Sounds in the Clouds v.05.13
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Arts
Titania Inglis Installation at Swords-Smith
by: Abigail Doan
At the conclusion of New York Design Week, we thought that it would be apropos to feature a fashion designer who creatively navigates the realms of art, design, and architecture with smart fluidity. Ecco Domani [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, ART, Bike-to-Work Day, Design, Ecco Domani, Fashion, Milk Made, New York Design Week, NYCxDesign, sustainable design, Swords-Smith, The Wild Magazine, Titania Inglis
Maison Nue: 4 Girls, Unlimited Projects
by: Marine de la Morandière
Maison Nue is a hybrid. Creative studio, music lab, fashion brand… that and much more. Their motto, “Act like a lady, think like a boss,” speaks for itself. This multiplatform agency knows how to keep [...]
Tags: dj, Maison Nue, Marine de la Morandiere, Paris, Paris art, Paris Fashion, Paris music, Shout Out
New York Design Week: tree wood at Socrates Sculpture Park
by: Abigail Doan
After a weekend of tromping around town, weaving in and out of galleries and showrooms – it is refreshing to discover a bit of folly in the urban landscape as a reminder that framing a [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, Architectural League of NY, Architecture, Arts, New York Design Week, NYCxDesign, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Wild Magazine, Toshihiro Oki, Toshri Oki Architects, tree wood
The Journals of David Wojnarowicz
by: Kate Messinger
Artist, writer, and gay activist David Wojnarowicz was always one to be brutally honest. A prolific photographer, filmmaker and painter in the Lower East Side art scene of the ’70s and ’80s, Wojnarowicz didn’t shy from pornography [...]
Tags: 80s art, AIDS, artist diary, David Wojnarowicz, diary, Gay Rights, Journal, Kate Messinger, Nan Goldin, new york art, The Wild Magazine
New York Design Week: Doug Johnston’s Light Sculptures
by: Abigail Doan
There is no disputing that artist and designer Doug Johnston is the current darling of the craft/design world, locally so and far beyond. The Brooklyn-based maker has been creating baskets, sculptures and stools from coiled [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, ART, Doug Johnston, ICFF, Lauren Coleman, Michael Popp, Mondo Cane, New York Design Week, NYC X Design, NYCxDesign, The Wild Magazine
New York Design Week: #CHAIRTRUCK by Uhuru
by: Abigail Doan
With NY Design Week now officially underway, we will be on the lookout for WILD sightings that lure us beyond sleek design showrooms and white cube repositories. Design should ideally be by the people and [...]
Tags: #CHAIRTRUCK, Abigail Doan, ART, Brooklyn, New York Design Week, NY Design Week, The Wild Magazine, Uhuru, ulihee chair
Pizza, Mirrors and other art trends at Frieze NY
by: Kate Messinger
Rainbows. Mirrors. Shiny stuff. Pizza. Paul McCarthy, Balloon Dog You could say these are a few of my favorite things, but that would be an understatement. These are a few of everyone’s favorite things. Or [...]
Tags: Anish Kapoor, Arts, Frieze, frieze art fair 2013, Jack Early, Jeff Koons, Kate Messinger, Kehinde Wiley, marina Abramovic, mirrors, Nick Cave, pizza, Randel's Island, Takashi Murakami, the WILD, The Wild Magazine
Best Of: CUTLOG & Wish Meme
by: Kate Messinger
Though they might not have been held on their own private islands and only supplied plastic cups of wine instead of organic champagne in flutes, it was the smaller, underdog art fairs of this year’s [...]
Tags: ART, art fair, cutlog, Frieze, frieze art fair 2013, Jordan Doner, Kate Messinger, Paddle8, pizza art, the WILD, wish meme
BKLYN Designs Returns
by: Bianca Ozeri
Tomorrow marks the last day of BKLYN Designs, an exhibition of contemporary furniture, lighting, and accessories made or designed in the eastern borough. After a one-year hiatus, the show has returned for its tenth anniversary [...]
Tags: BKLYN Designs, Caleb Zipperer, Dumbo, Furniture Design, St. Ann's Warehouse, Sustainable Living
A Muse’s Musings: the Art of India Salvor Menuez
by: Serena Qiu
We remember and return to the clear-eyed India Salvor Menuez because her beauty is of the disquieting and diaphanous variety, without a specific name. You might have seen her recently in our pages (here and [...]
Tags: Artist, India Salvor Menuez, Nonoo, Olivier Assayas, painter, Picasso, Something In The Air, the WILD
FRIEZE ART FAIR: What to See
by: Kate Messinger
I swear it was just last week that we were all trekking through a storm to go to the Armory art fair, and now another art fair in another storm? Luckily, the Frieze Art Fair and the [...]
Tags: Armory, art fairs, cutlog, Frieze, frieze art fair 2013, Jordan Doner, Marianne Vitale, NADA art fair, Sameer Reddy
Diagnosing Crazy in Vito Schnabel’s “DSM-V”
by: Kate Messinger
Art and Psychotherapy have forever been crossed. In society the curse of the tortured artist is a sign that you’re doing something right, but there’s a thin line between creative breakthrough and mental breakdown. The new group [...]
Tags: Andy Warhol, ART, Basquiat, Bjarne Melgaard, Cecily Brown, dash snow, depression, disorder, DSM-V, George Condo, Kate Messinger, mental illness, Moynihan Station, Picasso, psychology, Salvador Dali, vito schnabel
The Punk is in the Toilet
by: Kate Messinger
Did you miss CBGB in its days of glory and fame? Do you curse the safety-pinned anti-gods for the passing of an era of inspiring music and style, for replacing such a historical mecca of [...]
Tags: bathrooms, CBGB, Met Ball, Metropolitan Museum of Art, punk, Punk: Chaos to Couture, The WILD Fashion
Holton Rower Distorts Perception at The Hole
by: Bianca Ozeri
This weekend at The Hole, the Bowery’s tony gallery space, Holton Rower’s second solo exhibition called in an overspill crowd. The show debuted new Pour works by the artist, as well as his recently developed—not [...]
Tags: Coming to, Focus Paintings, Gerhard Richter, Holton Rower, Pour Paintings, The Bowery, The HOLE
The Artists: Bruno Pogacnik Wukodrakula
by: Roxy Kirshenbaum
“I am a cyber-shaman of the pre-apocalyptic age, riding the tidal wave of meaningless data straight into the oblivion of technological dystopias. Self-proclaimed ruler of the under-web, I am playing the lead role in a [...]
Tags: Arts, Bruno Pogacnik Wukodrakula, Croatia, filjio, Roxy Kirshenbaum, The Artists, The Wild Magazine
Bruno Dayan’s Astounding “À Corps Perdu”
by: Bianca Ozeri
Bruno Dayan’s “À Corps Perdu” is in its final days at the Elephant Paname, an aptly baroque gallery space in Paris. The photograph series, culled from Dayan’s personal works, explores the ways the external world [...]
Tags: À Corps Perdu, Bruno Dayan, Caravaggio, Celine, David Lynch, Elephant Paname, fashion photography, Numéro
116 Artists’ Names You Pronounced Wrong
by: Kate Messinger
Have you ever been to some art event and while trying to fit in among those beautiful bowtied men and intimidating Norweign art dealers with the perfect, not-too-goth purple lipstick, tried to make a semi [...]
Tags: ART, artspace, Ed Ruscha, Kate Messinger, pronunciation, the WILD
Atomic Stop Motion Animation
by: The WILD
Listen up you Artsy Geeks and Geeky Artists, IBM scientists created the smallest stop motion animation ever. Using a microscope that enlarges the image over 100 million times, they manipulated atoms to create a stick [...]
Tags: Atomic, Atoms, IBM, Scientists, stop-motion, the WILD, The Wild Magazine, thewildmag, WIld
Artist Profile: Xu Wang
by: Yermi Brenner
Xu Wang is one of 2,254 Chinese currently enrolled at Columbia University. But he’s the first and only student from Mainland China to ever be accepted to the School of the Arts’ prestigious Visual Arts [...]
Tags: Chinese Art, Columbia arts, painter, the WILD, Xu Wang, Yermi Brenner
Not Worth Traveling to The Place Beyond The Pines
by: Alex Herboche
It turns out, we’ve already been to The Place Beyond The Pines. The problem is that I had just seen To The Wonder. And so I’d probably had my dose of “white male cinema” for [...]
Tags: Alex Herboche, Bradley Cooper, Cianfrance, Eva Mendez, Film, film review, Ryan Gosling, THe Place Beyond The Pines, The Wild Magazine, To The Wonder
Art and the “One Percent”
by: Alicia Caticha
Last month Christie’s auction house announced that it was awarded a 30-year license to operate in Shanghai, China. That very same week, I was faced with the decision to remain at my job at a [...]
Tags: Alicia Caticha, Andy Warhol, Art Auction, Arts, China, Christie's, Dave HIckey, Edward Munch, Frosty Myer, Jasper Johns, The Wild Magazine
Paris Photo, L.A. style
by: Robin Newman
The renowned photography fair, Paris Photo, has been brought to the United States for the first time this year, bringing a Parsian sensibility to L.A. art. Held primarily on the Paramount Pictures sound stages, the environment merges high art and [...]
Tags: Adam McCollum, Andy Warhol, BMW, Leonard Nimoy, Los Angeles Art, Man Ray, Paris Photo Fair, photography, Robin Newman, The WILD arts, Wallace Berman
The Artists: Meg Franklin
by: Roxy Kirshenbaum
Meg Franklin is a Brooklyn-based painter working in two of the oldest and most basic pictorial traditions — portraiture and still life. With nods to Giorigo Morandi and Alice Neel, her work finds beauty in [...]
Tags: ART, Meg Franklin, photo slideshows, Roxy Kirshenbaum, The Artists, The Wild Magazine, video.
Hide Your Smiling Faces
by: Anna Fixsen
Hide Your Smiling Faces, the directorial debut of Daniel Patrick Carbone, weaves together a story of both delicacy and weight—a film about boyhood in rural America and the first bittersweet tastes of growing up. The [...]
Tags: Anna FIxen, Arts, daniel patrick carbone, Film, hide your smiling faces, The Wild Magazine, Tribeca Film Festival
This Is What Depression Looks Like
by: Stephanie Ott
Wooden, leafless branches are sprouting from his bony back like wings. In an empty, vast space he sits with his shoulders hanging down as if he has lost all hope. The picture screams loneliness. Christian [...]
Tags: ART, Christian Hopkins, depression, Flickr, photography, Stephanie Ott
The Rawness of Synchrodogs
by: Isaac Perez Solano
Judging by the composition and the dehydration of their work, we can feel some sort of irony in Synchrodogs perspective of this world. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are among my favorite emerging photographers, and [...]
Tags: Arts, Issac Perez Solano, Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Zuckerberg, photography, Roman Noven, Synchrodogs, Tania Shcheglova, The Wild Magazine
Bluebird: Promising New Talent at the Tribeca Film Festival
by: Bianca Ozeri
With the TriBeCa Film Festival winding down, certain projects are rising to the top of the motley collection of screenings. Among them is Lance Edmand’s quiet drama, Bluebird. The film stars Amy Morton as Lesley, [...]
Tags: Amy Morton, Bluebird film, Emily Meade, Garrett Fennelly, Jody Lee Lipes, John Slattery, Lance Edmand, Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture
Fuck for Forest
by: Joseph Isho Levinson
Public orgies and online porn videos to save the planet? Why the hell not? Berlin-based Fuck for Forest seems to think it a good way to raise awareness on environmental issues. Well, we’re writing about [...]
Tags: Environment, Fuck for Forest, Isho, Joseph Isho Levinson, Michal Marczak
Mother-Son Dance, Underwater
by: The WILD
Who doesn’t like Irish guys in suits, old cute ladies, and some underwater modern dancing? If you don’t then you have no soul, or at least strange taste! Here’s David Bolger and his 76-year old mother doing [...]
Tags: dance, david bolger, deep end dance, The Wild Magazine, Videos
Emerging Artists Bring a New Touch to Minimalism
by: Robin Newman
Clarissa Dalrymple, currator of this month’s group show at the Marc Selwyn Gallery in Los Angeles, is renowned in the art world for her ability to discover and nurture young artists, one of which being the world [...]
Tags: Adam McEwen, Brie Ruais, Clarissa Dalrymple, Keith Sonnier, Los Angeles Art, Louise Bourgeois, Marc Selwyn Gallery, Matthew Barney, Robin Newman, The Wild Magazine
Agathe Snow “It’s A Juggle Out There”
by: Nic Ishaq
You know what’s cool? Standing around a piece of art and shot gunning a cold Budweiser (i.e. this gallery opening). You know what else is cool? Agathe Snow; we Google image searched her and she’s [...]
Tags: Agathe Snow, Arts, Home Alone 2 Gallery, It's a Jungle Out There, Nic Ishaq, Ryan McGinley, The Wild Magazine
Santiago Sierra: Anything But Comfortable
by: Anna Fixsen
Art is supposed to make us feel good. We go to a museum or gallery to be amazed, to be affirmed, and, perhaps, to be moved. Art, if and when political, remains at a comfortable [...]
Tags: Anna FIxen, ART, photography, Santiago Sierra, Tate Modern, Team Gallery, The Wild Magazine, veterans, War
Performa Visionaries: Seeing Performance Art From A New Angle
by: Serena Qiu
Museum memberships are incredibly gratifying in whichever tier one participates, not simply for the euphoria of charity, but because it creates a self-selecting community for the philanthropically inclined and intellectually hungry. Also, it reveals avenues [...]
Tags: Candice Madey, Marianne Vitale, On Stellar Rays, Performa, Performa Visionaries, performance art, Serena Qiu, Visionaries, visual art
The Lost Album: Dennis Hopper Dazzles Even After Death
by: Bianca Ozeri
Everyone’s favorite dead actor/director heartthrob is soon to become everyone’s favorite dead actor/director/photographer heartthrob! Apparently, Dennis Hopper—beside my dissatisfied libido—has left behind a deluge of 1960s-era photographs as testamentary to the revolutionary age as his [...]
Tags: 1960s Photography, Bianca Ozeri, Dennis Hopper, Gagosian Gallery, The Lost Album, The Wild Magazine
WILDER Mann: Chris Frèger documents Europe’s WILD custom
by: Kate Messinger
In villages across Europe, from Poland to Italy to Germany, a tribal tradition still thrives, with its own distinctive WILD style. The Wild Man is as much a creature as he is a human, often dressed in [...]
Tags: Arts, Charles Freger, Kate Messinger, photography, tribal europe, tribal fashion, Yossi Milo Gallery
The Teepee is Watching You in Liz Craft’s “Temple of Folly”
by: Robin Newman
It is a unfortunate truth that public art in modern times is often a bourgeois spectacle, which makes the installation by Liz Craft at the West Hollywood Park all the more momentous. Her sculptural installation, [...]
Tags: LA Art, LAND, Liz Craft, MOCA, public art, Robin Newman, Shamim Momin, Temple of Folly
Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder is a Hangover
by: Nic Ishaq
To The Wonder is like Terrence Malick’s comedown from the euphoria which was The Tree of Life. It’s that period where one is no longer certain of the validity of the experience he’s had but [...]
Tags: Ben Affleck, Film, Javier Bardem, Nic Ishaq, Olga Kurylenko, Rachael McAdams, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, To The Wonder
Open Your Eyes
by: Lorena Sander
Launched in 2012, Opin Yu Yi is a film festival committed to growing knowledge and commitment to human rights principles in Sierra Leone, a country that continues to rebuild and reconcile following years of extensive [...]
Tags: AdvocAid, Ai Wei Wei, Alison Clayman, An African Election, Ar Bin Know, Christian Aid, Don Bosco, Human Rights Film competition, Idris Kpange, International Day of the Street Child, Jarreth Metz, Open Your Eyes, Opin Yu Yi, Play Safe, Sabrina Mahtani, Sierra Leone, Stop Fistula, WAYOUT
Eyes as Big as Plates: Portraits as Fantastic as Your Grandma
by: Bianca Ozeri
Norwegian photographer duo Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth have found a worthy project in the elderly. Their photo series, Eyes as Big as Plates, explores the mental terrain of our progenitors by way of foraged [...]
Tags: Bianca Ozeri, City Hall Senior Center, Eyes as Big as Plates, Hamilton-Madison House, Karoline Hjorth, Recess Gallery, Riitta Ikonen, Session, The Wild Magazine, universality
Unwilling Informant
by: Joseph Isho Levinson
Unwilling Informant: An Experiment in Long Distance collaborations. I asked model friend Wylona Hayashi for a raw sequence of events in the life of an unwilling informant. A cinematic sequence of sorts, raw in nature. [...]
Tags: Autopsy Jude, Autopsy Jude Wanda, Isho, Joseph Isho Levinson, Joseph Levinson, the WILD, The Wild Mag, The Wild Magazine, thewildmag, Unwilling Informant, wire, Wylona, Wylona Hayashi
RIP, Paolo Soleri, Visionary Arcologist
by: Abigail Doan
Paolo Soleri, visionary architect and creator of Arcosanti, the urban laboratory (utopian community to some) in the Arizona desert, passed away peacefully on April 9, 2013. This was on the same day that Frank Lloyd Wright died, [...]
Tags: Abigail Doan, Architecture, Arcosanti, Arts, Candy Chang, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, RIP, The Wild Magazine, Turin
Art For Everyone?!
by: Stephanie Ott
From paintings of pink dogs, to plastic ice cream cones to a mini Superman encased in a glass bubble to Russian matryoshka dolls featuring Kate Middleton. Art is for everyone – this idea was the [...]
Tags: Affordable Art Fair, ART, Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Pavilion, Modernbook Gallery
Andrew Kuo: Cat Memes and Large Scale Neuroses
by: Kate Messinger
You might know Andrew Kuo. You might know his hilarious pop culture infographics for the New York Times. You might know of his graphic paintings depicting a somewhat neurotic inner monologue, complete with color coordinated reference key. Or maybe you know Mr. [...]
Tags: andrew kuo, cat memes, cat pictures, earlboykins, infographics, Kate Messinger, marlborough chelsea gallery, The New York Times
Street Art Against Injustice
by: Stephanie Ott
Her fingers are grabbing the cold steel bars of her small, dark cell, as if she was trying to tear them down. Her piercing eyes are crying for help. Passers-by in Frankfurt, Germany, saw this [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, Dan Witz, imprisonment, Leo Burnett, Liu Xiaobo, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Prisoners, Stephanie Ott, street art, The Wild Magazine, Wailing Walls
A Whirl of Colors and Music
by: Stephanie Ott
Boom! The gust of color explodes on her body and a million particles of vibrant red are floating through the air. She starts laughing and hurls a cloud of sunny, bright yellow at her friend. [...]
Tags: Brooklyn, Festival of Colors, Holi, Holi New York, Stephanie Ott, The Wild Magazine, video slideshow, world
Live from Los Angeles, It’s Saturday Night!
by: Katie Grimmer
We all have our favorite skits: Schweddy Balls, The Church Lady, Stefan, Two Wild and Crazy Guys. Dave Perillo “A Character Piece” Saturday Night Live will forever be the pop cultural phenomenon that we have all [...]
Tags: Gallery 1988 West, Is This Thing On #2 Too, Katie Grimmer, Mom Jeans, Saturday night live, Schweddy Balls, SNL, Stefan, Tara Krebs, The Incredible Belushi, The Wild Magazine
The Human Cost of War
by: Alicia Caticha
Whether or not you keep up with the news, “Engines of War” at Gasser & Grunert Gallery offers up a dose of reality. In tune with the cynical realism of the film “Zero Dark Thirty,” [...]
Tags: Alicia Caticha, Arts, Benjamin Lowy, Charles Dee Mitchell, Christopher Morris, Cynthia Mulcahy, Engines of War, Eugene Richards, Gasser & Grunert Gallery, Heather Ainsworth, Jamel Shabazz, The Wild Magazine, world
E-Thay Inward-Yay Ourney-Jay
by: Robin Newman
As a young and emerging artist, Dan Finsel first developed his body of work by performing exercises found in the 1974 book The Inward Journey /Art as Therapy for You. These pieces are on view [...]
Tags: Dan Finsel, E-THAY INWARD-YAY OURNEY-JAY, Los Angeles, photography, Richard Telles Fine Art, Robin Newman, Sculpture, The Inward Journey /Art as Therapy for You
Russian Street Artist Pasha dies at 29
by: Kate Messinger
It’s hard to know much about a man that makes a living breaking the law, but Pasha P183, the 29-year-old street artist often compared to Banksy, let his public murals and sculptures speak for him. Though the [...]
Tags: ART, Banksy, consumerism, glasses in snow, Graffiti, Human Rights, Kate Messinger, P183, Pasha, russian art, street art, The Wild Magazinelatest posts
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Maison Nue: 4 Girls, Unlimited Projects
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