We asked Mariko Munro to create a little Art Basel video series for us, interviewing the likes of Tim Barber, Scott Campbell, Charlotte Ronson, and Aurel Schmidt. First question:...
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For our second edition of Standard Press, Nailed, we featured the colorful, blinged out, and stunning work of artist Dzine. Dzine transformed one hotel room into his mom’s 1970s...
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Happy first official day of Art Basel Miami Beach! Disclaimer: This daily To Do List should by no means be used as your quintessential guide to ABMB. That’s too much pressure! Each...
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ARTBOOK is a company we know, love, and highly recommend when cultivating your art book library. For those at Art Basel this week in Miami, we’d like to share the whereabouts of ARTBOOK,...
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Ever felt a deep need to make a collage with your iPhone? Here’s a project we’re a little excited about. Local artist Seth Indigo Carnes has come up with a simple idea for an APP...
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Here’s another interesting gathering to attend if you’re visiting Miami’s Art Basel this week. SEVEN is a pioneering collaborative project organized by seven established New...
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The world wide web is a magical place filled with mystical wonders and marvelous delights. But never in all of my years trolling the internet have I come across something as demonically genius...
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Conceptual fashion artist, Andraé Gonzalo, has taken over The Box at The Standard, Hollywood and he just couldn’t resist adding an artful nod to the sense of consumerism in the air...
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If you can’t attend Art Basel in Miami this week, join the festivities virtually with a special online preview hosted by Paddle8. Paddle8 is offering a special White Glove package –...
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We stopped by French artist and TED Prize Winner JR while he installed his Art Basel piece for tonight’s opening at Emmanuel Perrotin. Famous for his enormous public photo installations...
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We know holiday time is approaching and the dreaded issue of buying cool gifts lurks among us. What do you buy an art lover with refined taste? Well, we’d like to suggest one site with...
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Our friends (and new Standard, East Village neighbors) over at The New Museum really know how to throw a party, and last Friday they did just that. Lisa Phillips, the museum’s Director,...
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While you have been wondering where I have been for the past two weeks, I’ve been half way around the world visiting two of the most incredible cities in the world…Beirut &...
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Andreas Gursky, a German artist known for his enormous landscape images, from the 99 Cent Store to the Chicago Trading Floor, has taken on a new subject – OCEANS. The breathtaking, huge...
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Today is the day we’re all giddy in our New York offices with the announcement of the galleries participating in next year’s Frieze Art Fair. The festivals first ever New York showing...
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The Standard Hotel was proud to welcome the esteemed British illustrator James Jarvis to New York last week to unveil his first new narrative in five years. His book, De Profundis, is a...
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Today’s graphic is a mystical wide-eyed symmetrical puzzle in honor of the awesome mysterious day today – 11/11/11. Happy magical day to all our readers. Graphic by Leif Podhajsky.
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Pia Dehne is a German artist residing in New York. Her paintings are hyper-realistic in the vein of Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulated reality: a
condition engendered by man’s...
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Roselee Goldberg is a wonderfully potent combination of many things – art historian, author, critic and curator, and above all, nurturer of all things creative. Her 1979 book, Performance...
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Last week we introduced you to Elmgreen and Dragset to get you into the spirit of this year’s Performa11, the biennial visual art performance festival. This time we stopped Tyler Ashley...
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It’s the start of another fresh week here at The Standard. If you happen to be staying at any of our hotels in New York, Miami, Downtown Los Angeles, or Hollywood, here is a guide of top...
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