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…
Angry Women, Grab Your Brushes: This Art Show Wants You
If you’ve been saving up all your anger from the last two weeks and would perhaps like to slap it on a canvas in a…
‘Style Wars’ Producer Henry Chalfant Offers Panoramic Views of Graffiti’s ‘Golden Age’
Since Thursday, the white walls at Eric Firestone Gallery have been wholly devoted to just a small portion of Henry Chalfant’s archive of “subway photographs.”…
Latest Bushwick Art Fair Is a Bit of a Circus
Since it was announced that Bushwick Open Studios will be taking place in October and not on their usual summer date, a couple fledgling fests…
And Now There Are Two Art Fests Looking to Fill the Bushwick Open Studios Void
Stephanie Theodore of Theodore:Art was massively disappointed when Arts in Bushwick announced that Bushwick Open Studios was moving from summer to fall in an attempt…
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”–…
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,…
Agathe Snow Is Blowing Into The Journal Gallery
Agathe Snow, whose work often blends performance with immersive multimedia installations, is opening a new show, Continuum, tonight. This is the Corsican-born artist’s first solo exhibition…
A New Gallery With Epic Views of Shit Creek Will Host the Next Wild Torus Event
I’m not gonna lie, when I heard Wild Torus— the aggressively psychedelic Bushwick performance art duo– would be hosting their “most ambitious event yet” this…
Try On These ‘My Little Pony’ Hats at WAHC’s Exhibit of Queer Art
As I walked through the Friday night rain, clutching an umbrella with a price that far exceeded its quality, I felt lost. I was looking…