Two of our all-time favorite New Yorkers and their best known piece of political performance art: the 4oth anniversary of…
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Luv from NYC to Rhode Island, and Back
I’m a beach boy. I grew up near the clean, wide, sandy shores of Lake Michigan, and out here on…
How Chuck Close Redefined His Art and Came Back Stronger
Chuck Close painted like no one else ever quite had. His gigantic, hyper-realist portraits (based on extreme close-ups he’d taken…
Is it Art or Just a Swipe?
The graffiti-artist-turned-icon-maker Shepard Fairey has been under scrutiny the past several weeks when it was discovered that the photo upon…
Go On… Shake Hands With a Childhood Idol.
This week I visited the studio of one of my all-time favorite cartoonists, Al Jaffee. He’s the fellow who did…
Tebeau’s Art Opening on the Lower East Side (press release)
March 9, 2009 Artist John Tebeau’s show opens March 24 at Verlaine in Manhattan’s Lower East Side Tebeau will announce…
We Must REALLY Love Games
What gives? All of a sudden this print is the most popular thing I’ve done: Is it because with the…
New Orleans Jazz Fest or Bust (Seven Paintings and Two for Free: Nina Simone, David Byrne)
The first portrait from this contest has been finished and delivered! Thank you, Mark Brush for the inspiration. Next up:…
Barter in the Mountains.
When people visit New York City, they often hit a point of exhaustion in about three days and wonder “how…
Twarn’t a Night Fit fer Man Nor Beast….
The sky was angry that night, my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.…