Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Couch For a Long Time, 2009 Sleet spattered over VIPs queuing outside for the opening of the Whitney Biennial on February 23rd. We suffered in silence, in darkness, our conversations drowned by the monastic groaning of an outdoor installation that cast an eerie blue hue. Dumpling trucks prowled and rogue cameramen interviewed [...]

The Whitney Biennial is something of a coming-out party for mostly young and mostly unknown contemporary artists working in America. To announce the much-anticipated list of artists selected for this year’s show, which opens in New York on February 25th, the two curators, Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, have supplemented the traditional press release with [...]

And of course, on the left, my (real life, very red) muse: Thanks to Models.com and V Magazine for the images

A BANDIT ON THE HIGH LINE The High Line park, recently converted from an elevated train track that snaked through the gallery district on Manhattan’s west side, is one of New York City’s most constrained public places. Designed to preserve the native flora and rusted chic of industrial-age New York, it is rare among city [...]

Right up until his recent death, Dash Snow’s very existence appeared to represent a lot of what’s wrong with contemporary art in New York City today. That was precisely his point. Depravity was Snow’s portal into a bohemian fantasy of downtown Manhattan life…[LINK]