The Guggenheim App

The iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum launches a mobile app to coincide with the opening of artist James Turrell's solo exhibition

Replacing the embarrassingly bulky recorder and headset once required for an audio tour, the Guggenheim’s new mobile app comes flush with insightful information, images and video to enhance past and present art exhibitions held in the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum. While the Guggenheim isn’t the first to use the mobile platform—the MoMA introduced their own app in May of 2012, for example—the launch comes …

Deedee Cheriel: Episodes in the Abundant Oasis

The LA-based artist paints modern fables with dream-like animal figures

by Mya Stark Gods, monsters or something more enigmatically human, the animal-headed figures of artist Deedee Cheriel are set to grace LA’s Merry Karnowsky Gallery this weekend. In the new show, called “Episodes in the Abundant Oasis,” Cheriel’s paintings will share the space with work by Mel Kadel and Femke Hiemstra. In a style reminiscent of rough-hewn outsider or folk art, Cheriel’s work weaves narratives …

Art Basel 2013: Paint, Zippers and Partnering

Groundbreaking work across collage and mixed media at the world-renowned art show

With the history of art stretching back to the earliest stages of humanity, it can be difficult to enter unexplored frontiers. The following artists presented work at this year’s Art Basel that, whether by means of innovation or refreshing clarity, delivered on the festival’s promise of the world’s best work. Mediums were mixed, thoughts were refined and never-before experiences were born. A character study, equal …