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Weekly Roundup
03/16 | Artlog | Post a comment
Here is a selection of interesting art world news free from any commentary!
- Marina Abramovic Includes Nude Pair Standing Still
- Branding in the New York art world
- The Works of 10 Abstract Expressionists for Under $5 (pictured above)
- Barnstormers Group Exhibition
- A Different Way to Make a Difference
- 31 Women in Art Photography
- FBI seeking commuter help in Boston art heist
- De Niro, Bankrupt Art Gallery Settle
- Art: Bernanke, Greenspan & The Federal Reserve
NBC: Insider's View of the Whitney Biennial
03/11 | Artlog | Post a comment
On this week’s NBC New York segment, Artlog talks with the young superstar curator of the Whitney Biennial, Gary Carrion-Murayari. Gary provides an insider’s look at artists to look out for when visiting the year’s hottest museum show. Also check out our photos and review of the Biennial here.
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Tools For Thought - Haiti Benefit
03/11 | Jordan Hruska | Post a comment
In the computer age, tools seem to have lost their romance. You can bang on the keyboard all day at work and feel like you haven’t done a thing, but for artists and craftspeople, tools are personal. Tools For Thought (Benefit March 15) will be offering both signed tools and original works from hundreds of artists like Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, Ed Ruscha, Michael Stipe and Dan Colen in a silent auction beginning online today to benefit Partners In Health, an NGO, which has been dedicated to providing comprehensive health care to Haiti for the past 20 years.
Tools For Thought was created to find a quick and effective way to rally contemporary artists and art collectors to help those in Haiti most afflicted by their devastating earthquake. In the spirit of Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades,” the young organization has asked artists to donate singed tools for auction which will begin today and close on Monday March 15th at 9pm at a ticketed benefit event held at Sotheby’s. In a matter of weeks, Tools For Thought was able to elicit the support of an impressive and generous roster of artists.
Interview with Edina Tokodi (LPR and Wooster Collective)
03/11 | Artlog | Post a comment
The Gallery at LPR has teamed up with The Wooster Collective for an exhibition of Hungarian born, New York artist, Edina Tokodi. Her work can be categorized as Green/Street/Urban. She describes it as: “I work with plants and other living or organic materials such as hand-made paper, sand, etc. I try to bring nature closer to city dwellers both with my street art pieces and with my site-specific indoor installations.” On view through May 19 at The Gallery at LPR @158 Bleecker Street
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Where do your ideas come from? Explain your creative process.
Since my pieces are site-specific installations, the creative process is always informed by the given surrounding; the ideas and sensations it conveys, the methods and techniques it requires or allows for. Finding the right form for my ideas can be like a spontaneous reaction; in other cases, it takes a lot of time and research.
The Armory Show Arts Week - Favorite Booth Results
03/08 | Artlog | Post a comment
The conversation on Artlog Live was tremendous with thousands of posts across all the fairs of The Armory Show Arts Week. 52 galleries from across the globe were nominated by the community (see the full list). Below find the most popular gallery booths at the fairs selected by you!
- 1) Jack Shainman Gallery (NYC)
- 2) Nicole Klagsbrun (NYC)
- 3-tie) Victoria Miro (London)
- 3-tie) Kavi Gupta (Chicago)
- 1) Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles)
- 2) perugi artecontemporanea (Padua)
- 3) Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles)
IMPULSE People’s Choice Awards
- 1) Judi Rotenberg Gallery (Boston)
- 2) heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg)
- 3-tie) Ana Cristea Gallery (NYC)
- 3-tie) Invisible-Exports (NYC)
- 1) Mironova Gallery (Kyiv)
- 2) Galeria Christopher Paschall (Bogota)
- 3) Mike Weiss Gallery (NYC)
Our Presentation at SMartCAMP
03/08 | Dylan Fareed | Post a comment
After a week of running around between the Artlog office and myriad Armory Arts Week events, Nish and I took a break to present at SMartCAMP yesterday. We greatly enjoyed the conference, received good feedback from attendees and dug the other presentations/panels we caught while we were there.
Here’s a video of the presentation we gave:
And if you are having trouble watching the embedded video above, you can stream it here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5263120
Pernod Absinthe announces Creator Of winners!
03/08 | Artlog | Post a comment
Pernod Absinthe (“Creator of Absinthe In 1805”) concludes its Creator Of art contest today with the winner’s announcement. The contest solicited paintings, illustrations, photographs, digital/animation and video entries since last fall. The winners, their works, and prizes are:
1st Place – $1805 and Creator Of video profile
Dan Sabau, painting, “1805 Absinthe Massquerade”
Weekly Roundup
03/07 | Danielle Mund | 1 comment
There’s nothing more significant this week than the bounty of art fairs that have taken over New York City’s piers, hotels, and art spaces. The Armory, the ADAA’s Art Show, Dutch Art Now, Fountain New York, Independent, the Korean Art Show, PooL, Pulse, Red Dot, Scope New York, Verge New York and Volta New York—an overwhelming amount of art and a dizzying array of events have been scattered over the past four to five days. The Art Newspaper reports that given 5 minutes per booth, it would take 64 hours and 25 minutes to see it all, a record 483 galleries. And that doesn’t even include any of the parties or other openings that went down off-site, behind the scenes and after-hours.
- Multitude of fairs despite recession
- Berlin contingent at the Armory
- Modern work at Armory a plus
- Independent fair
- Scathing review of Jeff Koons’ New Museum show
Gay art in the Capital - Nelson-Atkins Museum chooses new director from Harlem
- French curators acquitted in child porn case
- Haiti’s enduring creativity (video)
- Ernst Beyeler, top dealer, dies
There was a large Berlin-based gallery contingent this year at the Armory Show, as well as a larger number of galleries represented from the Lower East Side. Armory Show Director Katelijne De Backer notes this gives the fair “a younger energy”. Pier 92 of the Armory Show was again devoted to Modern rather than Contemporary art, and was reportedly higher in quality this year due to the recession “teasing out” some of the best works from private collections. ARTINFO details the “hybrid non-art-fair art fair” Independent, a new fair held at X Initiative.
While the fairs were certainly the top item on the ticket this week, there were other openings as well. The Jeff Koons-curated show “Skin Fruit” opened at the New Museum, and was unsurprisingly hit with pretty scathing reviews by Roberta Smith (though I actually found it quite enjoyable, as controversial as that might be). Down in our nation’s Capital, the National Portrait Gallery
is officially raising funds for the first-ever federally-funded gay art exhibition entitled “Hide-Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture”. The show has already raised $500,000 of the $900,000 budget. Down in Missouri, the Kansas City Nelson-Atkins Museum has found its new director in New York’s own East Harlem. El Museo del Barrio’s current director, Julián Zugazagoitia, will assume the post.
Overseas in France, a Bordeaux court of appeals has thrown out a case against three senior curators who were originally charged on account of an exhibition in 2000 that included “child pornography”. The works, however, had already been shown at prestigious museums worldwide, including MoMA, and the case was dismissed. Though much of the news about Haiti has died down, The New York Times includes a video this week on Haiti’s enduring creativity and Haitians’ efforts to salvage works from their art centers.
Finally, Ernst Beyeler, a top dealer, collector, and museum founder, dies peacefully in his home in Switzerland at age 88.
This week, enjoy the peace after the storm!
Pernod Absinthe’s new video on Artlog’s “Creators”
03/06 | Artlog | Post a comment
Pernod Absinthe (“Creator of Absinthe In 1805”) debuts here its video spotlight on Manish Vora and Dylan Fareed – the Co-Creators Of Artlog. The clip shadows the Artlog Founders at Art Basel Miami and at the Chelsea Art Museum in NY. Interviews include Pulse Art Fair’s Helen Toomer and art fans, all sharing their enthusiasm for Artlog’s live/social media platform.
Manish Vora & Dylan Fareed, “Co-Creator’s Of Artlog:"
The video is released in tandem with the close of Pernod Absinthe’s Creator Of art contest during Armory Arts Week. The multi-disciplinary contest is a nod to Pernod’s 19th Century arts heritage. Sunday, we’ll announce here the results of the juried visual arts competition — awarding $1805 for 1st Place, $500 for 2nd Place, and $250 for 3rd Place. (Wednesday, we featured a slideshow of works from the 15 finalists. Click here to see the post.
Watch other Pernod Absinthe Creator Of videos, including a spotlight on gallerist James Fuentes and infamous barchef Joaquin Simo below.
Vote on Your Armory Arts Week Favorites
03/04 | Artlog | 1 comment
Artlog Live, the definitive guide to the Armory Arts Week, has already been a huge success. Hundreds of collectors, artists and gallerists have been posting messages on everything from their favorite art to hot events and celebrity spottings.
Inspired by the online voting for the People’s Choice Award at PULSE New York (impulse.artlog.com), which is powered by Artlog, we decided why not open this up to all the fairs across Armory Arts Week. Launched this morning, Artlog with partners Flavorpill, 20×200 and NY Art Beat have launched VOTE [vote.artlog.com]. Art lovers can submit their favorite exhibition on vote.artlog.com or tweet to @artlog with a picture, gallery name, booth number and fair.
Spread the word! Remember to keep posting using the hash tags like #armory or texting to 41411 armory + a message.
Also special thanks to our Artlog Live “Bloggers” who are sending in messages and updates all week: Persis Singh, Shayna McClelland, Rebecca Ann Siegel, Marley Blue Lewis, Danielle Mund, Tayo Ogunbiyi and Simmy Swinder!
NBC New York - Interview with Armory Show Director
03/03 | Artlog | Post a comment
On this week’s Artlog NBC New York segment, we talk with with The Armory Show Executive Director, Katelijne De Backer. She highlights important artists and programming at this year’s fair. Remember to visit live.artlog.com for a full guide to NYC’s biggest Arts Week and to post comments!
Pernod’s “Creator Of” Contest Concludes
03/03 | Artlog | Post a comment
During Armory Arts Week, Pernod Absinthe (“Creator of Absinthe In 1805”) is wrapping its Creator Of art contest. The multi-disciplinary contest is a nod to Pernod’s 19th Century arts heritage when the brand became a familiar feature of storied Bohemian cafés and artist salons. Later this week, the juried visual arts competition (Artlog’s Manish Vora was among the judges) will award $1805 for 1st Place, $500 for 2nd Place, and $250 for 3rd Place. The multi-disciplinary contest was open to U.S. residents who entered paintings, illustrations, photos, digital/animation, and videos. Watch a slideshow of works from the 15 finalists:
Part of the Creator Of campaign also includes a series of video spotlights on originators, including a clip on Artlog which we’ll debut here Friday. (Along with clips on gallerist James Fuentes and barchef Joaquin Simo). Sunday, we will post here the 3 winners of the art contest.
