Maggie Heinze is a fairy-princess from Queens, NYC. She documents her excursions into sherbet-colored dimensions with sweeping line-work, obsessive stippling and liberal use of bubbles. She is currently lending her talents to help build and decorate a gypsy caravan made of found, industrial parts. A project headed located in the wilderness of Long Island and headed up by internationally recognized master printer, Dan Welden . Like any proper Irish fairy-princess, Maggie enjoys guzzling beer and recounting obscene stories. In life and in her work, she straddles the line between whimsy and maturity.

Lets Hear what Maggie has to Say for herself:

If your art was music/food, what would it sound/taste like?
I like this question. If my art was food it would definitely be strawberry yogurt with raspberries and orange slices mixed in.

What is your favorite place in NYC for finding inspiration?
For me, inspiration comes and goes unplanned. Usually when I get an inkling of inspiration I am in a position of spacing out. This can happen on the subway, on my walk to the train, or sitting in Washington Square Park on a beautiful afternoon. In moments when my mind goes blank is when I unintentionally start considering my artwork.

What is your favorite petting zoo animal? Read the rest of this entry »

If you love reading and making zines as much as I do, then stop by the NYC Zine Fest this weekend at the Brooklyn Lyceum. I will be having a table on both days selling my zines (for a dollar!) and some specialty items for 5 bucks and up. You can also buys some Free Danger zines online too as well as at Cinders , Printed Matter and Dessert Island .

It will be totally worth your while to stop by especially since there is free admission! Read more about what’s in store at the fest by checking out their site …I hear there are some pretty spectacular raffle prizes like gift certificates to Spoonbill and Sugartown, St. Mark’s Bookshop and The Printed Matter!

Hope to see you there!

 On Thursday night, our fave N.Y.C. nightlife impresario Murray Hill will be recording his comedy album down the street from BUST HQ at Comix, and you better believe I’ll be there! Here’s the deets below from the man himself - use the VIP code to snag some discount tix!:

MURRAY HILL - COMEDY ALBUM TAPING!

THURSDAY, JUNE 25 at 7:30 and 9:30pm
at COMIX, 353 West 14th St. NYC

ONE SHOWBIZ LEGEND. ONE UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT.
NEW SHTICK! NEW SONGS! NEW VIDEOS!
NEW SYNTHETIC DOUBLE-KNIT SUIT!

Hello pals! Ok, the big show is this week and it’s a one-night-only affair. Excited to debut a Vegas lounge-style show based on my nightclub act from the past decade for my first live comedy album. I’ll dazzle ya with ad-libs, monologues and debut new original songs penned with my pianist PAUL LESCHEN and other members of my band THE STIFF GIMLETS (Paul Lescen, Fisherman’s Orchestra, Brian Newman). The evening will also feature two new videos shot and directed by MARY C. MATTHEWS.

Since the show will be recorded live for a debut CD and documentary, I’d really love to have my peeps in the house! Hope to see you under the hotlights! xoxoMurray

FOR $15 ADVANCE TICKETS,
ENTER CODE: MHVIP
GET TIX: http://www.comixny.com

All too often, depictions of women are from a male viewpoint, based on desire for the female form and frequently showing women as passive and available for pleasure.

That’s what makes this art exhibit so refreshing. The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women is a collection of female artists portraying the female form. The exhibit will display multiple media like painting, sculpture, installation, video and photography.

The collection will feature several female artists, including Berenice Abbott, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Vanessa Beecroft, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Julia Margaret Cameron, Victoria Civera, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Anh Duong, Judith Eisler, Tracey Emin, Ellen Gallagher, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Chantal Joffe, Deborah Kass, Maria Lassnig, Zoe Leonard, Sally Mann, Marilyn Minter, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Shirin Neshat, Collier Schorr, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Hannah van Bart, Hellen van Meene, Kara Walker, Francesca Woodman and Lisa Yuskavage.

The Female Gaze is running from June 25 through September 19 at the Cheim and Read Gallery in Manhattan (547 West 25th Street). -Liza

(Photo: ‘’Untitled 96′’ by Cindy Sherman)

Performance/video artist Patty Chang, who once recreated a Bruce Lee fight scene and portrayed a Chinese contortionist, has a new exhibition in New York.
The main video of her exhibit is ‘’The Product Love,'’ which tells the story of the real-life meeting of Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong and German critic Walter Benjamin. The two met when Benjamin was interviewing Wong, who had escaped to Germany to avoid the racist typecasting of American film. Chang’s video recreates their meeting as an erotic scene and attempts to translate the article that Benjamin wrote about Wong.
The exhibit is at the Mary Boone Gallery (745 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street, Manhattan) and runs until June 27. -Liza
(Photo via artnews.org)

Are you a cool chick making cool art? If so, you should know about YOUNITY. Founded in 2007 by New York City artists Alice Mizrachi and Toofly, the organization’s mission is to provide a forum for women artists to share their ideas and showcase their work. According to YOUNITY: ‘The confines of galleries were too rigid and staid; the ‘white cube’ did not lend much room for personal expression and individual style. [We] wanted to create a place wherein females could tell their own stories in more universal, down-to-earth voices. [We] also wanted to build a stable community in which [we] could teach the next generation what goes into the process of setting up art shows and try to successfully spread artistic ideas.’

YOUNITY puts those ideas into action with a mentoring program for inner-city art students, quarterly workshops about urban art history, panel discussions, and female-driven shows that blow traditional gallery exhibitions out of the water (think crazy-cool video projections, funky fashion shows, and just about anything else you can imagine, all in unexpected places).

If you want to get involved, now is the perfect time to do so–YOUNITY is looking for artists worldwide to participate in its outdoor exhibition, FRESHER! The NYC-based show is aimed at bringing community awareness to environmental issues including recycling, global warming, and pollution. FRESHER! will also include youth workshops, mural projects, and panel discussions. Plus, the organization will self-publish a collectors book based on the exhibition. Read the rest of this entry »

Artist Neil Freeman took subway maps from major cities around the world and posted them online, all to the same scale, without any station names, line differentiation or colors.

It’s interesting to see how different cities’ transportation systems look in relation to each other. Some are really dense, some are sprawling, some take on odd shapes. The site above compares Moscow to a daddy-long-legs, though i think it kind of looks like a neuron without the axon.

That’s New York up there. I can’t decide if it looks like something. It’s like looking at cloud shapes. Maybe if you blur your vision and tilt your head…? -Liza

(picture via www.fakeisthenewreal.org)

This British art student, Sara Watson, spent 3 weeks painting this car to match the lot it’s parked in, making it look like it’s disappearing into invisibility. A recycling firm, Recycling Lives, gave her the car to paint for publicity.

Just make sure you watch where you’re walking in this lot. -Liza

(Photo via www.lostateminor.com)

Win tix to an exclusive Moby Listening Party! Here’s your chance to win a pair of tickets to an exclusive listening party at The Hayden Planetarium on Wednesday May 27th!

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The winner will be chosen at random, no purchase necessary and only one entry per email please. Winners will receive a confirmation email from Mute records with timing details on Tuesday May 26th.

We want everyone to be winners so Mute is giving away a free MP3 on moby.com . Contestants can download Moby’s debut track ‘Shot in The Back Of The Head’ for free!! Check out the new video by David Lynch below!

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