Hrag Vartanian

Olympia Lambert of Oly’s Musings comments on “Teresa” (2008) by street/gallery artist Dan Witz featuring a nude woman lovingly starting at her iPhone:
…the beatification of a living woman by way of her iPhone…
Part of the “Dangerous Women” show at DFN Gallery (until Aug. 29, 2008), I guess it was only a matter of time that [...]

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The title isn’t really the one Robinson suggested at the Friday August 1 dinner at Like the Spice gallery, he said “Untitled,” but I decided to rename it anyway. He spoke about it at the dinner and as soon as he mentioned New Orleans it made a lot click. I think it’s important that the [...]

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Gaia mentioned the Freedom Tunnel to me the other day and while I knew of them I have never had the pleasure of visiting them.
Named after street graffer/artist Chris “Freedom” Pape, the Freedom Tunnel is an Amtrak tunnel running underneath Manhattan’s Riverside Park. Pape began the tradition of recreating historic masterpieces in the tunnels, including [...]

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The always inspirational AA Bronson talks to VBS.tv about his “retrospective as self-portrait” exhibition “School for Young Shamans” at John Connelly Presents in New York earlier this year.

He discusses his participation in the Toronto-born General Idea collective (1969-1994) which ended when two of the members died of AIDS. He also describes his work as a [...]

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New York’s Museum of Sex is taking on the sexual realities of animals with the help of Brooklyn-based Norwegian-American sculptor Rune Olsen.
The exhibition is titled “The Sex Lives of Animals” and Olsen’s contribution is titled “The New Natural History.”

Olsen provides the best quote ever on ABCNews.com:
“It’s important to me that my sculptures are individual,” Olsen [...]

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