Tonight! Here are the essentials: Wednesday, June 24th, 6-9:00 pm, 28 Wooster Street, $20 at the door Silent auction– 70 works donated by LGBTQ artists; there are some fantastic lots available at reasonable opening bids. To name just a few that excite me: Slava Mogutin (see above), assume vivid astro focus, Jack Pierson, Thomas Dozol [...]
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Public event in NYC tonight featuring stellar art auction
Posted in Events, tagged art, assume vivid astro focus, charity auction, Jack Pierson, John Waters, Pride week NYC, Slava Mogutin, Thomas Dozol on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
iPhone art? New Yorker thinks so
Posted in Artists, Tips, tagged 20x200 prints, art, Brushes, iPhone applications, Jorge Colombo, New York City street scenes, New Yorker cover on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Veteran artist Jorge Colombo created this week’s cover of The New Yorker with the iPhone application Brushes. The short article about the cover is fantastic– the application, which is available for $4.99 on iTunes, allows Colombo to draw in the dark with ease and work on busy New York City streets without drawing attention to himself (“most pedestrians assume he’s [...]
Art perks of the Oval Office
Posted in News, tagged art, art in the White House, Beauford Delaney, Berkeley No. 52, Obamas and art, Richard Diebenkorn, The National Gallery of Art on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As if you needed another reason to love the first family, the Wall Street Journal reports: The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, and Hispanic and female artists for the White [...]
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective opens at Met
Posted in Exhibitions, tagged art, Francis Bacon, George Dyer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, painting on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s like Francis Bacon week on The Amateur Art Collector! A big retrospective of his opened at the Met yesterday, but to surprisingly little buzz in New York as far as I can tell. There’s also a related lecture tomorrow at 6pm that’s free with museum admission. Here’s the official website and blurb: The first [...]
R.G. Bell: “undiscovered” artist from A.A.C.’s collection
Posted in Artists, Tips, tagged art, Frank Kleinholz, Long Island, New York, oil on canvas, painting, R. G. Bell, Rosalind Goldstein Bell, undiscovered artists, University of Wisconsin on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I thought it’d be fun to do a post on a non-listed artist that I “discovered” at an upstate New York sale around two years ago. The auction house focused exclusively on books and print materials, so I was surprised to come across some really attractive, modern paintings by an artist named Rosalind Goldstein Bell. [...]
California exhibit investigates “blind photography”
Posted in Exhibitions, tagged art, blind photography, California Museum of Photography, Douglas McCulloh, Pete Eckert, photography, Sight Unseen on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m completely intrigued by a new exhibit at the California Museum of Photography entitled Sight Unseen. While the images being displayed don’t have any visual elements in common, the thematic glue is that all of the photographers are legally blind. Take a second– a medium more or less originally developed with the intention to capture [...]
2009 West Prize announced; discover emerging artists
Posted in Artists, Events, tagged art, ice cream truck tank, pop goes the weasel, sculpture, The Dufala Brothers, West Prize on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our friend Paige of Art Addict blog is once again curating this year’s West Prize. Even if you don’t have an artist friend to encourage to apply, perusing the competition’s website is a great way to find innovative, young artists. Pictured above is the badass work “Ice Cream Truck Tank” by the 2008 grand prize winners, the Dufala Brothers. [...]
Tonight’s contemporary sale at Sotheby’s…ringside
Posted in Auctions, Events, tagged Alexander Calder, art, art auctions, Contemporary Art Evening Auction May 12th, Dan Colen, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons, Piotr Uklanski, Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Sotheby's, Tobias Meyer on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight, May 12th, is the much-anticipated sale of contemporary art at Sotheby’s in New York. Usually one of the most hyped auctions of the year, everyone was waiting to see just how the global economic downturn would effect the art market at its most elite levels. I’m thrilled to report from…a half-filled 2nd floor salesroom, [...]
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