By Lori Zimmer
Illustrations by Maria Krasinski
STREET ART
RAMS discusses the history of rappel graffiti, his inspirations, how he got started, what motivates him and the inside story of how he tagged a building near the Egyptian pyramids.
"Keith Haring" opens March 11 as the Brant Foundation continues its exploration of the 1980s downtown explosion that forever changed contemporary art.
Rome-based street art writer Giulia Blocal Riva explores a persistent pattern of corporate entities co-opting street art for marketing purposes without paying artists.
Richard Hambleton: Blood & Glitter, the late street art legend’s latest exhibition, opens at Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive, in the Lower East Side, the late artist’s home neighborhood.
FINE ART
IN advance of a coming Whitney retrospective of the work of Roy Lichtenstein, Gagosian offers a look at one of Lichtenstein’s most persistent ideas: the brushstroke itself.
Elizabeth Peyton's latest solo show, mountains in my heart (the death of Sarpedon), now open at David Zwirner’s Chelsea gallery, 533 W 19th St.
The outsiders come inside this spring at the Outsider Art Fair, the American Folk Art Museum and off-Broadway in “Bughouse.”
$11.5 million for a Jerry Garcia guitar. $14.5 million for a Stratocaster. And a very old question: what makes anything worth anything at all?
Postcard Superhero and Other Contemplations, by Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, now open at Ki Smith Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Raphael: Sublime Poetry, opening at The Met on March 29, brings together more than 200 works in the first major U.S is a reminder that what later generations took as doctrine began as disruption.