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Artist Arrested While Clearly Not Doing Graffiti
Julie Torres was painting a watercolor mural on a piece of paper hung on a Williamsburg construction wall when she was arrested by undercover cops for "graffiti" this summer. Score one for law and...
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The Cost of Inflation
[An 11-foot-tall Jeff Koons' "Balloon Flower" sculpture is on display in front of Christie's in New York. It is expected to sell for around $12 million at auction in November. We should all become...
View ArticleNow That's Art
Artist Scott Campbell didn't like how a gallery handled his recent sold-out show. So he burned all his art.
View ArticleChristo's Art Fabric Terror Attacks New Scenic Vista
Will Christo ever announce a new art project that makes everyone say, "Sounds good"?
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JWOWW Has Started Painting Again
Jersey Shore brawler JWOWW, the most important artist of our generation, has taken up painting once again. This time it's not still lifes and nude figures, but the walls of her house. Next stop: the...
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Class Up Your Place with a Limited-Edition Print From Gawker Artists
You know how Gawker Artists does such a lovely job of fancying up your browser window with new art? Now you can own some of those images IRL. The brand-new Gawker Artists Shop is proud to be working...
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This Awful Poetry Video Is Not a Spoof
Poet Craig Moreau has made one of the most hilarious YouTube videos I've seen in awhile. It seems like a parody of a self-important gay party boy poet who has written a book of poems called Chelsea...
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Art Guy Just Staples His Prize Money to the Wall
Hans-Peter Feldmann (pictured, at right) won the $100,000 "Hugo Boss Prize" last year, for being a good artist. Looks like you miscalculated, Hugo: Hans-Peter is totally sticking all of your money to a...
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America's Greatest Jesus Painter Yanks Paintings from 'Liberal' BYU Bookstore
Thomas Kinkade, of course, is America's greatest living artist; but Jon McNaughton is America's greatest living artist in the medium of Paintings of Jesus Surrounded by Historical Figures and Patriotic...
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NYer Story on Obsessive Stalker Sparks Obsessive, Stalker-y Protest
Last August, Tad Friend wrote an excellent article in the New Yorker about the spectacularly bizarre life of downtown New York scenester John Lurie, focusing on his weird on-again, off-again friendship...
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Graffiti Causing Tortured Debates As Usual
Sucks to be a graffiti artist these days. (Not really, it's AWESOME.) On the one hand, you have the art world fawning over you more than ever, and you're in all types of museum shows and you have...
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Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Released
Two and a half months after his imprisonment on charges of tax evasion, internationally-renowned artist Ai Weiwei was released by Chinese authorities because (according to state news agency Xinhua) "of...
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A Delightful Skewering of Art School Hipster Pretension
Artist (and comedian) Charlotte Young made this hilarious video that mocks not only herself but all the art school dropouts of the world. Her "artist's statement" uses the vocabulary and buzzwords of...
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Artist Cy Twombly Is Dead at 83
Well-known American artist Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr., best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that often looked like scribbles, has died. He was 83. Twombly suffered from cancer for the...
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Burning Man's Just for Rich People Now
If we didn't attend the week-long Burning Man festival in Nevada every year, we probably wouldn't be the deeply spiritual, open-minded individual that we are today. We'd just be another emotional...
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Brooklynites Blessing the Hudson Valley With Hipness
"You can't keep a good creative down," as the old saying goes. When pushed out of their community by covert gentrification, overt invasion, and other insidiousnesses, good creatives will simply move...
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Art-Attacking 'CIA Agent' Attacking Art Again
Remember Susan Burns, the woman "from the American CIA" who in April tried to beat up a Gauguin hung at the National Gallery of Art? Well, she got back inside the gallery somehow, and this time...
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Vincent van Gogh Was Maybe Murdered?
A new biography of Vincent van Gogh, which is getting a featured segment on 60 Minutes this weekend, posits that the post-Impressionist master didn't commit suicide by shooting himself in the abdomen,...
View Article'The White Ambassador:' Whiteface on the Streets of Harlem
Nate Hill is the New York artist behind the Free Bouncy Rides, Death Bear, the dead body dead body, and other, sunnier projects. Hill is biracial, and his latest work has a racial theme: for the next...
View Article"Two dozen never-before-exhibited" paintings by George W.
"Two dozen never-before-exhibited" paintings by George W. Bush will anchor "The Art of Leadership," an exhibition opening April at Bush's presidential library in Texas. Reserve your tickets now....
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Norwegian Artist Eats Own Hip, Says It Tastes Like "Wild Sheep"
After convincing doctors to let him keep the bone removed during his hip replacement operation, a Norwegian conceptual artist boiled it on "a whim" and then ate the flesh with potato gratin and a...
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Kristen Stewart Taking Time Off From Acting to Make a "Bunch of Shit"
Semi-pro frown girl Kristen Stewart is taking some time off from her main art form, acting, to work on another: makin' shit. In an interview with USA Today, she explains that she's buying a "live-work...
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Banksy on Aesthetics
“I’m lucky because what I make either succeeds or fails. Some people undoubtedly would tell you that’s why it’s crap art, but that’s the way it is. I feel sorry for Abstract Expressionists—how do they...
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Lego Won't Give Ai Weiwei Legos To Use For 'Political Works'
The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has reportedly been refused a shipment of Legos he ordered because the company “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works.” Read more...
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Underemployed Actors and Artists in Los Angeles Work for Uber and Lyft
Aspiring actors and artists have long turned to the restaurant industry for extra cash, but they’ve found a far more convenient alternative: driving for Uber, Lyft, or in some cases, both.Read more...
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