by ArtJetSet
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.
Categories: Public Art • Tags: Anish Kapoor, Millenium Park Chicago
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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!”
Categories: Public Art • Tags: FriendsWithYou, Highline
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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 […]
Categories: Alternative Spaces, Performance • Tags: Avi Scher, Cool Haus, Dance of the Gallerinas, Flag Foundation, Roni Horn, Subodh Gupta
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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.
Categories: Art Fairs, Panel + Symposiums • Tags: Bridgeman Art, Georges La Tour, HOW Conference
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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 […]
Categories: Art and E-commerce • Tags: Art.sy, Exhibition A, Gagosian App, Gawker, Saatchie Online, VIP Online Art fair
by ArtJetSet
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 […]
Categories: Alternative Spaces, Public Art, Street Art • Tags: Deitch Project, Futura, Kenny Scharf, Miami, Peter Tunney, Shepard Fairey, Wynwood Art Walk, Wynwood Walls
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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 […]
Categories: ArtJetSet • Tags: Ai Weiwei, Free Ai Weiwei glasses, Study in Perspective
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