New York Art Scene

Veteran of the Wars of Afghanistan and Iraq Facing the Corner (Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 2011)

Gender rupture: Beauty rapture via Beauty Is Boring

Still from Alexander Melamid's Burning Warhol 2012.Run time 2:09

Martynka Wawrzyniak is a mixed-media artist who has worked with photography, video, performance and installations.

In today’s society we do everything we can to mask the natural scent of our bodies, thus forgoing an ancient form of animal communication. I wanted to isolate these primal human essences and deliver them in an environment devoid of other sensual distractions. The piece represents the true essence of a woman – free of visual prejudice.

- Martynka Wawrzyniak

Image above: EunSun Choi. HIde and Seek, 2012. Courtesy the artist

Exploration. That's the point of living I think. The further I drift from New York the more interesting the new permutations of this city seem. . Things that once were far on the fringes are moving to the cultural center and the underground rises to the surface. In the way that only New York facilitates.

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Long Live Populism!

Bernadette Corporation is back in the air. I attended a show of their's once, back when I was dreaming of getting into...all this . Didn't have a ticket. Totally crashed.

Until Aug 3 2012

Greg Wilson, DJ Harvey, Questlove, and DJ Afrika Bambaataa pay tribute to the German Electro-pioneers

Tears are streaming down TI's face. He is wracked with sobs of joy.

Sanja Iveković, Mihaela, 2002, ink-jet print, 55 1/8 x 39 3/8".