No Walls Can Hold Poster Boy's Coffee Table Book
Despite a wee incarceration hiccup, vandalartist Poster Boy's book will reportedly be out in "July/August."
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The Subway Etiquette Hero Gets a Short Film
Jay Shells is the renegade artist who made those subway etiquette posters disguised as MTA signs. If he's an awesome outlaw, then why is his movie so damn boring? Shells is just like a graffiti...
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Cocky De Cock in Cockamamie Cock-Up
Famous Belgian visual artist Jan De Cock was questioned by authorities yesterday after making a veiled threat to a flight attendant during a flight to New York. Too many cocktails? You are not the...
View ArticleAmbidextrous Street Artist Blows Away Onlookers
What do you get when you take a white board, some markers, and a street artist who can create incredibly detailed and accurate drawings of animals in mere seconds—with both hands? You get this video,...
View ArticleWork of Art's Finale Showcases Creepy Artists' Muses
On tonight's finale of Work of Art, mentor Simon stops by each remaining artist's home studio. Watch as the otherwise joyous visits turn dark when Peregrine and Miles discuss the morbid influences...
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Here's Banksy(?) Heckling Prince Charles
Supastar British street artist Banksy is still nominally anonymous, despite a handful of (probable) photos of him floating around. And then there's this video of Banksy (we think) disguised as a...
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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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