Get ready, True Believers! Marvel Comics is bringing the heat this Pride Month with Marvel United: A Pride Special #1, an action-packed one-shot that’s bursting with heroic heart, thrilling showdowns, and a powerful message of love and unity.
For the fifth year in a row, Marvel is rolling out the rainbow carpet, spotlighting LGBTQIA+ creators and characters in a spectacular anthology that assembles legendary heroes — including some of your Avengers and X-Men faves — against the forces of hate and fear. And if that’s not enough to fill your Marvel-ous Pride cup, a brand-new series of Pride Month Variant Covers arriving in June will be revealed soon! Continue reading Marvel Heroes Unite in an Epic Pride Celebration!→
F.U. MONEY By Wayne White (All Photos and Video By Gail)
Joshua Liner Gallery is currently hosting its second major solo exhibition of work from Los Angeles based artist Wayne White, entitled I’m Having a Dialogue With The Universe, And You’re Just Sitting There. This exhibition is White’s most ambitious project to date with the Gallery, featuring all aspects of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice: including kinetic sculptures, murals, work on paper, a wallpaper installation, and White’s signature Word Paintings on vintage offset lithographs.
Aelita Andre Admires her Work at the Agora Gallery (All Photos By Gail)
It was almost exactly one year ago that The Worley Gig was first introduced to the engaging painting style of art prodigy Aelita Andre via her 2011 solo exhibit, Prodigy of Color. Aelita, now five years old, has a new show at Agora Gallery and we were on hand last night for the opening reception of the current Andre collection called Secret Universe. Continue reading Secret Universe by Aelita Andre at NYC’s Agora Gallery→
Above Image Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum. All Additional Photos By Gail
Spring has sprung, and the cherry blossoms are in serious bloom out front of the Brooklyn Museum, where from now until July 8th you can see an exciting retrospective on the early career of the late Keith Haring. Here in downtown NYC, especially, Haring’s humorous yet socially provocative, instantly recognizable pop art images are enduring and almost ubiquitous even 22 years after his death. I’ve always been attracted to Keith’s clever line drawings and the sense of humor inherent in his work, but it wasn’t until I watched Christina Clausen’s 2008 documentary The Universe of Keith Haring (rent it on Netflix) that I realized what a true visionary and genius he was. It seems that the great ones always leave us too soon. Continue reading Must See Art – Keith Haring: 1978–1982 at The Brooklyn Museum→
NYC’s Boo-Hooray Gallery announces the first retrospective gallery exhibition by subversive toy-making geniuses, SUCKADELIC. Intentionally confusing, misleading, disappointing and really funny, SUCKADELIC’s limited edition parodies of action figures reverberate with a vicious wit and are oddly eyeball-pleasing in the manner of all kinds of toothsome 20th/21st century collage and montage art. The toys and their aggressively situationist piss-take packaging comment on pop culture commodification and the consumer habits of compulsively shopping kidults: The very process that made KAWS, Takashi Murakami and Michael Lau art-stars on the Art Basel Miami/Armory Show/Venice Biennale tip.
