The New Museum is soliciting visitors to “get nailed” at its popup nail salon by Chicano “kustom kulture” artist Dzine (real name Carlos Rolon) in the museum's lobby window.
It’s become something of a tradition for David Shrigley fans to let the absurdist artist draw his stick-figure designs and one-word mantras onto their bodies at openings and fairs.
Hennessy Youngman, take note. In a call for submissions last year, the journal Speculations said that the art world “pendulum” is finally swinging away from Relational Esthetics and, instead, we might soon be hearing a lot more about the philosophical theory Speculative Realism -- not a new branch of thought by any means, but one that’s apparently gaining renewed esthetic attention.
Twenty years since Freddie Mercury’s death, London-based artist Aleksandra Mir is waging a campaign to return a bronze statue of the rockstar to his native U.K.
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