[Andrea Tese and guest]

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If you haven’t been to the Heist Gallery to see the current exhibition, Boats Against The Current, you should.  We were there for the opening, as photographer Andrea Tese celebrated her first solo photography show.  “Boats Against the Current” is comprised of selected images from her series “After”, a project in which she tried to “capture the crucial moment that follows a marking experience”. Among those enjoying the show were Kipton Cronkite of KiptonArt, Marlborough Gallery’s Melyora Kramer, Heist’s Talia Eisenberg, Lauren Warwick (Tese’s sister) and Cesar Lechowick (who were both subjects of Tese’s work), Vincent and Joyce Tese, Stonington Cox, Ellen Stendahl, Dior’s Brooke Travis, and Vogue’s Elissa Lumley and Valerie Boster.

[Papercut At Heist Gallery A Recessionista Reprieve]

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[Andrew, Jeff Koons, Andrew. Photos by JIMI CELESTE for PMc ]

We all know and love Jeff Koons’ slick balloon animal-esque sculptures that graced the Met’s rooftop. Well, last night, The National Arts Club, they decided to present Koons with a gold medal of honor at a dinner party in his honor. Also, several of the guests decided to don creative eye-wear in his honor. Koons, who recently made an apperance in “Milk”, has contributed to the art world for quite some time, often causing an uproar (artistically, personally). 

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[Onora Silver, Bianca Zvorc, Jada Smith, Mahlot San Sosa. Photos by SHAUN MADER for PMc]

Last night, Chelsea’s Tyler Rollins Fine Art gallery held an opening reception for Ron Agam’s exhibition entitled ‘In Full Bloom’.  The colors lit up the room. Ron, (who was brought up in Paris, Israel, and New York), on the Tyler Rollins site, speaks about treating the flowers as if they were faces, as he had been used to portraits. After over a year of working with the flowers, Agam realized how important they are and decided that he wanted this exhibition to make a statement on saving our environment so that these beautiful majestic flowers can keep blooming.

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[Marian Goodman with John Baldessari and one of his pieces. Photos by DAVID X PRUTTING for PMc]

Tuesday night the Marian Goodman Gallery held the opening reception for artist John Baldessari’s Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads show. Like he did in his other series ‘Noses & Ears, Etc,’ or Arms and Legs (Specif. Elbows and Knees), Etc’, Baldessari used his paintings from the ’50s as the source that he explores using space and color. This series “continues the artist’s exploration of human identity through the fragmentation of parts of the body.” The opening brought out a definite sense of joy and excitement in its viewers- perhaps having to do with the colorful accents residing in his pieces.

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[Photos by MARC DIMOV for PMc]

Every New Yorker knows that Thursdays bring about a slew of gallery openings. Last night, Milk Gallery held the opening of an art show that brought to light the sour truth behind Cambodia’s sex trade and human trafficking. Norman Jean Roy’s TRAFFIK exhibition is also made into a book. The whole project started when Roy met a former sex slave, Somaly Mam, while he was on assignment. Some more about their collaboration on the project here. The opening brought out many people, and most of the guests had a laid-back style with an artistic flair whether it be with their flannel, hairdos, or hats.

[Somaly Mam]

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Last Thursday night, Scallywag and Vagabond Magazine celebrated its launch by presenting an exhibition of the artist Serge Strosberg’s work, entitled “The Dorian Gray Syndrome” - recent oil and tempera portraits, many of  of Paris and NY socialites.  ScV Chief Editor Christopher Koulouris welcomed a crowd that included curators from various museums, gallery owners, art collectors, media, and others including Prince Lorenzo Borghese, Angela Sahi, Fabian Cousteau, Robert Davi, Gossip Girls star Nicole Fiscella, David Janick, Doug Marshall, Ned Grace, Lisa Singer, Rick Davy of BK Fashion Weekend, Arthur Insana and Terry Oved.

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Last night we were lucky to attend the opening reception for Norwegian artist Unni Askeland’s exhibit  FRIEZED:BLONDIE IN THE FOREST. The exhibit, held at the Heiberg Cummings Design studio will be  up from October 30th-Nov 21.  Guests were treated to the amazing vocals of blues singer Terri White, while Unni bounced around the room making sure to talk to each arriving visitor. The artist, described as the “enfant terrible” of the contemporary Norwegian art scene, lived up to her glamorous reputation as she sipped wine in a  audacious leopard print dress.

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[Karl Lagerfeld. Photos by BILLY FARRELL for Patrick McMullan]

Chanel’s Mobile Contemporary Art Container commissioned by Chanel’s own, Karl Lagerfeld, has traveled from Hong Kong to Tokyo, and now to New York City’s Central Park. This jet-setting art installation and architectural gem includes work from contemporary artists across Europe, Asia, The U.S., Russia, and Latin America. The Tuesday night event was a huge success as the talented, fashionable, and ever so social New York crowd stepped out of their homes and into the art-filled pod to party with Karl.

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[Photos by JOE SCHILDHORN via Patrick McMullan]

Wednesday night, The New Museum marked the first American installation from the collection of contemporary painter Elizabeth Peyton. Friends, fans, and devoted supporters of the arts attended the Live Forever collection to see the visual biography of the artist and her intimate narrative portrayal of pop culture with portrait after portrait of a who’s who from the worlds of art, fashion, Hollywood, and politics. 

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[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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[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.

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