Laurie Rosenwald: And to Name but Just a Few

Multifaceted New York-based designer Laurie Rosenwald is one of my favorites—her illustrations and graphic design has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times and almost everywhere else. She teaches a great workshop on creativity called “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose†(try to take it if you can) and her first book New York Notebook has a fun local perspective. She both wrote …

Zhang Huan: Chinese Performance Art

One of the earliest and most influential icons of contemporary Chinese art, Zhang Huan, is best known for his performance piece in which he covered himself with honey and sat naked in front of a fetid public restroom outside of Beijing until he was completely covered in flies. Another popular work is his muscle suit made of meat—or muscle depending on how you look at …

Museum of the Moving Image: Warhol’s World

The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, often neglected in the NYC museum circuit, is making a major star power push with the upcoming can't-miss retrospective of Andy Warhol's films. Warhol's World, a film series showing 40 of his works behind the camera, opens this Saturday, 20 October and runs through 11 November 2007. Some of the films are new prints and the run …