~LEAP YEAR/PARTICPANT

leap year # 1

The Board of Trustees of PARTICIPANT INC requests the pleasure of your company at a benefit cocktail party.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 29, 2008 – 7PM – MIDNIGHT

HOTEL ON RIVINGTON, PENTHOUSE – 105 RIVINGTON ST – LOWER EAST SIDE – NYC
enter through Annie O . . . between Essex and Ludlow Streets

on view: ALICE O’MALLEY – ‘RARE ORCHIDS’
limited edition box of 13 gelatin prints – produced in support of the upcoming exhibition by Alice O’Malley, curated by ANTONY.

also on view: LISA KIRK & JELENA BEHREND – ‘REVOLUTION PIPE BOMB’
limited edition fragrance (image: below !!)
editions in platinum, 14K gold & sterling silver
leap year # 2

PATRON ($2500 CONTRIBUTION)
2 VIP TICKETS
7-9PM COCKTAILS & HORS D’OEUVRES
courtesy of thor, guest DJ Matthew Higgs
11PM PERFORMANCE
by Justin Bond and the Sirens of Satan
REVOLUTION PIPE BOMB (bronze)
limited edition by Lisa kirk & Jelena Behrend

BENEFACTOR ($500 CONTRIBUTION)
7-9 PM COCKTAILS & HORS D’OEUVRES
courtesy of thor, guest DJ Matthew Higgs
11PM PERFORMANCE
by Justin Bond and the Sirens of Satan
REVOLUTION PIPE BOMB (blueprint)
limited edition by Lisa Kirk & Jelena Behrend

SUPPORTER ($150 CONTRIBUTION)
DOORS AT 9PM, COCKTAILS
courtesy of thor 9-10PM, guest DJ Spencer Sweeney
11PM PERFORMANCE
by Justin Bond and the Sirens of Satan

TO RESERVE TICKETS – please call 646-492-4076
or email: liagang@aol.com

bye the way – PARTICPANT HAS A NEW ADDRESS !! – 253 EAST HOUSTON ST – NYC

UP-DATE: SUNDAY MARCH 2, 2008

can’t wait to get some of these pix up. either – will post soon !!!!

PARTICIPANT




~TAMAMI KUBOTA/ATM/opens to-nite

Tamami Kubota
TAMAMI KUBOTA, ‘WEDDING’, acrylic on canvas, 39.5 x 31.5 ins./IMAGE COURTESY: ATM GALLERY

TAMAMI KUBOTA – ‘The Song of the Female Deer’ – OPENS TO-NITE – FEB 29 / 6-8PM
THIS IS HER – FIRST !! – SOLO SHOW IN NEW YORK.
the show runs FEB 29 – MARCH 29, 2008
ATM GALLERY – 619b WEST 27Th STREET – CHELSEA – NYC

ATM GALLERY




~the DARK FAIR !!

. . . everybody’s beginning to buzz – about the DARK FAIR !!

. . . wow – it’s going be great !!!

remember the dates:
OPENING: FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008 / 6-8 PM
and running one day only: SATURDAY MARCH 29, 2008 / 12-9 PM

the SWISS INSTITUTE is located at 495 BROADWAY, 3rd Floor – in SOHO, NYC

the DARK FAIR only runs for 2 days, FRI & SAT – parallel to the ARMORY FAIR – get it ?!!

DARK FAIR # 2
DARK FAIR/IMAGE COURTESY: SWISS INSTITUTE

more on: the DARK FAIR

more info: the SWISS INSTITUTE

UP-DATE: FRI FEB 29

MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL – the bright lights – behind the DARK FAIR !! – are the same crew that puts on the MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR – namely: TYSON REEDER, JOHN RIEPENHOFF and NICHOLAS FRANK.

apart from booth/displays by about 28 very hot !! international galleries, including 10 NEW YORK galleries, if you include PICTUREBOX – the DARK FAIR will also feature:
a performance by HARRELL FLETCHER & CLARA JO
a wordless chorus by BRIAN BELOTT
a pinball arcade by ARA PETERSEN
a photo booth by PORTS BISHOP – he says he is going to use a “ton” of candles !!
a glow-in-the-dark basketball game by SARA CLENDENING

and, an indoor sculpture garden featuring:
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD, PENTTI MONKKONEN, LUCAS diGIULIO, JOSEPH GRIGLEY & MAMIKO OTSUBO.

check out: 1st MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR/OCT 20/21-2006




~NECKFACE

NECKFACE 2008

. . . is this considered – ‘INTERACTIVE ART’ – !!

NECKFACE – CHINATOWN, NYC. FEB 2008
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH




~MICHEL GONDRY

Michel Gondry-new
MICHEL GONDRY on the set of the MARK KOSTABI – ‘NAME THAT PAINTING’ SHOW, NYC. NOV 3, 2006
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

artist, filmmaker, and drummer, MICHEL GONDRY was not at the opening of his interactive show – ‘BE KIND REWIND’ – now up at DEITCH PROJECTS on WOOSTER ST. He was said to be in BERLIN, on business.

MICHEL GONDRY is a familiar sight on the KOSTABI show – when he is in town. Maybe he got some of the inspiration for ‘BE KIND REWIND’ from ‘NAME THAT PAINTING’ – a makeshift low budget TV ‘game show’ – if, there ever was one !!

UP-DATE: MONDAY MARCH 3, 2008

notwithstanding the recent negative review in the New York Times – SIMON CERIGO is happy to report – as he happened to pass by DEITCH PROJECTS on WOOSTER ST – this past SATURDAY – that: ” . . . the kids were flocking to make their own ‘Indie’ movies at the MICHEL GONDRY ‘BE KIND REWIND’ show”.

see: lots !! of photos – from the ‘BE KIND REWIND’ opening !!

MICHEL GONDRY – ‘BE KIND REWIND’ runs FEB 16 – MARCH 22, 2008
DEITCH PROJECTS – 18 WOOSTER ST – SOHO – NYC




~GLENN O’BRIEN

GlennO
GLENN O’BRIEN attends the PAUL McCARTHY – ‘CHOCOLATE SANTA’ – OPENING, at MACCARONE GALLERY, NYC. NOV 15, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

before we forget, good luck to GLENN O’BRIEN – who was recently announced as the new editor of INTERVIEW, replacing INGRID SISCHY. it’s actually the new – former – editor, as SIMON CERIGO tells us that MR. O’BRIEN used to edit INTERVIEW back in the day, when it was founded, – in the late 60s, early 70s – when it was the “underground cultural bible”. Simon and Glenn cross paths often on the MARK KOSTABI – ‘NAME THAT PAINTING’ GAME SHOW (shown on public access TV here in NYC).

Most recently GLENN O’BRIEN has been co-editor (and contributer), along with MAX BLAGG, of the ‘BALD EGO’ – a fairly thick, 6 x 9 in., high production, glossy papered – collection of essays and photos on the art world.

see: opening night photos: PAUL McCARTHY/CHOCOLATE SANTA




~GAWKER STEALS artlovers photo/BAIRD JONES

GAWKER just posed an artlovers BAIRD JONES’ related photo – without !! a photo credit !! – what slimebags !!

POSTED: TUESDAY FEB 26, 2008 – 2:12AM

here’s the photo:

Baird Jones/ZWIRNER

see it: on GAWKER without credit !!

see: the original artlovers posting !!
(11th row down/GORDON MATTA CLARK/ZWIRNER)

UP-DATE: TUESDAY FEB 26, 2008 – 10:47 AM

the photo is now attributed properly to artlovers on the GAWKER site.
GAWKER shows – it can do – NYC right !!!

SUPPORT – PHOTO CREDITS WITH HOTLINKS – & – PROTECT COPYRIGHT LAW on the WEB – the next photo that could be lifted – could be yours !!




~QUILT SHOW/LAST DAY !!

OH OH OH – VERY – LAST DAY !! TO SEE:

Quilt graphic
the show’s graphic on the exhibition wall
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

‘A LEGACY IN QUILTS: CYRIL IRWIN NELSON’S FINAL GIFT TO THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM’
on view since OCT 31, 2007 – the last day is today: SUNDAY FEB 24, 2008
THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM’S BRANCH at LINCOLN SQUARE
COLUMBUS AVENUE – BETWN 65TH & 66TH STREETS.

THE LINCOLN SQUARE BRANCH IS OPEN: noon-6:30PM on SUNDAYS

GENERAL ADMISSION, AT THIS BRANCH, ONLY, IS: $3.00 (SUGGESTED DONATION)

Hooly Hocks quilt
‘HOLY HOCKS QUILT’ PHOTO: GAVIN ASHWORTH/COURTESY: THE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM

above is one of the quilts in the show, which comprises of 19 works altogether, most dating from the first half of the 19th century.

It is a ‘HOLLY HOCKS QUILT’ – meaning the name of its pattern. According to the museum notes, it was made by EVA G. REX (dates unknown) in the United States in 1944. It is cotton and measures 96 x 81 ins.
GIFT OF CYRIL IRWIN NELSON, 2004.14.5

the museum notes go on to say:

“The HOLLY HOCKS design was first published by the Mountain Mist Company in 1934. STEARNS and FOSTER, the makers of Mountain Mist, began selling quilt batting (or filling) in Cincinnati in 1846 and has been offering mail-order patterns since the 1920s, when the company began including a free pattern on each batting wrapper.”

read more on the: QUILTS & CYRIL IRWIN NELSON/MUSEUM WEBSITE

AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM




~MATT LEINES/opens to-nite

MATT LEINES – ‘THE RIGHTEOUS AGE’ – OPENS – SAT FEB 23, 2008 6-8PM
the show runs: FEBRUARY 21 – MARCH 29, 2008
CLEMENTINE GALLERY – 623 WEST 27TH ST – CHELSEA – NYC

hard to believe, but this is MATT LEINES’ solo debut show in NEW YORK CITY !!

Matt Leines feb 23

MATT LEINES, ‘Untitled (Boat)’, 2007, ink, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper,
24 x 18 ins./IMAGE COURTESY: CLEMENTINE GALLERY

MORE – ON THE SHOW & OPENING – TO FOLLOW !!!

UP-DATE: SUNDAY MARCH 2, 2008

yep – some of these pix will will also post soon !!! – got al ittle carried away by what I want to do & what I can do in 24 human hrs. !!!

CLEMENTINE GALLERY




~BAIRD JONES/RIP

SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 23, 2008

PAGE SIX – THE NEW YORK POST TODAY REPORTS . . “We’ll miss you, Baird Jones”
quote:
“BAIRD JONES went out with a bizarre bang this week – the way he would have wanted it. The wacky 53-year-old publicist, who claimed to have invented the sport of midget bowling and had a bottomless well of celebrity stories he fed to Page Six and other gossip columns, was found dead of an apparent heart attack yesterday in his Greenwich Village apartment – after neighbors noticed newspapers piling up at his door for several days. . . Jones was ‘a one-of-a-kind character, a true New York eccentric,’ said publicist R. Couri Hay. ‘He was always completely loaded, but was always lucid.’ As to whether Jones is watching all of the fuss over his passing from a perch in heaven, Hay quipped: ‘Heaven? He’s lucky if he’s in purgatory!'”

here’s the last artlovers photo of Baird Jones – just as he’d like it to be – with a pretty young girl – he’d be promising p.r. – on his arm !!

Bird Jones-last photo

BAIRD JONES, in his ubiquitous YANKEES cap, with aspiring graffiti artist, MELLITZA, strolling down 27th Street, for a night of summer art gallery openings, Chelsea, NYC, JULY 12, 2007
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

THE DAILY NEWS reports: that Jones died Thursday night. (FEB 21, 2008)
. . . and that police said “there were no signs of foul play and no drugs in the apartment.”
“A friend of his told the Daily News that Jones, the son of People Magazine co-founder Cranston Jones, recently complained about being ‘sick as a dog’.”
“In 1995, while covering Arthur Miller’s 80th birthday party for The News, Baird Jones asked the playwright about the most intimate details of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe, Miller, fists clenched, chased him out of the party.
“After graduating from th Buckley School and Columbia University and earning several advanced degrees, Jones became one of the city’s first club promoters, working the door of Studio 54 in its prime.”
see: THE DAILY NEWS ARTICLE

and our very fave photo of BAIRD:

Baird & Daniel

the original caption read:
“on the left, celebrity maven BAIRD JONES, recently profiled in the New York Times, with DANIEL REICH, at the JACK PIERSON opening, ‘Early Works’, DANIEL REICH GALLERY, DEC 15, 2005 (… a little more than just a handful of people would have paid good money – to have seen that scarf pulled just a little bit – tighter !!)”
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH