WHITEWALL MAGAZINE
Kenny Scharf
I arrived at kenny Scharf's Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and realized that I had been there a few weeks earlier for a scandalously sexy party. I kept that to myself for the time being as we discussed the upcoming presidential election and his place in the art world...
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VOGUE
Talking Fashion: Visual Aide
As the fall season gets under way, William Norwich navigates the gallery world under the discriminating eye of dealer Amy Greenspon. Amid a fallen Western outpost, bandits, vast mountain landscapes, and one taxitermied buffalo, Amy Greenspon and Lauren Davis greeted each other like sisters...
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ART IN AMERICA
Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin Gallery
In "Superpop" (all works 2005), his first exhibition at Paul Kasmin, Kenny Scharf populated a retro, space-age world wiht consumers and the products that delight them. His huge oil-on-canvas diptych, Time Flies When You're Having Fun, is a reverent rendition of an all-white, four-door hardtop Chevy Impala...
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INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
Kenny Scharf
Announcing a new exhibition by a legendary artist who continues to show a side of pop art that would make Salvador Dali's head spin
Playfully referred to as the Hieronymous Bosch of our Kool-Aid, sci-fi, space-age kulture," in a 1984 New York Times review, Kenny Scharf must have been quite the roommate for Keith Haring: the two lived together in a Times Square loft in the early '80s...
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ART INFO
Art Info talks with Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin Gallery
New York-Eighties art star Kenny Scharf, who has been showing steadily but hasn't had a New York show in about four years, is opening an exhibtion today at Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea. Could it be part of a larger revival? Eightiees strains are to be heard in popular rock bands like the Killers...
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LOFT DECEMBER 2004
It is the day after the election and Kenny Scharf expresses an emotion I rarely have seen in him since we met over 25 years ago: rage.
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THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Concrete Canvas
Perhaps it was inevitable: In a region dominated by the car, the humble parking garage had to become, as New York subways ones didm the art world's new frontier. In May, sound artist Hugh Livingston built an ambitious installation in a garage in Santa Monica; in June, Shepard Fairey designed two walls inside the parking structure at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art...
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HOUSE AND GARDEN
Defining Moment
In honoe of Central Park's 150 years, some of New York City's biggest names have redesigned its benches. On a fine day in Central Park, a bench is a valuabel commodity. This fall, a few were more coveted than usual. For Target Benchmarks Central Park, part of the park's 150th birthday celebration, art and design luminaries and celebrities reimagined 53 of the standard-issue-four-footers...
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CONTENTS MAGAZINE
Kenny Scharf's Portraits
As one of today's most exciting artists, Kenny Scharf has had a prolific career. In the early '80s he first rose to the prominence alongside friends Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat by redefining the meaning of popular art. His self-described style of Pop-Surrealism is celebrated for it's ability to speak to a wide variety of audiences, appealing to both fine art enthusiasts and mass culture alike...
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YES U.K. OCTOBER 1994
Kenny Scharf
Volumes have been written about the art of Kenny Scharf. His work and its richly layered levels of meaning have been dissected by the most erudite minds in the art world. The complex relation and reflection of his work to the American psyches at this...
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ARTNEWS
Kenny Scharf's Fun-House Big Bang
Andy Warhol said: "You have to go to it." It was opening night at the Palladium, the new club. Warhol was sitting on a banquette in the half-light not far from the dance floor. He was talking, but not much, and not because he really wanted to, about he installation Kenny Scharf had done in the lounge downstairs, right below where he was sitting...
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FLASH ART MAGAZINE
Kenny Sharf: A talk with Keith Haring
I love acting. As a kid I used to watch Michael Jackson, and get up in front of the TV and do his number. My brothers used to say I was going to be a rock'n'roll star. And I liked that idea...
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