For those of you in NYC tonight, check out this great opportunity to attend a VIP art event (most likely with free liquor, if that’s an added incentive)… On Thursday, June 18th, ArtBattles invites a select group of art fans to the ‘Living Art Exhibition’ Collector’s Party running from 5-8pm. Artwork will be available for [...]
Archive for June, 2009
*Exclusive* event invitation for AAC readers and Then some
Posted in Artists, Events, tagged Art Battles, art collecting party, art contests, New York City events, street art, Then graffiti artist on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
LV to NYC: back in the saddle again
Posted in Indulgences, News, tagged American Museum of Natural History, Bellagio, Dale Chihuly, F. Holland Day, museum admission fees, National Endowment for the Arts, statistics on public participation in the arts, The Metropolitan Opera on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hope you don’t have abandonment issues! I just got back on the red eye from Las Vegas, where I spent three booze-filled days doing pretty much the opposite of high culture in every respect. Who says a love for craps and F. Holland Day is irreconcilable? Well, I’m running on twenty-five minutes of sleep [...]
Brad Pitt hearts Neo Rauch, or, Celebrities…they’re just like us!
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, tagged art, Art Basel, Brad Pitt, David Zwirmer Gallery, Neo Rauch, painting, Perez Hilton on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You know, getting an art-focused blog off the ground is a lot more difficult than creating a celebrity gossip site. There are a lot more people who kill time at work by looking for pictures of movie stars than, I don’t know, fine art photography of Iranian bodybuilders (see below!). So I have a little NO SHAME in [...]
Muslim arts festival underway in NYC
Posted in Artists, Events, Exhibitions, tagged arts festivals, Asia Society, bodybuilding, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas, NYU Center for Dialogues, photography, Seifollah Samadian on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you in search of ideas for a cultural outing this weekend, might I recommend “Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas,” an arts festival showing the work of more than 100 Muslim artists (visual artists, filmmakers, musicians and dancers) from 23 countries. The festival, co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for Dialogues, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Asia [...]
New art collecting documentary winning praise
Posted in News, Tips, tagged "Herb & Dorothy", art collecting, Christo, Chuck Close, documentary film, Megumi Sasaki, National Gallery of Art, Robert Mangold, Sol LeWitt on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m so excited to see a new documentary film that’s currently playing in NYC and is being screened across the U.S. over the summer. “Herb & Dorothy” tells the story of a blue-collar couple who have shared the passion of collecting modern art since the 1960s. Not only were they visionaries, collecting works by the [...]
Art Battle Live: Colt 45 is the weapon of choice
Posted in Events, Indulgences, tagged Alchemy Properties, Art Battles, Central Park Summer Stage, Colt 45, live art events, Living Art Exhibition, painting, Red Bull Loft, Svedka on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a sucker for an open bar, so I was delighted to receive an invitation to attend the Living Art Exhibition‘s opening event yesterday evening at the Red Bull Loft in NYC. The concept is an interesting one: a live event in which visitors watch on in a lounge-like atmosphere as artwork is created by [...]
Venice, Basel…oh wait, I’m stuck in Midtown
Posted in Artists, Events, tagged art, Basel, Chu Yun, Massimiliano Gioni, Ragnar Kjartansson, Saburo Murakami, summer art festivals, Switzerland, Venice Biennial on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us with, you know, real jobs that don’t allow us to gallivant around Europe for the summer months, here are some news stories from over the weekend that show us exactly what we’re missing: If you’ve picked up any arts publication in the last month, you know that the Venice Biennial began [...]
John St. John, “undiscovered” artist with kick-ass name
Posted in Artists, tagged John St. John, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Puerto Rico, Scripps College, Syracuse University, undiscovered artists, Visions of Reality in Oil Painting on June 5, 2009 | 35 Comments »
More encouragement to dabble outside of just the “listed” artists– enjoy! John St. John was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1911. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1935 and the Maxwell School of Public Administration at Syracuse University in 1938. Although he worked in public administration until he went to serve in [...]
Whitney hosting all-star panel discussion on June 18th
Posted in Events, tagged Earthworks, Elizabeth Streb, Lisa Randall, Nate Silver, panel discussion, Peter Galison, public events, Vik Muniz, Whitney Museum of American Art, Why Does Art Matter Now? on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For all you well-rounded art fans out there, this upcoming panel discussion at the Whitney Museum of American Art looks fascinating: Why Does Art Matter Now? Thursday, June 18, 7 pm In our current economic climate, the arts appear to be expendable, yet, paradoxically, creative thinking is more necessary than ever; this interdisciplinary program seeks [...]
2009 awards for video game art announced
Posted in Events, Exhibitions, News, tagged Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Alone in the Dark, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Into the Pixel, Photoshop, Stephane Belin, video game art, zombies on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The year was 1992. My dad purchased the first-ever 3D horror survival game for the computer: Alone in the Dark. I remember sitting perched in the den’s chair at night with all the lights on and the curtains firmly pulled shut because I was so scared by the vivid graphics of zombies popping out of [...]
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