I have some pretty impressive friends, if I do say so myself, but this little lady is totally treasured. This weekend I get to fly out to LA for her famed YBF dinner. I will be sure to give a full report upon my return. Bon Voyage and Bon Appetit! *PS – Here is a
Los Angeles Arts Month 2011 Los Angeles Arts Month Kick Off Festival: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 12-1:30pm Music Center Plaza135 N. Grand AvenueLos Angeles, California 90012 Various events scheduled throughout the monthVisit their website for additional informationWebsite: www.laartsmonth.org photoLA + artLA projects January 13 – 17, 2011 Opening Night: Thursday, January 13, 2011 Santa Monica
Hunter MFA Open Studios the weekend of Nov 19 and 20th. There will be a silent auction of student work on the 2nd floor gallery space. Proceeds go to the student organization and helps support resources like the visiting artist lectures series, etc.
LOUD OBJECTS in NYC, EUROPE AND JAPAN Tonight in New York, Katie Shima is leading a truly unique Loud Objects performance with guest solderer Lesley Flanigan, while Kunal and I head to Amsterdam for a mini residence at Steim. For their show, Katie has wired up “a delicate orchestration of motors, water, glasses, speakers, wires,
“Of the curators, I admired Katherine Dreier enormously, with her exhibitions and activities, because she, more than any other collector or impresario I knew, felt she could facilitate what [the artists] actually wanted to do to the greatest extent possible. …”[Katherine Dreier] didn’t have other rich people on her board. She had Man Ray, and
This weekend – visit the ART SCENE in Brooklyn – BUSHWICK BABY! More info on BETA: HEREWhile you are out there (because I know you WILL go despite your pre-historic fears about the street violence east of PARK AVE) check out NORTE MAAR.
Statements (October 12, 1969) Lawrence Weiner I do not mind objects, but I do not care to make them. The object – by virtue of being a unique commodity – becomes something that might make it impossible for people to see the art for the forest. People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they
Photo: Courtesy of Oscar de la Renta WINDSOR BLUE SILK TAFFETA BACKLESS GOWN WITH IVORY GUIPURE OVERLAY12N45(RUNWAY LOOK #24)
The 2010 MATA Festival presents Tristan Perich’s qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq, for three toy pianos and three-channel 1-bit sound (performed by Lorna Krier, Amir Khosrowpour and Tristan Perich), on a program with Lisa Moore and Ensemble Pamplemousse. Virtuoso pianist Lisa Moore presents a diverse program by Julian Day (MATA Commissionee), Sam Adams, Paul Swartzel, Timothy Andres, and MATA
by Oscar de la renta by Free People by Diane Von Furstenberg