Last night, an 1895 pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sold for a record-setting $119,922,500 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Sales. The price, which included a buyer's premium, was well over the $80 million the auction house believed the iconic image would capture. more ›

Ever since that scene in Girls—you know the one, refresh below—we've just really been into the New York City art world, you know? (Just kidding, most art parties are terrible.) But if you want to dip your toes into the scene, this is a good week for it—with both Frieze and Pulse rolling into town. We'll have a curated guide later this week, but to get your heart racing for the white hot happenings, we offer you the below. more ›

Last night was the press preview for Courtney Love's art show, entitled And She's Not Even Pretty, which will be on exhibit at Fred Torres Collaborations starting tomorrow and through June 15th. We headed over to Chelsea for the 5 p.m. opening—after being told by coworkers covering the much more "important" May Day events, "have fun at your 1% art party!" We did, and there was a lot of free wine. more ›

Following Whitney Houston's death in February, photos of her last meal were published by TMZ. A table had been set up in Houston's hotel room where she was served a hamburger, fries, a turkey sandwich and jalepenos, along with champagne and Heineken. She later took some of that food on a tray into the bathroom, to presumably finish the meal in the bathtub where she would later die. Now the NY Times reports that this scene (which they describe as "gruesome") from the Beverly Hilton Hotel has been recreated by photographer Thomas Demand. more ›

While we wait to find out if a giant locomotive will be dangling over the High Line in the future, a much smaller-scale exhibit has popped up along the elevated park. Starting today, the Lilliput exhibit—named for the island of little people from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels—is taking over tiny parts of the park. Six artists have created the miniature sculptures, which are all "installed in unusual and unexpected places at the High Line... to create an art treasure hunt for visitors." Click through for a little preview before stumbling over the pieces yourself—they'll be there through next April. more ›

Michael Jordan didn't make his high school basketball team, Dick Cheney flunked out of Yale (twice!), and the guy who started Fage yogurt was once told his yogurt sucked.* From the annals of inspirational failure comes this MoMA rejection letter to Andy Warhol, whose drawing, "Shoe," didn't make the cut because of their "severely limited gallery and storage space." more ›

Pull yourself out of the balmy weather tomorrow and watch a river race between the 12 animals of the Zodiac, using actual animals, live from Zhujiajiao, China. Artist Duke Riley, who in 2009 turned the Queens Museum of Art into a real-life Roman battle, is staging the event as a Rematch for the animals who were cheated in the original race thousands of years ago by the rat. “No calendars will be reset at the finish line nor will any closer understanding of that mythical day be realized," Riley says in a release. "The only realization will be a brief moment of divine absurdity between two shores.” more ›

Artist David Shrigley has designed a new billboard which is currently basking in the shadows of the High Line, where it will remain through May 7th. The speech bubble asks: "How Are You Feeling?" And immediately delivers depressing responses, like, "I'm feeling very unstable and insecure. I also feel very worried and anxious about everything." And on and on and on. At least we're alone, together? The 25-by-75 foot billboard is located at West 18th Street and 10th Avenue... how are you feeling about it? more ›

Remember when that art gallery gentleman's club in Albany was fighting for a tax exemption because its employees are purveyors of the articulation of their own creative skill? Now look at this pole dancer on Seventh Avenue: see how her position amid two squad cars provides a carnal bridge between Law and Order? The way in which she destroys the numb march of humanity as represented by the line of yellow cabs? See you at the Whitney Biennial, mystery pole dancer. more ›

Andy Warhol's portrait of Elvis Presley as a cowboy is headed to the auction block in Manhattan on May 9th, y'all. The "Double Elvis (Ferus Type)" silkscreen is the first to appear on the market since 1995, and is expected to go for up to $50 million at Sotheby's. more ›

Tomorrow the Brooklyn Museum will open their Keith Haring 1978-1982 exhibit, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the artist's early career, and we stopped by this morning for a press preview. We'll have a full look at the show tomorrow, but right now let's focus on this piece that was catching a lot of eyes: a 1978 pencil drawing of the World Trade Center. In typical Haring style, he replaced the Twin Towers with giant penises, making the southern tip of Manhattan even that much easier to spot. more ›

Clifford Owens might attempt a forced sexual act on someone this Sunday... all in the name of art. The multi-genre artist has been performing "scores" written by 26 different artists at MoMA PS1 every Sunday since last November, according to Animal, who says Kara Walker’s “score” might be coming up next. Walker's instructions state: more ›

Riding the wave of monumental success after its latest Miami installation, the SCOPE Art Show opened in New York Wednesday night. Relatively small by comparison to the Armory Show across the street, a 30,000-square-foot tented pavilion houses 60 galleries, including 13 first timers at 57th Street and 12th Avenue. more ›

Keith Haring created quite a bit of art in his short life, and love for it has only grown since his death in 1990 of AIDS-related complications. Hence the recreated murals, restored ceilings and upcoming Brooklyn Museum show. But there is another bit of Haring being made available to the city right now. This month The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is opening up Haring's well-known (and quite dirty) bathroom mural for public viewing. Haring painted the mural, finishing it less than a year before he died, as part of a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. more ›

Good news for everyone in Madison Square Park stuck on that super long Shake Shack line—there's new pretty art to play with! The Madison Square Park Conservancy recently unveiled plans for their newest interactive art installation, Pet Sounds, by California-based artist Charles Long—it will go on display starting May 2nd and remain on view through early September. more ›

David Lynch is putting down the coffee cup and bringing an art exhibition to New York next week. This is his first solo show in the city since 1989, right before Twin Peaks hit the small screen, and it will be hosted by the Tilton Gallery (Lynch is long time friend's with the owner, Jack). According to Gallerist, the show will feature gold-framed (in the style of Francis Bacon) paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and a 42-second film. The works are all "fairly recent," created between 2009 and 2012. more ›

Every two years the hipster art world munches on sour grapes and whines about the Whitney Biennial, which has been criticized in the past for being too cliquey, too scattershot, too short on women, not enough minorities, and criminally ignoring artists (like the ones doing the griping). Now it seems the Biennial has a new hater: Occupy Wall Street, which is most likely behind a parody Whitney Biennial website "announcing" that the institution had "broken" with two of its corporate sponsors, Sotheby's and Deutsche Bank, and returned their filthy money. Ha. Ha ha. Hahahahaha! From the fake website: more ›