Monthly Archives: February 2010

Shaq Curates Size Matters at Flag Foundation

February 26, 2010 by ArtJetSet

A blockbuster show filled with bluechip artists like Don Bruown, Maurizio Cattelan, Chuck Close, Andreas Gusky, Brian Jungen, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Inez van Lamsweerde, Ron Mueck, Cindy Sherman, Kehinde Wiley, Lisa Yuskavage, amongst others, Size Does Matters is a BIG show. Taking celebrity endorsements to a whole new playing field, Flag Art foundation has contracted basketball legend-come-rapper-actor-baseball player and now Curator in a show that negotiates size and scale. James Frey, the other heavy weight name, known for the […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea, Uncategorized

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An Evening of Starchitecture: The Society and Architizer

February 22, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Architizer held a social to announce the winner of the Competition-Competition, hosted by Berlin-based architect Jürgen Mayer and Andres Lepik, Design Curator for the MOMA, Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner from Architizer, hosted by The Society..Architizer is brilliant online forum and social networking platform aimed to empower architects and the global architecture community. A way to communicate, highlight issues and show projects. The Society is a culture club that brings interested people to amazing events, branched through arts, media, music, […]

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Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures

February 19, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Gary Simmons uses a distinctive technique to create his large scale paintings. He creates the slate board haunting chalklines with a combination of pigments, oils and wax. His painting technique is a true reflections of the dark allure of Midnight Matinee, a series of large size paintings of haunted dive locations like hotels and diners. The theme borrowed from abandoned houses portrayed in popular horror films. One room was devoted to smaller paintings hung brilliantly in a black and white […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea, Uncategorized

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Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan

February 17, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Discussion Bench Platforms + Everything Good Goes is an iconic exhibition representing the purest form of work by Liam Gillick. His installations often discuss the tension and relationship between the space, the viewer, and the implied behaviours of relations in said spaces. A combination of colourful benches and plexigass vitrines, mirrored with ironic woodcut prints.

Categories: New York - Chelsea, Uncategorized

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New York Fairs – March 4 – 7

February 16, 2010 by ArtJetSet

A brief overview of the New York Art Fairs : The Armory Show Piers 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street ADAA Art Show at Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street Dutch Art Now The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South Fountain New York Pier 66 at 26th Street and West Side Highway in Hudson River Park Independent 548 West 22nd Street PooL Gershwin Hotel, 27th Street and 5th Avenue Pulse 330 West Street (corner of […]

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Banks Violette

February 15, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Banks Violette presents a gorgeous installation at Gladstone Gallery. A giant chandelier made of fluorescent lights and hanging wires is a a forward moving departure from his typical sculptural works made from found objects and salt. This massive lustre hangs close to the floor in dramatic contrast to the black wall installation of a shiny lacquered surface that seems to be crippling and melting from the intense light. The contrasts of black and white as well as the hollowness of […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea

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Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonadkar

February 12, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The vernissage for Olafur Eliasson’s Multiple Shadow House was charged with too many bodies, creating chaotic deep multicoloured shadows in this seemingly serene installation. The walls made from ghostly optitrans screens grounded together by the heavy old wooden floor that had a faint odour of summer house. As participants move through the space, their shadows are cast upon the walls by the multicoloured spotlights. Each wall casts and mirrors the activities in the next space with the multiple refraction of […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Olafur Eliasson, Tanya Bonadkar

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Diana Thater at Zwirner

February 11, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Diana Thater’s film projection “Between Science and Magic” at Zwirner is a short filmloop that combines various levels of optic discourse. The projected film of the theater, the two perspectives of the magicians, the optical illusion of the disappearing rabbit, are all very clever. What I liked the most about this piece is the sound of the cranking projectors, very impactful for engaging the dialogue of the past and present consumption of film, video, and performance.

Categories: New York - Chelsea

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William Kentridge at MoMA

February 10, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Categories: New York, Uncategorized • Tags: MoMA, William Kentridge Retrospective

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Artnear iPhone / Blackberry App

February 8, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Brilliant new tech application for your handheld, Artnear uses GPS and an encyclopedic database of contemporary art to alert you to art venues, calendars of shows and openings, as well as detailed bios of artists and their work.

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The Value of Contemporary Art: Current Statistics

February 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Since Damien Hirst’s infamous auction titled Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, the earning potential of his works have decreased dramatically. Hirst liquidated the contents of his studio in Sept 2008 for this sale, which occured days after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and the financial crisis began. The art market achieved unprecedented sales during the peak of the art boom in 2008. Since then prices have leveled out and lot offerings have been more reasonable in their estimates. With last week’s […]

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Skate’s Art Investment Handbook

February 5, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Sergey Skaterschikov has released the new edition of Skate’s Art Investment Handbook, The Comprehensive Guide to Investing in the Global Art and Art Services Market. 2008 was a record year for art sales. Inflated prices set the bar for record prices and sales. The new edition of Skate’s Art Investment Handbook addresses market behaviours of the auction houses, art, and artists. Especially relating the pre-boom period up until the height of the market in 2008, and the retrospective recovery period […]

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Bring Your Own Art – Highlights from the Chaos: The Good, The Bad, The Conceptual

February 4, 2010 by ArtJetSet

THE GOOD: Portraits on paper by Raoul Anchondo Yonatan Ullman, Leah Dixon John Bonafede’s D’Nono performance of exploring denial, the litho napkins were stunning.James Martinez Coney #2, and Claudia Schwalb reinterprets paintings from the Renaissance. THE BAD: THE CONCEPTUAL: The orange hug wall with built in arm sleeves. The pile of sawdust with pingpong balls. The Dunkin Donuts bags with robotic interiors that rolled and crawled around the floor in an erratic fury.

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X-Initiative BYOA – Bring Your Own Art

February 4, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Bring Your Own Art BYOA marked the end of the X-Initiative, which was a one year long contemporary art program, housed in the former Dia Chelsea space. The 24 Hour marathon invited artists to come and hang their work with no restrictions, essentially letting the inmates run the madhouse.

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Bring Your Own Art, BYOA, X-Initiative

Marc Seguin La Foi du Braconnier

February 2, 2010 by ArtJetSet

ArtJetSet had the immense priviledge of visiting with painter come author Marc Séguin at his studio in Brooklyn last spring, during which time his paintings were on view at Scope Art Fair New York. An avid hunter, who incorporates taxidermied skins into his large format paintings, Séguin has recently published a compelling fictious non-autobiographic novel titled La Foi du Braconnier (The Faith of a Poacher).Le braconnier is a poacher who travels between Canada and the United States absorbed in a […]

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Eric Fischl in Malga

February 1, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Eric Fischl poses in front of his bullfighting series Corrida in Ronda, currently on view at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Malga Spain. ArtJetSet saw this seires of 10 large format paintings last spring at Jablonka Gallery in Berlin.

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Gawker Artists Presents NSFW: Not Safe For Work

February 1, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Gawker launched their first show of 2010, NSFW: Not Safe for Work, highlighting sexually suggestive works from Gawker’s roster of talented artists. Emiliano Granado’s Spring Break series, which ArtJetSet also saw at the Vanderbuilt Art From the Heart fundraiser, and Justine Lai’s Join Or Die selfportraits of the artist having sex with U.S. Presidents, were highlights of the show. Gawker Artists is an online initiative under the Gawker Media group, which promotes and exhibits artists working in all medias. An […]

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Emiliano Granado, Gawker Artist, Justine Lai, NSFW

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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Shaq Curates Size Matters at Flag Foundation

An Evening of Starchitecture: The Society and Architizer

Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures

Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan

New York Fairs – March 4 – 7

Banks Violette

Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonadkar

Diana Thater at Zwirner

William Kentridge at MoMA

Artnear iPhone / Blackberry App

The Value of Contemporary Art: Current Statistics

Skate’s Art Investment Handbook

Bring Your Own Art – Highlights from the Chaos: The Good, The Bad, The Conceptual

X-Initiative BYOA – Bring Your Own Art

Marc Seguin La Foi du Braconnier

Eric Fischl in Malga

Gawker Artists Presents NSFW: Not Safe For Work