What is it with artists and Kate Moss? Everyone from Lucian Freud and Marc Quinn to Mr. Brainwash has taken a crack at portraying the supermodel, and now the man responsible for the first-ever holographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II (pictured), Chris Levine, has teamed with makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury to tackle the beloved blonde muse. (more…)
One of the most-buzzed-about attractions at this year’s Frieze New York fair is a key to a secret speakeasy bar, designed by artist Liz Glynn. One hundred lucky visitors — chosen at random — get access to the hidden watering hole, along with the option of bringing a guest. But don’t tell that to John Waters. (more…)
With its themes of nostalgia and wish fulfillment, the new Frieze Week fair Wish Meme has plenty of pop culture-quoting artworks, but none are quite so curious as the series of small felt marker drawings by one Yung Lenox included in artist-curator Myla DalBesio’s classroom exhibition “Magic Kingdom.” “I first heard about Yung from Hennessy Youngman,” DalBesio told ARTINFO during Wednesday’s Wish Meme preview, referring to the artist and rapper Jayson Musson’s YouTube art critic alter ego. “Jayson started posting his drawings online, and I got in touch with his father on Twitter.” (more…)
“Amazing Spider-Man” star Andrew Garfield swung through Frieze New York during yesterday’s VIP preview, pausing in Gavin Brown’s booth to check out works by Jonathan Horowitz (above), while famed designer Valentino Garavani added a dash of style to the proceedings, and drew stares. (more…)
Forrest Nash, the 25-year-old founder of the beloved blog Contemporary Art Daily, started the site during his days as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, and now racks up 1.25 million page views every month. He also has a swank apartment in Chicago’s South Loop area, which Chicago Mag recently visited. (more…)
It must be hard being New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser, forever capable of discerning the carefully concealed dangers lurking within things that everyone else seems to really enjoy, like bicycles, art, or even porn. In today’s column she exposes what she believes to be a terrifying new mutated hybrid of art and porn — what most of us know as the art historical genre of the nude. (more…)
Yesterday the French art fair Paris Photo recapped the collector and celebrity sightings at its inaugural Paris Photo Los Angeles expansion in Southern California. And though the event attracted the typical set of roving art buyers and museum bigwigs — Eli Broad, Michael and Eileen Cohen, Dan Cameron, Jeffrey Deitch, Timothy Potts, Franklin Sirmans, and so on — its astounding list of celebrity attendees makes Art Basel Miami Beach look like a social backwater. (more…)
Remember back in January how Larry Gagosian’s mansion on East 75th Street was little more than a giant dirt pit concealed behind an ornate façade? Well, things have apparently been moving along swiftly at the site of the mega-dealer’s new pad, and yesterday its rooftop swimming pool was lifted into place by a giant crane, Curbed reports. (more…)
Jerry Saltz’s latest adventure? Trying on a pair of high heels. New York Magazine’s intrepid and lovably empathetic art critic is not taking up cross-dressing, as far as we know (more…)
Tomorrow is your last day to see “Beata” (2009-11, above), a portrait painting of a pregnant woman by Jemima Kirke, the Brooklyn-based artist and “Girls” star who is also quite pregnant at the moment, in The Hole’s about-to-close group show of figurative painting, “Chicken or Beef?” (more…)
