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Fairy Tales, but Strictly Adults-Only

THINK of the artist Paul McCarthy, and it’s hard not to imagine him the way he has appeared in countless videos and performances through the years stuffing a bunch of mayonnaise-and-ketchup-slathered hot dogs in his mouth, as he did, say, in “Hot Dog” ( ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul McCarthy,  Egon Schiele,  Marcel Duchamp

A Gallery Gadfly Revives His Act

ONE drizzly Friday night last month dozens of people had crowded into Invisible-Exports, a gallery on Orchard Street, to celebrate the opening of a show by the conceptual artist Stephen Irwin. Works on paper lined the long, hallwaylike space, starting ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cindy Sherman,  Sony

Art That Leaps Off the Canvas

ONE morning last month, the performance art impresario RoseLee Goldberg sat in her Chelsea office discussing a new project with the artist Wangechi Mutu. It wasn’t long until the opening of this year’s Performa, the sprawling performance art biennial ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Cindy Sherman,  Thom Mayne,  Mike Kelley

Hockney’s Long Road Home

The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Mr. Hockney, renowned for his portraits, has been working with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. This painting, Jean-Pierre ...

From CAROL KINO, International Herald Tribune,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Hockney,  Audi,  John Constable,  J. M. W. Turner

ArT: A World Drawn From Wild Tastes

ON a recent fall night in Manhattan, the artist Molly Crabapple convened a group of people with drawing pads for a meeting of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a group she founded in 2005 that now has branches all over the world. A cross between ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Gene Kelly,  Facebook Inc.,  Rube Goldberg,  Kenny Scharf

A Tribute to the Man, Beyond Just the Mouse

At first glance the Walt Disney Family Museum, which opens on Oct. 1, would seem a serious, even scholarly endeavor. Financed by the Walt Disney Family Foundation and run by Richard Benefield, the former deputy director of the Harvard University Art ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Academy Awards

Iranians Shine, Assisted by Expatriate

IN recent months biennials around the world have dedicated special sections to a hot new field: Middle Eastern artists. And many of the most celebrated hail from Iran, like Farhad Moshiri of Tehran, whose paintings covered with Swaroski ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  14 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Christiane Amanpour,  Arianna Huffington

Art: Go Ahead, Play With (and on) the Art

IT was a brilliant spring morning in Madison Square Park, and the uptown end of the central lawn was already crowded with children playing on a multicolored triangular platform that looked as though it had been made from giant Lego blocks. The children ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  12 Jun 2009

Related Topics: Wal-Mart

Art: Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe

IN 1961, early in his career, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto: “I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. I am for an artist who vanishes.” The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  16 May 2009

Related Topics: Claes Oldenburg

Art: A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones

A WEEK before the opening of her first New York solo show, the artist Mickalene Thomas welcomed a visitor to her studio in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The mood seemed preternaturally serene, like the lull before a storm. In one corner stood the campy ...

From CAROL KINO, The New York Times,  11 Apr 2009

Related Topics: Clinton Hill,  Feist (musician),  Foxy Brown,  Cleopatra (musician),  Gustav Klimt

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