Archive for May, 2009
Mr. Meléndez Goes to Washington By Suzanne Lenzer There are times when being able to teleport yourself somewhere would be just fabulous. Those days when you crave a Salad Lyonnaise from that amazing little bistro in Paris, and you’d certainly drop in if only you weren’t in California. Or times when you could really do […]
Filed under: museums, old masters | 10 Comments
Tags: Luis Melendez, National Gallery of Art, Spanish still-life, Washington D.C.
Ian Digman’s “Shoreline at Night, No. 2,” is one of the small scale works that will be available at the Enormous Tiny Art Show Save the date of Friday June 5th from 8pm – 11pm for The Enormous Tiny Art Show Los Angeles at the Living Room at 3531 Sunset Boulevard. Conceived and organized by Avital Schlesinger […]
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Tags: Avital Schlesinger, Becca Elizabeth, Betsy Thompson, Enormous Tiny Art Show, Jen Hodges, Kevin Scalzo, Liliana Pereira, Los Angeles, Rebecca Cox, Sunset Boulevard, The Living Room
New Yorker Cover Art, Painted with an iPhone (NY Times) Art Review: If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon’s Would Shriek (NY Times) Peter M. Brant Displays A Taste For the Moderns in Greenwich (NY Times) At Paris’ Pompidou Center, the year of the Women (LA Times) Hirst’s Pills, Twombly Squiggles Boost $67 Million New Museum […]
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Tags: art, Art HK, budget cuts, Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, Dia Art Foundation, Eli Broad, Greenwich, iPhone, MOCA, New Museum, Paris, Peter Brant, Pompidou Center, The New Yorker, Venice Biennale, White House
Eye Candy: An Interview with Sculptor Peter Anton By Suzanne Lenzer If you’re in New York, and hungry for an exhibit that’s both provocative and playful, you can’t do much better than a stop at the Allan Stone Gallery to see the work of Peter Anton (through June 19, 2009). His is a refreshing marriage […]
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Tags: Allan Stone Gallery, cooking, food, food art, Peter Anton, sculpture
Book Review: The Modern Baker
Baking Enthusiasts by Gena Bell No matter what the season baking is always popular. And for those of you looking for a new source to heighten your skills, The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri is one to buy. Nominated for an IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) award this year, The Modern Baker offers recipes […]
Filed under: books, education, epicurean | 2 Comments
Tags: baking, Book Review, cocoa nib brownies, IACP, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Nick Malgieri, olive oil cake, pound cake, puff pastry, sweet tarts and pies, The Modern Baker
Previously published on Decorati.com By Emily Waldorf Profits are down at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, but business in their private sales departments has doubled. Selling privately is very attractive now since it is quick, confidential, and avoids the inherent production costs and time delay of selling at auction. Carol Vogel wrote an article in The New […]
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Tags: Alexander Calder, art, Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, private, Robert Ryman, sale, Takashi Murakami, top tips
Where Art Trumps Industry: Cannes Film Festival (NY Times) Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe: Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney (NY Times) Art Market Optimism: Contemporary Art Sales Up (NY Times) Starting with Fashion, Ending with Art: Richard Avedon (NY Times) Country Club, a New L.A. Gallery Opens with a “NewAgeRiot (ARTINFO) Two More Departures […]
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Tags: Argentina, art scene, Cannes, Centre Pompidou, Christie's, Claes Oldenburg, contemporary art sales, Country Club, film festival, Hess, International Center of Photography, James Turrell, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, NewAgeRiot, party pics, real housewife of Beverly Hills, Richard Avedon, Sotheby's, Whitney, wine
Originally posted July 8, 2008 By Emily Waldorf Seasoned collectors and dealers are well-versed in the game of making post-sale offers on unsold or “bought-in” lots. At an average auction, it is not uncommon for up to 30% of lots to go unsold. The trick to making a successful post-sale offer is getting as close […]
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Tags: art market, auctions, bought-in lots, collecting, post-sale offer
Ramps: A Late Spring Fling by Suzanne Lenzer Like many a romance, my relationship with ramps began with a strong physical attraction. They’re one of those vegetables that make me want to take them home and start cooking as soon as the first ones appear at the Union Square Greenmarket (which is later this year […]
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Tags: Farmer's Market, New York, ramps, Union Square Greenmarket, vegetable