Art in One Form or Another

Jasper Johns Gets His Presidential Medal of Freedom Tonight!

Very well deserved.

Checking Out the World

360 Cities brings you the world through the largest and fastest-growing collection of immersive, panoramic images on the web.

RxArt

I love this. RxArt is a non-profit dedicated to improving otherwise sterile environments through contemporary art, promoting healing, and inspiring hope in patients, families and staff. Check out the project Jeff Koons recently completed. Amazing.

Christo vs. Colorado

Christo is passionate, to say the least. Wall Street Journal covers the great story about the artist famous for draping monuments fighting for what may be his last major project: Suspedning fabric over 42 miles of the Arkansas River.

Hipper Than Banksy?

Labelled as "the hippest street artist since Banksy" by The Sunday Times Style magazine, French photographer JR introduces his latest series of work for a project entitled 'Unframed.' The idea is to take works of other famous photographers and install them somewhere unexpected, giving the images new meaning when discovered by passers by.

Richard Misrach x New Orleans

In honor of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) hosts a weekend of events, all of which are free and open to the public.

American photographer Richard Misrach will premiere an exhibition: UNTITLED [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 2005]. The exhibition will be open to the public starting on Saturday, August 28.

Mad Men Auction

Love everything about this Mad Men auction on ebay!

Kanye's Tweets Turned Art

What if Kanye West's Tweets turned into New Yorker Cartoons. Take a look. Worth the jump.

Guggenheim + YouTube Play

The Guggenheim and YouTube are hosting a biennial of creative video to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video.

The panel of judges is no joke including filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, visual artist Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Takashi Murakami and my fav, Marilyn Minter.

Since YouTube Play was announced on June 14, more than 6,600 videos have been submitted from around the world, attracting more than 2.6 million viewersa. The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2010, at 3 pm EDT/12 pm PDT.

Go See: Lush Life

Lush Life is a multi-part show that takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94 Freemans, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery.

Lush Life adopts its title from Richard Price’s eponymous 2008 novel. The novel is set in the contemporary LES, where a murder investigation exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood; which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past. The deep and varied history of the LES now includes the LES galleries as new community members, and Price’s novel provides a potent vehicle for the consideration of community as voices compete for, ignore and occasionally share the same physical and conceptual space.

The galleries will host concurrent exhibitions with each exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book. There will be a collective opening of all participating galleries on Thursday, July 8th from 6 – 9 pm.