Andrew Kuo: No Lifeguard on Duty

NYC-based artist Andrew Kuo's obsessive charts that analyze musical events have been popping up in the New York Times' music section for the last couple of months. His latest graphic representation that appeared there over the weekend takes on this summer's series of concerts at Brooklyn's McCarren pool and is by far his most nerdy yet. Diagrams represent his own sets of quirky data ("My …

Dumbo: Acts of Vandalism and Stories of Love

Word on the street is that the prolific graffiti artist Dumbo had to leave Milan for Brooklyn at the risk of arrest. The writer's tag dots lower Manhattan, around Canal on West Broadway, but in Milan it seems like he hit every single building. His recent book documents his life as a vandal, including his tags, art, actions and the like, featuring an intro penned …

Three Photographs from Frieze 2007

Three artists playing with light, form, perception and optical illusion. Sean Snyder: A broken piece of raw optical glass from the Carl Zeiss Archive, 2007 Snyder picked this photo of raw optical glass, taken between the First and Second World Wars, from the Carl Zeiss Archive (world famous lens manufacturer) and reprinted it using the various standard processes of the printing industry—as a photographic print, …