‘Night Scented Stock‘, a surreal, three-story, five-room show curated by Todd Levin featuring haunting offerings from 67 artists ranging from Matthew Barney to Hans Bellmer, showed Wednesday at Marianne Boesky Gallery. The title draws its name from a nocturnal flower. Once night falls, the Night Scented Stock emits an intoxicating aroma that attracts an array… Read more »
Our good friend Dominik Lejman dropped by the RxArt office to say hello and catches us up on his new amazing projects. Mr. Lejman has contributed his talents to RxArt in the past with a great art installation in the NYU Child Study Center. Dominik enriches traditional forms with contemporary visual technology creating a new… Read more »
With NY Fashion Week upon us, RxArt’s friend and supporter Ryan McGinley was asked to photograph Club Monaco’s Spring 2011 Collection. Take a look at the behind-the-scenes looks in Club Monaco’s Spring 2011 Campaign Shoot. Lauren Hutton for Club Monaco by Ryan McGinley
RxArt Board Member Cynthia Rowley has many talents that go beyond the fashion runway. Not only does she have a great eye for art but also produces some great art of her own. Recently, Cynthia has contributed to LittleCollector.com ~ a contemporary art gallery for kids offering limited-edition works. However, it’s a great website for… Read more »
Our project list continues to grow here at RxArt and we are excited about an upcoming project with artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. We are working together with Trenton Doyle Hancock to transform an entryway to the Pediatric Imaging suite at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, to a place that will provide hope and inspiration… Read more »
Happy Chinese New Year!!! Today marks the start of the new Chinese lunar year. This year is the Year of the Rabbit. If you were born in 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987 or 1999, also all rabbit years, this is your year!!! So if you remember those paper place mats from your favorite… Read more »
Outtakes from the RxArt 10th Anniversary Catalog cover design files Photo credit: James Nord
As most of you know, the holiday season is right around the corner. So when your frantically writing down your X-Mas wish list don’t forget about our coloring book, Between the Lines, Volume 2. InStyle Magazine has graciously listed our coloring book in this season’s InStyle 2010 Gift Guide. So be sure to grab one!… Read more »
In a word, last night’s bash in honor of our 10th birthday was epic—relive the magic through these photos! Our event designers and producers, Cait&Jules, transformed the Art Directors Club into a sparkling oasis that glowed with celebratory hues of red and gold while Callahan Catering served bite-sized edible works of art (with mini one-shot… Read more »
Left-coasters, we know you have the year-round sun and the laid-back vibe, but do you have our coloring book? Grab one now at The Standard Hotel in LA! photo by Bill Powers
Come join the RxArt gang tonight at Half Gallery! DAVID ARMSTRONG Mad About the Boy November 10—November 29, 2010 Opening reception: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 6-8 p.m. purple-diary: David Armstrong David Armstrong installing his show, Mad About the Boy, opening the 10th November at Half Gallery, New York. Photo Bill Powers (Source: purple-diary) from purple-diary
Brian Donnelly, better known by his loyal fanbase as KAWS, has been a longtime RxArt friend and supporter (his Between the Lines coloring book page is almost always the one that kids and adults fight over for Crayola rights). Last night, we had the extreme pleasure of stopping by his new studio to see firsthand… Read more »
Presenting the official uniform of Team RxArt (in a vintage-y soft, throwback style that will soon replace that 1984 Van Halen concert tee as your new fave). Join the movement and sport your own—they’ll be available at our NY Art Book Fair booth! Can’t make it to Long Island City next weekend? We’ll be adding… Read more »
Our 10th Anniversary auction preview page is up and running. Let the (browser) window shopping begin!
Frank Gehry takes a cue from RxArt with his boundary-pushing design for The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, an Alzheimer’s center in Las Vegas that’s one of the nation’s leading institutions for research on degenerative brain diseases. In true Gehry form, the building’s curvatures create a space that’s more “Fantasia” than “facility.”… Read more »
Next up in our series of Works You Should Bid On for the Sake of Brighter Hospitals: David Levinthal Untitled from the series Space (07_PC_S_10) Pigment print, 2009 22×17 inches 1/10 We can totally see this in a kid’s playroom—it’s never too early to become a collector!
As if planning a 10th Anniversary gala isn’t enough for a team of only four, RxArt has also decided to join over 200 artists, booksellers, organizations and publishers from twenty different countries at the NY Art Book Fair this year! Held at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, the Fair continues to be the premier… Read more »
We’re in the process of putting together a retrospective catalog of our hospital installations for the big event, and to make it a surefire bookshelf and/or coffee table staple, we’ve commissioned none other than James Nord as our photographer. Take a break from that important, time-sensitive project you’re currently working on and visit his blog… Read more »
If you haven’t seen Yoshitomo Nara’s show at the Asia Society, we highly recommend that you put it at the top of your to-do list. And right underneath should be the task of attending our 10th Anniversary Party to see/(bid on?) his phenomenal donated piece. It’s a gem if we ever saw one, and we… Read more »
While the rain and gloom persists, RxArt has reason to keep our heads high! Last week, we hosted a breakfast with old friends, new faces, and artist Kate Shepherd, whose fabulous works are displayed in the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at Roosevelt Hospital. Guests came together to discuss our mission and learn about future projects while… Read more »
RxArt is thrilled to announce that we’ll be featured on NPR’s program “All Things Considered” today at 4:00 pm EST. Put on your listening ears and gather round the computer where you can tune in on WNYC. If you happen to miss the live show, fear not! NPR’s segments can be found on their website and… Read more »
With the recent heat wave in NYC, it seems as though the end of summer is far from “just around the corner.” But when temperatures finally begin to drop in the city, RxArt will start to heat up as we prepare for our 10th Anniversary Gala—aptly named the RxArt Party—this fall. 2010 is an extra… Read more »
RxArt continues to touch the lives of patients and hospital staff far and wide, and we couldn’t be more excited to share with you our latest adventure deep in the heart of Texas! With the help of advisory board member Mollie Maxwell Myers and her husband Bob, RxArt was able to install another stunning set… Read more »
This past Saturday, the RxArt team headed over to the Gavin Brown’s Enterprise for Rob Pruitt’s opening reception, and the pieces Pruitt unveiled were nothing short of incredible. His newest body of work attracted a packed house—we especially gravitated towards his vivid self portraits and humanized stacks of cardboard (thanks to XXL googly eyes). The… Read more »
Do you know that guy who does Spike Jonze’s title sequences for his films? You know, that artist who was in that documentary Beautiful Losers? We’re talking about the guy who just had a show at the Seattle Art Museum by the name of in The Mind. “That guy” is none other than Geoff McFetridge… Read more »
RxArt is thrilled to announce that a few dear artist friends of ours will be debuting new works this weekend! Dan Colen and Rob Pruitt open tonight and tomorrow respectively, and judging by Dan’s major NY Times feature article this morning and Rob’s humorous take on the Art Forum cover, the shows will undoubtedly draw… Read more »
The RxArt Team was invited by Brooklyn-based artist Robert Lazzarini for a studio visit to get an up-close-and-personal look at his visually stunning sculptures and drawings. Robert Lazzarini is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has mastered the art of visual manipulation in his artwork. Lazzarini’s sculptures manipulate… Read more »
For all of you KAWS fans, be on the look out for his new exciting collaborative piece with Disney. KAWS has left his recognizable mark on Pinocchio and his little buddy Jiminy Cricket. This piece was first displayed at his gallery showing at the Aldrich, which created quite a stir to say the least. News… Read more »