curious fact that the most powerful international galleries of our times are presenting exhibitions that are rare, rich and effectively gifts to art audiences. Intimate Infinite at the Lévy Gorvy townhouse on the corner of 73rd Street at 909 Madison Avenue is a formidable and enticing offering. The show is the brainchild of Brett Gorvy whose motive …
Love Is Not All – Iron Gate East (Southampton, New York)
Iron Gate East will be hosting an opening reception for the group exhibition Love Is Not All on Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 from 5 to 8 in the evening at 230 Bishops Lane, Southampton, NY. The exhibition features works by Meghan Boody, Patti Grabel, Ryan Michael Kelly, Jeff Muhs and Richard Pasquarelli. The title of the exhibition, Love Is Not …
Fahren Feingold’s Golden Touch
If I’m going to write about the Los Angeles-based, naughty watercolor artist Fahren Feingold’s GOLDEN TOUCH, a new series of works presented by Indira Cesarine’s The Untitled Space that deals with the “changing perspective of menstruation,” (currently available online and exclusively at Artsy) I’m humbly requesting Fahren make a new series of paintings of and for men called THE BLUEST OF …
Warhol, Bowie, and Basquiat Walk Into a Bar…The Mudd Club, by Richard Boch
“There was one of the two bathrooms upstairs that was the larger of the two, I call them men’s and ladies but they were really unisex, one just had a larger mirror. Did people shoot up in there? Yes. Did people do coke in there? Sure. Were quaaludes sold in there? Definitely. The other bathroom, if I was in there, …
Al Diaz / SAMO© ‘Selected Multi Media Works’ at Same Old Gallery.
“A true pioneer of the street and a living legend, Al Díaz is still cranking out work today while his commentary remains as timely and poignant as ever.” —Dave Navarro Street-artist-pioneer and wordsmith extraordinaire, Al Díaz, who co-created the most storied tag of all time, SAMO©, with his childhood friend and partner in crime, Jean-Michel Basquiat, is having a major …
Parallel Pushes Art’s Boundaries at BOS.
While wandering around Bushwick a couple weeks ago during Open Studios, I found myself suddenly set a path of redemption. Although there was at least umpteen places to be, the main objective was to visit Bushwick Generator to experience Parallel: Artist Evolved, a brilliantly interactive exhibition brought to us by curator Keli Lucas and artist Justin Muñoz. Having already missed …
The Existential Journey of Joanne Leah.
Art is an outward articulation but it is also an inward journey of growth and painstaking self exploration. Joanne Leah’s work is a raw, beautiful, candid blossoming of the artist. Although she no longer uses herself as a subject, Leah manages to weave an existential narrative that is relatable but still intimately her own. When you gaze upon her work …
Mad & Sick Exhibition: Works By Artists Sean Kushner & Nick van Hofwegen
It is, in these modern times, no revelatory pronouncement to declare the art world as one overflowing with an abundance of artists, creators, and muses – those that inspire art and creativity. We mustn’t, however, forget those who have that all too arduous and unforgiving task of representing them: the magnificent, tedious, sometimes elusive, and usually misunderstood role of the …
THINK piece about P I N K @ The Museum at F.I.T.
Really_! If you have a feeling for fashion, its beauty, complexity and panache, Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color, is another must see exhibition @ The Museum at F.I.T. located at 227 West 27th Street and Seventh Avenue, the show runs from September 7, 2018–January 5, 2019 Admission is free. The Museum at F.I.T. has a remarkable …