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Become A “Patron Of the Arts” With Trust Art!
We’ve just heard about about a great new concept that was announced at the TED Conference in Palm Springs. Fame Theory (the guys behind FameGame) SquareSpace, and BBH New York have just announced the launch of Trust Art, which is nothing less than a “new project to reinvent the model of the contemporary art world.” More »
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Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery Hosts Party For The Opening Of Elizabeth Thompson’s The Everglades
[Antonia Thompson, Elizabeth Thompson, Victoria Thompson. All photos by BEN GABBE for PMc]
Last night, guests at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery were transported into an oasis of Florida flora and fauna for the opening of artist Elizabeth Thompson’s solo exhibition “The Everglades.” Thompson, a painter with studios in New York and Florida, studied her subject matter while participating in the National Park’s Artists in Residence Program, and likened the Everglades to her own personal Walden Pond.
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Chandelier Creative and Commonwealth Utilities’ First Annual Christmas Extravaganza
[Richard Christiansen, Marc Jacobs, Douglas Marshall, Adam Nelson. Photos by JIMI CELESTE/PMc]
Last Thursday, a mix of NYC’s notable creatives, fashion influencers and glitterati gathered for the first annual Chandelier Creative Christmas Extravaganza at the ad agency’s Soho office to benefit the New Museum’s upcoming exhibition, The Generational: Younger than Jesus. Guests also enjoyed the tunes of a live gospel choir while sipping champagne served by wait staff dressed by Commonwealth Utilities (Richard Christiansen and Anthony Keegan’s luxury menswear collection).
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April Gornik At The Danese Gallery
NYC: It’s a Beauty - It’s a Bitch! a column by John Norwood
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In the same time that it will take you to read this story and look at the photographs, artist April Gornik got at least a hundred hugs and big, fat smoochies from her fans at her recent opening at the Danese Gallery in Chelsea. They circled her like happy hummingbirds, bobbing, weaving and waiting for their chance. Some of those fans included actor Steve Martin, world-renowned artist Chuck Close, author E.L. Doctorow, “60 Minutes” newsman Steve Kroft and his wife, author Jennet Conant. It’s not just who her fans are, it’s how many.
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CORNO Private Viewing With Glitterati Magazine & Inocente Tequila
[Corno. Photos by JONATHAN ZIEGLER for PMc]
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Last night, internationally acclaimed artist Corno held a private viewing of her artwork for an exclusive crowd at her studio. The party was sponsored by fashion & art publication Glitterati Magazine, and drinks were provided by Inocente Tequila, which flowed through out the evening. Guests were treated to view several of the vibrant larger-than-life contemporary figure paintings, curated by art dealer David Chines at the Soho space.
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Andy Warhol: The Day The Factory Died By Christophe von Hohenberg
NYC: It’s a Beauty - It’s a Bitch! a column by John Norwood
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Can you imagine that you are a photographer and you are sent by Vanity Fair to cover an event attended by hundreds of the world’s most droppable names; Deborah Harry, Keith Haring, Bianca Jagger, Julian Schnabel, Raquel Welch, Robert Mappelthorpe, Yoko Ono, Paloma Picasso, Halston, Liza Minnelli, Roy Lichtenstein, Calvin Klein, Peter Max, Christo, David Hockney, George Plimpton, Claus von Bulow, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, to name just a few? That’s what happened to photographer Christophe von Hohenberg on April 1, 1987. Half the creative constituency of that era was there. The event was the memorial service for Andy Warhol at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. And for Warhol, the artist who became famous for painting a Campbell’s soup can, most of that mob would have met again late that evening to mourn in the secret basement VIP room of Studio 54, if the club hadn’t closed the year before.
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Modern Decor And Modern Partiers At The Modern Americana Release Party
[Photos by EUGENE MIM for PMc]
Elle Decor, Elle Magazine’s design and style off-shoot, hosted a party Monday night for the release of Modern Americana, the first ever go-to-guide examining the exquisite craftsmanship and custom-made furniture from American studios during a nearly undiscovered era of design. The book’s authors, Todd Merrill, a highly respected NYC antique dealer, and Julie V. Iovine, editor of Architect’s Magazine, joined Elle Decor editor-in-chief Margaret Russell and many others at Merrill’s NoHo antique store to celebrate while guests mingled among pieces from the collection featured in the book.
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Oh! The Places You’ll Go… On A LES Gallery Walk
[At Feature Inc.]
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Last night, I had the pleasure of joining The Society (the “virtual culture club”) as they took a tour of the LES’s growing number of art galleries, with the help of the new L.E.S. Gallery Guide. Starting at GalleryBar, the tour made its way around the LES and NoLita, stopping in at various galleries, where we had short talks about the works on display and the philosophies of each gallery’s “view.” Our leader for the evening was Antonio Zito, an artist who draws his inspiration from this hot new area in his own work as ‘a master of the found object’ (per the Village Voice), and also conducts his own Every Last Sunday art loop. We ended the evening back at GalleryBar and got to meet the current featured artist, Joel Fitzpatrick, while chowing down on Popburgers.
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Tyson Hall Celebrates The Harlem Renaissance
Go HERE for more photos of this event by Hayley Proudfoot
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’
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Opening At New Museum: “Cryptic”
I love contemporary art as much as the next guy. In fact I’m on the host committee of a contemporary art charity event, but at the gallery openings at The New Museum in the Bowery last night, I found myself more horrified and less introspective.
Let me start by saying that if they decide to have wine at an opening, just pour a full glass instead of making patrons come up over and over again for small quarter glasses… Also, to only let you have drinks on the main level defeats the purpose of serving them. The drink was poured and then you were on lock-down from seeing the rest of the museum! Also, it insinuates that the art on the main level was less valuable and “ok” to be spilled on.
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Louise Bourgeois: Interweaving Feminine Neuroses
[Image via Telegraph]
The current retrospective of this French-American nonagenarian at the Guggenheim, which has already been exhibited in London and Paris finally comes to New York, a city that Bourgeois has considered home for nearly the last seventy years. Bourgeois is the epitome of feminist art, a vocal leader in the empowerment movement for females (long before it was popular, as she often claims).
It is almost hypocritical that she favors materials which tend to evoke femininity in the conventional sense, from delicate glass jars and bottles to diaphanous fabrics and tactile yarn and string. Yet, Bourgeois finds art and beauty in the combination of that which confines the woman to home.
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