Tag Archives: art

After costumed strippers posed with Banksy’s latest installation, a metal-cutting torch was used to strip the image from the garage door of Larry Flynt’s Huster Club in Manhattan. Gothamist reports: The piece, which went up early yesterday morning and drew crowds all day, seems destined for a framed place of honor inside the strip club. That’s right, soon enough on …

Stand by for that garage door to be ripped down and sold for a jillion dollars in one of the nearby fancy galleries. (Via Gothamist)

After threats of legal action from the Vatican, an art gallery in Rome has covered up its exhibit of photos depicting gay men kissing in Catholic churches. Pink News reports: The photography series by Gonzalo Orquin, had been due to open at the Galleria L’Opera beginning on Wednesday evening. The photographer said the gallery had received a legal notice from …

Hypnotic. (Via JMG reader Michael)

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A new audio/visual art installation debuted on Saturday in the eight-block long Park Avenue tunnel. My Modern Met provides a description: Open to pedestrians for the first time in history, the Park Avenue Tunnel welcomes visitors to experience an interactive light and sound installation like no other. Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has transformed the 1,400 foot long tunnel with 300 …

This afternoon Father Tony and I dropped in at the 14th biennial Fire Island Pines Art Show, where my pal (and former NYC Eagle bartender) Joe Hepworth was showing some of his photography.

This guy has an easel set up right outside our front door and is painting the house across the street, which one of our crew has already booked for SpookyBear 2014.

Leonard Lauder, the chairman emeritus of Estee Lauder, has agreed to donate his billion dollar collection of cubist paintings to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum. The trove of signature works, which includes 33 Picassos, 17 Braques, 14 Légers and 14 works by Gris, is valued at more than $1 billion. It puts Mr. Lauder, who for years has been one …

At a Vienna gallery showing a special exhibition of male nudes, art fans were invited to attend in the nude themselves. These museum goers didn’t just leave their outerwear at the coat check. They handed over their shirts, trousers, underwear – everything, except their shoes and socks. The occasion at Vienna’s Leopold Museum was a special after-hour showing of “Nude …

This week testing began on a two–year light installation project set to launch on the Bay Bridge on March 5th. The Bay Lights is the world’s largest light sculpture, 1.8 miles wide and 500 feet high and inspired by the Bay Bridge 75th anniversary. Using 25,000 white individually programmed LED lights, artist Leo Villareal will create complex algorithms and patterns …

NYC’s famed Roxy nightclub, arguably the city’s last gay megaclub, closed in March 2007 and was supposed to be immediately demolished for luxury condos. Almost five years later the Chelsea building is still standing and this week it opened as a massive gallery space.  Via Hyperallergic: The new gallery, the site of the former Roxy nightclub and roller rink on …

(Via Boy Culture)

From artist Bronwyn Lundberg comes The Creation Of Neil, which also features Anderson Cooper, RuPaul, George Takei, and John Waters. Prints are for sale at the link.

Seen in the window of an Eaton Street shop.

Almost 7M YouTube views in three days.

Famed “wrapping artist” Christo is planning a massive oil barrel installation in Abu Dhabi that he says will be the world’s largest permanent sculpture. Via yesterday’s Guardian: A 150-metre-high, flat-topped pyramid would be taller than St Paul’s Cathedral or St Peter’s Basilica and would overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza – creating Abu Dhabi’s answer to Egypt’s pyramids or Mecca’s …

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