Omg Random Opening Tuesday, September 5 at Benson’s NYC, 7 pm. On view through September 19. Some art shows are tightly curated, conceptually driven projects…
Panteha Abareshi Wants You to ‘Hurt Me Badly’ at The Girl Who Loves Roses
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…
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…
A Trump Voodoo Doll and 7 Other Highlights of the Nasty Women Show
By the time I arrived at Knockdown Center on Saturday night for day two of Nasty Women– the four-day, all-women exhibition and giant middle finger directed at Trump–the place…
More than 700 Artists Say They are Nasty Women, and Proud of It
A new art show opening this week is just the sort of hopeful omen we need really, really need right now, just one week before…
Wake Up and Smell the Poppins at Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
Tackling the topic of feminism is a monumental task for any art exhibition, let alone one that fits inside a downtown art space called White…
An Art Show Where Queer Bodies are Phantasmagoric, Vanishing, and Void
Queer-themed art shows are having a moment right now, and we can only expect that trend to continue as we enter a time of uncertainty…
You Can Slurp Booze Out of All of the Art at ‘Slow, Dimwitted Carnage’
Attending an art opening usually means agreeing to a trade-off: in exchange for free booze and the company of other humans, you won’t be seeing much,…
Betty Tompkins’s ‘Green Dicks’ Is No Limp Attempt at Smushing the Patriarchy
A new art show at the Fortnight Institute is flipping the script on a persistent imbalance in the art world. While men still dominate the major museums, massive…
A ‘Crazy, Vampire-Eating Insane Festival’ Is Coming to Bushwick
Not too long ago, Michael Alan, the multimedia artist of Nude Thrift Shop notoriety, hosted an event at Bowery venue Teatro IATI and “really fucked up,”…