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New York Fashion Week 2012: what's.......

2012-02-09T09:48:00.000-08:00

Fashion week 2012

New York Fashion Week What's your VICE

fashion rules green is still in

patterns are back feathers are always cool stripes never go away

denim is going grey

short is to short

baggy is out

Porter Grey is bringing back a great Gatsby nostalgia

but music and fashion still rock the run ways

I say keep it natural and you'll be ahead of the fashionistas

http://nycfashioninfo.com/fashion-week.aspx

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/02/fall-2012-collections-are-here.html

Franck de Las Mercedes PEACE Out

2012-02-09T09:13:00.000-08:00

Franck de Las Mercedes

PEACE send

Priority

"Fragile Contains: Peace, Love or Hope",

Artist Franck de Las Mercedes mails empty boxes to many around world.
Public art at its best like forwarding the unexpected.

Request your own Peace box from the artist and live up to its invitation.

Art meets activism meets your heart.

He started 2006 and the project has reached epic proportions by sending out a few thousands boxes as of yet. Funding comes from donations so if you are into this kind of messaging give freely.

http://www.fdlmstudio.com/

Mayson Gallery: "Modern Love" Mick Rock, Marne Lucas & others

2012-02-08T19:57:00.000-08:00

Mayson Gallery: "Modern Love" Mick Rock, Marne Lucas & others

MAYSON GALLERY
INVITES YOU TO EXPERIENCE

"MODERN LOVE"

A GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING LIMITED EDITION WORKS BY

MICK ROCK

FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 20

RECEPTION AND PRIVATE VIEWING
FEBRUARY 9TH - 6-8PM

254 BROOME STREET

RSVP
ronni@maysongallery.com

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Damien Hirst can you................

2012-02-08T19:42:00.001-08:00

Damien Hirst can you................ can you spot me now

don't get me wrong I love Damien Hirst
but this is a bizarre situation. I always wanted to spoon with him admired his ass and his recklessness. I would have forgiven him fore a herd of calf’s in formaldehyde but spot paintings everywhere. We got the joke the first time and it was somewhat lame like a British dick. and you know that crazy Japanese woman did it so much better and did it all her self. So these dots give me gas.

Anyhow they have become priceless objects. And have out done Warhol’s soup cans for sure.

I get Art I get Damien both are kind of like an obnoxious child that wants attention even if it is for misbehavior.

So I read about the out cry about outsourcing of artistic labor even if it happens in a castle.160 to be exact and they also make coffee and clean up to keep the art blue chip clean.

Staring at 462 spots gives me shifty eyes not unlike its creators. So is Damien a creator does he have a creative bone in him or is he just a good taste maker a hyper. It doesn't matter and he is for sure a bit of it all the clown the genie and the morbid self saboteur.

11 Gagosian galleries across the world coordinated this spot-ackle for us to judge by displaying 3oo plus out of supposedly 1500 and I had thought at one point they had burned up in a storage fire. I guess that was just a publicity stunt.

At least Murakami did little symbols & faces. The spot is spot on and challenges our short attention span. We don't have to think but are able to enjoy the interplay of colors.

“I mean it does nothing for me” spots don't please me or arouse me like sharks do. That's why these paintings are so good as a marketing ploy they arouse a scandal for their triviality. Like the bad boy has changed his spots and still wants to be a cleaned up kind of gentrified wild guy. He doesn't want to have to die for his art to give it value so to speak.

Lot's of thought has gone in promoting this so labeled thoughtless art. Of course their is a hidden code in these just like in Richter's squares something highly mysterious that will only be deciphered hundreds of years from now; like we are still trying to figure out what Mona Lisa's smile means or meant or means to us or will mean in the future to others.

Okay there is nothing there or like Gertrude Stein would say "there is no there there" but I had found myself imagining one of these painting above my white couch and decide that they do break the realm of sterility into compartments of joy.

So again like so many times its not about what we look at but about how we look at it. The way I look at it is that they are perfectly well suited to look good on some very rich persons wall.

And because I have a blind spot for jealousy I don't give a hounds ass.

If you want a more in-depth critic go read this

http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/artless-in-america-in-her-inaugural-column-the-columnist-learns-to-see-spots/

Debbie Harry at Wip

2012-02-08T18:46:00.000-08:00

Wip it Up

the amazing Debbie Harry

February 7th, 2012

show

Deborah Harry

Miss Guy's Debut Solo Album “Dumb Blonde”

With DJ Miss Guy and DJ Nick Zinner

New York Fashion Forward

Art film by Kevin Henson

Doors at 10 PM
!

WiP – 34 Vandam Street, NYC

http://amzn.to/wb1Vtg
iTunes US - http://bit.ly/wbMOAh
Dumb Blonde CD - http://bit.ly/xDOYfw

Hide and Seek at the Brooklyn Museum

2012-02-08T18:35:00.000-08:00

Hide, Seek and you will find if you are lucky and the law is with you

"But what is it, is it an "It"

last days to see it

Gender and Sexuality are at the center at this amazing show HIDE & SEEK: Difference and Desire

a show, a portrait of America;
more than 100 Art works are exhibited in all medias in an exhibit that documents the role of sexual identity in modern art.

NY NY collectors alert

2012-02-08T17:52:00.001-08:00

What's going on what's rising up. Art stars are everywhere waiting to become the next big thing. Who needs Chinese Art when we have the best in our back yard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU6yUwlJRTg

Brooklyn art project interview with Heidi Zito

2012-02-07T14:35:00.001-08:00

http://blog.brooklynartproject.com

Scooter LaForge live in the EAST Village

2012-02-07T14:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.scooterlaforge.com/

well known artist Scooter LaForge has taken on the beautification of the East Village
long live Art in public spaces

Walt Cessna is Wolf Pack at SPLATTERPOOL.com

2012-02-06T20:21:00.000-08:00

Come celebrate the release of Walt Cessna's 2nd photography book
WOLFPACK! Photographs by Walt Cessna Art direction by Frank Gargiulo

BOOK RELEASE EVENT // Fri Feb 17 / 8pm
Performance // Chad Ferro
Music // DJ Sheba Legend

EARLY VIEWING // 5-8pm

EXHIBITION ON VIEW // through Feb 19 / Sat-Sun 1-6pm

SPLATTERPOOL artspace
138 Bayard St. Brooklyn 11222
Take L train to Graham
www.splatterpool.com

WOLFPACK! Limited Edition 200 pg full color soft cover 8 X 10 photography book art directed by Frank Gargiulo & WOLFPACK! 2012 Calendar art directed by George William Widmer. 140 dudes. 1 Lady Rizo. DJ Sheba Legend. Bad Boy of burlesque Chad Ferro. I will be showing 200 5 X 7 portraits. 10 first edition copies of book & calendar signed with choice of 1 print from show. A very special 30 X 46 hand painted print collaboration with Scooter LaForge / CESSNA HEARTS LAFORGE.

WOLFPACK! logo by Frank Gargiulo

WALT CESSNA / WOLFPACK! by PAUL DARLING A heady mix of the erotic, the sublime and the seemingly everyday, Walt’s new work, WOLFPACK!, sees him share the most intimate of moments with an eclectic array of model subjects and translate these experiences into photographs that both shock and seduce the senses. Like a shorn and inked Pied Piper with a camera and a creative hard-on, Walt leads us through the pulsating roar of the city, the throb and hum of the candy neon-spilled streets, the clang of strangers shifting in stairwells and into the silent sanctuary of the lover’s bedroom where we’re aware that anything can happen. And it does. Walt is a visual junkie; an aesthetic magpie who artfully plunders the realms of photo-journalism, fashion photography, pornography and conventional portraiture to serve, time and time again, image after image that feeds his desire to show us how he sees the world. Shot over 2 years, WOLFPACK! is Walt’s second book of photography. The first, FUKT 2 START WIT, also the name of his first solo New York show, was published to great acclaim in 2010, noted by the public and critics alike for its collection of unique and visually innovative portraits. With WOLFPACK! he continues to explore the themes of reflection, eroticism, isolation, alternative ideas of machismo, queer culture and beauty through portraits that inspire awe, introspection and lust in equal measure. Born in Flushing, Queens, Walt embarked on his notorious career in fashion at the crazy tender age of 13 (Mozart may have been composing at 5 years old, but he wasn’t dealing with the complexities of fabric and form), and went on to become a fashion editor, writer, stylist, magazine publisher, designer, agent and of course, a photographer. Throughout his fashion career, many who swam in Walt’s pond went on to become very big fish indeed, due in no small part to his gift for aesthetics. It is this education - at the heart of the fashion world, running around with the clubutantes of the 90’s and beyond, discovering and styling the glitterati, pulling all-nighters to make deadlines and being at the forefront of what was new and hot and now – that has shaped Walt’s vision. He no longer needs to prove that he’s the kid who knows all there is to know about fashion and style….he is so beyond that it ain’t even funny. Style without substance is no longer enough for him – his work goes much deeper than that. In fact it was in 2005, after a four year break from creating art and an ensuing orgy of hedonistic self-destruction San Francisco, that he once again decided to pick up a camera and yet realized that he no longer wanted to do fashion photography. He needed to move BEYOND fashion – to look at people not clothes, the intimate not the ostentatious, the inside not the outside.

Zefrey Throwell in N Y

2009-11-10T19:28:00.002-08:00

Website

www.zefrey.com

Here's the new news:

-Project Page!
-New Daily Photo Interface!
-Slightly Gray Color!
-More Stuff!

Check out the documentation from the past two Midtown Games!

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2)
Free Nuts: Reinvesting in Harlem

Opening:
Wednesday (11/11)
Studio Museum
6-9pm

The Studio Museum asked me to do a project for their postcard series.
I chose to turn their postcards into vouchers for guests to get free nuts
from the nut stand outside the museum.
Go get free nuts and help support Harlem!

(Runs all through November, thank you to E. Hall for generous support of this project)

"Movie Bullets and the Mind Melt Machine"

Thursday (11/12)
6-9pm
Gallery 138
138 W. 17th 5th Floor, NYC

Movie night this Thursday!
Going to bend space and fucking time!

Artists include:

-Cameracartell
(members: Marte Kiessling, Stephanie Lauke, Wolfgang Fütterer, Vanessa Nica Mueller)
-Cassandra Troyan
-Stephanie Dodes
-Jacob Sharff
-Z Collective
and more!

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4)
New Frank Prattle Interviews:

Creative Time asked me to do a bunch of interviews for their summit called
Revolutions in Public Practice.

Listen along to Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Dara Greenwald, Morris Dickstein
and many more!

www.frankprattle.com

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5)
Photo Miami

December 3rd
Miami, FL

Photo Miami has asked me to do a performance for their
art fair this year. I've got a zinger up my sleeve!

Zefrey in N Y

2009-11-10T19:28:00.001-08:00

Well howdy,

I've been busier than all hell and perhaps you'd like
to know a little about all these shenanigans...

1)
Website Revamped

www.zefrey.com

Here's the new news:

-Project Page!
-New Daily Photo Interface!
-Slightly Gray Color!
-More Stuff!

Check out the documentation from the past two Midtown Games!

_____________________

2)
Free Nuts: Reinvesting in Harlem

Opening:
Wednesday (11/11)
Studio Museum
6-9pm

The Studio Museum asked me to do a project for their postcard series.
I chose to turn their postcards into vouchers for guests to get free nuts
from the nut stand outside the museum.
Go get free nuts and help support Harlem!

(Runs all through November, thank you to E. Hall for generous support of this project)

The Brooklyn Art Project

2009-11-10T16:16:00.000-08:00

new trends hot off the Brooklyn NY Art page

so good you'll experience
"The Little Deaths"

For more information,
contact
art@artanagnorisis.com

http://blog.brooklynartproject.com/category/portland

The New York Art Blog

2009-11-10T16:15:00.001-08:00

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