A year after David Choe became the most surprising multimillionaire to emerge from Facebook’s IPO, the bad-boy graffiti artist is making the publicity rounds with a new pornographic podcast featuring porn star Asa Akira. He talks to Lizzie Crocker about anal sex, his new gig, and more anal sex. Tits, ass, and goblins. Bare-chested…
Kristin M. Jones Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution ‘If you poured water on each frame, it would become a novel,’ Gloria Steinem said with wonder during her introduction to a recent screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution (2010), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It seemed an apt description of…
Gallery Going Gets Social: TechCrunch ?s ArtSpotter TechCrunch, the start-up news site, has a crush on ArtSpotter, the app that is meant to help gallery goers find works they like. The app has done a pivot, as they say out West, and become more social. The new focus is about discovering art through the…
One day when I was drawing a young girl, I suddenly noticed that the only thing that was alive was her gaze. The rest of her head meant no more to me than the skull of a dead man. One does want to sculpt a living person, but what makes him alive is without doubt…
Fine Art as a Percentage of Ultra High Net Worth Individuals’ Spending Has Remained Stable Adam Davidson has a good take on the art market in his New York Times Magazine column and offers an interesting take on art as an investment: Art is often valuable precisely because it isn’t a sensible way to make…
Sotheby’s New York auctioneer Tobias Meyer takes bids on Clyfford Still’s 1949-A-No. 1 (1949), which sold for a record-setting $61.7 million on Nov. 9, 2011 Speed is a synonym for velocity and the slang term for amphetamine, a drug creating an ecstatic illusion of rapidity and efficacy. Money, which plays an increasingly…
Get ready to see Debra Messing, Maria Menounos, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, and Morena Baccarin like you’ve never seen them before — completely nude! The gorgeous stars all posed in the buff for Allure‘s annual celebrity nudes portfolio, which also features Heidi Klum topless on the May cover. Debra Messing (Patrick Demarchelier/ALLURE) “Smash”…
At 29, Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani is the art world’s most powerful woman. THE starkly beautiful Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha, Qatar, is a fine setting for a dinner. Last month 200 dealers, collectors and curators gathered there for the opening of the first showing in the Middle East…
Notes to Self What art writing can learn from the lessons of literature Italo Calvino at his home in Paris (1984) I have always imagined that ‘creative’ writers confront the blank page accompanied by a coterie of kindred spirits – authors, fictional characters, fantastical creatures or historical figures – with whom they identify or against…