Artist Kehinde Wiley Does a Face-Plant Kehinde 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 Nathalie Djurberg Makes Table-Dancing Classy In Nathalie Djurberg’s latest animation, a gangly ballerina prances about a table set for a tea party.
Che ’s Franka Potente on Working With Benicio, Peeing in the JunglePotente spoke with Vulture about working with Soderbergh and her upcoming book on fitness for slackers.
Photographer Jesse Rieser Shows a Flexible Three-Bedroom Jesse Rieser’s luminous, hyper-staged photograph seems to be a warning to aspiring party planners.
Artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton Send Their Condolences At Art Basel Miami this year, Powhida and Dalton whittled up a few dirt-cheap six-piece box sets of Leunig-like condolence cards.
Artist Nagisa Nakauchi Bears All Nagisa 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 Ann Lislegaard Makes Sci-fi Less Boring Lislegaard has animated science-fiction novels to make them more sparkly than the average, garden-variety sci-fi experience.
Photographer Martin Klimas Will Send You Dead Flowers Every Morning Martin Klimas has a series of stunning images at Foley Gallery (through January 17) that might have been shot by housewives after watching ‘Quantum of Solace.’
Artist Ves Pitt’s Cross-dressing Isn’t Fooling Anyone There’s something incredibly compelling about a glitter mustache.
Artist Elizabeth Peyton Paints Self, Turns Vacation Into Tax Write-off Elizabeth Peyton presents a peaceful, if slightly somber, picture of herself, her dog, her book, her flip-flops, and her pool.
Photographer Nikki S. Lee’s Triple Exposure Indeed these are photographs of sketches Lee commissioned from street portraitists around the world.
Artist Kate Gilmore Breaks Down the Fifth Wall The artist, dressed in a black wrap dress and yellow spiked heels, punches and kicks her way through five layers of drywall.
Artist Rafael Perez Will Get His Pants Back From That Bird Here, a pantless woman inspects her kinda dainty rifle with care.
Art Collective Yemenwed Visits Mars Yemenwed has whittled down a millennium of culture into a short video that is quite blissful to watch.
Photographer Cindy Sherman Does Her Best Kirsten Dunst For the 1990-era series, Sherman transformed into famous forlorn contessas. Here, she channels a reclining Marie Antoinette.
Artist Holly Andres Apparently the Victim of ‘Milk’ Viral Marketing Holly Andres might be the slightly crazy girl who always shows up to your stoop sale in search of the gaudiest objects you can’t believe anyone would pay for.
Artist Jeff Sonhouse Saves You the Cost of LSD Sonhouse paints prominent and not so prominent African-Americans into colorful, distorted, geometrical compositions that render the subject barely recognizable.
Artist Bogdan Rata Injured in Horrific Teleportation Accident Rata’s foot-slash-hand (fand? hoot?) looks like something out of the trailer for J.J. Abram’s ‘Star Trek.’
Photographer Mickey Smith Goes to the Library Smith’s polished photographs pay homage to the days when hanging at the library was cool.
Artist Casey Ruble Will Blow Your Little Mind Ruble’s gouache works look like hallucinogenic versions of those scratch-n-sniff children’s books.
Artist Luigi Benedicenti Orders a Suggestive Dessert Benedicenti’s paintings are of delicious treats like cream-filled profiteroles, pears dripping in caramel, and the sunniest of sunny-side up breakfast eggs.
Artist Tessa Farmer Kills Tinkerbell Tessa Farmer’s fairies are made of dead insects and live on twisted plant roots and animal carcasses.
Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida Michael Buhler-Rose seems to have stumbled upon an outpost of Bollywood extras waiting for their big moment.
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Personality Plus Comedian Chris Lilley is a big star down under. Up here, HBO is hoping he translates.
Artist Jonathan Horowitz Is Just As Excited As You Are Horowitz has cobbled together a very appropriate wall decoration for Obama’s new office.
Artist Jonathan Horowitz Does Some Last-Minute Electioneering For those still undecided, Jonathan Horowitz has some voting advice.
Photographer Catherine Opie Is Saving Up for That Zoom Lens Opie is best known as a provocateur, but she also has a talent for subtlety.
Artist Zhang Peng Takes a Bloodbath Don’t you sort of wish you could be her for Halloween?
Beck Slays World’s Biggest Clown; Photographer Autumn De Wilde Is There When Beck holds the weight of the world in his hands, it looks like this: glowing, red, and in the shape of an egg.
Artist Mary Jo Vath Is Saving That One for Later This darling, somewhat mournful scene is like a mini-ballet.
Artist Swoon Has Seen the Needle and the Damage Done Not sure what this enchanting woman is sewing — has her blouse unraveled, or is she literally sewing herself?
Photographer Diana McClure Enforces Strict ‘No Shoes in the House’ Policy McClure seems to be imagining the scene in Sarah Palin’s domestic foyer on November 5, when the Republican candidate for veep can finally kick off her heels.
Artist Philemona Williamson Is, Like, Whatever Philemona Williamson is taking up Judy Blume’s cause: painting restive teenagers caught somewhere between sadness and surliness.
Photographer Florian Bohm’s Work Is Totally Pedestrian Florian Bohm, German photographer that he is, imposes order on hectic city life.
Photographer Syreeta McFadden Captures the Calm Before the Shark Attack McFadden might have set out to create a nostalgic picture of a swimming hole on a summer’s day, but the scene is loaded with menace.
Anne Rice on Her New Memoir, Finding God, and Ditching Vampires Rice spoke with Vulture about Hollywood, the election, and not watching ‘True Blood.’
Artist Sloane Tanen Explains Her Work Better Than This Headline Ever Could Sloane Tanen is an author and artist working in the capricious mode that has propelled Kay Thompson, Josh Schwartz, and Tina Fey to cult status: adolescent angst for adults.
Artist Joshua Lutz Visits History’s Most Exhilarating Ren Faire Joshua Lutz’s ever-so-slightly-askew photographs at ClampArt through October 18 document ten years in the meadowlands.
Melanie Vote Paints Girls With Some Edge The artist paints girlie-girls as lusty badasses.
Lauren Gohara Paints a Feather We Can Believe In The artist will be auctioning off her dreamy work at an Obama fundraiser.
Larissa Bates Has an Eye for Boys Wrestling and Men in Bear Suits Did we mention that those men in bear suits are dancing? It’s mesmerizing.
Sculptor Hiroshi Shafer Instantly Becomes Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Artist Hiroshi Shafer has a show of strange, lewd, rubbery, resin-y works reminiscent of Murakami’s pop figures.
Artist Alessandra Sanguinetti Grounds Children Alessandra Sanguinetti’s playful scenes have both a sense of impending glee and one of imminent doom.
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