Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?: Words and art combine to make up this bold, surf-centric exhibition

Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?


by Charlotte Anderson With characters and landscapes composed in stark ink, self-trained artist Raymond Pettibon’s style is a melding of images and text––reminiscent of William Blake’s illustrated poems––wryly focusing in on motifs of American life, literature, comics,…

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Armory Week 2014: Spikes and Speckles: A few of our favorites that shared a similar structure, from the annual NYC art fair

Armory Week 2014: Spikes and Speckles


This year’s Armory Show brought together a multitude of respected galleries, and the contemporary and modern artwork of the talent they represent. In its 15th year, the show displayed artwork that excelled—and surprises were around every corner. Quite a few pieces incorporated spikes,…

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Charged: Solaire Generation: The New York firm transforms parking structures into solar power plants

Charged: Solaire Generation


Depending on where you live, parking lots can either feel like a terrific waste of space or woefully inadequate for city needs. Still, they are everywhere, not to mention a critical component of urban planning. Since…

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Volta Art Fair 2014: Three must-see booths at this year’s New York City show

Volta Art Fair 2014


Volta Art Fair (in New York City this year from 6-9 March 2014) continues to offer a unique, fresh and edgy alternative to those from more established galleries participating in the bigger fairs like The Armory Show…

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Scene, by All: NYFW AW 2014: Highlights from innovative presentations at the biannual celebration of fashion

Scene, by All: NYFW AW 2014


There’s more to Fashion Week than what’s draped across the models or the attendees at runway shows. With an ever-crowding competitive schedule, more brands have begun to embrace innovation in presentations—like last season’s show-stopping debut from Opening Ceremony. No longer just a stroll down the catwalk; performance and theatrics…

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99U Conference 2014 Speakers: This year’s lineup and some insights from the annual action-oriented conference’s director

99U Conference 2014 Speakers


As regular attendees (not to mention current curation partners and co-founders with Behance back in 2009) we are excited to announce this year’s line up for 99U’s annual Continue Reading…

Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa: The Vancouver-based artist’s 12th solo show at NYC ‘s David Zwirner gallery melds fiction and documentary through a six-hour film set

Stan Douglas: Luanda-Kinshasa


by Charlotte Anderson The recording studio on East 30th Street in Manhattan was once holy ground. Carved out of the abandoned remains of an old Armenian Church, it was a place where musicians shared in a mutual, perhaps now lost, struggle—to record that…

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STORY + Shop Small: Home for the Holidays: The Chelsea concept shop partners with American Express

STORY + Shop Small: Home for the Holidays


Advertorial content: One of our favorite NYC retailers STORY is presenting “Home for the Holidays” with the support of Shop Small, the initiative founded by …

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Art of the Automobile in NYC: An exhibition and auction celebrating some of the rarest and finest motorcars in design history

Art of the Automobile in NYC


Though a global front-runner in all matters of design and culture, New York City has missed out on a lot of America’s heavy car culture history and is regrettably unfit for…

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David Hochbaum: Village in a Can: A collection of miniature, hand-painted wooden houses crafted from homemade frame remnants

David Hochbaum: Village in a Can


It has been frequently noted that there’s magic in miniature gifts. It’s no different with New York-based artist David Hochbaum’s “Village in a Can.” A handmade, ornately painted collection of 11 pieces per can, all are…

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