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Art in LA: Summer Must Sees
What: Pae White: “Smoke Knows” @ 1301 PE When: May 9 – July 3, 2009 Where: 6150 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048 Why: Pae White is an artist known for her work with light as air materials such as cat whiskers, spider webs, and reflections from Plexiglas sheets. Her 5th solo exhibition at 1301 PE, […]
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Tags: 1301 PE, Pae White, Smoke Knows, Venice Biennale
by Emily Waldorf There is much urban lore about the ambitious and creative women who choose to work in the art world. Charlotte York of Sex and the City fame first incarnated the archetype and it was further developed by Danielle Ganek’s loveable gallerina protagonist in her novel Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him. What happens […]
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Tags: art world, Charlotte York, Christie's, Danielle Ganek, Emily Evans Eerdmans, how to find an art job, hunting, job, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, Sotheby's
by Emily Waldorf Just two months after opening in New York’s Lower East Side, at 45 Orchard Street, Michali Fine Art, opened its doors last Friday, June 5th, for the opening of their inaugural summer show, The Meaning of Life, featuring work by New York based artists Hedi Ferjani and Scot Thompson. The artists’ respective works […]
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Tags: gallery openings, Hedi Ferjani, Lower East Side, Meaning of Life, Michali Fine Art Gallery, New York, party pics, Scot Thompson
By Emily Waldorf On May 7th, I organized my latest cultural field trip to Culver City called “Women in Art,” with a focus on female-run art ventures. We started the field trip at uber talented floral designer Holly Vesecky’s fascinating studio, followed by a walkthrough with Mary Leigh Cherry of Cherry + Martin‘s inaugural group exhibition in […]
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Tags: art field trip, Beacon, Cherry + Martin, Chris Oliveira, cultural field trip, Culver City, Holly Flora, LAXART, Los Angeles, Taylor de Cordoba
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
My Dream is for Sale; Buy It For Me: Collector’s Committee at LACMA (NY Times) A Scarcity of Goods Hovers Over Art Market (NY Times Global) ‘HomeBase IV’: At A Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home (NY Times) Great Performances – Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera (WSJ) Christie’s Bests Sotheby’s With $102.7 Million Sale […]
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Tags: Art Chicago, Berlin, Christie's, Collector's Committee, Frick, galleries, HomeBase IV, LACMA, Metropolitan Opera, party pics, pop art, Ross Bleckner, Sotheby's, Tracey Emin, Warhol and Watts, White Cube
If you haven’t yet seen Zadok Ben David’s exhibition, Blackfield, at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, you should run right now to see it before it closes on May 16th. It is one of those rare shows that simply blows you away on a visceral level. The installation in the main gallery is comprised of over 12,000 […]
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Tags: Blackfield, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, wunderkammer, Zadok Ben David
More Artworks Sell in Private Slowdown (NY Times) Baby Boomers at the MET (NY Times) The Pop of Warhol (Jazz and Rock, Too) (NY Times) Hedge-fund Divorcee Dives into Art, Sex, Brooklyn: Book Review (Bloomberg) Kandinsky’s Abstract Squiggles, Amoeba Delight in Paris Show (Review) (Bloomberg) Krystian Zimmerman’s Shocking Disney Hall Debut (LA Times) Review: Kendall […]
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Tags: Baby Boomers, Disney Hall, Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund, Jill Kargman, Kandinsky, Kendall Carter, Krystian Zimmerman, MET, Paris, private art sales, Sandroni Rey, Warhol