Hrag Vartanian

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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Cal Lane’s website here, Wim Delvoye’s here.
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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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I came across this photo (titled “Keith & Corey”) in Rudy Magazine (no.31) from Dutch Canadian photog Toni Hafkenscheid and was impressed how it captured a classic Canadian rec room feel (maybe Ontarian, but I’m from Toronto–as is Hafkenscheild–so I always forget there are other parts of Canada)…people who hail from Canada will know what [...]

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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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