DAVID LACHAPELLE “ALL AMERICAN”
David LaChapelle's All American show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery was welcomed by an overflowing crowd full of fashionistas, models, editors, and downtown scenesters. However, missing were the celebrities that have be...
David LaChapelle's All American show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery was welcomed by an overflowing crowd full of fashionistas, models, editors, and downtown scenesters. However, missing were the celebrities that have be...
In the world of graphic design and advertising, art direction occupies a significant role in achieving the finished product. On the rainy night of June 6th in New York City, the prestigious Art Director's Club held...
It began with an email containing the subject line "THE NYC ELEPHANT WALK IS COMING!" I would learn that the occasion was for the annual parade of pachyderms that make their way across Manhattan over the Queens Mi...
Film as a form of art is a source for dubious discussions. On one hand, film is the most widely accepted form of art in the modern-day world. On the other, it is the most commercialized form of art. Therefore, many...
The mounting of the installation, Listening Post, marks both the celebration of a fresh collaboration between Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin but also the mourning of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Artists in Multimedia pro...
UKwithNY, A two-week festival showcasing the many facets of contemporary British culture, has descended on NYC. Running from October 14th-28th, the festival offers New Yorkers a unique opportunity to peruse the br...
Around 9 o'clock in the morning of that day, as I walk out of the train and across Port Authority station on the 42nd street, I see an unusual crowd of people gathered around a television in front of the ticket boo...
The latest installment of art in the city premiered at a new space on 129 Lafayette under the guise of Ground Zero. The opening event held on August 16th was accompanied with the following mission statement: "Rei...
Even though the world has become much smaller in a metaphorical sense in the last 50 years due to the advancement of communication technology, Japan is still a country far out of reach for many Westerners. When it ...
People do things. People do things for no particular reason. They do it because it's fun. They do it because it's different. People do things for the sake of doing them. The Mermaid Parade is exactly that. For th...
In our media saturated culture, it is easy to get lost amidst the happenings that surround us promoting the collapse of sound, image, technology, fashion, etc. Such was the case in finding a suitable venue to rel...
Prior to 1995, that is, prior to the huge acceptance of the Web, Macromedia was a company that made Director. Now, Macromedia is a company that makes Flash. These two tools are very different yet similar, and they...
"While photography revolutionized the arts by superseding painting's claim to represent the 'real', digital technology has become the ultimate tool for capturing the nuances of the 'unreal'." This statement in Bit...
Workspheres at The Museum of Modern Art brings together a collection of objects and environments that represent the convergence of our everyday lives with the workplace. At the core of the exhibition is the role desi...
Sound as an artistic medium, in a way, is an overused one. Since ancient times, sound has been explored as a means of expression in numerous forms of what we call music. In today's modern world, various kinds of mu...
The 8th New York Digital Salon at The School of Visual Arts Musuem came to a close on December 9th. Featuring the work of professionals and students alike, the show covered computer related art realized as digital...
Produced by Fashion Laboratories for the Environment Inc. in association with the Downtown Arts Festival, Fashionlab 2000 took place on a slightly rainy evening of one Saturday in September. The show was hosted by Eye...