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Do All Famous Artists Mistreat Their Assistants?

By Reid Singer on

The art world is full of status tension and anecdotes of well-heeled divas mistreating their roustabouts. When the story broke, earlier this week, that movie star Jim Carrey would be fined $72,000 for failing to buy workers’ compensation insurance for employees in his New York art studio in 2012, people had their hands at their moralistic holsters, certain that this was another case of studio assistant abuse — a particularly hard thing to justify when an artist is rich or famous. … Read More

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A Photo Tour of Famous New Yorkers’ Living Rooms

By Claire Cottrell on

There’s nothing we love more than virtual voyeuristic visits with fellow fabulous New Yorkers. The original real-life interiors photographer Dominique Nabokov (long before The Selby and Backyard Bill started snapping pics of stylish spaces) started documenting the inside lives of others as understood by their living rooms some 20 years ago. Her visits with celebrated artists, writers, designers, intellectuals, and the occasional celebrity was compiled into a humble, but fascinating, survey titled New York Living Rooms. … Read More

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Fear of Flying: The Top 10 Artworks of Airplanes

By Paul Laster on

Memorial Day weekend kicks off the summer travel season, and while some of us may prefer to travel by car, others are currently printing out boarding passes and heading to the airport for a exciting journey to an exotic place. Since summer invites the discovery of cultural capitals and exploration of distant sites, we’ve assembled a lively mix of art about airplanes — ranging from Andy Warhol’s painting of a newspaper headline of a plane crash in France and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s expressionistic canvas of a plane flying over a city skyline to Hiraki Sawa’s video still of miniature jets flying around his apartment and Tom Sachs’ DIY reconstruction of a complete airplane lavatory — to help you overcome any possible fears of flying and to get you planning where the next walk through airport security will take you. Enjoy! … Read More

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STAGES: Art for the Lance Armstrong Foundation

By Paul Laster on

As Lance Armstrong cycles toward the finish in the Tour de France, his foundation, in conjunction with Nike, has mounted a benefit art exhibition, STAGES, to engage the creative community in the fight against cancer at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, one of Paris’ premiere art venues. STAGES, whose title references the daily parts of the race and the phases of cancer, offers a lively group of artworks by 20 established and emerging… Read More

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