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Drink and Draw at 3rd Ward

July 30, 2010 by ArtJetSet

3rdWard is in an amazing collective space in Brooklyn, which offers studio work space, equipment, tools, and resources to the areas creative professionals. ArtJetSet has been recently attending the Wednesday night Drink and Draw. 3rd Ward offers a great atmosphere, cold beer and good music to satiate all your creative appetites during the 2 hour life drawing class. Today’s AM New York newspaper wrote an article about the events, coincidentally featuring ArtJetSet in the photo!!

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: 3rd Ward, Art Studios, Brooklyn, Drink and Draw

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Other Spaces at the Lieu Center 548

July 29, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Dia:Chelsea come X-Initiative Space in its newest incarnation as the Lieu Center 548. Other Spaces, curated by Jayne Dorst, is a poignant show based on Michel Foucault’s theories on the psycho-spatial experience. The concept works will with this space, since the Lieu is as well a transient space where information is shared, ideas are created and transformed by those who pass though it. Enjoyed Palma Blank’s optical abstract paintings, Sam Falls’ photos. The video piece by Left Coast ( […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: David Shull, Janye Dorst, Left Coast, Lieu Center 548, Palma Blank, Sam Falls

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Vice Magazine Presents Jerry Hsu: The Torture Never Stops

July 22, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Vice Magazine’s resident photographer Jerry Hsu put together a gritty show of his favorites titled The Torture Never Stops. Part documentary part reportage part kids behaving badly, Hsu documents life everyday though the lens of a perversly hillarious lens.

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: Jerry Hsu, Vice Magazine

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Kaws at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

July 19, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is a non collecting museum in scenic Ridgefield Connecticut. The Aldrich is featuring grafitti artist Brian Donnelly a.k.a Kaws first solo museum show. The survey highlights the ambiguity of grafitti art and artist in the museum world. How illegal tagging has risen in the esteem of the establishment and the commodification of art transgressed into the profitablity of merchandise. Featuring original paintings, sculptures in scale from museum large to pocketsized merchandise, Kaws presents pop culture […]

Categories: Graffiti, New York, Street Art • Tags: Aldrich Museum, Kaws

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Sultry II at Kris Graves Projects

July 10, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Brooklyn gallery +Kris Graves Projects presents the show Sultry II, a continuation of last year’s Sultry I – a photo exhibition which negotiates the theme of sensual beyond the exploitation of the human body towards the idea of visual stimulation through the human figure. Favorites included: Sari Wynne, Jowhara Al Saud These gorgeous works by Gabriela Herman, K Yoland M (top) and Greg Miller (bottom right).

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Gabriela Herman, Greg Miller, K Yoland M, Kris Graves Projects

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Jenny Holzer for Keds Shoes

July 6, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Jenny Holzer, famous for her LCD Truisms, has collaborated with Keds shoes and the Whitney Museum in the creation of a line of shoes emblazoned witht he slogan “Protect me from what I want”

Categories: New York • Tags: Jenny Holzer, Keds Shoes, Whitney New York

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Future Cinema -Secret Cinema New York

July 1, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Future Cinema, a British film screening company, hosted a 60s Mod happening at the Shangri-la Studio in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up was screened, a film about a blasé fashion photographer in 1960s London, rifed with the ennui of his fashion fame, driven by a tortured artistic passion. The massive event space set the scene with recreations of the film and populated the crowd with Mod dancers and swinging London decor. The happening was a mis en scene to […]

Categories: Alternative Spaces, Performance • Tags: Future Cinema -Secret Cinema New York

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