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Titled Cloud Gate, this gorgeous Anish Kapoor sculpture caps the Millenium Park in Chicago. The park is home to various public art pieces, including Crown Fountain, and interactive video sculpture fountain created by Jaume Plensa, as well as bandshell designed by Frank Gehry.
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The hallucinogenic playground found at the end of the Highline extension, FriendsWithYou is a creative branding agency that also known for these interactive play spaces. We saw FriendsWithYou at Scope Miami in 2008, and now in New York on a mission as they claim “to spread the idea of Magic, Luck, and Friendship™ around the world, and become Friends-With-You!”
The Dance of the Gallerinas is a performance art piece that combines classical ballet, pop culture, and contemporary music – all inspired by the beautiful women who help run the art world: the gallerinas. Created by a curating collective composed of renowned choreographer Avi Scher.
The Flag Foundation graciously hosted the performance in conjunction with the opening of Roni Horn’s Double Mobius and One, Another a show featuring contemporary art and thematics of love, sexuality and coupling.
Nothing says says love more than gourmet ice cream sandwiches! Customized in Flag Foundation branded edible wrappers, this vernissage offered ice cream sandwiches by Cool Haus, an ice cream truck with a menu featuring delicious treats named after famous architects.
While attending the HOW Design Live conference, I came across the booth of Bridgeman Art, a fine art image licensing agency that work with over 8000 collections. Bridgeman Art offered a fantastic booth give-away – they had a variety of famous painting cutouts that you posed in, and they offered you the Polaroid framed in a mouse pad. See mine above as I pose in The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, by Georges de La Tour.
Since January, we have seen a proliferation of Art meets E-Commerce initiatives encroaching into the art market.
Exhibition A launched in the new year, the VIP Online Art Fair was the first ever virtual art fair, Gawker Artists SHOP began selling edition prints, and now news of two new ventures: Art.sy and Saatchi Online.
Art.sy is an interesting platform that is currently still in development stages. Launched by former executive from Christie’s / Haunch of Venison, and a Comp Sci engineer from Princeton in partnership with tech innovators (including the creators of Twitter, Pandora), and museums and major gallerists from around the world – Art.sy will work as a recommendation and e-commerce platform.
Propelled by the Art Genome Project, a program that finds similarities and distinguishing characteristics that connect art, this works in conjunction with Pandora type recommendation “if you like this you will like this as well” referral motor to propose art they have for sale.
A mash up of art dealing and long tail economics, Saatchi Online sources content from artists around the world, and takes 30% of the sale price. Branding themselves as the “world’s biggest art market place for emerging artists” you can sort by price, media, originals or prints, as well as by keywords Saatchi Online offers an uncurated catalog of user uploaded content.
With Gagosian’s recent iPad app launch, ArtJetSet looks forward to seeing what is to come with the advancements of these iArt initiatives.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the thriving art and culture scene during a recent trip to Miami.
We are all well familiar with the chaos and excitement when the international art world descends upon Miami during the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair in December.
This off season summer visit happened to coincide with the Wynwood Art Walk – a spectacular monthly art event that takes place in the Wynwood Art and Design district.
Galleries stay open late to welcome the hundreds of local Miami residents that come to the area to enjoy the new works on display.
I have seen New York’s Chelsea district on Thursday nights when galleries host vernissages, but the attendance and enthusiasm at this Wynwood Art Walk was like no art walk I had ever seen.
After passing through dozens of galleries the party culminates at the Wynwood Walls, a subset outdoor art project launched by Deitch Projects during Art Basel 2009. The park features 12 massive walls painted by some of the most influential and renown graffiti artists, a live improve band was making music, people dancing, a massive gallery space, and restaurant Wynwood Kitchen & Bar which is entirely wallpapered by Shepard Fairey murals.
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The gallery space is currently hosting the Peter Tunney Experiment
Wynwood Art Walk takes place the second Saturday of every month.
Famed activist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been reportedly detained by the Chinese government since April 3, 2011, which has subsequently sparked a global outcry and a massive Free Ai Weiwei campaign.
Weiwei is a renowned artist, photographer, and sculptor well known for his collaboration in the design of the Birdnest Beijing National Stadium for the Olympics as well a vast body of subtle yet politically charged artworks.
There is a massive amount of information available at Free Ai Weiwei as well you can download these Free Ai Weiwei glasses HERE, based off his series “Study in Perspective” of his outstretched arm giving the defiant middle finger to political or cultural centers.
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