Hot on the heels of his opening of massive new balloon art sculptures at Frieze Art Fair and the debut of his new show of "Blue Balls" sculptures at David Zwirner Gallery, art superstar Jeff Koons mounted his third NYC opening in as many days last nite at Gagosian Gallery with the debut of his new show of paintings and sculpture. Currently declared to be the "most successful American artist since Warhol" by the new issue of New York magazine, Koons is positively blitzing the art world (aka: New York) this week with a flood of mega-priced works in what seems to be an effort to literally be as omnipotent as he seems to be. Read More
On the heels of the debut of his monumental new balloon animal sculptures with Gagosian Gallery at the Frieze Art Fair, Jeff Koons kicked off the first of his two additional mega shows in NYC this week with the opening of his "Gazing Ball" exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery. Comprised of large scale new white plaster sculptures of classical Greco Roman figures and everyday modern objects balancing electric blue glass "gazing balls" (you know, the tacky things you see in suburban gardens) the show is a great study of Pop Art contrast and the kind of tongue-in-cheek irony Koons is so famous for (how he managed to refrain from calling the show "Blue Balls," though, will forever escape us). Read More
In an effort to prove he is, in fact, (according to the current issue of New York Magazine) "the most successful American artist since Warhol," Jeff Koons kicked off a tour-de-force trio of mega art shows in New York this week with his display of three massive new balloon animal sculptures at the Frieze Art Fair. Read More
Brothers from other mothers and fresh-to-death style icons Jose Parla & JR celebrated their 2012 "Wrinkles of the City" Havana, Cuba, project tonight with an opening of the same name at the venerable Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in Chelsea. Showcasing large-scale photographs of all their major murals from the Cuba trip mounted on Aluminum panels and one large-scale collaborative fine art painting, the show beautifully Read More
Proving his dedication to being a man of the people, French social activist street artist JR has extended his current "Inside Out NYC" public art project from the streets, walls, and billboards of Times Square to the most marginalized population in New York, the inmates of Rikers Island Prison. Read More
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JR talks with Animal NY about his current "Inside Out NYC" project taking over the streets, walls, and billboards of Times Square
Supertouch buddy KAWS (aka: Brain Donnelley) opened his show of new paintings, "Ohhh...", today at fellow artist Takashi Murakami's Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo. The exhibition features a beautiful array of large and small canvases showcasing his current artistic mode of character abstraction in which the artist deconstructs his animated subjects like Spongebob and Astro Boy into their core geometric components before scrambling the parts to create cartoon collages of vivid color and form that transcend the representational works of his previous series. Read More
On the heels of his current smash show of softball cowboy art at Gagosian Gallery in LA, New York-based artist Richard Prince shows his sense of humor is still more than intact with a new art project that morphs all 57 of Jerry Seinfeld's girlfriends who appeared throughout the course of the show's run—from Mulva to "Man Hands"—in a conceptual piece of art called "Jerry's Girl." Read More
Signaling a major, potentially career-defining departure from her previous intensely-folky, oftentimes cloying low-fi Americana imagery, painter Clare Rojas has created what could easily be called the finest body of work in her young career with her current eponymous show at Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen. Read More
Revered NYC-based hellraiser artist Paul McCarthy, who's built a career on creating incredibly difficult "punk" fine art—with highlights including sculptures of chocolate butt plugs and George W Bush sodomizing pigs—has put his indelible stamp on China's new West Kowloon Cultural District Sculpture Park in Hong Kong with a giant pile of human feces. Read More
