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1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Anthony Haden-Guest

By ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST May 24, 2025I’ve always admired Joe Coleman’s beady-eyed hyperrealist paintings, which can take him years to do and radiate the feral energy which made him Charles Manson’s favorite artist. He also performs. In a Downtown theater space, the Hotel Amazon, in the 1980s I saw him stride onstage, and bite the heads off several mice. He then applied a lighter to whatever was bulking-up his chest and blew himself up.

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | John Drury

By JOHN DRURY May 26, 2025 Downtown was once peppered with these places – these not-for-profits, in addition ABC No Rio – Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo’s great EXIT ART (1982-2012; bringing many now established makers to light) and the decade long run of the Thread Waxing Space (1991-2001), to name but a few; venues generally begun by artists, for artists, serving first, an unrestricted creativity; that not merely catering to desperate sales and the deep pockets of collectors, as granted...

1 week ago | whitehotmagazine.com | J. Scott Orr |Scott Orr

By J. SCOTT ORR May 27, 2025Vincent Valdez, the 48-year-old Chicano artist whose canvases read like visual testimony from America's shadow zones, is stepping up at precisely the moment when artists across the nation are ducking for cover. As culture wars rage and dark powers threaten artistic freedom, Valdez offers monumental paintings that refuse to let America forget its most uncomfortable truths.

2 weeks ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Anthony Haden-Guest

By ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST May 24, 2025I’ve always admired Joe Coleman’s beady-eyed hyperrealist paintings, which can take him years to do and radiate the feral energy which made him Charles Manson’s favorite artist. He also performs. In a Downtown theater space, the Hotel Amazon, in the 1980s I saw him stride onstage, and bite the heads off several mice. He then applied a lighter to whatever was bulking-up his chest and blew himself up.

2 weeks ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

By ANNA MIKAELA EKSTRAND May 24, 2025As I connect with Soo Young Choi over the phone, I hear a siren on her end, and one on my end—”where are you right now?” I cut her off mid-introduction. “In Midtown,” she responds. I tell her I am in the Lower East Side. We laugh, both having thought for a split second that we might be on the same block. Such is the power of our senses, having the potential to create a shared experience across geographic boundaries.