Over the weekend fancy people in an “acquisitive mood” milled around Frieze Art Fair, discreetly making it rain while rubbing shoulders with art dealers, the dapperly dressed, and…
16 Works We Loved at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
It’s pretty screwy that here, now, in the year 2016 many people still have a hard time grasping that Africa is an incredibly diverse continent…
21 Way Cool Things We Saw at Frieze Art Fair
If you made it to Frieze New York this weekend, chances are pretty slim that you managed to see everything the elite art fair had to…
Many Nudes, None By Dudes, at This Art Show Dedicated to the Female Gaze
Opening night for In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude (on view now through May 21 at The Untitled Space) was predictably packed,…
Jeff Koons on His Dream Choo Choo and That Time Lady Gaga ‘Kind of Went Down’ On Him
Last week, when Jeff Koons spoke about an unrealized pet project of his– a giant, actual crane holding up a replica of a “choo choo train”–…
Greenpoint Open Studios is the Local Artist Fest That the G Train Keeps Real
While Bushwick Open Studios is fighting back against the bro-vasion of a festival that started out, anyway, as a means of celebrating local artists and the…
From the Allen Street Boys to Satan’s Sinners, Street Gangs of the Lower East Side
Last week, Elliot Caldwell was fatally shot outside of Campos Plaza, the NYCHA public housing project where he’d grown up. An EV Grieve commenter noted that the 23-year-old…
Seven Badass Things Said By ‘Fuck Paintings’ Artist Betty Tompkins
Since we last caught up with Betty Tompkins– the downtown artist best known for her “Fuck Paintings,” she’s been doing what an established artist should be…
Blurry Backpage Girls and Liquor Bottle Swirls: Paintings for Bukowski
We’ve all seen the “massage girl” advertisements lurking at the back of alternative weeklies and the grainier budget versions of escort ads spamming the nether regions…
This Journey Into Sound and Silence Pays Tribute to John Cage and a ‘Deaf Club’ For Punks
If you enter the cordoned-off projection room at LA-based artist Alison O’Daniel‘s newly-opened exhibition, Room Tone at just the right moment (anytime between now and May 8,…