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“I just want to say right now, if you dress like that, girl, honestly, there’s nothing wrong. The only way its wrong is that we’ve been told for centuries, from time to time, that sort of look is negative.”

Budde’s work is exotic, colorful and always fun to look at.

Six questions for Mat Benote, the controversial artist behind the recent clandestine “fine art graffiti” at the Guggenheim Museum.

NYAB catches up with David at Lisa Cooley Fine Art to discuss how his current show’s theme of schadenfreude applies to the blogosphere and the state of the art world in a retrograde economy.

Forget “Pelham 123″—Heist Gallery’s “1(212)” is the summer’s anti-blockbuster art show. From fast cash vestibules to drag racers and talk show hosts, this series lays bare a fantastical, feral, fun and funky celebration of the city.

Michael Cataldi, one of the organizers behind the current pedagogical experiment at SculptureCenter, sits down to go over the syllabus.

WK Interact is an illustrious figure in street art and has been an important influencer of what street art represents in New York City today. His images started popping up in the late ’90s in downtown New York: graphic black and white three-dimensional human figures, all engaged in some kind of extreme motion. The motion […]

NYAB talks with dust, the German/Swiss artist and toy designer whose current exhibition is up at My Plastic Heart on the LES.

NYAB talks with artist Ben Frost about his new show “Plague Landscapes,” which addresses the effects of media and advertising on the individual and society.

Take a look at the artists involved in NYAB’s one year anniversary party and exhibition, including a video interview with Shantell Martin, who will be doing a live drawing performance.