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NOW HANGING: Guardian Cartoonist Steve Bell at The Standard, East Village

At the top of our PEN Festival to-do list? The Q&A with Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell at the New School this Saturday. After 30 years of giving the UK government what for, he’s turning... More »
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Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick

Who better to make our morning commute seem like a nostalgic adventure than Stanley Kubrick? Before becoming a legendary filmmaker he shot New York’s underground travel culture and The... More »
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TO DO: Head Gas, Surf Art & Polo

NEW YORK “Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing... More »
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Susan Kirschbaum Gets Her Friends Naked: Nir Hod

Weekends in New York can often be more hectic than the weekdays. How does one find time for those out-of-the-way, been-meaning-to-check-out “things?” Luckily, freelance reporter,... More »
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BAMart/Paddle 8 Silent Auction at The Standard, East Village

At The Standard East Village Wednesday, The Brooklyn Academy of Music and Paddle8 toasted BAM’s 150th anniversary and the launch of the BAM silent auction on Paddle 8 … •... More »
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Proj'ekt LA at The Standard, Hollywood

Smile Pretty! The Standard, Hollywood is stoked to be participating in The Lucie Foundation’s Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA). This year’s theme for MOPLA is Intersect: An... More »
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LA Darling Deedee Cheriel Does the 6th Street Mural

After noticing Deedee Cheriel’s art around town, we couldn’t wait for her to get her hands on the 6th Street Mural! And as it turns out, we’re not the only big fans of her work.... More »
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Susan Kirschbaum Gets Her Friends Naked: Richard Phillips & Theaster Gates

Weekends in New York can often be more hectic than the weekdays. How does one find time for those out-of-the-way, been-meaning-to-check-out “things?” Luckily, freelance reporter,... More »
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ART: The Last Days of Kurt Cobain

As crazy as it sounds to those of us who remember it, today is the 18th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s passing. Jesse Frohman was one of the last photographers to capture the Nirvana... More »
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Mambo at Work in Hollywood

As you know, Franco-Hungarian artist Mambo has created this month’s installation for The Box at The Standard, Hollywood. We are all such big fans of Mambo’s art that we... More »
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TO DO: Ryan McGinness's Show at the Pace Gallery

Since adopting the rigid rules of the Ryan McGinness Studio—they even have a manual!—things at Standard HQ have gotten considerably more productive. Still, we can’t hold a... More »
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Celebrating MOCA's FRESH Auction

All of LA’s been buzzing this week as MOCA Grand Avenue opened its doors for a free preview of this weekend’s FRESH art auction! Each year MOCA hosts this super-successful... More »
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Mambo Takeover at The Standard, Hollywood

Franco-Hungarian painter Mambo is taking his turn this month at creating an installation for The Box at The Standard, Hollywood. We’ve been fans of Mambo for a while, his paintings are... More »
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Come Dance to Ricardo Rivera's Light Installation

The first time we met the artist Ricardo Rivera, he was commissioned by our good friends of Fixed to produce a light installation at Le Bain - just for one night. We were so impressed by his work... More »
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Artillery + The Standard Present: Stories About June Wayne's Art and Life by Betty Ann Brown

Artillery and The Standard, Hollywood have joined forces again to bring you a reading and book signing by art historian Betty Ann Brown. Betty Ann Brown’s new book, Afternoons With June:... More »
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Follow Us to See Mario Wagner's Work

Artist/illustrator, Mario Wagner is installed in The Box at The Standard, Hollywood. Not the actual man, unfortunately, although we did try. As consolation he’s giving us exclusive pics... More »
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Tumblrs To Get Lost In

It’s been a while since we let you know about the Tumblrs that we love. We like to think we keep our own Standard Tumblr up to snuff, but here are some Tumblrs that have nothing much in... More »
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UFOs + Horses = Mario Wagner + The Box

The Box at The Standard, Hollywood is an ever changing gallery for some of the art world’s best and brightest. Up to bat this month is German artist Mario Wagner and they just don’t... More »
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Tomokazu Matsuyama and The Standard Go Global ... Snow Global

Tomokazu Matsuyama’s work is both wild and controlled, figurative, yet abstract, steeped in Japanese iconography – both ancient and contemporary – but also specifically... More »
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Holding The Fort: LA's Anti-Institutional Institution, Ooga Booga

Tucked into a teeny second floor retail space surrounded by the scalloped, neon roofs of LA’s old Chinatown, Ooga Booga has over the past decade carved out a niche for itself as an... More »
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"Happenings"at Pace Gallery Seriously Was Happening

Last night was Thursday night which if you are in New York – and per chance made time in your fashion schedule for bit of art – you were probably tramping around the West 20s... More »