What with everyone trying to show off their best things at once, it's always difficult to "cover a larger art fair - even physically - and Armory 2009 was no exception. I'll have to go back, but ...

Rachel Whiteread Water Tower 1998 translucent resin and painted steel 12' 2" x 9' in diameter [installation view] I don't know how long it's been up there, but while at the Kippenberger press prev...

untitled (two pots) 2009 It was only noon today, but I wanted to capture an image for the blog of the ho-hum big storm of March, 2009. At the same time, not wishing to suit up for the cold and th...

he's not just preaching to the choir Billy's the real thing. Reverend Billy of the Church of Not Shopping is more than a performer and a performance. His, its, their dedicated and vocal supporte...

the artist's life becoming a concept [the wooden cell] documented in time [the photographs taken daily] I was ashamed that I hadn't immediately recognized who Tehching Hsieh was. That is, I ...

real The front page of this morning's real New York Times looks an awful lot like the fake New York Times published by the Yes Men with the help of many others last November 12. My own hard copy ...

Martin Kippenberger Now I'm Going Into the Big Birch Wood, My Pills Will Soon Start Doing Me Good 1990 twenty-nine artificial birch trees (rolls of cardboard and plastic and black-and-white offset ...

This kind of project is one of the things that we have not been seeing often enough at MoMA, and that was the case even before the opening of the new building. Since there's now more space, there'...

Martin Kippenberger Down with inflation 1984 oil and silicone on canvas (2 parts) 63" x 104.75" each Martin Kippenberger Untitled, from the series Fred the Frog 1990 oil on canvas 94.5" x 78.75" ...

front yard open house sales tour Lisa Kirk continues her provocative body of work (what she calls her "series of social occasions"), more recently investigating capitalism, terrorism and polit...