It is a startling discovery. Bone and blood and rust and copper. Death on pages. Life on the mind. This James Jean, commissioned by the French to create AIDS art.
The Molecule loves sex. Who doesn’t? Yet here, we are fascinated and cautious curious all at the same time. From the grotesque to aphrodisia through the [...]

In HaringLand
by Perry Brass
Last week I was lucky enough to go to the Skarstedt Gallery on the very luxe East 79th Street (20 East 79th, to be exact, in the heart of the super-high-rent district; you don’t rent here - you own) to see a Keith Haring show. Not just any Keith Haring show. The [...]

Body art spectacular!
Yesterday, the freaks came out to Coney Island for the Mermaid Parade’s 25th birthday bash. Daddy’s in drag, girls with tails, silver moon men and mythical monsters all filled the streets to honor the god Neptune and the first official day of Summer.
And the sun was out with a smile. The “brrrr, it’s [...]

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT TOMORROW!
MOSSY & GLOSSY
New Work by Snaggs, Le Merde & Scrappers
Giant Robot Gallery | 437 E 9th St (between 1st Ave & Ave A)
212.674.GRNY | grny.net
June 21 - July 16, 2008
Reception: Saturday June 21,
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Giant Robot is proud to present Mossy & Glossy, a group show featuring new works by artists [...]

Rabid Rabbit #8 “Tribute to the Beatles White album” is now available. Urban Molecule’s own Edwin Vazkez was asked to interpret “Mother Nature’s Song.”
From his blog:
This comic strip was very fun to work on. The theme for RR #8 is the White Album by the Beatles. Blind luck I guess that they are one of [...]

Sick and tired of art being so damn expensive? No need to worry. The New York art world is about to get really cheap.
From June 12-15 Chelsea opens up and becomes your friend again. And with more than 70 international art galleries exhibiting, The Affordable Art Fair might just get a place in the starving [...]

The Andrew Edlin Gallery in Manhattan is hosting a spectacular exhibition of Henry Darger’s works through Saturday, June 7. As the poster child for “outsider” art (in which brilliant artists are discovered post mortem), this Einstein of the art world was a recluse between the ages of 19 and 81, developing in his Chicago apartment a truly fascinating response [...]

Scofield: A Man Greater Than the Sum of His Parts
by Christopher de la Torre, UM Editor
I hadn’t known Stewart for long, but by the second email exchange I had already found him to be exquisitely open-minded and creative to the bone. According to his own words, he didn’t tolerate stupidity very well, nor superficiality, nor [...]

Even though some of his best work may be in black and white, street artist Bobby Hill’s past is probably as colorful as it comes: bumping into Andy Warhol at a Michael Jackson concert; accommodating rap artist Jay-Z with an art piece; illustrating for Slam Magazine (the first publication to marry hip-hop culture with basketball) [...]

“In the spring of 1999, the Family Learning Channel commissioned animator Don Hertzfeldt to produce promotional segments for their network. the cartoons were completed in five weeks. the family learning channel rejected all of them upon review, and they were never aired…”

the Molecule loves crazy. That’s why Don Hertzfeldt’s “Rejected” is one of our faves. [...]