Had a great conversation with Shantell Martin at her studio this past week. Amazing what she's been able to accomplish outside of the gallery system. Bravo!
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Saturday, November 30, 2013
.5kg Dear Derrick and the Band
These are the new releases from Derrick Bernard Harden. A whole new range of songs that will get you playing them again and again.
Check them out now!
http://www.audiomack.com/album/dear-derrick-the-band/5kg
Check them out now!
http://www.audiomack.com/album/dear-derrick-the-band/5kg
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| Derrick Bernard Harden |
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Alessandro del Pero: Private Viewing with the artist at Tazza Gallery, Chelsea, NY
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Tazza Gallery
547 West 27th Street
5th Fl
NY NY
www.alessandrodelpero.com
Thursday, September 19, 2013
William Kentridge at Marian Goodman Gallery: A MUST SEE (AND HEAR) EXHIBITION
This was the most exciting exhibition I've seen at the gallery in awhile. Considering the sterile setting the art really jumped out at you because of the sound. Almost everyone in this exhibition had a smile on their face. Collaborating, and giving full credit to those who helped him put this amazing body of work together, Kentridge is going strong and I'm sure, selling out.
Galerie Perrotin arrives with great fanfare in New York City. Finally!
The New York City art world hasn't seen so much fun since, well...since Larry threw a big bash. Thank God Perrotin is in town now. He's somebody who understands the essence of art AND sells it! Gotta love a guy that does good work. Here are some of his artists and his fans having fun at the Russian Tea Room.
Don't miss the exhibition of Paola Pivi at the Madison Avenue and 73rd Street location.
http://www.perrotin.com/exhibition-Paola_PIVI-1784.html
Streetview
The announcement
The setting, daytime
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| The art deco decor |
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| Some buddies |
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| Me, Brinkley and the rest of the gang |
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| Maurizio Cattalan was wearing this T-shirt |
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| Fun for all! |
Catch your Murakami!
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| Talking about their winnings in the Carnival |
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| Party time! |
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| Andre Saraiva with an adoring fan |
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| A man and his best friend |
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| The next day: Adding up all the booty from the party... |
Monday, August 12, 2013
THE ARTSPRINTER SUMMER 2013 GROUP EXHIBITION IN THE HAMPTONS
WHEN: Saturday, August 17, 2013 6:00-9:00 PM
WHERE: The Water Mill Square Gallery, 670 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY (directly across from the windmill:)
WHO: Finalists of The Art Sprinter competition (summer 2013 season): Hilary Schmidt, Suzanne Scott, Natan Pernick, Karen KK Clardy, Ian Healy, Elyse Hradesky, Joseph Cavalieri, Mark Paulda, Peter Walker, Chris Riggs
WHAT: Contemporary art that you can take home with you
WHY: Because it will be loads of fun
Please RSVP from the page link above.
It's been many weeks of looking at wonderful art from all around the world. Now it's time to celebrate the winners of the summer edition of The Artsprinter competition. See ya there!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Post Frieze Antidote: The Frick Collection
After the contemporary art overload at the fairs, galleries and auction houses the last couple weeks, it was a bit of fresh air to enjoy the Frick Collection's small but important Piero della Francesca exhibition.
The Frick Collection in it's own right, filled with gems by Veronese, Boucher, Vermeer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, El Greco and many other Old Masters, is valuable. As a balance, or measuring stick for the contemporary art world, it is priceless.
The cute room filled with Boucher's paintings of flirtatious, happy, voluptuous, sensual characters in an abundant outdoor and indoor landscape may have been frowned upon in his time, but now give us a warm feeling when we look at them. The provenance alone tells us how important a work of art this is, originating as it did from the Marquise de Pompadour in the 18th Century.
Vermeer's "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" and "Officer and Laughing Girl"are two masterworks the likes of which any museum or collector worth its salt would like to get their hands on.
Veronese's towering monumental paintings, "Hercules Choice/The Choice Between Virtue and Vice" and "Wisdom and Strength", again remind us of the great trends throughout Western art history that have shaped our sensibilities and what we currently value. The Greco/Roman columns, the theatrical setting, the drapery, the twisting winding figures and the view behind them into the far distance, even the title of the work, gives us an idea of the perspective and some of the concerns with which artists at that time were dealing.
It would be great if our contemporary artists could look to art history to inform their work instead of looking to other contemporary work to do so. A new art friend said this about a certain art review in the NY Times that gave a smidgen of credit to the current Koons exhibition at Zwirner: "...Anyone who really thinks any of these sculptures are actually important or remotely approaching great art is too steeped in the contemporary world to distinguish between ubiquitous work and good work."
Piero della Francesca
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Died: October 12, 1492, Sansepolcro
Period: Italian Renaissance
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The Frick Collection in it's own right, filled with gems by Veronese, Boucher, Vermeer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, El Greco and many other Old Masters, is valuable. As a balance, or measuring stick for the contemporary art world, it is priceless.
The cute room filled with Boucher's paintings of flirtatious, happy, voluptuous, sensual characters in an abundant outdoor and indoor landscape may have been frowned upon in his time, but now give us a warm feeling when we look at them. The provenance alone tells us how important a work of art this is, originating as it did from the Marquise de Pompadour in the 18th Century.
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François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
The Four Seasons: Autumn, 1755 oil on canvas 22 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (56.5 x 73 cm) Henry Clay Frick Bequest Accession number: 1916.1.14
Collections: Marquise de Pompadour. Inherited by her brother, the Marquis de Marigny et de Ménars, in 1764. His sale, February, 1782, Paris, Lot 11, sold for 1,402 livres to Vernier. Nicolas Beaujon, Paris. His sale, April 25, 1787, Paris, Lot 202, sold for 884 livres to Ridgway. Madame Ridgway sale, December 3, 1904, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, sold for 360,000 francs to Eugène Fischhof. E.R. Bacon, New York. Mrs. Virginia Bacon. Duveen. Frick, 1916.
Source: Paintings in The Frick Collection: French, Italian and Spanish. Volume II. New York: The Frick Collection, 1968. |
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| Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675) Officer and Laughing Girl, c. 1657 oil on canvas (lined) 19 7/8 x 18 1/8 in. (50.5 x 46 cm) Henry Clay Frick Bequest Accession number: 1911.1.127
Currently on View
South Hall (141) |
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| Paolo Veronese (c. 1528 - 1588) Wisdom and Strength, c.1580 oil on canvas 84 1/2 x 65 3/4 in. (214.6 x 167 cm) Henry Clay Frick Bequest Accession number: 1912.1.128
Currently on View
West Gallery (131) |
It would be great if our contemporary artists could look to art history to inform their work instead of looking to other contemporary work to do so. A new art friend said this about a certain art review in the NY Times that gave a smidgen of credit to the current Koons exhibition at Zwirner: "...Anyone who really thinks any of these sculptures are actually important or remotely approaching great art is too steeped in the contemporary world to distinguish between ubiquitous work and good work."
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A Week of Art Fairs and Exhibition Openings and Now, Oh Now, The Auctions...
It always amuses me to see things on auction at Sotheby's and Christie's at the very same time that an exhibition of an artist is up in a gallery. Take for instance, the large Cecily Browns at the above mentioned auction houses that correlate to the exhibition uptown at Gagosian. Or Sterling Ruby, showing uptown too at the 980 Madison Avenue building by Joseph Nahmad Contemporary. Like my friend said by text message, "If you are trying to say that (dealers) manipulate markets I would find that hard to believe". (BIG WINK;) Then his following message: "...And interested parties have been doing it since Lascaux." I must admit I had to go way back in my art history knowledge to remember who (or more appropriately WHAT) Lascaux was.
Then there was Frieze. I guess if you like to buy art there was stuff to see and buy. I loved Marian Goodman Gallery for her presentation of Tino Seghal's perfomance; a monologue by a real girl who acted the part of an ethereal cyber girl. No art here for sale, but lots of art to see.
Luhring Augustine's booth with the work of Tom Friedman reminded me that the bigger the gallery doesn't necessarily mean the happier the artist, as Friedman moved from Gagosian and seems to be happy where he is now. His work is as varied and intriguing as ever.
Strange that nobody seemed to be showing Damien Hirst, except for Jay Joplin at White Cube. And then of course there was Koons Koons Koons, out of the fair even more than in it; more common than ever with his blue spheres on copies of classical sculpture, but I liked the snowman at Zwirner. And I did like his interpretation of the Venus of Willendorf at Gagosian 24th Street.
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| My up to the minute art news with the one and only...Kenny Schachter via FB |
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| CECILY BROWN Blood Thicker Than Mud, 2012 Oil on linen 109 x 171 inches (276.9 x 434.3 cm) |
Then there was Frieze. I guess if you like to buy art there was stuff to see and buy. I loved Marian Goodman Gallery for her presentation of Tino Seghal's perfomance; a monologue by a real girl who acted the part of an ethereal cyber girl. No art here for sale, but lots of art to see.
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| Art at Marian Goodman Gallery, not Art for Sale |
Strange that nobody seemed to be showing Damien Hirst, except for Jay Joplin at White Cube. And then of course there was Koons Koons Koons, out of the fair even more than in it; more common than ever with his blue spheres on copies of classical sculpture, but I liked the snowman at Zwirner. And I did like his interpretation of the Venus of Willendorf at Gagosian 24th Street.
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| Installing the Snowman at Zwirner |
Monday, May 6, 2013
Polo Party outside Hamburg @ Gut Basthorst
We (remains anonymous) were invited for the weekend to a polo party outside Hamburg at Eno's Gut Basthorst estate. It was loads of fun with old art, old cars, old guns, and young friends :)
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| Violin playing and singing after dinner on Friday :) |
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| Exiting Polo Match via 1959 Bentley convertible :) |
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| Well dressed twins at polo |
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| 1969 Alfa Romeo Convertible with NYC Girls |
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| Going off to the park to the see the wild animals, though doesn't seem we had to go far! |
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| Girl with Gun (Blowdryer) |
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| Me at the small lake at the cottage in the park |
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| Girl with Gun 1889 Smith & Weston, pure silver revolver. Anti-gun campaign poster? |
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| Vintage Harley Davidson. Love everything vintage!!! |
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