spring green

at NicolaVassell, chelsea 
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/05/19/unity-is-survival-former-pace-director-nicola-vassell-to-open-a-gallery-in-new-york

 

an attitude

at The Frick

 

call a cab

at AIPAD, fifth avenue 

 

summer night streetstyle

on west 28th street...

at untitled

photo taken at untitled bar on a sultry august afternoon last summer, trying to capture a magnificent beehive hairstyle through the glass window...

untitled, at the Whitney 

gallery gear

Spilling Over,  Whitney Museum...

pink, and a pose

Outsider Art Fair,
Metropolitan Pavilion 

cacao collage

william cordova, peruvian cacao on paper, nine parts. 2015 to 2018...
at the Whitney...https://www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/PachaLlaqtaWasichay

afloat

at The Whitney...

art, after hours

at MoMA, adrian piper... 

a few blues...

Tribeca Art Night....

Tinsel Town

Tinsel Town, LAB at Rockwell Group's entrance, Collective Design Fair....
http://www.interiordesign.net/videos/13227-collective-design-2017-tinsel-town/

Wandering In Place

last Thursday's Tribeca Art Night was about many things:  art, architecture, collaboration, color, community, culture, curating, design, discovery, expression, ideas, images, intimacy, language, medium, memory, nature, neighborhood, passion, process, reaction, rebellion, self, soul, talk, tools...  

give thanks for gallery hopping and gathering with the most welcoming hosts who shared with us so generously all evening long!

wandering in pace
paintings by rick lewis
www.stevenamedee.com 

uneven edges

uneven edges
deb lawrence exhibit 
www.cherylhazan.com

source code

at Sapar Contemporary, opening night with artist Faig Ahmed, a discussion on codes: DNA, patterns, language, culture, process and looking within...

tribeca arts district, tribeca art night
http://www.saparcontemporary.com

Slim Aarons Women

It was all about torrential rain and Mike Pence's plane on Thursday night in New York but some of us dodged both for cocktails amidst the glamorous likes of Katherine Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.

Staley Wise Gallery and Getty Images hosted the evening to celebrate the release of a new book, Slim Aarons: Women. Authored by Aarons's longtime colleague Laura Hawk, the book features over 250 images of the beautiful women who inhabited the world of privilege and leisure captured by the detail driven photographer, whose work spans the late 1940's through the 1980's. 

Aarons, born and raised in New York, was drawn to photography as a teen. A decorated war hero, he later worked freelance for LIFE,  Holiday and other magazines. Disenchanted by the war, his self proclaimed mission was to photograph "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." (p25). So began his career among the world's socialites, celebrities, aristocrats and jet setters.  He himself always returned home from each shoot to his farm and family in Katonah, New York. 

Laura Hawk lends detailed observations and anecdotes based on her more than ten year adventure working with Slim. She refers to him as a storyteller and comments on his contribution to the genre of the "environmental portrait." She writes, "An environmental portrait tells the story of the subject's life in part through the background against which it is taken, and the background is usually considered as significant at the subject." (p19).  

This is the fifth book of Slim Aarons photographs published by Abrams, keeping his engaging visual narratives, many now iconic, both alive and well.  As for fairy tales, I once had the opportunity to have Slim Aarons himself autograph a book for a friend of mine who was then living a glamorous, poolside life of her own in Palm Beach... 

Kristie Karbstein Gerep, in Brazil 1988
Christina Onassis, in Palm Beach 1968

Katherine Hepburn, in Montego Bay, 1953

the party starts, Staley Wise Gallery; in background, 
To Any Lengths, Slim Aarons, in Las Vegas, in 1954,
photographing Mara Lane...

Leisure in Antibes, in Antibes, in 1969
Catherine Wilke, in Capri, in 1980

the author Laura Hawk, 
portraits of Mercedes Herrera de Benacerraf, in Spain, in 1987
and Ursula Pacelli, in Venice, in 1957

Poolside Glamour, in Palm Springs, in 1970
at the Richard Neutra house of Edgar Kaufman

Fan Mail, Marilyn Monroe, in Beverly Hills, in 1952
www.staleywisegallery.com
through November 26, 2016 

on Sunday

Late afternoon Sunday, we ran through a show at Lois Lambert Gallery in Bergamot Station...

Hillary Gruenberg, Running After Hands
www.loislambertgallery.com
santa monica, ca

http://www.hillarygruenberg.com

art

and elegance...

Jackson Pollock,  1950 Betty Parsons Gallery
Vogue, haute couture spread

Basquiat in Brooklyn

time for summer school?

may i suggest visiting the Jean Michel Basquiat exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum?

Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks offers 160 pages of documents that reveal the system and meaning of words in the self-taught artist's work.

works on paper and paintings hang alongside the meticulous pages from the artist's life...

notebook 

al jolson

tuxedo

famous

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat_notebooks/

through August 23rd

A Tipi Grows in Brooklyn

Really!

From Manhattan, take the L to Bedford and walk to South 5th St.,  passing trees in bloom, indie boutiques, graffiti art,  and a myriad of great spots to eat...

There you will find it, between Bedford and Berry, the tipi, reaching to the skies!
It is one of many wow moments in the pop up shop imagined and executed by the delightful and talented Stephanie Housley of Coral & Tusk, with some extravagant help from her friends!

Take a peek!

painted, embroidered and fully lined deluxe tipi with alpaca rug interior and feather motif throw pillows!  

don't miss the weekly tastings and trunk shows! 
have you ever sipped a chocolate soda by Mast Brothers??

a signature sitting room, at once majestic with a touch of mischief, featuring Coral & Tusk's familiar framed wall art and 
textiles, and new accent furniture in collaboration with Volk..

made you look!  yes, it is a decoupage moment, limited edition, with John Derian Company! 

all in the details... (there are also charming 'drum' poufs
and a large scale embroidered canoe across the room...
Coral & Tusk custom bird kites grace the space overhead... 

circus theme embroidered pillow and the story of our ringmaster, Ms Housley...
painted wooden place card holder by Great Lakes Goods, one of many selections from the pop up shop...

a Moroccan welcome rug and lots of mesmerized shoppers...

www.coralandtusk.com
with many more friends through the month of May...