As of yesterday, users of Frenchising Mona Lisa, an Augmented Reality (AR) smart phone application, can take Amir Baradaran's conceptual art anywhere. Focusing their camera phones on the eternally…
If The Social Network, the Facebook flick, taught America one lesson, it was that a successful web site shall not crash. Given Art in America's weekend test-run of the VIP Art Fair, the world's first…
"I'm not a kid anymore, and it's kind of funny to have someone in their fifties running around spray-painting walls-but it's fun, I like to do it," says Kenny Scharf. He's not the only one. After putt…
Francesca Woodman's 1981 suicide at the age of 22 conferred on the artist and her haunting black-and-white self-portraits a cult status that resonates today. And while the tragedy introduced the work…
Speculation about speculation isn't entirely beyond the purview of this 23-year-old Aussie transplant, whose steel-and-glass Prism Gallery on the Sunset Strip has put on some of the more innovative an…
In 1975, the French racecar driver Hervé Poulain commissioned his friend Alexander Calder to paint the BMW 3.0 CSL he was set to drive that year at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. Though Poul…
"For the past 100 years everyone in China was laying down and sleeping," says artist Zhang Huan of the economic circumstances in his country and its more-than-half-century-old communist regime. "Now t…
With "The Americans" Robert Frank solidified his position among photography legends, as evidenced by the success the Met's current exhibition of those 83 poignant, era-defining snapshots. Though decid…
By definition, photojournalism was never meant to translate into a critical gallery setting. With no steady track record to speak of the market for the medium has always been experimental at best. But…