Pretty Babies
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
Photographer Susan Anderson captures the bizarre glamour and excess of child beauty pageants in her new exhibition and book, High Glitz. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Dreaming of Gigi
Rachel Wolff is a New York-based writer and editor who has covered art for New York, ARTnews, and Manhattan.
Artist Josh Gosfield invents the glamorous ‘60s French pop star Gigi Gaston and creates the definitive celebration of her life and career. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
The Art of Friendship
The star-studded auction of the Merce Cunningham-John Cage collection reveals a little-known chapter in art history—the pair’s relationship with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Will Cotton's Candy-Coated Dreams
Ana Finel Honigman is a New York-born and Berlin-based art and fashion critic, curator and PhD candidate at Oxford University.
The New York artist will transform his sumptuous paintings of eroticized sweets and desserts into a real-life bakery this month. VIEW OUR GALLERY of his confectionery fantasies.
Man Ray Revealed
Philip Gefter writes about photography for The Daily Beast. He previously wrote about the subject for The New York Times. His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was recently published by Aperture. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary on Bill Cunningham of the Times, and working on a biography of Sam Wagstaff.
Was one of Dada's fathers really such a mystery or did he show his true self in his art? Philip Gefter on an enlightening new exhibit. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Has Tracey Emin Gone Soft?
Rachel Wolff is a New York-based writer and editor who has covered art for New York, ARTnews, and Manhattan.
Britain’s onetime bad girl is mellowing with age. On the eve of a bold new show, she talks to Rachel Wolff about making peace with critics, and her legendary sex drive. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Lady Gaga and the Bolshoi?
Anthony Haden-Guest is the news editor of Charles Saatchi’s online magazine.
For MOCA’s 30th anniversary gala, pop’s enigmatic princess will perform with the acclaimed ballet. Anthony Haden-Guest talks to the mad genius behind it, artist Francesco Vezzoli.
William Blake's Heavenly Imagination
Chloe Malle writes for The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, WoWoWoW and Tadias Magazine. She lives in New York City.
A dazzling exhibition at the Morgan Library celebrates the Romantic painter and poet’s mystical visions and mad obsessions. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Bruce Davidson's True Grit
Philip Gefter writes about photography for The Daily Beast. He previously wrote about the subject for The New York Times. His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was recently published by Aperture. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary on Bill Cunningham of the Times, and working on a biography of Sam Wagstaff.
From photographs of a Brooklyn gang to civil-rights workers in the South, a powerful new retrospective celebrates 50 years of a groundbreaking social documentarian. VIEW OUR GALLERY
The King of California Cool
Olivia Cole writes for the Spectator and the London Evening Standard. An award-winning poet, her first collection, Restricted View, will be published this fall.
Pop Art master Edward Ruscha has never been hotter, with an astonishing 50-year retrospective in London and exhibit interpreting Kerouac’s On the Road. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Marilyn Minter's Dirty World
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Madonna and Jay-Z collect the artist’s erotic photographs, celebrating feminine power. VIEW OUR NSFW GALLERY of her new show of Pamela Anderson nudes.
An '80s Art Flashback
Philip Gefter writes about photography for The Daily Beast. He previously wrote about the subject for The New York Times. His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was recently published by Aperture. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary on Bill Cunningham of the Times, and working on a biography of Sam Wagstaff.
A new exhibition celebrates Neil Winokur’s early portraits of his little known art world friends—including Cindy Sherman, David Byrne, Kiki Smith, and Nan Goldin. VIEW OUR GALLERY
The Art of the Wall
Ana Finel Honigman is a New York-born and Berlin-based art and fashion critic, curator and PhD candidate at Oxford University.
From banned photography to a powerful documentary to street performances, Berlin’s artistic community celebrates communism’s fall. VIEW OUR GALLERY
The Accidental Artist
Rachel Wolff is a New York-based writer and editor who has covered art for New York, ARTnews, and Manhattan.
James Castle, who painted with soot and spit and found objects, gets a major retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. VIEW OUR GALLERY of an Outsider Art star.
Eloise at 55
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Illustrator Hilary Knight is being honored by the New York Public Library tonight. He speaks to Rachel Syme about Kay Thompson, the lost Eloise book, and her new movie. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Photography that Provokes
Philip Gefter writes about photography for The Daily Beast. He previously wrote about the subject for The New York Times. His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was recently published by Aperture. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary on Bill Cunningham of the Times, and working on a biography of Sam Wagstaff.
A haunting new exhibition at SFMOMA surveys the effects of the atomic age on a generation of daring Japanese photographers. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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