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After Nature & Younger Than Jesus @New Museum

After Nature, a group show covering three floors at the New Museum on Bowery, opens to the public on Thursday, July 17th. The show is described as as "a hallucinated panorama of a world on the verge of disappearance." One would not have thought an exhibit on environmental ruin could be so fun... I particularly liked Maurizio Cattelan's headless horse (above), Zoe Leonard's barren tree, Berilinde De Bruyckere's rotting body and Eugene Von Buenchenhein's colorful explosions.

Coming to the New Museum in October is a survey of Elizabeth Payton's work and a retrospective of Mary Heilmann.

In exciting news for the Artlog artist community, in the Spring of 2009, the New Museum will host an international triennial for emerging artists entitled "Younger than Jesus."

Nish / about 1 month ago / Bookmark / Flag

Port Authority gets less ugly for awhile

Tattfoo Tan's vinyl mural goes up on on the windows of Port Authority starting July 17. The mural covers 180 ft of windows on Eight Ave and 41 St. This is sure to make my next trip to the Port Authority bowling alley a lot better.
http://tattfoo.com/projects.html

Nish / about 1 month ago / Bookmark / Flag

American artists to keep on your radar

Artlog moderated a panel on emerging & mid career American artists at the Yale Club NYC on Monday, June 23. The panelists provided an up beat assessment of the art market while discussing challenges arising from the weak economy, decreased government support and record art prices. Young collectors were advised to explore galleries in neighborhoods such as the Lower East Side, connect directly with artists (using Artlog!) and to ask artists for their recommendations. Each panelist was also asked to highlight 1-2 American artists that we should all keep on our radar.

The panelists and their recommendations:

Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim Museum
Karl Haendel

Sarah Mudge, Head of Part II Sales at Philips de Pury & Company
Matthew Day Jackson & Kerry James Marshall

Cristopher Canizares , Director of Contemporary Art at the Richard Gray Gallery
Marc Swanson

Esther Kim, Founder of EstherKim Projects and Co-founder of MARCH Gallery
Cheyney Thompson & Tyler Coburn

Skyler Brickley, Artist, Yale MFA '05 and Co-founder of thehighlights.org
Davis Rhodes & Vishal Jugdeo

Nish / about 1 month ago / Bookmark / Flag

Collect LES - WOW

1,200 art crawlers and artloggers were out in the Lower East Side last night. We want to thank the participating galleries and the New Museum for their incredible support. From what we gathered people saw great art, purchased some art, met new people and had really good times! Thanks also to Artlog members, Daily Candy, Time Out, Rare Daily, Mashable and our friends for showing up in full force and being so into the event. Don't forget to sign up (it's free) and to invite your friends to the site. It is free and is your connection to art events, content and people!

Our deepest thanks goes to Annie at the New Museum Kristine and Jenny at Woodward Gallery and Lia at Participant Inc.. Final thanks goes to the sponsors of the events: Doyle & Doyle, Moscot, The Sixth Ward, a casa fox, Radeberger Pilsner, Christiania Vodka, Gallery Bar and the LES BID.

Nish / 2 months ago / Bookmark / Flag

Woodward Gallery Hooking it up at Collect LES

Woodward Gallery did a random drawing of last night's Collect LES attendees and gave the below Matt Siren screenprint to Artlog Collect LES attendee Kyle Landman. Congratulations and thank you Woodward for the generous gift!

iamstillalive / 2 months ago / Bookmark / Flag

Metamorphic_Gestures a success at the Chelsea Art Museum

Chelsea Art Museum partnered with Artlog to host Metamorphic_Gestures: an evening of electronic music and art.

Around 90 people came to the museum last night where they listened to the enchanting music of Konrad Kaczmarek and Sean McClowry integrated with artwork by 9 artists chosen through Artlog.com. The participating artists, Rosalind Schneider, Dana Bell, Gabriel Winer, Sarah Friedland, Alfie Lee, Eve Baily, Brett Phares, Farhana Ahkter, and Namita Kapoori, were selected from a pool of artists who submitted artwork related to the music Konrad Kaczmarek wrote for this concert.

Before the concert guests mingled during a wine reception while viewing the Russian contemporary art and abstract expressionist painting currently on view at Chelsea Art Museum.

Overall it was a wonderful success!

ChelseaArtMuseum / 2 months ago / Bookmark / Flag

Visit us @the Affordable Art Fair

Artlog's pleased to announce that, as part of our Participate program, we are presenting work by Artlog users Dana Bell, Elizabeth Daggar, Camilla Fallon, Marlene Marino, Andrew Ti, and Lara Wechsler at the Affordable Art Fair [http://artlog.com/venue/show/291] this week in Chelsea. We'll be in booth #505; if you're at the fair, do stop by and say hello.

iamstillalive / 2 months ago / Bookmark / Flag

Functional Fun at the SOFA Fair in NYC

We attended the opening of the SOFA Art Fair which is less fair and more exploratorium http://www.artlog.com/event/show/962 There are plenty of outrageous pieces of jewelry with bright colors and massive stones. The large glass necklaces were particularly intriguing. There are also some really funky wood tables and benches. The highlight is the vast array of sculpture made of glass, wicker, stone and wood. I could not help but imagine filling my apt – well future dream house with these “functional” objects. SOFA at the Park Armory in NYC thru Sunday, June 1.

Nish / 2 months ago / Bookmark / Flag

Jim Marshall : Iconic Rock Photographer May 12, 2008

Iconic rock photographer Jim Marshall spoke at an APA/Academy of Art University event Monday, May 12 in San Francisco. I was interested in hearing Jim speak; I've heard good things about his events. Being one of the only photographer's allowed at Woodstock, having wild stories about the days of great 1960-70s music scene. He's gone on tour with The Rolling Stones, shot the last Beatles concert from Candlestick Park in 1966, Jimi Hendrix from The Monterey Pop Festival (guitar afire). Think of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead. What makes him authentic is that he cuts to the chase - he wants all access, complete freedom to the artists - or he's not on board. He still shoots today, and spoke about how music photography in today's market is very hard. He is lucky enough to be able to pick and choose his projects, however what would happen if he were to break in the business now? The issue of management, restrictions in events, you can't get too close. This is the opposite to how Marshall approaches his images. Getting to know people is what it is. Partying with them, touring with them - there is a level of trust communicated within his images. Take Janis Joplin, he has numerous shots of her over a period of time. When things got comfortable one photoshoot, he asked Janis and Grace Slick to "do something really dykey" which resulted in a portrait of the women considering a kiss. You can't stage that!

Jim Marshall : Marshall in Platinum
Thru June 28
Gallery 291
291 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.artlog.com/event/show/718

LaceyLPhoto / May 18th / Bookmark / Flag

Changelog - Folios, Maps, & Street Views!

Hey, folks. I am jazzed to let you all know that we've made some big changes to the site this week. We've rolled out the Artlog Portfolio site system which you can use to host your own portfolio website (with a really streamlined design customization system and the ability to use your own domain names - or an *.artlog.com subdomain). A bunch of enterprising users have already started setting up pretty awesome sites for themselves: Diana Lucas Leavengood, Nina Torr, & Adalaide Emma Johnson.

In other news, I've overhauled the mapping system for the catalog. It's a bit more clear now and will work on flash-less browsers (I'm looking in your direction, iPhone). Check out the Lower East Side for an example.

And while I was at it, I set up a fairly experimental new feature for the venues as well - Street Views. You can now navigate through neighborhoods in a more experiential kind of way to get a better sense for a place's character before heading over. Have a look at examples for MoMA, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, or the MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles (it's the thing that looks like a blue whale). The street views are provided by Google and don't cover all locations but they are available for most of our venues (coverage in Brooklyn is pretty thin for now - Google may harbor particular distaste for Williamsburg it looks like). All in all it's a potentially awesome feature on which we are looking forward to building further.

So explore and, as always, let Nish or me know if you have any thoughts/suggestions.

iamstillalive / May 9th / Bookmark / Flag

Art fairs are over - back to work!

After a 5 day bonanza, hundreds of galleries, fair organizers and art enthusiasts return back to work. Artlog had a terrific week with its sponsorship of Scope, Bridge ArtNow and Red Dot. Artlog's NY Fairs guide was linked to by several prominent art blogs and the events were all extremely successful. Dylan and I started off Wednesday speaking on an art social networking panel at White Box in Chelsea and listening to John Waters (Hairspray, Cry-Baby and Serial Mom fame) and the abstract artist Mary Heilman at the Armory. Wednesday night, 75 Artloggers attended Scope's Opening Party. We distributed over 200 Bridge VIP passes and hit the Thursday opening that featured a performance by Tunnel legend and transgender star Amanda Lepore (we left the performance relieved that Tunnel was no more). Artlog visited Pulse which was praised by many as the favorite show of the weekend. Friday night, Artloggers hit an overly crowded Tribeca Grand party for Scope. Saturday, Artlog visited and loved Volta the only solo show in town. In the afternoon, Artlog witnessed Disney World on the West Side Highway with over 3,000 people waiting in 30 minute plus lines outside of the Armory. Saturday night, Artlog stopped by to bid on some affordable art at the Sparkling Fresh silent auction before making its way over to the Artlog Party at Le Royale. By midnight the bar hit capacity at nearly 400 people and the dance party lasted until 3:30am. Sunday, 25 members dragged themselves out of bed and toured Art Now and Red Dot (hotel based fairs) and welcomed the friendliness and accessibility of the two fairs.

Check back into Artlog for many more exciting events and happenings!

Nish / March 31st / Bookmark / Flag

Site Design Update

We've rolled out a new site design this afternoon in anticipation of some features launching in the coming weeks. It's a bit wider, a bit cleaner (in our opinion), and a bit easier to navigate. Give us a shout in the perspectives with any feedback.

Nish / March 25th / Bookmark / Flag

Drew Tal, Facing East @ Point of View Gallery NY

From a young age, growing up in Israel, I was intrigued by the Far East. Places like India, Burma, Thailand and Cambodia spelled magic in my imagination as a child. Luckily from the age of fifteen, I was fortunate enough to travel extensively throughout Asia. Every journey has brought with it a whole new set of inspirations and a fresh need to create.

My new art exhibit, ‘FACING EAST’, at Point of View Gallery in New York, represents a collection of 16 images created after many of my journeys to those lands. Learning about Buddhism and Eastern philosophies while visiting remote monasteries in the Himalayan mountains led to the creation of ‘Faith’; viewing ancient Ancestor Paintings in old China, sparked the idea for my series: ‘Porcelain Promises’; watching Buddhist monks in Thailand in perfect serenity and peace led to the creation of ‘Within’; experiencing the suffering of the Tibetan people while visiting Tibet, brought about my political statement called: ‘Tibetan Tears’; being in complete awe of the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia gave birth to ‘Passed LIfe’...

My work reflects my own intimate narrative about spirituality, religion, social consciousness and human conditions with all its poetry and passion. It is primarily photo-based, focused on the exotic, Asian faces that I carefully select as my subjects for every art piece.

The pieces are offered on Duraflex fine art archival print, mounted on aluminum and on Giclee fine art archival canvas. All art pieces are offered in limited editions of 7.

drewtal / March 17th / Bookmark / Flag

Neue Galerie: Gustav Klimt Artlog Tour

The Neue Galerie hosted a large and eager group of Artloggers for a tour of its remarkable collection of early twentieth-century Austrian and German art on Sunday, March 9. Housed in a magnificent mansion built in 1914 for a steel industrialist, the museum opened in 2001 on the Upper East Side's Museum Mile.

The event focused primarily on the museum's celebrated collection of work by Gustav Klimt. Artloggers were delighted as docent Leesa Abahuni began her tour with some of his most recognizable paintings, including 'Adele Bloch-Bauer I', the most expensive painting ever purchased at auction. After viewing some letters, photographs, jewelry and decorative pieces of the period, group members were able to understand better the mood of the times in which Klimt worked.

On the third floor, the group viewed a reproduction of 'The Beethoven Frieze', a work inspired by the composer and consisting of three wall-sized paintings. Some of the participants who were less familiar with Klimt's work were likely surprised with the provocative themes of many of his drawings in the final rooms of the museum. A reproduction of the artist's atelier and some of his personal belongings completed the comprehensive look at his life and career. Many members of the tour returned to examine some favorite works while others finished the enjoyable afternoon with some coffee and pastries at the museum's Cafe Sabarsky.

pauline / March 17th / Bookmark / Flag

Poussin at the Met

For those interested in Nicholas Poussin, the new exhibit at the Met brings together an impressive collection of some of his most significant landscape paintings. The Louvre has probably the biggest trove of Poussins, several of which are part of this show. The "Birth of Bacchus" from the Fogg Museum of Harvard is also shown prominently.

Dienstag / March 16th / Bookmark / Flag

Last Night's Artlog Party

Thanks to everyone who came to the Artlog "Beta" Launch Party. Nearly 300 people enjoyed the Ey Ar Tee at Gallery Bar, DH Krahn Cocktails, chill music, and most of all the good people.

Highlights included the occasional dance party that spontaneously broke out (thanks to those brave souls) amidst the packed bar and the 80s music after 10pm. The last people standing were going strong at 1am.

Upcoming events include the Klimt Exhibit, Rubin Art Museum
cocktails/tour and several events/parties around the art fairs in NYC at the end of March.

Thanks for coming, spread the word and make sure you register and build out your profile at http://artlog.com/signup

Nish / February 28th / Bookmark / Flag

Edward Hopper

Just saw the Edward Hopper Exhibit in Washington D.C. at the National Gallery. The exhibit was packed because it was the second to last day, but the show was incredible to say the least. Edward Hopper to me seems to be the Vermeer of American art. Depicting similar themes of everyday life, lonely women and incredible use of light I was struck by the similarity between the two. Although Hopper worked at a much larger scale than Vermeer they share the same style of soft but immense detail. The show was amazing as was the permanent collection of the National Gallery, completely worth the five hour drive from NY.

YGreen1 / January 22nd / Bookmark / Flag

Terrific Artlog Event at Phillips de Pury Auction House

Thanks to the 20 Artlog members for attending last night's private viewing of the Phillips de Pury auction house photography sale and exhibition of German video artist Julian Rosefeldt.

It was the first visit for many members to the massive space on 15th St. After a few glasses of wine, the group led by photography Specialist Vanessa Kramer discussed dozens of iconic pieces up for sale. The sale featured recognizable works (poster photos) from countless photographers at prices that surprised the group as prints were ofter later editions. Works such Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare,” Robert Doisneau, “Le baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville,” Ruth Bernhard, “In the Box- Horizontal,” André Kertész,"Fork,"and Ansel Adams, “Moonrise” were just a few of the highlights

Anna Gavazzi, Head of Exhibitions, then led the group through the mysterious world of Julian Rosefeldt. Members particularly enjoyed "Stunned Man," part of the acclaimed project “Trilogy of Failure,” that simultaneously shows a man vandalizing his apartment and reassembling it.

Thanks to Phillips de Pury particularly Vanessa Kramer, Corey Barr and Anna Gavazzi.

Nish / January 30th / Bookmark / Flag

Just another Chelsea gallery Friday featuring a run-in with Jasper, a decoder and some fashion

Surrounding the umbrella depot, the gallery sold Jasper John's catalogues faster than it could give away wine. We strolled through the packed space filled with 6'5" giants and quickly saw some stalker types with Handycam's hovering around a man with gray hair. Surrounding the umbrella depot, the gallery sold Jasper John's catalogues faster than it could give away wine. We strolled through the packed space filled with 6'5" giants and quickly saw some stalker types with Handycam's hovering around a man with gray hair. Artlog member, EG, quickly identified (and coined) J Squared (aka Jasper Johns ) After some positioning, we made our way to the 78 year old J Squared and gave him a rousing introduction to Artlog and its mission. His reaction could be described most deftly as confused. After some stares, nods and perhaps a thank you, we were on our way out the door.

The next stop was the group exhibition called Catch Word at Black & White Gallery . The exhibit featured artists using text to challenge the passive nature of traditional art-viewing. The highlight was a piece that highlighted news headlines from the NY Times and came with a decoder.

The final stop was a one night pre-fashion week exhibition at Point of View Gallery. The exhibit was called "16 Paintings – 16 Dresses" by Katya London. Visitors snapped photos of a posing model evoking a fashion shoot. The walls lit up from the color of the painted dresses. Finally, the soaked, tired and hungry Artlog crew had enough and headed home.

Nish / February 2nd / Bookmark / Flag