Empire State of Mind: A Group Exhibition At The Chelsea Hotel

Chelsea Hotel Arts Initiative in collaboration with Beez and Honey Present
Empire State of Mind: A group exhibition introducing a generation of artists for the new era of art

March 1-March 7, 2010

Opening Reception: Monday March 1, 6-9 pm
Closing Party: Sunday March 7, 6-9 pm

The Chelsea Hotel, in collaboration with Beez and Honey, presents Exhibitions, Performances, Video Art and Films. Building on the Chelsea Hotel’s historical and artistic significance in NYC, Beez and Honey will create an experience of art that combines all art forms.

The Exhibition is entitled “Empire State of Mind”, after the famous Jay-Z and Alicia Keys hip hop song, that has become this generation’s NYC anthem, as Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” was for a different generation. Empire State of Mind will include artists whose work exemplifies NYC and it’s international and ethnic diversity.

Film Schedule: Everyday during the week
Performance Schedule: Live performances from The Kin Thursday March 4, 8 pm
and Living Days Sunday March 7, 8 pm
One DJ Night: Friday March 5, 9 pm till

Artists in the exhibition:
Danny Licul
Uri Dotan
MaryAnn Strandell
Kristin Anderson
Anne Herzog
Wael Noureddine
Derrick Harden
Ian Tong
Remy Amezcua
Laura Kaplan
Cyril Mazard

For more information, including high-resolution images, please contact Nicollette Ramirez
nicollette@beezandhoney.com
http://beezandhoney.blogspot.com

Chelsea Hotel
222 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
1.212.243.3700
reservations@hotelchelsea.com
http://www.hotelchelsea.com


Opening hours everyday 11 am – whenever you decide


Image Courtesy: Ian Tong "I have pictures from a parisian map museum which shows antique 3D maps from the 18th Century. the images are kinda like antique google earth. the images give an impression of the power and order of the French empire at that time."

Trinidad and Tobago and Los Espanoles en el Mundo

This was a very fun two weeks. Carnival can be exhausting but it's worth it!
Lucia Rubio from the Spanish television show Espanoles en el Mundo did an episode in Trinidad with my friend Dani and some other Spaniards living there. It was fun running around with them. April 7 the episode should be online.

I'm with the band: A Night Out with Isaac Koren of The Kin

It's fun when you meet up with friends you haven't seen in a long time. The Kin have been traveling and performing all over the world and now they're in NYC, or at least nearby the city. Here are some pics from a night out that included dancing, shooting pool, riding around in the van, and chatting over drinks at the bar.
Everyone's been telling me about Southside for months so I was glad to get a chance to hang there!

Luca Maroni Presents Sensofwine: Italian Wines at Cipriani

There was a lot of Italian wines flowing in NYC in February with the Waldorf Astoria and Cipriani 42nd Street as sites of tastings of wines from all over Italy.
Wine Emporium presented three top grade wines; a nero d'avola (Kuddia del Moro), a syrah-grenache (Kuddia de Ze) and a sweet wine (Abraxas) made from the Zibibbo grape (moscatello d'Alessandria). These were a highlight of the tasting for me though there were many other good ones too.
Vincenzo Aliani very graciously served me way too much wine for a tasting, but it was good nonetheless, originating from Umbria.
Terre de Trinci put out a good showing as well with wines from Umbria. The Ugolino was to die for, and not expensive at all.

Culture Label and The Tate Design Competition

My friend Florian Wupperfeld created CultureLabel along with his associates. On that site you'll find the top selling products in museum stores around the world. His blog gives info about the Tate's Design Prize. 500 pounds plus royalties if you win!

Boom Boom Room

Sometimes you just want to be one of the boys. Things might be easier, or so I think. Marc Jacobs was there on Friday in his wonderful all black caftan or skort, and Saturday was Hirst's little soiree after his End of an Era exhibition uptown. Though freezing outside it's nice when you have an "in" and can penetrate up into the fabled glass towers to look out over the whole of NYC.
Though the door can be painfully difficult for some to navigate, once you're inside the warmth is undeniable; not only warmth from the fireplace but also from the cute staff in their white dresses and the guys in brown but of course, the one and only Kamil.
And of course anyone is welcome to boom boom before 9, or rather 8.30pm when last call is made, and the doors close at 9 to reopen at 10...

Damien Hirst: End of an Era at Gagosian Gallery

Though Hirst stood for most of his time at the gallery, with his back to the crowd near the reception desk at the elevator on the 6th Floor, Emmanuelle managed to snag a photograph of herself with him. You've got to admire her chutzpah when a back-to-the-crowd is pretty clear body language saying, "I don't want to engage. Please don't approach me." Except of course, if you're a trusted friend, art dealer, advisor or Emmanuelle...


Emmanuelle Gauthier and Damien Hirst at the opening of End of an Era. Image courtesy of Emmanuelle's blackberry.









DAMIEN HIRST: End of an Era

Saturday, January 30 – Saturday, March 6, 2010
Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, January 30th, from 6 to 8 pm


Gordon Burn: If you got to make a fool of somebody, who would it be?
Damien Hirst: God.

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “End of an Era”, an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Damien Hirst.

The exhibition takes its title from the central sculpture in the exhibition, a severed bull’s head with golden horns and crowned with a solid gold disc. Suspended in formaldehyde and encased in a golden vitrine, this totemic sculpture acts as a powerful coda to The Golden Calf (2008). End of an Era proffers a sacrificial head, here dismembered from the majestic body of the earlier sculpture. While The Golden Calf symbolized the worshipping of a false idol, with End of an Era (2009) Hirst demystifies the biblical tale and, by extension, debunks his own myth-making.

Also included in the exhibition is Judgement Day (2009) a thirty-foot long gold cabinet filled with close to 30,000 manufactured diamonds. A series of photorealist paintings of famous diamonds including The Golden Jubilee (2008) The Agra (2006) and The Premiere Rose (2006) are shown together here for the first time.

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DAMIEN HIRST
Painful Memories/Forgotten Tears, 2008
Gold plated, glass and Cubic Zirconia
Diptych: 72 3/16 x 108 3/8 x 4 inches each (183.3 x 275.3 x 10.2 cm)

Future Generation Art Prize: For any artist from anywhere in the world

The only restriction: AGE!

The Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a worldwide contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and provide long-term support to a future generation of artists.

Artists around the world, without restriction of gender, nationality, race or artistic medium may enter the competition through online application.

20 shortlisted artists will be selected to show their work in an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre (Kiev). These artists will be judged by an international Jury who will award one main prize and up to five special prizes.

The first prize will receive $100,000. Apply now!

B&A present Erwin Olaf opening at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

B&A is a fabulous company in which my friend Louisa is a partner. I love what they do. Last night, with baby in tow, she was out to support one of her artists Erwin Olaf.

Panda: A new cafe/bar/artspace

I went to the opening of this space this week and it was a truly cool LES vibe. Most times I'm not impressed by the small spaces on the LES but every now and again someone does something big and here's one of them. Remy Amezcua is featured prominently in the space, so they've started well with the art too...