American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Please Turn To The Left

This Wednesday Jose Picayo is having a gallery opening at the Robin Rice Gallery at 325 West 11th St from 5:30pm until 8:30pm. I recommend you to all stop through and check out his work. Mug Shots is a set of 8″x10″ Polaroids (an AmericanMadness format favorite) he shot each of his subjects and [...]

Art Monday

This makes the third week in a row we have done our art post. Normally we send you to some images of statues or paintings or photos. This week, first up we have something a little different.
We start with Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps. The 21 Steps is the first in a project by six [...]

Art Monday

As I go back through what I have marked up the past week to post here, things that have caught my eye and such, it is looking like I will have a weekly post of art that has caught my eye from the previous week. We’ll see if I can turn this into a regular, [...]

Art Wednesday

I keep coming across artists’ websites. Some of them are barely worth the time spent clicking through of them, others have some interesting work and some are just plain great.
Here for you are some of the artists I have come across this week who are work taking a look at:
First up we have Boogie. A [...]

Graffiti vs. ‘Street Art’

Peter Vallone Jr. is a huge… Let’s just simply say he is a big name in the ‘war’ against graffiti. In a recent Colbert Report segment Stephen Colbert took aim at Vallone. Apparently the Colbert Report used him because they “wanted to speak to they person most despised by the graffiti community.” The video is [...]

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