Panteha Abareshi specializes in cutthroat portraits that pair the rawness of ecstatic creation with the realness of first-hand experience. As a young woman of Jamaican…
Get Your High Tea on with Dabbing Mr. Peanut at Pikachu’s Garden of Artly Delights
Sometimes I hate my friends. Like right after the release of Pokémon Go. Nearly every single one of them not only downloaded the dang thing,…
Why Do These People Have Cubes on Their Heads?
Ugh, the Tribeca Film Festival is up to something cool at Astor Place — but they won’t tell what! Sneaky fellows. What we do is…
Patron Saints of the Local Scene, and More Art Affairs This Week
Particle Paradise Opening Wednesday March 22 at Foley Gallery, 6 pm to 8 pm. On view through April 30. Photography is said to be a…
Art Show Delights in Rapper’s Legacy, for 20 Years Biggie’s Reach Only Got Bigger
Deathdays aren’t usually cause for celebration, but in the case of Christopher Wallace– better known as Biggie Smalls– it only makes sense to organize an…
Get Beamed Into an Alien Afterlife via This Trippy Video Game and Gallery Show
You wake up in a hospital. There is a doctor standing over you in scrubs, running his hand down a clipboard, a mask pulled tight…
Best of Spring/Break: Trump Comics, Disco Queens, and Alcoholtopia
At first it was sort of sad that for this year’s rendition, Spring/Break Art Show had traded its eccentric, labyrinthine location inside a disused section of…
Women’s Day Art, Global Peace in Williamsburg, and More Art Goings-On
BYO Art for International Women’s Day Opening Wednesday March 8 at The Living Gallery, 9 pm. One night only. If you’re a woman creator, walk…
NADA to See Here: Best of the New Art Dealers Alliance Fair
The annual NADA New York art fair kicked off yesterday in Soho. With a new space (Skylight Clarkson North) and a new time of year…
Art Openings: Augmented Reality Voyeurism, Tattoo Art N’ Meatballs, + More
Slide To Expose Opening Thursday February 23 at Babycastles, 6 pm to 9 pm. On view through March 9. This “collaborative augmented reality installation” is…