[ collete x Asics collaboration from earlier in the year ]
Gap is following up their interesting and successful Artist series collaboration with another interesting partnership. Gap will be working with french boutique collete to open up a one month pop up store in Midtown Manhattan.
The collete x Gap popup store opens on September 6th, […]

[via Frauleinblue]
Swoon’s latest project, a fleet of boats traveling down the Hudson will be making a stop at Riverside Park Pier I (70th St & Hudson River) tonight for a homecoming performance at 8pm. Their final destination will be Deitch Studios in Long Island City on Sunday, September 7th for an opening reception.
More on […]

[photo by Seze Devres]
Local experimental photographers Seze Devres and Julian Sherida-McKenna will be showing their work this Friday, August 1st from 8pm to midnight at the home of art patron and filmmaker Charles Merritt, located at 240 Richardson Street in Brooklyn. You may know Seze already as the hostess and resident photographer of two of […]

[Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five by Kehinde Wiley, 2005]
Kehinde Wiley, one of our favorite painters, will be showing some pieces at The Studio Museum in Harlem through October 26, 2008.
From The Studio Museum Harlem’s website:
Kehinde Wiley is known for his stylized paintings of young, urban African-American men in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and […]

Bunny Attack
Tod Seelie aka Sucka Pants aka One of Our Favorite Local Photographers is opening his first ever solo show at Cinders Gallery on Thursday. Opening reception is 7-10PM and the show entitled Slowdancing to Slayer will be on display until August 9th.
Tons of other stuff going on Thursday night as well including a […]

Wooster reminded us we never mentioned Matthew Rodriguez’s show “Scruffy Kitty” at Rare Gallery. You’ve probably seen Matthew’s frowny faces on buildings, fire hydrants and garbage cans in your neighborhood.
In his solo debut at RARE, Austin, Texas-based artist Matthew Rodriguez presents new collages, paintings, objects, and photographs that combine the sweetness of a grade-schooler’s […]

Dinner and a movie is dated. If you want to show your girl who wears the way-too-tight pants in the house a good time, take her to EyeWash Friday night, March 7th.
Now in it’s fifth year; EyeWash has a been the premiere venue for video artists in New York. It’s hosted by MonkeyTown, and […]

The MoMA is opening up a new exhibit: Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today. The exhibition features work from forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.
There are several events running throughout the showing, including a sold out DFA party (we hate you!), panel discussions, and […]

Beer Bong by Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Aw, horse apples! Our friend Maxwell Williams curated a group show opening tonight at Cinders Gallery featuring small, intimate pieces by David Shrigley, PFFR (dudes behind Wonder Showzen) and a whole bunch of others. Afterparty at Soundfix! Full artist list and afterparty details below!

It’s always easy to spot a piece by WK Interact. Unique, monochrome, and full of swooshing motion. WK launches his solo show in Williamsburg this Friday night. Stop by after the beirgarten.
If you’re really jonesing for a street fix, Blek le Rat, Blu, Bo130, D*Face, Microbo and Space Invader are showing at the Jonathan […]

The New York Times has posted an awesome and hilarious piece of work by artist Andrew Kuo. Kuo has created an intricate series of graphs and charts that visualize his observations from this past summer’s shows at Williamsburg’s favorite summer haunt, McCarren Pool.
[via Cool Hunting]

OFFF is this weekend and the long tag line is a verbose way of saying Designer/Programmers/Musicians/Technologist will be showing off their skills to others who do the same thing. For those of you familiar with the BD4D style show-and-tell conferences this one is for the books. Three days of talks from some of the most […]

“Then it hit me. I’m not going to be famous. I won’t get to be a rock star. I am going to be stuck on the payroll doing work that doesn’t interest me for a very long time.”
[via Free Williamsburg, original post from And I Am Not Lying]

Giant Robot NY Presents:
Snack Isle - Small Works of Art by Five Dozen Artists
Opening Reception: September 15 from 630-10pm
Giant Robot Gallery, 437 East 9th Street, New York, NY 10009

Cut and Paste NYC
“Watch as eight designers go head to head, Wacom to Wacom. For the crown, they’ll have to spin an idea with their own style […]

1. GZA & Jamie Lidell @ McCarren Pool Cancelled
2. Chemical Brothers & Ladytron @ McCarren Pool
3. Cut & Paste Design Competition
4. Bat for Lashes @ Bowery
5. Eyewash @ Monkey Town
6. Dan deacon & Best Fwends @ The Yard
7. Man Man @ Webster
8. A Place to Bury Strangers @ Mercury Lounge
9. Underworld @ Central Park
10. […]

Art season kicks into full swing this week with gallery openings all over the city. Last night in Chelsea was bananas and Williamsburg will also be kicking off a number of new shows this weekend.
Before heading over to Studio B for the Fluokids Fashion Week Jump Off, here’s some openings for tonight:

Jack the Pelican […]

Decompress. ObsceneNYC is back from the playa, dust everywhere, reaching for the first clean shirt in two weeks. This year’s Burning Man was eventful to say the least. The “largest sandstorm in 3 years,” double rainbows, and two mans burnt to the ground. New York represented big with camps Disorient and Astor Playa.

There’s nothing quite […]

Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine will be producing the 3rd annual Art Parade this upcoming Saturday, September 8th. The parade starts at Houston and West Broadway, and continues down West Broadway ending at Grand St. Last year’s parade featured dozens of interesting and freakish floats. We’ve included a couple of our favorites […]

There’s lots of complaints about the Siren Festival each year (hot, crowded, poor sound, horse poop, etc.) Here’s a few options for those avoiding Coney Island this weekend:
Matthew Porter & Carlos Macia gallery openings at Jack the Pelican Presents
Grab a PBR at one of our favorite spaces in Williamsburg.
Shepard Fairey at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Saturday […]

Summer is here and with it come all of those summer parties and shows that keep us outside. Grabs your shades, some of the best people watching in the world is in your backyard.

P.S.1, the MoMA’s Long Island City satellite, had some of the best Saturday afternoons of last summer. I missed every one of […]