“Cleveland– at least we’re not Detroit!” was written on a white T-shirt worn by a fellow passenger on my flight back home this past weekend. Clearly something did go wrong; a comparable city, Pittsburgh, which grew to prominence via similar industrial means, has successfully built up other sectors and is thriving. Cleveland, however, is still [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Cleveland (rocks?)
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, Tips, tagged airport art, Andy Yoder, Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Continental Airlines Terminal, cultural treasures in economically depressed cities, public art on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Social Calendar: “Those About to Die Salute You”
Posted in Events, tagged Duke Riley, free events in New York City, live art projects, Queens Museum of Art, toga wearers unite on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight! Looking to break out your toga or, alternatively, are you single and looking to scope out a partially clad, indie crowd? Read on. Those About to Die Salute You, a battle on water wielded with baguette swords and watermelon cannon balls by New York’s art dignitaries, will take place on Thursday, August 13, 2009 [...]
A flurry of activity, a culinary medley
Posted in Indulgences, News, Tips, tagged assault on the Mona Lisa, Christie's, Guy Bennett, jobs in auction houses, terra cotta mugs on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone else craving bacon? I just got back into New York after four days of working in Chicago and feel a bit like a vagabond; I’m heading out of town again on Thursday, this time to Cleveland. Life seems a bit frazzling (it’s a word, I double-checked) for many others, too. My friend, who has [...]
An uneasy feeling about exploiting death in the art market
Posted in Auctions, News, tagged Andy Warhol, auctioning artwork depicting dead celebrities, Michael Jackson, Vered Gallery on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I get it: celebrity, rarity, marketing opportunity. What I don’t get is why the East Hampton gallery auctioning off what is likely to be a $25 million+ piece of art (and is undoubtedly an American cultural treasure) has a website that looks cheaper than my free WordPress blog. Here‘s the BBC coverage. Happy weekend, people!
Living the dream, from Manhattan to Pyongyang
Posted in Indulgences, tagged Bill Clinton, Judd Apatow's Funny People, Kim Jong-il, North Korean art, propaganda art, women with guns on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“magical realism with a touch of grit”
Posted in Reviews, tagged Dash Snow, Os Gemeos, public murals in New York, Roberta Smith of the New York Times on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Roberta Smith is such a damn good art journalist– check out her most recent piece on a fantastic public mural dedicated to the late Dash Snow, located on the corner of Houston and Bowery in New York City (about five blocks from my apartment). I’m a little drunk from my good friend Jill‘s birthday dinner, [...]
Poor Annie, Vanity Fair’s Goddess
Posted in Artists, News, tagged Annie Leibovitz, Art Capital Group, Danzinger Projects, Lewis Carroll-inspired photography, Sallie Mae, Vanity Fair magazine on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember when CNN used to be respectable, before it started competing with FOX for viewership who prefer headlines like “Dog Poops in Church, Exorcised”? Sometimes I worry that with its financial problems, the New York Times might be slowly tip-toeing in that populist direction…but I guess this is in the Style section, so maybe I’m [...]
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