Antony Gormley Event Horizon
You New Yorker’s have all the luck. Gormley’s Event Horizon goes live on March 26, so keep your eyes to the sky. You won’t want to miss this!
A few of Gormley’s sentinels will be installed early on 10 March around the Madison Square park area, with a view to eventually inhabiting vertiginous vantage points and eye-popping eyries high above street level, on the Flatiron and Empire State buildings among others. via..
If so, which ones? What are your thoughts on them? Any favorites fair(s)? Artist(s)? Artwork(s)?
- The Armory Show, Piers 92 & 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street, $30
- The Art Show, Park Avenue at 67th Street, $20
- Pulse New York, 330 West Street (corner of West Side Highway and West Houston), $20
- Scope New York, Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, 62nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, $20
- VOLTA New York, 7 West 34th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), $15
- Fountain New York, Pier 66 at 26th Street and West Side Highway in Hudson River Park, $10
- Red Dot New York, Skyline Studios, 500 West 36th Street at 10th Avenue, $10
- Verge New York, The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues), $10
- PooL New York, Gershwin Hotel, 27th Street and 5th Avenue, $10
- Independent, 548 West 22nd Street, Free
- Dutch Art Show, The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, Free
- Korean Art Show, la.venue, 608 West 28th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenue, Free
Info via Flavorwire and iheartmyart
Dennis Darzacq is exhibiting at Laurence Miller Gallery in New York through March 27.
Darzacq brings street dancers, mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties into these stores and asks them to perform their leaps, jumps, twirls, and other gravity-defying movements. Darzacq’s working methods are wonderfully captured in a documentary film by Marie-Clotilde Chery. The photographs explore the tension between being and having, between the human body and the built environment. They offer a fresh, witty and intensely colorful commentary on global consumerism and freedom of spirit. via…
“NYC:State Of The Art” is the first-ever art industry conference focused on New York City’s artists.
As a global capital of art and commerce, New York City is home to the world’s most prestigious galleries, art fairs, auction houses, dealers, corporate buyers, and collectors. Some of the art world’s most significant museums, foundations, not-for-profits, and art schools also call the city home. For many observers, these established groups are enough to ensure the city’s relevance in the art world. But what about the artists?
New York’s visual fine artists have faced persistent challenges, and the current economy only exacerbates the problem. Recent surveys indicate that 68% of visual artists make less than $40,000 annually, and 51% of artists report a decline in art income compared to last year. To adapt, artists have left former havens like SoHo and the Lower East Side for DUMBO and Long Island City. Unfortunately, artists in those areas now face rising rents and dwindling opportunities to create, to show, and to make a living as artists. Living and working in the city can be a hardship. Showing and selling artwork is no easier.
Gary Simmons Starlite Theatre 2010
Simmons uses cold wax and pigment on canvas to create these haunting images of Americana past. He is showing at Metro Pictures in New York right now, if you can, check it out.
Julia Chiang Ring Pop Installation 2010
The Standard in New York will be unveiling this lovely installation tomorrow.
I love it when businesses see the excitement in art and what it can bring to the overall experience (and the nice press).
Megan Feldman Anna and Michael at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center 2010
Look what Flavorpill did:
Even if you haven’t wandered up to 86th Street recently, chances are you’ve heard whispers of something unusual afoot. That something is courtesy of performance artist Tino Sehgal, whose ephemeral pieces rely on empty space and spectator involvement. One such piece in his current solo show at the Guggenheim, titled “The Kiss,” involves a couple embracing on the floor of the rotunda in a “changing, slow-motion, amorous” entanglement. We at Flavorpill love staging elaborate photo shoots in museums and decided to reinterpret Sehgal’s performance piece in five New York City art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum, New Museum, Rubin Museum, P.S.1, and the Brooklyn Museum.
I kind of did some kissing at a museum this weekend, but nothing was documented. I guess I will have to settle being not as cute.
And yes, it is that Anna and Michael.
» Calling all Art Handlers (New York)
Calling all art handlers: The Art Handling Olympics wants you! Register your team of four on their website and go head to head with New York City’s best, Sunday March 21st. The first competition of its kind, The Art Handling Olympics (AHO) celebrates the art world’s unsung heroes. These are the people who figure out how to fit over-sized sculptures into undersized elevators, find the straight lines in crooked paintings on slanted walls and eat the double park ticket so clients don’t have to! This March, we will crown the champions of the trade.
Installation shot at the Saatchi Gallery of the new exhibition The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today
And here is the weekend/near future guide for cities other than Los Angeles. This week it includes:
New York
London
Paris
*You’re right, I don’t know how cold it is there. It’s sunny and warm. Sorry for trying to pretend like I understand.
