Most art galleries in NYC are fickle mistresses. It’s pretty innovative, then, that some of the best photography galleries in the city are collaborating to offer “collectors the unique opportunity of starting a relationship with five different artists and galleries at the same time.” The initiative, dubbed Project 5, will host monthly salons, initiate a [...]
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5 NYC photo galleries join together, like Voltron
Posted in Artists, News, Tips, tagged Amador Gallery, CLAMPART, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Foley Gallery, Jill Greenberg, NYC art gallery collaborations, photography, Sasha Wolf Gallery, Zebra + Donkey = Zonkey on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kids vs. seals in La Jolla, some art on the side
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, Tips, tagged boats in art, Kid Sister, La Jolla, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Nancy Rubins sculpture, Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back in New York, safe and sound, after a lovely week of work in La Jolla, California. One of my roles at the symposium was to lead fifty academics in an ice breaker– you’ll be happy to learn that I utilized a reproduction of Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance as the focal point of [...]
Dash Snow dies young, as expected
Posted in Artists, News, tagged controversial art, Dash Snow, downtown NYC artists, Maureen Paley Gallery, sculpture on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Total bummer: Gawker reports that Dash Snow, quintessential downtown NYC artist, has died of a heroine overdose. He was 27. Snow’s popularity- and marketability- derived from his renegade lifestyle, elusive persona and controversial works. A substantial New York Magazine article from two years ago titled “Chasing Dash Snow” is worth the read; the article is [...]
Shepard Fairey fought the law in MA, no one won
Posted in Artists, News, tagged Andre the Giant, art law news, Associated Press lawsuit, graffiti art, J.D. Salinger, Shepard Fairey, skulls in art, urban art online auction on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The LA Times reports that street artist Shepard Fairey has been sentenced to two years of probation and a $2,000 fine after pleading guilty to three counts of vandalism in Boston. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop eleven other related charges. It’s fascinating how a precise balance of institutional rejection (graffiti, [...]
Thank goodness for sound governance (of art)
Posted in Artists, News, tagged Alice Smith, blockheads speaking about art, censored art, Detroit City Council, elected officials who should fire their media liasons, public sculpture, Todd Erickson, Tyree Guyton on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Detroit, Michigan: 1) ranks in the top 10 for highest murder rates, according to the FBI; 2) consistently scores as one of the most overweight cities in the U.S.; 3) graduates less than 25% of students from its public school system… BUT THANK GOODNESS for Detroit Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins and her colleagues who somehow find [...]
The dreamy life of master sand sculptors
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, tagged Bulgarian chutneys, ephemeral art, Remy Geerts and Paul Hoggard, sand elephant, sand sculptures on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have guessed from some of my previous posts, I’m intrigued by the concept of ephemeral art; painstaking effort for the sake of short-lived beauty is so alluring. Combine this idea with a life of global beach hopping and you’ve got the reality of couple Remy Geerts and Paul Hoggard, artists who together [...]
Sheet metal, jumper cables used to capture nature
Posted in Artists, tagged electricity and art, Eucalyptus Polyanthemos, Kirlian photography, nature photography, Robert Buelteman on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Wired Online posted a neat little article last week featuring the work of artist Robert Buelteman, who uses a jeopardous technique (related to Kirlian photography) that employs high voltage electricity: Buelteman begins by painstakingly whittling down flowers, leaves, sprigs, and twigs with a scalpel until they’re translucent. He then lays each specimen on color transparency film and, for a [...]
LEGO sculpture on the museum circuit
Posted in Artists, Events, tagged LEGO art, Nathan Sawaya, sculpture, The Art of the Brick on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember the pain that came with accidentally stepping on LEGO pieces in your childhood? Well, imagine the shoeless nightmare that must be the studio of New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya who creates fine art sculpture out of the some 1.5 million LEGO blocks he typically has on hand. He’s created a number of human form [...]
Interstellar paintings by someone who’s actually been there
Posted in Artists, Indulgences, tagged *NSync, Alan Bean, astronaut who paints, Lance Bass, NASA, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, space art, Space Coyboys on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alan Bean may not be the most talented painter in the world, but he’s got one hell of a hook: “the only artist to have walked on the moon.” That’s enough to get some space fans to pay out as much as $175,000 for pieces depicting his NASA experience on Apollo 12 nearly forty years [...]
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