Barry Blinderman News Today

Tomorrow a href= http://www.phillips.com target= _blank PhillipsX /a is opening a selling exhibition focusing on the 1980s and 1990s East Village

Andy Warhol never actually met Queen Elizabeth II; however, his portrait of the monarch has become one of the most recognisable of all

Andy Warhol never actually met Queen Elizabeth II; however, his portrait of the monarch has become one of the most recognisable of all

Andy Warhol never actually met Queen Elizabeth II; however, his portrait of the monarch has become one of the most recognisable of all

Andy Warhol never actually met Queen Elizabeth II; however, his portrait of the monarch has become one of the most recognisable of all

He immersed himself in the wild New York scene of Warhol and CBGB, then emerged in the ’80s as a respected painter.

Listen to Heather McIlvaine-Newsads commentary Storytelling is a cultural universal.  All cultures and peoples tell stories.  Stories are everywhere, influencing us every moment of our lives, although we rarely notice them. When we look at art, the story it tells is about a particular era.  Mention the AIDS crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s and my mind is immediately filled with images from the late artist Keith Haring.  According to author Barry Blinderman,  much of Haring’s work...

"When I contracted AIDS, I contracted a diseased society as well," is the opening quote from the new searing documentary Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker, playing at the Roxie Theater and to be released May 18 on DVD by Kino Lorber. This remark epitomizes Wojnarowicz as the quintessential outsider, a vantage point that allowed him to be a scathing iconoclast as artist, cultural critic, writer, musician, photographer, and filmmaker. Often grouped together with his queer contemporaries Rober...