"THE CLOCK" Video In Real Time by Christian Marclay

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The US premier of artist, Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film "The Clock" @Paula Cooper Gallery is an elliptically thrilling/endlessly enticing/must-see masterpiece of pleasure, appropriation, philosophical speculation and insight. Composed of 1000s of bits from movies/TV showing EVERY minute of the day and synced to REAL TIME. When it’s 5:32PM in a scene in the film it’s 5:32PM in the real world.

The film is shown in the gallery in real time that corresponds to real time on one's own watch when you enter and when you leave.  Art Enthusiasts seem to think that it is a cool way to spend those quiet off beat hours before daybreak from Midnight on Fridays thought 5AM Saturdays when the gallery is open to the public.

THE CLOCK viewing Schedule:

January 21 - February 19, 2011
534 W. 21st Street 

Tuesdays - Thursdays, 10am - 6pm
24-HOUR SCREENINGS EVERY FRIDAY:
Fridays 10am - Saturdays 6pm

WEEKDAY SCREENINGS:
Tuesdays - Thursdays, 10am - 6pm 

24-HOUR WEEKEND SCREENINGS:
Friday February 4, 10am - Saturday February 5, 6pm
Friday February 11, 10am - Saturday February 12, 6pm
Friday February 18, 10am - Saturday February 19, 6pm

Christian Marclay "The Clock"  January 21 - February 19, 2011

Paula Cooper Gallery is located at 534 W 21st Street in Chelsea - closes February 19th

ENEAS CAPALBO' S 'Fake Condos'

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AvenueInsider

So Faux, They are Genuine
As stated in AVENUEinsider, Half Gallery's, Bill Powers says, "more doppelganger than appropriation artist, Eneas Capalbo, celebrates the tenth anniversary of his Fake Condos series just as the real George Condo stages his own survey blocks away at The New Museum."

Most people may say that this has been done and over done, but Eneas feels quite the opposite, instead paying tribute to the virtuosity and brushstrokes of his predecessor's work in all too real time and further complicating matters by having George Condo himself attend the inauguration of these Fake Condo paintings when they debuted in 2001, prompting The New York Times to question the very provenance of the pieces themselves. So perhaps more than anything, these paintings are a call to complicity, an open rejection of the dictatorial nature creation demands. And they are cool-looking, too.

FAKE CONDO'S runs through Monday, February 14 at the Half Gallery, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays.

The Half Gallery is located at 208 Forsyth Street, near East Houston Street.

The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery, near Stanton Street.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH IS FREE

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To accompany this wonderful Indian Summer climate we are enjoying, why not drop by Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips DuPury within the next two weeks. "Pre-Sale Exhibitions" will be showcased for viewing with open access to the public.

"...Before the big sales, the auction houses will be filled with multimillion-dollar masterpieces and blue chip contemporary artwork, and are open to everyone, not just the art elite..." New York Times

Take the opportunity to indulge yourself in a wonderful viewing experience that will be a monumental memory.  This artwork consigned for sale to the public at auction arrives directly from private collections - some of it hasn't been seen for decades, and perhaps will never be seen again in your lifetime.

This Fall Auction Season is expected to be exceptionally strong due to the state of the global economic climate.  Many international buyers are expected to be on board for the chance to acquire the objects of their passion or asset investment allocation.

Be there, or be square!

The Fall Auction Season - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/28/arts/20101029-auction.html

For further information check websites for dates and location

Viewing hours vary by day and auction house. Usually the viewing ends the morning of the sale, but Web sites should have the details.

CHRISTIE’S 20 Rockefeller Plaza (49th Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas). Impressionist and Modern art viewings, Friday through Wednesday morning; postwar and contemporary art viewings, Nov. 6-10 (morning); (212) 636-2000, christies.com.

SOTHEBY’S 1334 York Avenue, at 72nd Street, Manhattan. Impressionist and Modern art viewings, Friday through Tuesday morning; postwar and contemporary art viewings, Nov. 5-9 (morning); (212) 606-7000, sothebys.com.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY 450 Park Avenue, at 57th Street. Contemporary art viewings, Saturday through Nov. 7 (sale Nov. 8); (212) 940-1200, phillipsdepury.com.

FRANCIOS BARD Edgy Portraiture IMHO

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While visiting the FRANCIOS BARD exhibition at Axelle Fine Art, the model for one of the artist's paintings arrived unexpectedly at the gallery (photo above). The portrait of his hands is a typical composition by Bard.

"His paintings are of the simplest of all subjects, be it a shoe, a leg, a torso, a foot, a dog, or a face, which will take on a tragic and magnificent dimension. He manages to translate all his intimate emotion into a two-dimensional art work; each painting is an endless exercise of composition, rhythm and struggle, and the use of multiple layers of oil accentuates the feel and dynamic mood.

Bard’s paintings can be described as edgy. There is a dark, urban quality to his paintings that evoke both a sense of danger, loneliness and alienation of modern urban life."

Impressive is the uncanny skill of the artist in capturing an exact  fabrication of the textures of all the inanimate objects that appear in each painting. BARD's process of application of oil paint, the scraping and scaring marks to the canvas is unexpected and a wondrous deviation from most traditional European painting of this genre, This technique allows the work to move forward, albeit derivative, into the realm of new Contemporary Art for the 21st Century.

Axelle Fine Art is located at 525 West 25th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues).

PREVIEW "WORK OF ART BRAVO TV"

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Photo: Artchick1   First night viewing Work Of Art 

I was invited to a Viewing Party at the studio of one of the contestants on the Bravo Tv new program called Work of Art.   We had a great deal of fun commenting on the broadcast amongst ourselves.  Of course, the Artist contestant, Judith Braun, already new the outcome of the contest winner but was prohibited from the big reveal by a legal gag order  contract of sorts.

Program Work of Art to continue for 8 weeks during the summer months.  Casting is now beginning for Season 2, which I personally think will be set in LA this time around.

ART AS A METAPHOR FOR MEMORY

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photo/artchick1     Artist: Lori Feld "The Sky Is Falling"

"...I especially explore and visualize the concept of 'the other'. These paintings and drawings are deliberately intimate, while containing fetishistic figures that are emotionally confrontational and exaggerated in their 'otherness'..." says LORI FELD, artist, "The Sky is Falling" exhibition at the Claire Oliver Gallery in Chelsea.

These works are mixed media paintings that incorporate colored pencil drawings on rice paper or hand-colored one of a kind prints with additional collage, thread, encaustic, beeswax, lace, charmingly imbued with no lack of inspiration and endearing imagination.

 "Having deciphered some of the imagery, the symbolism remains far more felt than understood, more disquieting than soothing" 

A mystical replication of an 'other world' awaits you for the viewing.

Lori Feld

"THE SKY IS FALLING"

Claire Oliver Gallery - Closes - Oct 7th, 2010 

DALE CHIHULY: BLOWN GLASS AS A VEHICLE FOR SCULPTURE

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Artist: Dale Chihuly - photo: Marlborough Gallery

I remember the first time I saw an exhibition of this artist's work way back in the day when SOHO was the art world capital in NYC.  How wonderful, I thought, this glass, this glowing glass sculpture back lit in a dark gallery. Exquisite!

Dale Chihuly, who was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1941, has become an internationally celebrated personality in contemporary art and design whose prominence in the field of contemporary studio glass is unmatched. He is a generous and charismatic individual with a forceful personality, who ceaselessly promotes himself and his material—glass—to audiences around the world. He has championed the use of blown glass as a vehicle for sculpture, focusing on the vessel in his explorations of color and form.           

An exciting exhibition of his work opens at the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, 545 W 25th Street, on September 16th, 6-8PM and continues through October 16th.

This is a remarkable installation at the Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, one that you too will remember.

50 YEARS AT PACE GALLERY BLOWOUT EXHIBITION

PACE GALLERY Chelsea/James Turrell Holograms

AND A GIFT TO THE ART COMMUNITY...

A catalogue with a foreword by Arne Glimcher, founder, and more than 250 full color illustrations will accompany the exhibition.

In addition, an iPhone application designed to complement 50 Years at Pace, featuring audio clips of artists and art historians, and a walking tour of public works in Manhattan, will be available to download from the lTunes Store, free of charge.

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery  presents a multi-

venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades.

Opening Receptions will be hosted in each gallery from 5:30-9 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2010. 

50 Years at Pace will bring together some of the key masterpieces that have passed through Pace’s doors, featuring  loans from important public and private collections worldwide.

With works spanning more than a century and a selection of rare archival materials, 50 Years at Pace will shed light on some of the landmark exhibitions and sales from the gallery’s extensive history. 

Each gallery will explore a different aspect of Pace’s history: mini-reprises of groundbreaking thematic  and historical  exhibitions will be on view at 57th Street; the gallery’s enduring relationship with Pop art and Abstract Expressionism will  be highlighted at 25th Street; contributions to Minimalist Art and the Post-Modernist movement will be featured at 22nd Street; and Pace’s commitment to Contemporary art in the 21st century will be showcased at the gallery’s *new location on 510 West 25th Street.

EXHIBITION:  50 Years at Pace

September 17th through October 23rd

FEMALE BODY BUILDERS HAVE BIG BREASTS

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ARTIST MARTIN SCHOELLER is exhibiting at HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER GALLERY

Video: James Kalm/Rough Cuts/YouTube

WORK OF ART BRAVO.TV

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THE NEXT GREAT ARTIST competition on BRAVO-TV on the Program "WORK OF ART" begins tonight.

New York Times/Picking the next Picasso (more)

photo: Artchick1   Judith Braun's Studio NYC

I will be attending an event party at one of the contestant's art studio to join in the celebrations with the bubbly...Cheers!

ROBERT AND ETHEL SCULL - PORTRAIT OF A COLLECTION

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 All beginning and new art collectors must go to the Acquavella Gallery to see Robert and Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection

It emphasizes the radical nature of the time when this type of art was considered Avant Garde.  It is my 

considered opinion that now is the time to search for the same quality of artwork in today's Contemporary

art world for new discoveries of existing talent that will withstand the test of time using the Scull's Collection

as inspiration.

SIZE DOES MATTER - Flag Foundation

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CURATOR EXCELANCE

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/03/shaq-attacks-art-world-in-size-does-matter.html

ANTICIPATING SPRING NY-NON STOP NBC-TV

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SPRINGTIME WILL BE UPON US SOONER THAN WE THINK...


CHELSEA ART GALLERY WALKS - 2010
 

as seen on NBC-TV "NY NON-STOP"

Damien Hirst : “End Of An Era” Opening at Gagosian Gallery

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DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND

              photos by TRENDLAND

This 30 ft. screen made with 30,000 manufactured diamonds (detail on top) is one of the most excessive uses of gems that I have ever witnessed... and  I love this piece.  Damien Hirst exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery (uptown) has finally gotten to ME!  Although his work for me has been mostly "shock and awe" triggers, with this conceptual piece I can identify!  Included in the exhibition are some photorealistic paintings of famous gems such as (The Premiere Rose)

I am not going to mention the other piece that is difficult for me to comprehend in this post.  BUT...
See more http://cyanatrendland.com/2010/01/31/damien-hirst-end-of-an-era-opening/

TINO SEHGAL - GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM AN ACCIDENTAL ENCOUNTER

THE  "NAKED" GUGGENHEIM - An Invisible Art Exhibition and/or BABY IT'S YOU!
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/tino-sehgal

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"...Sehgal is one of the few really really formally radical contemporary artists. I say this only having seen his work once ..."  quote by a facebook friend, writing on a thread of New York Magazine Senior Art Critic, Jerry Saltz's FB page on Tuesday, January 26th.

Had the intention of very special day attending the small exhibition (30 works)  at the Guggenheim Museum's Collection of Non-Objective Modern Art, for a causal afternoon viewing.  To my amazement, shock and awe, I was confronted by a completely "empty" Guggenheim.  Bare walls and very few people mulling around on the ramps.  Looked kinda' strange to me, however, I knew that it was between exhibitions.  Took the elevator to Tower 5, enjoyed viewing the paintings, walked to Tower 7  (noticed some curator types merandering around)  finished up with the Brancusi wood sculptures.  Wandering onto the ramp I noticed Tino Sehgal and was introduced by a project director I had veen talking with, she made the introduction.   Had a nice chat with him about his upcoming opening and offered congrats.  He then proceeded to "convince" me and my friend to join the on-going rehersal of the Exhibition which will open on January 29th.  I said "Where" he said "down there" I said "Where" he said "take the elevator down to the rotunda, and look for the children " I looked at him knowing I was supposed to have "an experience" as i had read the PR in the NYT.  We shook hands and I thought WTF is going on in here.. what was I supposed to do, participate somehow? However, I was getting dizzy and on the edge of Vertigo from those pure while walls that seemed to be swirling around me - strange energy indeed.  I  then happened to look over the railing down to the floor of the rotunda and saw  a " Choreography/Action" taking place...

    

(Blurry Photos Taken by Artchick1)

Knowing that I was committed to being  "involved" we arrived at the first ramp and was greeted by a child performer who asked me what "PROGRESS" meant to me... we walked and talked, until another performer met us with a new question about other countries and art (more walking UP) met by another performer with another interaction about Technology (more walking UP) met by another performer and another discussion a little more confrontational (more walking UP) and so it continued with different performers, more interactions until we reached the top ramp (walking ALL the way UP) then it was over - no one said it was over, we had to ask - got an affirmative "nod" and the performer disappeared...Press Release details
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/tino-sehga 

 It is 5 hours later and I am still having an "experience" and a bad headache from the stark WHITE WALL S,  the emptiness of the museum, and the effects the magnificent architecture had on my mind and body, but that's for another post...

JERRY SALTZ BOOK LAUNCH AT X-

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Jerry Saltz at X

It was great fun attending the book launch "SEEING OUT LOUDER"  for NY Magazine Senior Art Critic, Jerry Saltz last week, not only because I showed up to support Jerry, who I have known since back in the day, also to meet with others who wanted to meet in person the Facebook  "friends" with whom we have been having many lively art world discussions on Jerry's Page.  I never did get to purchase my book or have it personally signed as they were all sold out by the time I reached the front of a very long line.  However, I did meet my " FB friends" some of them are now friends...

Jerry Saltz's  book launch is included at the end of this video (below) which features the exhibition at Pace Gallery of David Hockney's paintings done in Yorkshire, England.  This is Hockney's first show in 12 years and it is located in the Chelsea gallery on West 25th Street, as well as in the UES gallery, in NYC, NY

  Artist DAVID HOCKNEY AT PACE GALLERY (YouTube)

I truly enjoyed viewing the David Hockney Exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea.  These painting use the tried and true color pallet that he has made famous in various other works in the past.  One remarkable thing that I can add to my experience with these paintings is to reveal that I had thought that the colors were imaginary until I happened to be watching an English made movie called "Happy Go Lucky" 

which had a long landscape shot of a woman walking through the country side.  There it was, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND  in living HOCKNEY COLOR...wonderous!

TOUCH ME FEEL ME SEE ME

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JAMES TURELL exhibition in Chelsea was a blast!

I know that holograms have been around for quite some time, however, this installation at Pace Gallery is exceptional.  It was experiential, visual and emotional.  I saw it, felt it and wanted to touch it.  Of course, the illusion was complete...COLOR!

I found it exciting, all those many black picture frames, lining the walls...

and behold, take a little step or a big step, or walk fast or slow past them, and color, shapes and vibrations engulfs one in visual wonderland.

HIGH and LOW DOWN ART

DEITCH PROJECTS - KEHINDE WILEY "Black Light" Exhibition

Is a photography not a painting show this time 'round for this artist.

original photos not clipart

WHAT was more interesting was not HIGH on the walls of the gallery, but what was  LOW on the sidewalk "OUTSIDE"... Artist Wayne Coe's "Sand Painting" introducing the event of WILEY'S photography Exhibition.  Ornately executed in black gun powder and white sand particles this treasure of visual and aesthetic expertise was the unexpected and delightful artwork surprise "happening" seen that entire evening in SOHO...  

GALLERY OPENINGS TONIGHT IN CHELSEA

OFF WE GO...

So many Art Openings tonight that I can't begin to understand why they are not scattered as they have been previously?  Maybe it has something to do with the "it's the economy stupid" frame of mind.  More advertising is encouraged when less product is being moved...

For me, I am starting out early and see how far I get...

More to follow tomorrow, the day after the Big Night...Will have photos to post? 

Absolutely!




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ART SIGNALS INTEGRITY AMISH KAPOOR SCULPTURE

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I FELL IN LOVE WITH...

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I have a personal clip art gallery that I covet and I am sharing my expertise in choice with this offering today...

All I can say about this wonderful public art sculpture is...I WANT ONE IN NYC! Our skyscrapers deserve it... Our locals deserve it... Our commuters deserve it...Our tourists deserve it. They do...I DO!

Perhaps we could have a few, a bit smaller, placed on the Park Avenue Islands instead of the tulips for our Spring Lift-Up. NYC needs more Public Art. If I had my wish ... I personally, would want it downtown as the memorial for 911...If we could have this sculpture, where would you imagine it ?

MURALS IN SOHO RIVALS KEITH HARRING

Photo: Justin Maxon/The New York Times

Delightful and dreamlike this new addition to the SoHo Art Walls Scene which was monopolized by the KEITH HARRING reconstruction art wall not too very long ago, is this new mural as featured in the NEW YORK TIMES article...art critic Roberta Smith writes: "With their first public artwork in Manhattan, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17, the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase." I hope you enjoy it as much as I did?

SEE SLIDE SHOW HERE:

STREET ART TO THE GALLERY

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"WHOLE IN THE WALL"

Exhibition on view of "street art" that I attended and fully enjoyed seeing the work that was familiar to me for many years downtown in Soho to name one of the neighborhood's scattered with this type of artwork. Not legitimate (art) at the time, but always exciting when spotted out of the corner of your eye like a surprise birthday present waiting to be unwrapped. One just had to examine the contents and give the artist a big virtual KISS!

GUSTON - OH MY, BIG GUY...

"...then I did a whole series of paintings of smokers smoking; it's me.  When I show these, people laugh, and I always wonder what laughter is.  I guess Baudelaire"s definition is still valid; it's the collision of two contrary feelings"...Phillip Guston

When I first saw the change in Guston's paintings from the lyrical, heavily  double and tripple loaded pallet knife strokes of exquisite color abstract compositions, I almost cried out loud.  I never understood exactly what was happening.  Perhaps his  close relationship with deKooning influenced his decision and out frustration that he could not compete, or did not choose to,  he needed to break away and do something entirely off the wall...something to distinquish his work and feed his ego.  This breakthough decision paved the way for no longer emerging artists, Kenny Scharf and Carol Ludlum

One of the series  of "Smokers" is now in the Whitney's permanent collection at last, where it belongs!

SNELING - MEETING THE ARTIST AT HIS RETROSPECTIVE...

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Being an ART WARRIOR really pays off most times...Saturday in Chelsea brought many delights from viewing the Retrospective of Kenneth Sneling's fabulous sculpture at the Marlbough Gallery and having him speak with our group and answer our questions :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmUu6z12h2A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pXwXSUl3KU

Another highlight would be the Tony Oursler exhibition at Metro Pictures

ART - IT'S ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS

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Yayoi Kusama's eightieth year, Gagosian Gallery is presenting exhibitions of her recent work in New York of the renowned doyenne of the international art world.

"For this two-part exhibition, which has been several years in the making, Kusama has conceived some astonishing new works, such as Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (2009), a mesmerizing "infinity room" that operates on a system of simple yet ingenious optical devices. In a dark void, a delicate, shimmering mirage unfolds around the viewer, a myriad of gleaming lights that reproduce and reflect endlessly upon each other in golden silence" The video below was shot quickly inside the Infinity Room. The experience was overwhelming! I wanted to stay in there for a very, very long time...

ART WARRIORS, YES!

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FREE - 5 EXICITING EXHIBITIONS

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I know that the ART market has taken a beating along with the entire economy, being dragged kicking and screaming down to the edge of the abyiss, yet there is hope, because there are always ART Exhibitions to view...Exciting shows are listed below my fabulous photo that I took on Saturday in Chelsea on Tenth Ave.

"it don't cost nothin' to look"...Damond Runyon

SO LOOK HERE:

• Picasso/Gogosian Gallery
• The Women/Cohen Collection/Sothebys
• Patti Smith/Robert Miller Gallery
• Universal Gym/Gladstone Gallery
• Ophelia/Mike Weiss Gallery

ART - IS IT OR ISN'T IT ?

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Now, you tell me...

All of the hype about "Is it Art?"

... after viewing this exhibition of Lisa Yuskavage at Zwirner it was difficult to say? My own feelings are prejudiced because I abhor women being objectified, however, on the other hand, the artist really knows her craft and paints like a Flemish angel. Yes, there is a niche for this work, and the billionaire Steve Cohen, who is exhibiting part of his fabulous collection "The Women" at Sotheby's has "ONE"! Albeit, a conservative piece at that, but non the less erotic. However, the only cartoon-y reference on his piece, NIGHT 1999-2000, is the face and the ass, or should I say "cheek-y".

LIKE I SAID...this woman can paint...and let's hope that after she has played out her fame-game, she will do just that? I doubt it though, after seeing what she looks and sounds like, she is this business for the long haul, laughing all the way to the bank...

CLASH OF THE ARTISTS '09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZAPjPKoAI

CLASH OF THE ARTISTS '09 YouTube link above

MUSIC ... ART... FASHION... EXCITEMENT!

This is a wonderful organization for which I volunteer as much as possible to help out on their events. I enjoy taking on the responsibility of greeting and checking in pre-paid guests and collecting $ at the door for last minute enthusiasts! This was a fundraiser for the non-profit organization, Art for Progress. Every year they have a Contest for their artist membership to compete for prizes. They conduct an on-line vote for the "finalists" and have an event for them to show their work. The guests are asked to vote at that time by paper ballot, collected at the event, counted, then the announcement of the "Winners" are posted on their website at http://artforprogress.org

CHECK IT OUT...

OURSLER - THE VIDEO KING

TONY OURSLER

You Tube link

THE VIDEO KING has a new exhibition at Metro Pictures. Artist, Tony Oursler had done it again. To my delight and fascination, the new show is fabulous. I was fortunate to see his very first show, and remember that I was shocked to see these little faces peering out from various vessels and talking to me. I was enchanted and awed. I asked, who is this guy, and what is he trying to tell me. In my amusement I found that the artist did communicate with me on every piece in that show, and I never stopped telling others about his work. That was over 15 years ago...His work is even more refined and a certainly spectacular in this exhibition of new work.

ART FAIRS 09... ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND...

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Just a "taste" of what's to come from the ART FAIR WEEKEND

BRIDGE ART FAIR

Video

http://robinbossert.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2256713%3AVideo%3A242&xgs=1

ARMORY SHOW PART 

Videos- James Kalm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezU2B1AAOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IVga7juKrw

ART SALON SUNDAYS

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CHANNELING GERTRUDE STEIN

SALON SUNDAYS...(link)

ArtChick1: WEARING LANDSCAPES....

ArtChick1: WEARING LANDSCAPES....

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WEARING LANDSCAPES....

Kimono as Art

The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota features forty oversized kimono created by Master Kubota. Kimono will tour the United States for six months with only two stops: San Diego, California and Ohio

MARLENE DUMAS, FAB!

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WHAT A TALENT...

Marlene Dumas

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Read my opines on this marvelous artist on Smart Network

DO NOT MISS IT !!!!

MoMA til February 16

Le Petit Salon: I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF...

Le Petit Salon: I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF...

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CINDY SHERMAN -Portrait of a Lady

CINDY SHERMAN recent exhibition at Metro Pictures was a complete surprise especially when I noticed that 2 of the people in the NYC Gallery Walks/Chelsea  more than resembled would-be-relatives of the "Ladies of a Certain Age" which is what I call the theme of this show.

Actually, her genre this time depicted "mature women" (gender specific work) of all types...cultural, economic, geographic and spiritual persuasions. However, there was another layer showing the evolution, either by choice or by circumstances,  to emphasize the emotional and/or personality differences that exists between these very large portraits.  Size matters...

For me, it was a statement of feminism redux!  Reality vs Hope..  of a life lived by women "with" those hard fought for entitlements.  As I walked the exhibit, it was evident that SHERMAN had captured the enigma of choice in her set-ups in the composition of this work... 

The portraits reflect a primal visibility, at last, of that intriguing inner life lived  and exposed... by generation, facial expressions and explicit fashion drag. 

Which portrait did I relate to?   And you?

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