Artist Matthew McGuinness Looks Back in AngerGeorge W. Bush may have helicoptered off into the sunset yesterday, but artist Matthew McGuinness reminds that 43’s legacy won’t soon be forgotten.
Artist Liz Renay Ruins It for EverybodyRenay, the late burlesque diva, gangster moll, and John Waters muse, occupied her reflective moments by painting erotic kitsch.
ByAndrew Goldstein
art candy
Artist Samara Golden Redecorates the BatcaveGolden’s diorama-like installation turns a basement nook into what appears to be the cluttered vanity of a media-obsessed eighties teenager.
Artist Richard Aldrich Draws a BlankT.S. Eliot said the bloody-minded playwright John Webster ‘saw the skull beneath the skin,’ and here artist Richard Aldrich demonstrates a similar X-ray aptitude.
Artist Kehinde Wiley Does a Face-PlantKehinde Wiley is in danger of overexposure at this point, but his show of four grand new paintings (and a few oldies) at Deitch closes this Saturday and we think you should see it.
Artist Nagisa Nakauchi Bears AllNagisa Nakauchi’s capped boy squats amid a mosh pit of fluffy bears and flattened dolls, all of them looking terribly bored with the whole situation.
Artist Jeff Sonhouse Saves You the Cost of LSDSonhouse paints prominent and not so prominent African-Americans into colorful, distorted, geometrical compositions that render the subject barely recognizable.
Art Market Officially DepressedLast night, money-printing taxidermist Damien Hirst couldn’t even sell a painting for $3 million.
ByLane Brown
politics
Jeffrey Deitch Wants a Basquiat in the White HouseWhile Obama continues to put together his Cabinet in Washington, Deitch and his art-world colleagues are working to install one of their own at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.