Tonight at the New Museum, New York-based photographer Anna Bauer unveils her new book, Anna Bauer Backstage (Angelika). The book presents a compilation of Bauer's most intimate images of industry insiders and backstage collaborators, taken behind the runway over the past four years. They run from a stately portrait of Karl Lagerfeld in 2007 to a stocking-encased Raquel Zimmermann.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/08/12

Fittingly for the iconoclastic George Condo, the artist says the subject that brought about his first mature painting was the Madonna.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/26/11

Included as part of "The Last Newspaper," the New Museum's new survey of communication under assault by technology, artist Nate Lowman is making a new painting each day.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/13/10

Scott Treleaven doubles up on his homage to Brion Gysin.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/06/10

What is one to do at an art dinner when the dress code is "anything but black?"  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/23/10

You may not have realized it, but you are knee-deep in Gala Season, the most important time in the world for competitive art collectors, lovers of charity, and the inter/under-paid labor that ships gowns to women all over New York City.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/15/10

One has to wade through a lot of Wikipedia's rhetoric and media-savvy lingo to get at the ideology behind the encyclopedia.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/13/10

Richard Phillips’s been accused of bringing sexy back to painting, drawing on porn as much as politics. He’s trying to destabilize our way of seeing—he can’t help it if you’re turned on in the process.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/27/09