Art
Artist Eric Fischl on His Memoir Bad Boy, His Rivalry with Julian Schnabel, Gallerist Larry Gagosian, and the Lack of Great Art Today
Self-Portrait: An Unfinished Work, 2011 The painter Eric Fischl, part of the generation of New York City artists that exploded in the eighties, became a star for his figurative canvases rife with tense, psychosexual imagery. His aptly titled new memoir, Bad Boy (Random House, $26), traces his life from his mother's alcoholism and suicide to his education at CalArts alongside fellow trailblazers David Salle and Ross Bleckner, and from the glory days of SoHo to his mature work. Here, the 65-year-old legend opens up about looking back.
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Next Stop on Artist Cyprien Gaillard's Unsentimental American Road Trip: L.A.'s Hammer Museum
Untitled (National Geographic), 2012. Copyright Cyprien Gaillard. Courtesy of Sprueth Magers Berlin London. Just one month after the closing of "The Crystal World," Cyprien Gaillard's first solo New York show at MoMA PS1, the 32-year-old French artist is mounting a second American exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (April 20-August 4), proving that after being shown in several major European museums (Centre Georges Pompidou, the Kunstalle Basel, the Hamburger Banhof, Kassel, and the 54th Venice Biennale, to name just a few) over the past several years, he will make his mark in the U.S. in 2013.
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Art
Sneak Peek of Oscar-Nominated Inocente's Art
If Only They Could See (16" x 16") Inocente, a documentary short nominated for an Academy Award this Sunday and available now on iTunes, chronicles 15-year-old illegal immigrant Inocente Izucar's journey from homelessness to internationally lauded artist. Growing up with an abusive father and suicidal mother (she once nearly jumped off a bridge before being talked down by her daughter), Inocente sought solace in her paintings—bright, fantastical canvases that became an imaginative outlet. Inocente's on-camera journey to create 30 new pieces in three months during the 40-minute short film is riveting. "She went from sleeping on the streets to flying
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Art
New Museum Takes Us Back To the 90s With "NYC 1993"
A look at 18 major works from the exhibition "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set: Trash and No Star," open now through May 26, 2013. There are a few seminal years that stand out in the history of art, like the early 1400s, when Brunelleschi, the Italian Renaissance painter who engineered the dome of the Florence Cathedral, invented perspective, or 1913, when the Armory Show in New York City, officially known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, marked the very first time modernists like Picasso, Duchamp, Kandinksy, and Cézanne were shown in America in a highly controversial event that turned
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Wheels
Cool Thing of the Week: Custom Porsche 911 Paint Job
Northern California artist, Zio Ziegler, has painted his intricate, pattern-based work on a wide range of challenging found objects, but a recent commission to create a custom paint job for a Porsche 911 put his skills to the test. "I just make what I make, and that can be challenging for collectors because most pieces tend to be quite large. The 911, however, takes the cake for the most dynamic surface. It's my Trojan horse," he said, "bringing you art when you least expect it."
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Grooming
6 Iconic Hair Styles: An Illustrated How-To
The fauxhawk. The jerry curl. The mullet. The fauxhawk-jerry-curl-mullet. Hair trends come and go, but classic styles remain, well, classic. To pay homage to some of these iconic looks, illustration artist Silvia Prada created a series of charming and nostalgic drawings titled "The New Modern Hair: A Styling Chart," on view at The Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles until February 26th, 2013. For tips on how to recreate some our favorite (and time-tested) looks, we turned to one of New York's top men's hairstylists, Takamichi Saeki.
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Art
The History of Blue Jeans at Centraal Museum
The Dutch currently own more pairs of jeans per capita than any other country, a fact that might explain why the Centraal Museum in Utrecht spearheaded Blue Jeans, an enthusiastic and expansive investigation into the past 350 years of denim history. We're talking everything from the Levi's that the 19th century San Francisco miners wore to modern pairs from Martin Margiela and Yves Saint Laurent. Your Dutch-made G-Star jeans might be new, but denim is much older than you might think, dating back to the 17th century with the denim skirt featured prominently in the painting Woman Begging with
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Art
Now Open: Robert Motherwell, Sterling Ruby, and Robert Smithson at Andrea Rosen Gallery
A pink triangle sits captive behind bars in Peter Halley's The Big Jail, one piece in the larger group exhibition, which is divided into "Cellblock I" and "Cellblock II," two distinct but related shows now on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. This prison motif is everywhere in Halley's work, who first rose to prominence in the gritty East Village in the eighties, using unconventional paints like Roll-a-Tex (usually reserved for interior decoration) and eye-searing Day-Glo.
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Art
Own Warhol's Art Cash for $300
In 1971, Andy Warhol created Art Cash for a casino-themed fundraiser to support Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a now-defunct nonprofit promoting collaborations between artists and engineers. Each bill denomination was created by a different artist, including Robert Rauschenberg. Warhol made the ones, which were printed by the American Banknote Company on the same paper used for U.S. currency at the time, sans the anti-counterfeit threading.
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Celebrity
Pharrell Williams' Artist TLK: Lessons in How Not To Host a Show
Pharrell Williams recently added another job title to his ever-expanding CV. The rapper/singer/record producer/composer/fashion designer/furniture designer/artist (who can forget his pandering 2009 Murakami collaboration) is now also the talk show host of a new YouTube series. Called Artist TLK (because talk takes too long to say), each episode runs about 20 awkward minutes, during which Williams succeeds in interrupting, talking over, and providing answers for his artsy guests.
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