Also, so amazing to have both my kids on the dancefloor with their friends! Thanks so much to @newsummer.nyc & everyone involved. thx @william.m.clark 📸
Also, so amazing to have both my kids on the dancefloor with their friends! Thanks so much to @newsummer.nyc & everyone involved. thx @william.m.clark 📸
Sometimes I feel like I’ve seen enough Warhol to never have to see more, and then I get blown away by either how different they look in the flesh, or seeing works I’d not been exposed to before. As was the case with Revelation - Brooklyn Museum
Apologies for the cropping, wanted to show some details!
A few highlights & faves from Frieze NY at The Shed.
Not sure if it was simply Max & my moods but neither of us were particularly blown away.
Not to say there weren’t some of the best galleries in the world, showing a ton of stunning art works, that's far outside the price range of normal people, but my memory of Frieze was that it used to have several Fucking Me! moments delivered because of breathtaking beauty, shocking obscenity, or simply ridiculous scale.
Whatever, it was still fun seeing great art & watching this particular strand of humanity.
Tarik Kiswanson
Karlo Kacharava
Alex Da Corte
Nancy Grossman
Marsha Pels
Robert Rauschenberg
Sam Nhlengethwa
Cajsa von Zeipel
Sometimes Instagram just cant give the view needed.
Below are 6 of the many Ink on paper works on view till March 13, 2022. my pet ram 48 Hester St NY10002.
The “Blue Chip” exhibition panel below shows stickers by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst. Ryan McGinness, Barry McGee, Jose Parla, Tom Sachs, Keith Haring, Marilyn Minter, Robert Lazzarini, Kenny Scharf, Jenny Holzer, Todd James, JR, Mathew Barney, James Victore, Chris Johanson & Bansky.
It’s always a little risky to actually meet the people who’s work you’ve admired for many years. Don’t they say “Never meet your hero’s”. So what a nice surprise to meet Stefan Sagmeister & find him to be warm, friendly & even complementary of some of my own work. His new show “Beautiful Numbers“ is perfect example of how conceptual art can also be beautiful. It’s actually a show of optimism.
Below is just a small sample of the exhibition. The shapes on the paintings represent factual statistics.
1 - Suicide II, 2000/2015
Suicide rate worldwide, number of deaths per 100,000 population
2000 13
2015 11
2 - “Suicide I, 1950/2005”
Suicide rate USA,
1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970. 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000. 2005
3 - “Oil, 1970/2010”
gray dot: large oil spills 2010 red dot: large oil spills 1990 yellow dot: large oil spills 1970
4 - “Death Penalty, 1970/2010”
Abolishment of death penalty
1970 21 countries
1990 66 countries
2010 98 countries
5 - “Carbon II”
Carbon footprint of protein-rich foods from le# to right: Cheese 85kg CO2 per 1kg of protein, Chicken 43kg, Beef 250kg, Lamb 200kg, farmed fish 35kg
Female Voting Rights
1900.1950. 2000
This edited from the Thomas Erben Gallery Press Release..
Beautiful Numbers, Sagmeister’s new body of work was conceived in 2020. Media – reflects a world seemingly out of control, with democracy in peril, ubiquitous conflicts and an overall outlook of doom. The reality is actually less war, hunger and illiteracy; fewer people die in natural disasters, more people live in democracies, an increased number of women serve on Parliaments, and life expectancy has increased.
Sagmeister has visualized data collected over 100 years and transformed these graphs, inlaid into 19th Century genre paintings, embroidered canvases, lenticular prints and hand painted water glasses – all of which will be for the first time on display at the gallery.
Obviously one doesn't do creative projects with getting reviews as the end goal but its still a very nice feeling to get them. Especially strange & wonderful to have a mainstream platform acknowledge ones work. CNN had my Art Sleeves book on their front page yesterday.
I cut and pasted it here, in case it disappears, and then no one believes me ;)
For Burkeman, the digitization of music is positive insofar as it means artists don't need record companies to put music out. But the rise of streaming has also resulted in the forfeiture of exciting album appendages like designed lyric sheets or handwritten notes from the recording artist. "We've definitely lost something as far as experiencing emotions one might feel while listening to a record and studying, analyzing, or simply enjoying the physical object."
UPDATED : After The One Year Post
FILM :
TV :
PODCASTS :
I Can't Believe it's Not Buddha 1,2, 3
ART on YouTube :
3 Hours of Oliver Payne and Nick Relph - “Driftwood”, “Mix Tape” , Comma , Pregnant Pause, Oliver Payne - “Inventory Eleven”
2 hours of Matt Pyke : Universal Everything
So happy I finally got to see this wonderful show, as I’d missed the original 2012 show, and of course because Joyce sadly died in 2019.
In 2012 Pensato premiered her installation “Fuggetabout It” at Petzel Gallery on West 22nd Street to commemorate her beloved studio on Olive Street in East Williamsburg, where she had worked for thirty-two years and had lost in a landlord/tenant dispute in 2011. The move after three decades prompted a re-evaluation and packing of hundreds upon hundreds of objects and items of all manner, including: stuffed animals; figurines; posters, books, invitation cards, and other paper ephemera; milk crates; furniture, both broken and intact; paint cans and paintbrushes, among others. (text from Petzel)