Dreams

MoMA Takes on the Foreclosure Crisis (And the American Dream)
Victoria Rogers |
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Architects, activists, and artists reimagine America’s failing suburbs.

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Artists Turn to Kickstarter Instead of Galleries and Grants
Tiffany Jow |

Kickstarter can be an alternative, or a supplement, to the insular world of patrons and dealers.

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Land Ho! A Delightful New Voyage for an L.A. Painter
Tiffany Jow |
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Joshua Petker’s latest paintings signify a real sea change for the L.A.-based artist.

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Paper Puddles Make Viewers Do a Double-Take
Tiffany Jow |
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Betcha didn’t think paper could do this.

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A Secret Garden, Frozen as Art
Tiffany Jow |
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Nearly a decade ago, Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger created one unforgettable garden party.

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Japanese Blog Hypnotizes Viewers With Next-Level GIFing
Tiffany Jow |

Graphic Interchange Format images may have been around since the 80s, but only now have they been taken to a whole new echelon of awesome.

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Yayoi Kusama Is Back in New York
Cameron Meade |
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“This is the best moment of my life,” Yayoi Kusama told Whitney Museum Director Adam Weinberg. On the brink of a retrospective at the museum and the unveiling of a much-hyped collaboration with Louis Vuitton, the eighty-two-year-old artist is most definitely on the rise.

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Hunt Slonem's Antebellum Oz
Zach Bell |
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Hunt Slonem draws us into a world of ghosts, mystics, plantations, and exotic birds.

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An Artist Conjures Real-Life Clouds Inside the Gallery
Georgina Wells |
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Berndnaut Smilde’s cloud installations consist of precise mixtures of machine-generated light, humidity, temperature, and smoke.

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Aaron Young's Motorcycle Diaries
Manish Vora |
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Aaron Young almost got himself kicked out of art school for his motorcycle shenanigans. Now they’ve turned him into an art world rock star.

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A Stockholm Hotel Accepts Art as Currency
Tiffany Jow |

Picasso did it. Now, you can too.

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A New Gallery Embraces the Dark
Manish Vora |
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Even though Venus over Manhattan is in the heart of art world bustle on Madison Avenue, the gallery sits in stark contrast to the white walls of its neighbors. The space looks more like a bomb shelter than a place for exhibiting art, which is exaggerated by the fact that its inaugural show, À Rebours (Against Nature), takes place in near-darkness.

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