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Now living in Los Angeles, O'Shea has not entirely given up the less remunerative struggles of being an editor. Post-Juxtapoz, O'Shea has just signed on as editor of Spread ArtCulture, a new quarterly art-and-design magazine from New York, and is lining up his myriad allies to start an art magazine of his own, in which all those careers he's launched in the last decade will be rubbing shoulders with their "official" art-world counterparts. [+/-] more profile.. [+] Japanese profile.. |
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UK///PURE HYPE///”BANKSY vs WARHOL”…
“Wow, has it really come to this—already?” That was the question on our minds here at ST as the farce that is “Banksy vs Warhol” (a third-party show unsanctioned by either artist’s camp) opened at THE HOSPITAL gallery in London last Friday. The collection of privately owned works by the two Pop artists (including a London street piece by Banksy hijacked by a fan with a blowtorch) served to compare and somehow correlate the generationally removed pair as their influence on modern culture reaches near-ubiquity in the public consciousness. Long the leader of smart streetwise rebellion, Banksy—mainly at the hands of his fans and third party dealers and auction houses—is fast approaching the point of complete oversaturation (he hit “fad” status ages ago) and is probably no more than a step away from becoming tourist art (see below). The show’s boring, mostly late-period Warhols of the (more…) |
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