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One year ago, Art Prostitute started as a hip new magazine developed to showcase the work of young artists. "Present With Art Prostitute" By Matthew Bourbon Shepard Fairey “Mr.-Spray” @ Art Prostitute One year ago, Art Prostitute started as a hip new magazine developed to showcase the work of young artists. Fabricated with an eye […]

The cliche is that all Chinese look alike-to a Caucasian, so all Caucasians must look alike to a Chinese. Realism, Minimalism & the Duke By Piri Halasz Edward “Duke” Ellington’s piano, photographed on the stage of the Apollo theater, white baby grand Kramer manufactured by Gilbert Piano Company. Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York The […]

In the context of the strident and controversial Sensation exhibition featuring the collection of Charles Saatchi at the Brooklyn Museum in 2000 the single work on view by Yinka Shonibare (born in London, 1962) was subtle and possibly even sly and subversive. Dressed for Success: Not Necessarily Out of Africa By Charles Giuliano The artist […]

Sometimes we go to places just to rediscover the familiar settings which have become estranged to us, but often we find, upon arrival, that they are very much changed. Letter from London By Nina Zivancevic Frantz Lamothe / Pregnant Cat, 2003 Acrylic on Canvas 97 x 107cm Sometimes we go to places just to rediscover […]

Bryan Leboeuf’s recent solo show Vessels at the 511 Gallery, features a set of images which invoke deep feeling and intensity. Inner thoughts of an Artist. . BRYAN LEBOEUF By Danielle Sonnenberg Trois Bateaux, 2004 oil on linen 66 x 96 inches Courtesy of 511 Gallery Bryan Leboeuf’s recent solo show Vessels at the 511 […]

Every year in late Spring, IKT, the Association of Contemporary Art Curators, holds a congress in a European City — when possible in connection with an important art event, be it the Venice Biennale, Documenta, or Manifesta. Manifesta 5 and beyond: notes from a tour in the Basque Country By Ombretta Agr� Carlos Bunga, “Proyecto […]

I walk away from the kiosk on the park side of 59th and Sixth Avenue and toward the Central Park benches, as directed. Imprinting our Landscape: Janet Cardiff’s Her Long Black Hair By Emily Lodish Follow the enigmatic, dark-haired guide through Central Park, in Cardiff’s latest audio tour. Photo Courtesy of the Public Art Fund […]

"Pittsburgh is a city of lights for all the wrong reasons," says light artist Peter Fink. Lighting and Linking Downtown Pittsburgh By Molly Kleiman Projected panorama of PIttsburgh’s Three River Park after implementation of Art2Architecture’s lighting strategy. Photo courtesy of Art2Architecture. "Pittsburgh is a city of lights for all the wrong reasons," says light artist […]

Music and visual art are unified in the recent works on paper that Susan Melikian is now producing at a furious rate. On Susan Melikian’s Art By Ippy and Neil Patterson Susan Melikian, “Crown” TAKE ONE Music and visual art are unified in the recent works on paper that Susan Melikian is now producing at […]