Author Archives: ArtJetSet

Fountain Art Fair

March 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Fountain Art Fair was held at the Frying Pan on boat off 26th street Pier 66. Fountain brands itself as an exhibition of avant garde artwork, it is really more akin to outsider art. Loved Raphael Denis Tower of Babel giant installation paired with the preliminary sculpture. Photos, assemblage piece by Nikki Johnson, stunning piece by Nicholas Forker, The chaotic atmosphere, the weird smell, and the dizzying swaying of the boat did impede the interesting variety of galleries: […]

Categories: Art Fairs, Fountain • Tags: Art Bazaar ArtSlant Boltax Gallery Christina Ray CREON Gallery Galerie Zeitgeist Greg Haberny Holster Projects Leo Kesting Nudashank Open Ground Red Truck Gallery Sarah Nightingale We-Are-Familia

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Verge

March 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Hosted at the Dylan Hotel, the inaugural Verge Art Fair New York is named as the Only Fair Exclusively for Emerging Art. Going back to the traditional origin roots of the Art Fairs in hotel rooms, each gallery occupied a hotel room, as well as larger installations in the lobby and stairwells. Favorites included….. Fuse Works and Front Room gallery that shared one room, selling multiples and editions. Loved Domenick Di Pietrantonio’s Arctic Sweat and Andrew Eyman’s Shell Beach watches. […]

Categories: Art Fairs, Verge • Tags: Ali Umut Ergin and Lorand Revault, Andrew Eyman, Domenick Di Pietrantonio, Dylan Hotel, Fuse Works and Front Room gallery, Maki Hosokawa, Verge Art Fair New York

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Volta New York

March 5, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Volta, titled the No Guts No Glory Solo Project Art Fair, is a sister fair to The Armory Show, held at the MMPI showroom headquarters opposite the Empire State Building.Loved Volta’s VIP dogtags instead of plastic clip on badges. Charley Friedman @ Gallery Diet Miami Karl Kuikkanon @ Nordin Gallery, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen@ Vanessa Quang Paris, Giuseppe Stampone @prometeogallery Milan Mickey Smith @Invisible Exports, Heather Cantrell @ Kinkead Contemporary creating black and white Polaroids portraits for sale. Soyeon Cho […]

Categories: Art Fairs, Volta • Tags: Charley Friedman, Gallery Diet Miami, Giuseppe Stampone, Heather Cantrell, Invisible Exports, Karl Kuikkanon, Kinkead Contemporary, Mickey Smith, Nikolaj Bendix, Nordin Gallery, Skyum Larsen, Soyeon Cho, Vanessa Quang Paris, Volta

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Pulse New York

March 5, 2010 by ArtJetSet

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Vartali Salon for the Arts

March 4, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Vartali Salon, located in the heart of New York’s 57th Street Gallery district wants you to look gorgeous for Armory Week! Vartali Salon offered readers of Artfagcity and all new clients a 20% discount on services with select stylists until March 31. ArtJetSet had a true first class experience at Vartali Salon. The salon is comfortable and inviting modern space with very gracious and friendly staff. Their greatest asset is the international team of stylists. For all the Art Advisors […]

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Dutch Art Now

March 3, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Hosted at the National Arts Club, Dutch Art Now is an initiative by the Amsterdam based Fair Foundation, who mission is to promote Dutch Art and Realism. A select group of galleries represent the best of contemporary Dutch art, with an obvious thematic of the relationship to traditional Dutch oil still life interpreted in a contemporary context. Dutch Art Now is on view at National Arts Club Mar 3 – 14 15 Gramercy Park South

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Stefan Bruggemann Headlines & Last Line in the Movies at Yvon Lambert

March 2, 2010 by ArtJetSet

ArtJetSet has been a long time fan of Yvon Lambert, after the many Parisian afternoons spent in his gallery. Current show running in tandem with Joan Jonas Reading Dante III, is Stefan Bruggemann installation which covers the walls with mirrored panels. On the mirrors the artist has painted final dialogue of dramatic films. The text is brief, sharp, poignant and affectionate.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Stefan Bruggemann, Yvon Lambert

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Mike Nelson’s Quiver of Arrows

March 1, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The current installation at 303 Gallery is Mike Nelson’s Quiver of Arrows.Nelson conjoined four vintage mobile home trailers forming a dilapidated vacantly inhabited space. Walking through the interconnected spaces feels part somewhere between the Black Acid Co-Op at Deitch Project, is a collaborative project by Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman and a vacant refugee housing of the future’s past. The title is gorgeously poetic.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: 303 Gallery, Mike Nelson, Quiver of Arrows

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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 […]

Categories: Book • Tags: Skate’s Art Investment Handbook

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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 […]

Categories: Book • Tags: La Fois du Braconnier, Marc Séguin

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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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CURIOUS? Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections

January 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany presents Curious? which opens tomorrow. Germany has a great tradition of wonderful private collections which are multi-use spaces where collectors open parts of their home to the public. This exhibition brings together the best of contemporary art from their most cherished collectors. Collections:About Change, Collection * ArtJetSetSammlung Boros *Sammlung Evergreen BerlinSammlung Falckenberg, HamburgCollection Antoine de Galbert, ParisCollection Marc et Josée Gensollen, MarseilleSammlung GoetzSammlung HaubrokSammlung KiCoSammlung Paul Maenz, Berlin*Olbricht CollectionPrivatsammlung […]

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Christian Boltanski for Monumenta

January 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Christian Boltanski has been invited to present an installation for Monumenta the annual exhibition at Paris’ Grand Palais. Personnes is an exhibition that discusses society, religion, and humanity, in the notions of destiny, death, memory, and chance.

Categories: Installations • Tags: Christian Boltanski, Grand Palais Paris, Monumenta

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Zhang Huan: Neither Coming Nor Going

January 19, 2010 by ArtJetSet

New works by Zhang Huan, on view at Pace Wildenstein‘s 22nd Street space, is a dramatic departure from his iconic work.Still heavily referencing his Chinese culture but moving away from the self reflective performative work we are so used to expecting from Huan.Rulai is a massive 5.5meter tall sculpture created with ash steel and wood. Skulls, bones, and unidentified remnants build up the layers of this pensive Buddah. Encircling Rulai are 3.5meter tall ink drawings made on handmade paper, featuring […]

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Robert Longo at Metro Pictures

January 18, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Metro Pictures presents a dialogue between Robert Longo, John Miller, and David Maljkovic. Longo’s photos are actually preliminary photos used for Men in the Cities, his 1970’s series of drawings. Static and at once dynamic, these works speak to Maljkovic’s film projections.

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Richard Misrach at PaceWildenstein

January 15, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Richard Misrach large scale inverted photographs present Nevada desert scenes and lush greenery as reversed ice tundra with his negative reversed colour negative technique.

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Diango Hernandez at Haus der Kunst

January 12, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Love this image by Diango Hernandez We Can’t Celebrate, part of a history of commodity in photography show currently en view at Haus der Kunst

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Jeffrey Deitch appointed director of Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

January 9, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Beloved and influential New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch has been appointed as the LA MOCA’s new director. Deitch pioneered the banking world’s art advisory businesses, co-founding Citibank’s art advisory and art finance practices in 1979. he has a 30-year career as an independentcurator who has produced innovative exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world. As an art advisor to some of the world’s leading institutional and private collectors. A very strong reaction to Jeffrey Deitch’s new appointment, click video […]

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Hunter MFA Thesis show

January 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Hunter College/Times Square GalleryPresents their MFA winter Thesis show. 450 West 41st Street, (between 9th and 10th) This is an amazing exhibition space, with rooms upon rooms of very brilliant and promising young artists. Highlights included: .Brilliant installation by Seldon Yuan, Untitled (vacuum and plenum) combining mirrors and a reflective two-way glass box to negotiate space void and presence. Paining by Peter D. Gerakaris, and photos by Vivienne Griffin Large abstracted cityscapes by Noah Landfield, James Weingrod‘s interpretation of space, […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Hunter MFA Thesis show, Noah Landfield, Seldon Yuan

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn at The Whitney

January 3, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The first integrally comprehensive show of New York based artist Roni Horn, ashow which negotiations perception, memory, passage of time, identity and representation. Often working in pairs and series and the use of water as reflections of identity is Horn a thematic predominant in her work, be it her photographes or her large cut glass sculptures. Still Water, like the River Thames, is a stunning photo series of water underlined by footnotes which give anecdotes and refrences from films and […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Roni Horn, Whitney New York

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Omer Fast: Nostalgia at Whitney

December 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The Whitney present’s Omer Fast’s three part video installation Nostalgia, which combines dark fictitious dramatizations with documentary and futuristic fantasy. Fast also has a concurrent show at Postmasters Gallery in New York.

Categories: New York • Tags: Omer Fast, Postmasters Gallery, Whitney New York

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Aqua Fairs Miami 2009

December 19, 2009 by ArtJetSet

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Fountain Miami 2009

December 18, 2009 by ArtJetSet

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Design Miami 2009

December 17, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Design Miami, now in its fifth year, has become the forum for preeminent design. Housed in a temporary structure created this year by New York based Aranda/Lasch in the Wynwood design district. Highlights include retrospective by Dutch designer Maarten Baas who received this year’s Designer of the Year award.Greg Lynn’s Carbon Crystal Sails Veuve Cliquot was one of the sponsors, made special edition lamps that were given away at the end of the fair. Ornamentum (Hudson) presented contemporary jewelry. The […]

Categories: Design • Tags: Design Miami Fair, Greg Lynn, Iris Eichenberg, Maarten Baas, Ornamentum, Studio Job

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NADA Miami 2009

December 16, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Wayne White paints irony over found paintings. Tom Scicluna installation Paul Gabrielli at Invisible Exports Stunning installation by Ellen Harvey, these are in fact mirrors reflecting a mountain landscape. Agathe Snow, who featured an intensive space with James Fuentes at the main Art Basel fair, as well as these ring sculptures here at NADA. Misa Inaoka tiny sculptures of birds.

Categories: NADA - New Art Dealers of America • Tags: Agathe Snow, Ellen Harvey, Misa Inaoka, NADA, Paul Gabrielli, Tom Scicluna, Wayne White

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Scope Miami 2009

December 15, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Art Asia and Scope had a very large space this year. Between the two spaces was this green courtyard filled with sculptures, installation and music. Pierre Mollphettes Guerra de la Paz bomb made from knotted fabric Ryan Martin at Mark Wolf Tseng Wei-Hao drawing and sound installation that made horrible noise when the magnetic strips were touched.

Categories: Scope • Tags: Guerra de la Paz, Pierre Mollphettes, Ryan Martin, Scope Art Fair, Tseng Wei-Hao

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