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 sustainable design award winner, Titania Inglis, [...]

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 and stitched cord since 2010. [...]

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 for the people – at [...]

Who: Naomi Sarah Clark Where she was born: Boulder, Colorado Where she lives now: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn What she does: I am a painter and part of an art collaborative Fort Makers. What she’s been up to lately: Well we have [...]

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 Frieze that were the ones [...]

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 art show presented by Vito [...]

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 smart comment about Ed Ruscha [...]

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 awkwardness and imperfection. Her latest [...]

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 Hopkins, who has been battling [...]

In preparation for the most holy night in fashion and art commingling, aka the Met Costume Gala held on May 6th, everyone’s getting inspired by this year’s theme: PUNK. The exhibition will focus on the transition of punk fashion from “Chaos to Couture,” [...]

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 distance. Santiago Sierra’s work is [...]

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 inspiration for a bi-annual contemporary [...]

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 details have not yet been [...]

Titus Kaphar’s “The Vesper Project” was originally scheduled for exhibition last September, the same week Hurricane Sandy struck New York City and ravaged the Chelsea art district.  After finally debuting four months later, it is well worth the wait!  An emotional tour-de-force, “The [...]

A long overdue retrospective of Llyn Foulkes is now on show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The extensive retrospective consists of 140 works spanning the breadth of Foulkes’ compelling and under-recognized career. Although Foulkes had a solo exhibit [...]

Zefrey Throwell’s latest exhibition, Panic in the Chalk Cave, is on view through March 23 at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery in New York. We spoke with Throwell about how WILD it got creating a project about his father’s [...]

Don’t let the name fool you, Deptford Goth isn’t the name of a dark rock/metal band, it is actually the moniker of a solo music maker based in south London (Peckham, not Deptford), whose songs fall somewhere between the sounds [...]

In the commotion that has been dubbed Armory Week, we hope you got to see Volta, one of the younger and more experimental of the art fair-siblings. Volta NY this year was the fair’s fifth edition (a companion to the [...]

As the lines between innovation and imitation in art become increasingly blurred with a constant stream of new technology, there is no time like the present to pay homage one of America’s original and most prolific appropriation artists. Long before [...]

Contemporary American artist Bruce Nauman has never been one to shy away from the thought-provoking, or the controversial and oft sexualised. Renowned curator Philip Larratt-Smith, purveyor of psychoanalytical and at times traumatic renderings, has brought Nauman’s work to the Hauser [...]

Annabel Linquist, “Problem Solved”. Showing at the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair  New York City’s largest art fair, the Armory, is upon us. And so are the dozens of smaller, less formal satellite fairs that come along with Big Mama.  Whether you like it [...]

This month at the Jack Hanley Gallery, Jeff Olsson visits the past via content and medium in his first American exhibition, A Fair Deal. The Swedish artist enchants the eye with his large scale graphite and charcoal drawings of expansive [...]

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No this is not a space invasion. Or a geyser spurting lava. Or a Photoshop trick made for some conspiracy theory blog. This piercing rod of light, either striking the earth or erupting from it (depending on your mood), is nothing more then a [...]

Leviathan, Louis Eisner In New York City, space is the highest commodity. It is symbol and a necessity that is only taken for granted by those who can afford it, something that we don’t realize we’ve been missing until we’ve found ourselves suddenly surrounded by it. [...]

As consumers bearing witness to drastic species decline and environmental degradation globally, it is often too difficult to intelligibly process these alarming events as something genuinely connected to the fabric of our day-to-day lives. Thankfully, artist Alicia Escott is navigating a [...]

Heroina Romanticam Dolorosa                          Opiom Velourosa Purpra Designer of Dior’s Haute Joaillerie, Victoire de Castellane, has just debuted her first ever solo art exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in [...]

Listening to David Lynch speak, you get the feeling that he is on your side. There is something about the guy—his artistic feats aside—that enlivens the spirit, that inspires community. That nasal, singular voice—which, from anyone else would be grating [...]

Who: Miya Ando Where she is based: Manhattan What she does: I am an artist. What she is currently working on: A solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery NYC (June 2013). What good energy means to her: Right thought, right [...]

Last night, despite brisk temperatures, I took a walk. In the picturesque tree-lined streets of south Brooklyn, I admired leftover snow and carved lintels. Then, in a rare tilt of my head heavenward, I saw six stars—endangered treasures of a [...]

There is something about a Polaroid picture that kills all formality, replacing the the watching feelings of looking a portrait with knowing feelings, making every subject an acquaintance. Curtis Kulig, a NY-based photographer who seems to know everyone from skaters to scenesters [...]

Moving from one place to another you take certain bits of comfort with you. For sculptor Derek Weisberg, the move from Oakland, California to Brooklyn, New York was all about retaining the thread of street culture from one city to [...]

Three years ago, Claire Duport left her job of six years, as a stylist and fashion journalist at WAD magazine in Paris, in order to pursue her dream of becoming an artist, even though she had no formal training. She now works [...]

Less music video, more video art, “Hawk Wind” by Semya – the new alias for Baltimore-native Alex Deranian – comes from the newly released Dual Form, a compilation from Stones Throw and Leaving Records. What starts as rather soothing backdrop, [...]

Who: Lena Corwin Where she was born: San Francisco, California Where she is currently living: Brooklyn, New York What she does: I’m lucky to make a living doing a variety of creative work that I love– from book writing and publishing, to textile [...]

According to Pulp Fiction, “There are two types of people in this world, Beatles people and Elvis people.” Warhol was an Elvis person, but Deborah Kass, the celebrated artist who took Warhol inspiration to the next level with her off beat [...]

The most recent work at the Cheim & Read Gallery in Chelsea may highlight old Hollywood, but the approach is all new. McDurmott and McGough, artist duo, have transformed scenes from the silver screen  featuring starlets such as Elizabeth Taylor and [...]

Pam Tietze takes us down the rabbit hole with her new line of spectacles. ‘H0les,’ a strange yet rather wondrous idea, was conceived through the discovery of crystal glass prisms intended for use in chandeliers. Inspired by these prisms, Tietze [...]

Inflatable Frankenstein by Radiohole, one of the breakout shows at the COIL Festival this year. There are times in New York City where you find yourself somewhere you never expected to end up, like say, sitting on the floor of [...]

There is a point, maybe as early as thirteen, when we all start recalling our youth in a hazy, Wonder Years montage sort of way, creating memories that might have never really happened in order to preserve that feeling of [...]

Who: Michele Michael What she does for a living: I am a ceramicist. I also own a prop house in Manhattan called Elephant Props Where she lives: Rural Maine Photo by: Jennifer Causey What’s on her mind today: It’s New [...]

To many, Ai Weiwei is inspirational in his subversiveness. At the same time, others wonder if he is merely an object of fascination for hipsters in the West and question if he actually matters inside China. Even if the latter [...]

Last week’s four day long art festival/party/ see-and-be-seen international gathering at Art Basel Miami Beach brought together every type the art world (and celebrity, music, and fashion world) had to offer. Art was litterarlly everywhere, even up in the sky in an aerial show [...]

Now that the art handlers have all packed their goods in sheaths of  bubble wrap, the club kids have all gone straight from the Le Baron pop up party onto their flights back to New York, and Miami has returned to its normal “mojitos [...]

The yearly international art festival in Miami is already in full swing, bringing together thousands of artists  from around the world for a variety of contemporary art fairs down Miami Beach and across the city. The WILD will be covering [...]

Although New Yorkers have seen sunny skies these last two weeks, post-Sandy hurricane victims remain in bad shape and in need of much relief. Thankfully, Paddle8 has responded with a brilliant project idea. Focused on art and accessibility, Paddle8 is [...]

As one of the leading and most controversial artists to have emerged from the former Soviet Union, Boris Mikhailov brought to life a profoundly tumultuous chapter of 20th century history: the height, decline and fall of the Soviet Union and [...]

Mario Testino stands among the most popular fashion photographers in the industry right now. His experience, great talent and collaborations with the fashion bible, Vogue, make him a desirable photographer for many a Hollywood star. Now that the Museum of [...]

The David Block Gallery of Marrakech has announced two stirring exhibitions opening this December. French artists Richard Orlinski and Remed will grace the space, located at the heart of the African city, with their paintings and sculptures, respectively. The shows [...]

Be it on the news, in print, or in other media, most coverage of Palestine (particularly in Gaza and the West Bank) is riddled with tragic stories and graphic photos. Portraits of devastated homes, families, and oftentimes massacred remains are [...]