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Damon Johnson Gives His Dad Some REAL Gossip To Write About: Inspires Michael Ovitz, James Frey And Others To Emulate His Art
NYC: It’s a Beauty - It’s a Bitch! a column by John Norwood
[James Frey imitating a painting by Damon Johnson]
JOHN NORWOOD
NYC: IT’S A BEAUTY - IT’S A BITCH!
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Night is my time for walking. I love to look for that glow of light that beckons from my intended destination; a movie premiere, a new restaurant, a new nightclub, an art gallery opening. As I approached the appropriately named Half Gallery, for painter Damon Johnson’s new show titled, “Thanks for Asking”, I noticed that only a slight glow could possibly escape from this tiny LES storefront. Also, apropos, their logo was done all in caps with the bottom halves of all the letters removed.
Never mind the size of the gallery, I had big expectations. Three clever people own the place; James Frey, the best selling author. Bill Powers, the former editor of Blackbook Magazine and Andy Spade, husband of handbag empress, Kate Spade. Plus, Damon is the son of the New York Post’s Page Six editor, Richard Johnson.
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The “(in) Res-i-dence” Collection By David Foote
[Photos by NICK HUNT for Patrick McMullan]
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Life’s not always fair: Some people are good looking, popular AND talented. I consider contemporary artist David Foote to be one of those people. Strikingly handsome, amazingly talented and all of society’s most fun ones hang all over him (that’s if they are not already one of his muses for his works – New Girls!). Last night I found myself at the ultra-luxe 20 Pine residence downtown to view David Foote: (in) Res-i-dence collection in the Penthouse @ 20 Pine (presented by WHITEWALL Magazine, The Essence by Porsche Design and KWIAT). His art adorned the walls of the stylish penthouse as mobs of the typical PMc shutterlets crammed in to see it all.
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“Stepmothers, Stepsisters, Witches and Virgins”
[Photos by Gina Sachi Cody]
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“Stepmothers, Stepsisters, Witches and Virgins” opened at the 7-11 Gallery last Thursday, presenting an ensemble of young emerging talent and established New York City based artists, all working on themes from fairy tales. Artists include: Z Behl, Eneas Capalbo, Krista Donargo, Lance De Los Reyes, Lena Dunham, Gabrielle Grenier, Jake Levin, Judith Linhares, Alexander Massouras, Harry McNally, Matisse Patterson, Emmett Shine, Laurie Simmons and Kiki Smith.
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Spreading The Love At Anonymous Gallery Opening After Party
[Abigail Lorick, Timo Weiland, DJ Cat Pierce. Photos by David X Prutting/PMc]
After the opening of Anonymous Gallery, the party continued to The Randolph. There guests were supplied with loot set up by the Kiehl’s Lounge as well as Spread Magazine.
Barterhouse also sponsored some of the cheer that evening. Music was by the DJ Cat Pierce and the guests included Abigal Lorick, Catherine Fulmer, Celeste Greenberg, Liam Alexander, Lizzie Fortunato, and Timo Weiland among many others enjoying the night.
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Laure Peugeot Brings Us Paris Flowers In Tribeca
[Photos by Zev Starr-Tambor]
Last Saturday, artist Laure Peugeot presented her large scale oil on canvas paintings and ceramic sculptures at Zev Starr-Tambor’s studio in Tribeca. Attendees were a mix of downtown types, visiting Parisians (some of whom flew in for the show) and a few lurkers from the Upper East Side. The paintings, detail images of flowers, painted on a large scale up to 6 feet by 7 feet, popped off the long brick walls of the studio. As a floral painter post-Georgia O’Keefe, it is a real challenge to do images in this style. Laure pulls it off with a slightly different perspective, and attention to detail. Her knowledge of color and flowing brush stroke make the strongest of the pieces stand out.
What Do You Get if You Cross An Artist and a Buddhist Monk..?
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Answer: A celebration of Artist, Arthur Cohen’s latest works!
Last night at his artist studio and home apartment on West Broadway, Soho, the artist Arthur Cohen exhibited a number of large scale canvases where he had painted, with the use of oil paints, images focusing on Arthur’s relationship with a rather extraordinary Buddhist monk, who for Arthur functions as a sort of figure of atonement or exoneration.
Arthur Cohen is a New York painter with a long exhibition career. He has paintings in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Guests were warmly welcomed by the artist himself and plenty champagne for all.
The Bushwick Film Festival Showcases Sean Glass
You’ve read about it in all of the gossip columns as well as the respectable press outlets. Now, it’s finally here. The world premiere of our friend Sean Glass’ latest short film, Benefits. It stars Brian Boulos, Byrdie Bell, Kristy Rao, Paul Johnson-Calderon, Stephanie Wei, Liam McMullan, Nicole Jacobs and Brad Woolf. This narrative short is showing at the Bushwick Film Festival on Sunday night August 24th. The attached brochure and flier say that it will be at 6:45pm, but Sean got it pushed back to 8:00pm so that all of you out in the Hamptons or wherever for the weekend have no excuse not to be there! It’s not an uptight festival like nyff later this week, it’s very low key, so bring anyone.
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Cory Kennedy Shoot At LOLA’s New Offices
Cory Kennedy shot some photos for the Spring 2009 look book of Chrissie Miller’s line “Sophomore” at the new LOLA/Gin Lane Media office this week. Also shot were Jen Brill and Donald Cumming from The Virgins, by Cass Bird. Cory Kennedy, the real internet “IT” girl has taken the world by storm, it was only a matter of time until LOLA got their hands on this fresh talent. I myself can not wait to check out LOLA’s new digs.
Gregg Kallor Trio
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This week, through their Contacts and Culture event series, the C Squared Group hosted An Evening of Jazz .This event was held at the Rockwood Music Hall and consisted of a three piece jazz band ‘Gregg Kellor Trio‘. The C Squared Group hosts a series of professional networking events monthly for upscale, urban professionals. With a twist on traditional networking, C Squared Group provides socially hospitable events that incorporate interesting cultural and charitable elements. The event was co-hosted by The Urban Girl Squad, who’s director Amanda Hofman has been running the social networking group once a month, for women around New York, since Jan 2008.
Tyson Hall Celebrates The Harlem Renaissance
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Tyson Hall’s ‘Harlem Renaissance pt 1′ was the first of many Art exhibits soon to cover Harlem. The graffiti-like paintings are displayed at the shoe store “Head Over Heels” in Harlem. Tyson’s abstract images represent faces expressing unique and contrasting life images, views and opinions. Tyson boldly states that he enjoys seeing his work in a new environment: ‘it brings my images to life’
Happy 80th Birthday Andy Warhol!
Andy Warhol may have missed his own 80th Birthday party at the New Museum last night, but the artist, who coined the phrase “15 minutes of fame”, would have no doubt seen the irony in this affair. Instead of doing our write up with who was there, what they wore, and what the party was like, etc. (which will come later), I would like to take this time to highlight the artist himself in this amazing video which was part II of an episode of “USA Arts”, from 1966, an NET production, profiles pop art pioneer Warhol (and Roy Lichtenstein, in part I), as he ascends in status in the art world and in popular culture.
This video consists of:
* Interviews with Warhol
* footage of him silkscreening in The Factory
* a clip from his film “The 13 Most Beautiful Women” (1964)
* an interview with Edie Sedgwick
* Warhol assembling his mylar balloon ‘paintings’ as the Velvet Underground play “Venus in Furs” (starts at 14:00)
* Factory regulars dance
House Of Campari Presents Miguel Angel Rios’ “Crudo” At LAXART
[Guests drinking at House of Campari. Photo via Getty Images]
The LAXART and Campari partnership provided another successful event with the debut of the latest exhibition in the House of Campari presented Project Space on Saturday evening. Over 500 art and Campari enthusiasts gathered at LAXART to view Miguel Angel Rios’ single-channel video entitled Crudo (2008), selected by Gilbert Vicario, assistant curator of Latin American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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