Yasha Wallin writer.editor.curator.enthusiast

Happy New Year from The Usual and King + Grove

yasha — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:58:37 +0000

We (The Usual) partnered up with King + Grove to come up with the ten resolutions that promise to make 2012 the best year to date. Here they are, Happy New Year!:

Happy 2012!

yasha — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:00:53 +0000

Contributing to Surface Magazine’s new website

yasha — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:54:41 +0000

I wrote a couple of pieces for Surface Magazine’s newly launched site. I’m loving their redesign. Here one article by yours truly:

JIM LABIE’S “SPIRITUALIZED” AT ANTON KERN GALLERY

Read the full article HERE

Cynthia Rowley Shares Bill Powers’s Secrets

yasha — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:56:55 +0000

For Interview Magazine, I talked to the coolest power couple in New York about art vs. fashion and pink blazers:

This fall, designer Cynthia Rowley launched Mr. Powers, a menswear line inspired by Bill Powers: owner of Half Gallery, judge on Bravo’s Work of Art, and her husband. Set to debut around the same time that the second season began in October, this new waist-up only collection of blazers and jackets has been modeled by none other than Mr. Powers every week on Work of Art, which will air its final episode at the end of this month.

Read the full article HERE

yasha — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:03:52 +0000

Mitt Romney challenges Rick Perry to a casual $10,000 bet during the Republican debate tonight. Ah, the things I could casually do with $10,000.

Party, Party, Party

yasha — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:19:22 +0000

I went to Art Basel for the crazy five day, every night-is-New-Years-Eve-art spectacle. It was great writing for Style.com down there: I got my nails painted in camo, was transported to a “enchanted garden” in a private airplane hangar, dined under Swarovski crystals and ate bbq with Paris Hilton (nope, she didn’t actually eat). Here are the highlights: Night One, A Higher and Higher Level, Cinema Paridisio, and “It’s Kind of Insane How Everybody’s Here.”

A Freer Mumia

yasha — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:28:33 +0000

Though I’ll mourn the loss of so many “Free Mumia” posters at every protest for any-cause-USA, this is amazing news: “Death Penalty Dropped Against Ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal” via CBS News.

Happy Thanksgiving from Oakland

yasha — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:47:14 +0000

Performa Magazine Launches!

yasha — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:54:34 +0000

Performa Magazine, an online platform dedicated to presenting articles, interviews, and behind the scenes information about Performa 11′s artists and projects launched today, with yours truly at the helm.

15 NY Art World-ers on Art Controversies Today

yasha — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:08:44 +0000

Happy to be included among the 15 “Art World-ers” in this interesting article on Hyperallergic.