IG Art of the Week is a photo called Underwater Nude Panorama 02 by artist Ed Freeman. Follow Ed Freeman Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Climb by Rachel Hornaday Opening Exhibition | Art at the Yard (Photo Recap)
Thanks to everyone you stopped by the opening exhibition of Climb by Rachel Hornaday at the Yard. Here is a photo recap of the festivities. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
IG ART OF THE WEEK | Kat J. Weiss | @KatJWeiss
IG Art of the Week is a quick tutorial by artist Kat J. Weiss. Follow @katjweiss ✌? New video up! It’s a tutorial. This preview was a struggle to upload. I need a hiatus now ~ take a rest, as we would say in HK. I hope you enjoy! Music by Joe Bae ? #arttutorial#paintingtutorial #watercolorpainting #artyoutuber #hkyoutuber #illustuber A …
Climb | Rachel Hornaday | Art at The Yard Opening Exhibition
Climb is an experimental solo exhibition by artist Rachel Hornaday. Featuring paintings on canvas and sculptures of porcelain, Climb stems from the artist’s ever-evolving, material-based dialogue pertaining form and color, between the simple, stark whiteness of raw, ‘naked’ porcelain juxtaposed with abstract landscapes full of undulating color. It is in this space between objects, between polar opposites, between worlds absent of color …
IG Art of the Week | Shaun D. Ross | @shaundross
IG Art of the Week is “#blackboymagic” by model and artist Shaun D. Ross. Follow @shaundross Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Industrial Melanism | Neil Grayson | Debut Solo Exhibition at Ekyan Maclean
Our latest print edition cover artist Neil Grayson’s debut solo exhibition is going to be amazing. Industrial Melanism, opens tomorrow at Ekyan Maclean at east 67th street from 6 pm – 8 pm. We hope to see you there! Industrial Melanism was the collection Neil presented during our search for the next print cover feature and this collection is why we …
IG Art of the Week | Philip Lueck | @philiplueck
IG Art of the Week is “google help” by German digital artist and Illustrator Philip Lueck. Follow @philiplueck Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
DECADE | 10 Years at Gallery 151 (Exhibition Recap)
On December 13th, 2007 Gallery 151’s premiere exhibition, The Wild Style Exhibit, unveiled a collaborative wall of historical graffiti, discovered during the renovation of 151 Wooster Street in Soho. Matthew Namer, the son of the downtown developer Michael Namer, discovered the wall at the same time that renovations were planned to be made to the building. 151 Wooster Street became the first iteration of Gallery 151, which …
IG Art of the Week | Pop My Eyes | @popmyeyes
IG Art of the Week pick is “Book cover by Muriel Roland Darcourt” posted by POPMYEYES. Follow POPMYEYES on Instagram Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
The Projective Drawing: An Exploration of Art and Architecture
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition The Projective Drawing, curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York. The exhibition is based on The Projective Cast, a book published in 1995 by architectural historian Robin Evans that defines a new way to explain how we “see” architecture by incorporating all …
IG Art of the Week | Tayst | @tayst
IG Art of the Week pick is unnamed by Tayst. Follow Tayst on Instagram Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Juan Miguel Palacios | IMBALANCE | Booth Gallery
Booth Gallery is delighted to announce Juan Miguel Palacios’ Imbalance, a collection highlighting social, political, and economic inequality through multifaceted artworks. In his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Palacios seeks to bear representation to the state of affairs of the modern world — what he refers to as an ‘ugly society’, a term he borrows from Noam Chomsky’s documentary …
NSFW | IG Art of the Week | Matt D. | @erotic_isme
IG Art of the Week pick is unnamed by Matt D. Follow @erotic_isme Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Glam Jail | Kolor Collective (São Paulo, Brazil)
Glam Jail is a Franco-Brazilian tale by photographer Pol Kurucz about 11 eccentric inmates transforming a prison visitor’s booth into a colorful fashion haven. Through visual allegories and pop aesthetics the photographer challenges social and racial norms symbolized by the carceral universe. The shootings took place in the Offen Studio in São Paulo in August 2017. The series features local …
One Year of Resistance at The Untitled Space | Indira Cesarine
A year after the inauguration of President Trump, where are we, and how do we feel? In a follow-up to last years’ critically acclaimed show UPRISE/ ANGRY WOMEN, Indira Cesarine of The Untitled Space has invited over 80 artists to participate in ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE. Artists from various backgrounds, ages, and genders will respond to the current political climate …
IG Art of the Week | Jean-Pierre Roy | @jeanpierreroy
IG Art of the Week pick is “Additive Field History” by Brooklyn-based painter Jean-Pierre Roy. If you want to keep up with the rest of Jean-Pierre’s work you can follow by clicking below. Follow @jeanpierreroy Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. …
The 3rd Annual Surrealist Ball. | Photo Recap.
The 3rd Annual Surrealist Ball closed the year with another performance by the legendary New York Dolls frontman David Johansen and arty host list of Natalie Kates, Lori Zimmer, Jon Burgerman, Kenny Kenny, Emperor Vanity Society, Ryan Burke, Archie Goats, Muffinhead and his Troupe and Suzie Hart. Taking inspiration from the original Surrealist Ball in 1972 at the de Rothschild …
IG Art of the Week | Philip Lueck | @philiplueck
Our inaugural IG Art of the Week pick is “SaberFluffy” by German digital artist and illustrator Philip Lueck! If you want to keep up with the rest of Lueck’s work you can follow by clicking below. Follow @philiplueck Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but …
BWOOD x Anthony Cruz. | Quiet Lunch Book N°5 BTS RECAP.
Here’s a video recap of our photoshoot with BWOOD featuring rapper Anthony Cruz from Quiet Lunch’s Book N°5 Fall/Winter print edition featuring Neil Grayson. Check out the short recap below and get your copy of Book N°5 today! Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but …
Neil Grayson x Book N°5 Private Launch party at the Box.
The issue No. 5 launch party at the Box last weekend was huge. Cover artist Neil Grayson was toasted by the editors, Beccs moved the audience with her signature velvet voice and Dice Soho’s rap performance brought the crowd into the rest of the night. The line was out the door and the party went well after the scheduled cut-off …
The Outer Boroughs. | Urban Landscape Painting at The Lodge Gallery.
The Lodge Gallery is proud to present The Outer Boroughs; Brooklyn, Queens & The Bronx, a group exhibition exploring the transformative cultural history of New York through contemporary urban landscape painting. The works in this exhibition are formidable testaments to the only unchanging constant in New York, which is change itself. Here, through the beauty of each urban landscape, we witness the …
The Ascent. | Thomas Yang.
The Ascent You pedal, you push, you pant, you press on, you never stop until you are at the peak. You ride higher, live louder, laugh harder, dream bigger. Your life takes you from one adventure to another. ust in time for the holiday shopping season, Thomas Yang (of 100 Copies) just released his latest print, The Ascent. Yang explains …
NSFW. | TRANS-Ville. | Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.
ast weekend, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery presented the second iteration of TRANS-ville. Curated by Milk & Night’s Coco Dolle, the event exhibited six performance art works involving installation art, sound pieces, body language and video projections. With an inter-sectional and inter-generational approach, Dolle mixed in conversations on gender politics, mythos, cross-cultural identity, inter-racial dynamics and transitional states of beings. Displayed in …
Insidious Beauty. | Valli Art Gallery.
If you are heading down to Miami for the upcoming Art Basel Miami Beach, or even just to escape the winter, be sure to head to Wynwood’s Valli Art Gallery to immerse yourself in the new exhibition from internationally regarded Italian multi-media artist, Chiara Dynys. Curated by famed Italian art critic Giorgio Verzotti, the show, titled ‘Insidious Beauty’ will be …
The Long Wet Grass. | Seamus Scanlon.
The resonance of tires against the wet road is a mantra, strong and steady. The wipers slough rain away in slow rhythmic arcs into the surrounding blackness. The rain falls slow and steady, then gusting, reminding me of Galway when I was a child where Atlantic winds flung broken fronds of seaweed onto the Prom during high tide. Before the …
Like Lesser Gods. | Bruce McEver at the National Arts Club.
Quiet Lunch attended the historic National Arts Club in Gramercy Park on Friday evening, October 27th, to hear poet Bruce McEver read from his latest collection of work, Like Lesser Gods. Its not often we leave a poetry reading looking back over our shoulder hoping the poet might read one more poem for good measure, but Bruce McEver packs his works with …
Andy Cahill. | Home at SAFE Gallery.
stern figure sits at a dinner table which appears to be morphing into a face; a house grows ears; a smoker blows puffs out of a shirt sleeve; and a figure crawling on the ground, partially clothed with woolen socks and shirt, reaches toward a distant house. Pictorially grotesque, kaleidoscopic, psychedelic and dreamlike, Andy Cahill’s new show ‘Home’ at Brooklyn’s Safe Gallery will …
Joe Brittain | Past Tense.
sing sculpture as a way to ask fundamental questions of human sensibility, Joe Brittain’s new work, currently on view at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, aims to create situations and dialogs for us to probe our relationships to, and placements within the material world and its deep, incomprehensible history. Part historic, part scientific, part spiritual, the exhibition is a continuation of his …
Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour. | Halsey.
Halsey is on her 2017 Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour with special guests PartyNextDoor & Charli XCX playing concerts across North America. Her latest video “Bad at Love” is taking Youtube by storm with over 21 millions in little over a month! We looking forward to catching Halsey this Friday in Brooklyn! Get tickets for the shows BEFORE they sell out …
Ain’t It A Blessing Tour. | Tee Grizzley.
Tee Grizzley‘s had a big year as one of hip-hop’s rising names. His project ‘My Moment’ has been streamed over 117 million times on Spotify. His 2016 video for “First Day Out” has over 75 million plays, with Jay-Z saying it was “the best song out” on a recent Genius interview. Tee Grizzley is currently on his “Ain’t It A Blessing” Tour …
ENGENDER. | Kohn Gallery.
LA-based Kohn Gallery’s upcoming Fall exhibition, titled ENGENDER, will reexamine male and female gender classifications—a topic that is quite timely now as it has ever been given the ongoing gender debates within our political climate. Rooted in the word gender, Engender brings together a wide range of practitioners— including Nicole Eisenman, Hernan Bas, Firelei Báez, Emily Mae Smith, Tschabalala Self, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn, among others— who portray a form …
Secret Dungeon. | Stamina.
t is entirely fitting that the current show exhibiting in the Bushwick space called Secret Dungeon is titled STAMINA. This two-woman show, curated by Alexandra Fanning, brings together two female artists from differing backgrounds exploring the universal psychological, social, and cultural ways of viewing and valuing the labor of women’s work. Thai-Australian performance artist Kawita Vatanajyankur, presents candy-colored films featuring …
CALIFORNIA LOCOS. | SOCAL ORIGINALS – MASTERS OF STYLE.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA –”a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles”– opens this evening at the Getty Museum. Quiet Lunch, however, will be hangin’ with some of the most notorious LA artists in that city’s Chinatown for this evening’s opening of CALIFORNIA LOCOS: SOCAL ORIGINALS – MASTERS OF STYLE at Eastern …
Summer of Art. | Your Top 5 Features of Summer 2017.
ot matter how much we complain about the heat, we always get a little misty eyed when the summer leaves. Although we have a new, more active, art season to look forward to, we can’t deny that the summer has had its moments. As the fall season looms, Quiet Lunch takes a look back at some our most memorable summer posts. Quiet …
A Domino by Any Other Color: Zazie Beetz as Domino Facing Some Backlash?
eadpool was a box office smash and with teasers for the upcoming sequel leaking online, everyone is tenting their pants for the follow-up. Set to be released about 10 months from now, the film will feature some new characters that will costar alongside the Merc with a Mouth. Goonies alum Josh Brolin will be playing Cable, a role that could have …
Save Me From Myself Sweatshirt. | PastelX.
veryone needs saving—especially from themselves. You know it, we know it and even PastelX knows it. Which is exactly why the brand created this funky fresh Save Me From Myself Sweatshirt. Buy it. Thank us later. Shop Here Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but …
The Legacy of Marshall Mathers: Is Eminem Overrated?
ebating hip-hop’s Top 5 is never an easy or agreeable task. Although there are some familiar emcees who have somewhat solidified their spots on the coveted list, no one is truly safe. Let us examine your classic 2Pac, Jay-Z, Biggie, Eminem and Nas lineup. As much as this list is commonly agreed upon, old school rap fans who came of age …
ISIS Bullet Hole Paintings. | Piers Secunda.
Artists are motivated to produce their work for myriad reasons. Few would take the risk of travelling to one of the world’s most dangerous places to do it. But for British artist-cum-sculptor Piers Secunda, a trip to the frontline of the fight against Isis was essential to his work. Secunda travelled to Iraq’s frontlines with Isis to take highly accurate …
Big Brother Print. | Jeff Rose.
After taking some jabs on his latest album, 4:44, it is apparent that big brother Jay-Z has a bone to pick with his little brother, Ye. Although we all know it’s still love, Jeff Rose captures the riff in a brilliant print titled “Big Brother.” The print is currently sold out but there is a good chance Rose may do a …
NSFW | Scar. | An Le Studio.
Brooklyn based creative An Le‘s series, Scar, is a pleasantly painful body of work. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Robot Lamp. | The Clever Raven.
If you’re looking to put an industrial touch on your surroundings then this Robot Lamp is a perfect find. Handmade by Brit Sigh of The Clever Raven, this Robot Lamp has an innovative charm. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When …
Lucifer Rising in Rare Form. | Kenneth Anger.
This is an extra rare Lucifer Rising jacket by Kenneth Anger. You should have it; and if you don’t, you’re probably going to hell… where you will be the only one without this jacket—believe or not. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational …
Summer Show at Bitforms Gallery.
he next time you’re in the Bowery, find respite from the heat and duck into Bitforms‘ summer show. Representing work of six different artists, the pieces’ glass and gloss put them in dialogue with one another—the changing hues of the LED board on the far wall and the opposite illuminated animation are caught in reflection throughout the room and echoed …
Custom Sass. | Desert Moon.
Every person has a message and they should know that message like the back of their hand. These Custom Stamped Rings by Desert Moon help you to do just that. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance …
Crying Drake Patch. | Jazzelli.
Sure, it’s summer now but soon Fall will be and you’ll be lamenting over your warm weather flings—just like October’s very own. This Crying Drake Patch by Jazzelli allows you to wear your tears on your sleeves. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational …