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:
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 !!
~GAWKER STEALS artlovers photo/BAIRD JONES |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 26th, 2008, 2:17am
OH OH OH – VERY – LAST DAY !! TO SEE:
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)
‘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
~QUILT SHOW/LAST DAY !! |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 24th, 2008, 10:15am
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, ‘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
~MATT LEINES/opens to-nite |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 23rd, 2008, 3:43pm
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 !!
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:
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
~BAIRD JONES/RIP |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 23rd, 2008, 2:55pm
IMAGE: ‘MODERN LIFE OF THE SOUL’/COURTESY:BIPOLART
BIPOLAR ‘FACELIFT’ – A GROUP SHOW – CURATED BY ERIC LAINE
OPENS TO-NITE – FRI FEB 22, 2008 – 7-10 PM
the show runs: FEBRUARY 22 – MARCH 17, 2008
CAPLA KESTING FINE ART – 121 ROEBLING ST – CORNER NORTH 5TH – BROOKLYN
ARTISTS FEATURED ARE: MELANIE BONAJO, CLARE CHURCHOUSE, DAVID HENRY BROWN Jr., MARC GRUBSTEIN, KINGA KIELCZYNSKA, STEFFI LINDNER, MAROK, MOSCO, AUTUMN ROONEY, KRISTEN SCHIELE, ANIA SIWANOWICZ, MATTHEW STEINBERG & CARLOS VALENCIA.
BIPOLART IS AN INDEPENDENT “CURATORIAL OUTPOST” – LAUNCHED IN 2007 – BY ERIC LAINE – WITH THE GOAL OF “EXHIBITING DIVERSE WORK SIDE BY SIDE” – SO THAT THE RESULTANT “DIALECTICAL TENSION FROM SUCH A CURATORIAL PROCESS” leads to a ‘Bipol.art’ DISCOURSE. (!)
here’s a good example: the plant world visions of MODERN LIFE OF THE SOUL – which appears to be KINGA KIELCZYNSKA & MELANIE BONAJO vs. the hard edged urbanism of MATTHEW STEINBERG.
MODERN LIFE OF SOUL, ‘Who wants to buy the Earth’, PHOTO/COURTESY: bipolart
MODERN LIFE OF SOUL, ‘after-the-aferlife’, PHOTO/COURTESY:bipolart
MODERN LIFE OF SOUL, ‘vision-quest’, PHOTO/COURTESY: bipolart
MODERN LIFE OF SOUL,’vision-quest II’, PHOTO/COURTESY: bipolart
MATTHEW STEINBERG, ‘La Guardia’, 10 x 10 ins., acrylic & photo transfer on canvas, PHOTO/COURTESY: bipolart
MATTHEW STEINBERG, ‘Blue Triptych’, 16 x 20 ins., acrylic & spray paint on canvas, PHOTO/COURTESY: bipolart
(you might recall MATTHEW STEINBERG from the photo –
‘WATCH OUT !! – 2 new local talents coming up’ – posted in the ERIK PARKER post – just below.)
check out: Bipol.art
CAPLA KESTING FINE ART
~BIPOLART ‘FACELIFT’/opens to-nite |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 22nd, 2008, 4:37pm
artwork by MATTHEW FEYLD/COURTESY: CINDERS GALLERY
‘WHERE IS IT SLOWLY GOING’ – OPENS TO-NITE: FRI FEB 22, 2008 7-10PM
featuring artwork by:
JO DERY, MATTHEW FEYLD, DAVID HERMAN DUNE & JULIEN LANGENDORFF
FEBRUARY 22 – MARCH 23, 2008
CINDERS – 103 HAVEMEYER ST. – WILLIAMSBURG – BROOKLYN – NY
HOURS: WED-FRI 2-8PM / SAT+SUN 12-7PM
MATTHEW FEYLD HAILS FROM SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.
JULIEN LANGENDORFF LIVES & WORKS IN PARIS, FRANCE – in this show – he collaborates with artist & musician, DAVID HERMAN DUNE, who also hails from FRANCE.
JO DERY lives & works in PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, US of A. She will be presenting a “brand new animation with her unique paper cut style inside a sculpture” and several new embroideries and silkscreen prints.
JO DERY also has an underground following as a musician – she is the singer in the band: TEENAGE WAISTBAND – out of PROVIDENCE, RI.
artwork by JULIEN LANGENDORFF & DAVID HERMAN DUNE/COURTESY: CINDERS GALLERY
artwork by JO DERY/COURTESY: CINDERS GALLERY
JO DERY, MATTHEW FEYLD, & JULIEN LANGENDORFF/DAVID HERMAN DUNE artwork/COURTESY: CINDERS GALLERY
CINDERS
P.S. – if the name JO DERY sounds familiar to you – her work was highlighted recently, in the ‘SECRETS OF THE WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER’ screenprint show at the AD HOC GALLERY in BROOKLYN – in the: 2007-11-21 Art Lovers Photo Report.
see: 2007-11-12
one of the JO DERY screenprints we featured:
JO DERY, screenprint, in the survey show ‘SECRETS OF THE WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER’, AD HOC ART, opening NOV 16, 2007
note: this screenprint, of a cricket – edition of 5 – is now available at CINDERS ($30) !!
JO DERY, ‘FOX’, screenprint, edition of 5, ($30), printed on vellum, also available at CINDERS.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
CINDERS
~JO DERY, MATTHEW FEYLD, JULIEN LANGENDORFF & DAVID HERMAN DUNE/CINDERS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 22nd, 2008, 11:15am
this brings to mind a nifty, unexpectedly resonant little show that was recently up at MAX PROTECH:
(‘little’ . . as in quietly presented – !!)
MARJETICA POTRC – ‘FUTURE TALK NOW: THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF NEW ORLEANS’
JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 9, 2008
MAX PROTETCH – 511 WEST 22ND ST. – CHELSEA – NYC
“Selected as a fellow at the VERA LIST CENTER for ART and POLITICS in NEW YORK, POTRC has been conducting research in New Orleans over the past year. She has focused on issues of sustainability, water, and the emergence of new geographic and political territoires based on changing ecology, working to create artworks that address those issues in a larger global context . . .
Operating at the interface of architecture, art and social science, POTRC has conducted research along these lines all over the world . . .
In 2000 she received the HUGO BOSS PRIZE.
‘FUTURE TALK NOW: THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF NEW ORLEANS’ highlights the role of small-scale initiatives as basic building blocks of urban architecture.
The ‘SHOTGUN HOUSE’, the large-scale sculpture in the exhibition, is based on a form typical to New Orleans architecture. Lately this local style has begun to undergo modifications as inhabitants have outfitted their homes with additions that allow them to harvest rainwater and solar power.
The two figurative caryatids that support the roof at the front of the house refer to the origins of the shotgun house style in Greek revival architecture and African tradition. They also stand as literal reminders that New Orleans is being rebuilt by its citizens.” – PRESS RELEASE
MARJETICA POTRC was born in Ljubljana, SLOVENIA, where she currently lives and works.
see: curriculum vitae
MARJETICA POTRC , ‘New Orleans: Shotgun House with Rainwater Harvesting Tank’, 2007 – a view of the rainwater harvesting tank.
MARJETICA POTRC, ‘New Orleans: Shotgun House with Rainwater Harvesting Tank’ – the front porch with the 2 (folkloric) caryatid female figures.
MARJETICA POTRC , ‘New Orleans: Shotgun House with Rainwater Harvesting Tank’ – the satellite dish !!
the exhibit also included some very interesting and visually bright/fresh, works on paper. MARJETICA POTRC, ‘New Orleans: Settlement and The Return to Archetypes’, 2007, ink drawing on paper with inkjet print. (2 @ 26 x 33 3/4 ins.)
MARJETICA POTRC, ‘New Orleans: City and Rainwater Connections’, 2007.
MARJETICA POTRC, ‘New Orleans: Highway and Surviving in Pieces’, 2007.
MARJETICA POTRC, ink drawing on paper, ‘New Orleans: Highway and Surviving in Pieces’
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
see: more of the installation !!
MAX PROTETCH
~MARJETICA POTRC/THE SHOTGUN HOUSE/NEW ORLEANS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 22nd, 2008, 10:12am
MATTHEW RONAY – FEB 1 – MARCH 8, 2008
ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY – 525 WEST 24TH ST. – CHELSEA – NYC
a show of a completely different, minimalist striped down style. though, still very much hand-made, hands-on . . .
This is Matthew Ronay’s second solo show at the gallery.
MATTHEW RONAY, ‘Observance’, 2007-2008, walnut, sapele, clear pine, plaster silk, plastic, leather, newspaper, polystyrene, paint and vinyl glue.
MATTHEW RONAY, ‘Of Host’, 2007, steel, pine, walnut, cotton, plastic, paint and sawdust.
MATTHEW RONAY, ‘Mist Haze Fog Mist’, 2007, steel, walnut, clear pine, canvas, string and paint.
MATTHEW RONAY is a founder/musician, actually he is the drummer – of the artist performance noise punk band, THE FINAL RUN-INS. Their 7″ was on sale in the gallery for $5.
RONAY, is the guy in the middle:
THE FINAL RUN INS gave a great performance, and produced an even greater, whimsical and off-the-wall installation, ‘HONG KONG’, at TAXTER & SPENGEMANN, last summer, 2007.
artlovers was there – see: THE PIX – ‘HONG KONG’
MATTHEW RONAY, at the opening performance/installation of the FINAL RUN INS – ‘HONG KONG’ – a wildly successful – paper – Mandarin Chinese restaurant.
TAXTER & SPENGEMANN, MAY 31, 2007
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
ANDREA ROSEN
~MATTHEW RONAY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 22nd, 2008, 9:31am
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ – OPENS TO-NITE !!
THURS – FEB 21, 2008 6-8PM
the show runs: FEB 21 – MARCH 21, 2008
LEO KOENIG INC – 545 WEST 23RD ST. – CHELSEA – NYC
SORRY – LOOKS LIKE THE GALLERY CHANGED THE TIME OF THE OPENING.
on the card it says: 6-8PM, on the gallery website – it now says: 4-5PM.
AIDAS BAREIKIS has a pretty crazy show going on at LEO KOENIG.
The first installment, titled ‘PART ONE: FANCY MEETINGS’ looked like something out of apocalyptic futuristic death match meets the ghosts of ‘PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN’. It was actually a pretty amazing tableau to walk in on.
It ran from Jan 10 – Feb 8th, 2008.
Unlike ‘PART ONE’ – which was multi-colored, to say the least, ‘PART TWO’ – is totally black and white – but it appears to have a slightly more black/noir humorous, almost ‘carnival’ edge. ‘PART ONE’ – was pretty much all in-your-face-scary amazing !!
AIDA BAREIKIS – ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ – OPENS TO-NITE.
ALSO PRESENTING WORKS BY: AARON BREWER, LILY LUDLOW, BILL SAYLOR and ANKE WEYER.
THIS IS ONE SHOW – WHERE – A PICTURE IS DEFINITELY WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS – SO HERE’S SOME PIX !!
first up, ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ – JUST AS IT WAS BEING ASSEMBLED.
AIDAS BAREIKIS starting on the installation of ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’
AIDAS BAREIKIS beginning to assemble ‘PART TWO’ – those are his black and white drawings in the background, in the frames on the wall.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – very bizarre life-size figures begin to emerge from their delivery wrappings. Aidas makes all the figures by hand. He rummages second hand stores for the clothes and accessories.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – in ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ the figures are free-standing. in ‘PART ONE: FANCY MEETINGS’ – they were held up by an array of plastic cables and hooks – from the ceiling.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – up close and personal – this could be you !! – the way things are going.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – charming.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ – going up . .
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ – going up
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ghostly figures await their resurrection !!
AIDAS BAREIKIS – a cautious, closer look at this curious being – she looks dead – but like trick dead – like, she could turn around and bite you in a nanosecond.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ok. the last sneak peek – the thing to really see – is how they all assemble – and tell their story !!
this is from the first tableaux – AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART ONE: FANCY MEETINGS’
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART ONE: FANCY MEETINGS’
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART ONE: FANCY MEETINGS’
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
the card for the show, it was oversize (8 x 10 ins.) and the image is one of the framed black and white drawings – on the back wall.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART ONE: FANCY MEETINGS’ & ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’
the gallery has an interesting write-up on the show on: their website
where there is also one shot of: AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’ assembled !!
and here it is – pretty amazing.
AIDAS BAREIKIS – ‘PART TWO: EASY TIMES’
PHOTO/COURTESY: LEO KOENIG INC.
LEO KOENIG INC.
~AIDAS BAREIKIS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 21st, 2008, 3:57pm
JOHN HODANY, MICHAEL LAZARUS & CAETANO de ALMEIDA
FEBRUARY 19 – MARCH 16, 2008
ELEVEN RIVINGTON – 11 RIVINGTON ST – LOWER EAST SIDE – NYC
JUST WEST OF BOWERY
Our friend JOHN HODANY is in this 3 person show, the 4th show in this new space run by Director/Curator AUGUSTO ARBIZO. (we’re guessing the space has serious ties to – and – backing from JEANNE GREENBERG – but Augusto isn’t talking – except – to say – “no strings attached” – and we’re like – hey: give a hand to the backers – no matter who they are! we all need all the backers we can get – in this crazy artworld.)
AUGUSTO ARBIZO
MICHAEL LAZARUS
painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
detail, painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
detail, painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
detail, painting by MICHAEL LAZARUS
CAETANO de ALMEIDA and independent curator FERNANDA ARRUDA. both hail originally from Brazil.
artwork by CAETANO de ALMEIDA
another view of artwork by CAETANO de ALMEIDA
we catch up with JOHN HODANY, he’s outside taking a ciggie break. with him, to the side, ANNA CONWAY
HODANY’S piece was hard to photograph in the room – it was so large – a totally handmade amusement park-type quarter-eating treasure hunting game.
these formally attired guests give some sense of its scale. JOHN HODANY made it all from wood – except the metal parts on the hardware, like bolts, and the security lock arches, for example – & – he also made all the mechanical inner workings. it runs on electricity. it’s timed to have on and off phases.
JOHN HODANY – the red ‘lobster’ claws come down to grab the ‘treasure’ which is a wide assortment of locks !!
JOHN HODANY – the locks !!
JOHN HODANY – the paint job, on the wooden locks and the wooden sculpture, itself – as a whole – was every bit as good, if not better than the woodworking & mechanical workings – most of the time you thought you were looking at metal – until you picked up on actual metal pieces – as in the lock arches.
JOHN HODANY – an example of the ‘very swift’ paint job and the place where the quarters go – & – the joy stick. it was interactive – for real.
JOHN HODANY lightens up a little bit, towards the end of the opening, ANNA CONWAY is with him.
the man who introduced us to JOHN HODANY – BRIAN BELOTT, with ANNIE PEARLMAN. BRIAN BELOTT’S gotta piece in the big MoMA Spring 2008 show about Books on Shelves !!
documentary filmmaker MAX FIERST and artist JEFF CARAMAGNA, good friends of JOHN HODANY’S
ERIN
ANNIE PEARLMAN, in a pensive moment. Annie edited that classic DAVID GREENBERG INTERVIEWS BRIAN BELOTT (at CANADA) clip – we all loved so much !!
CHIE FUEKI – the more we cross paths with her – the more we like her – she’s wild.
oh oh – the-after-the-after party at that German Bar on Rivington St .- some pretty wild rolling and rumbling around on the street – these guys are super fun to hang out with. P-A-R-T-Y !!
JOHN HODANY – says: cool it – what ?- he started it !!!
JOHN HODANY and MAX FIERST – who knew a night on RIVINGTON ST – in the middle of the week on a Tuesday no less, in the almost now totally gentrified Lower East Side – could be almost as rowdy as back in the old days – back in the rockin’ 80s – when BASQUIAT & RICHARD HAMBELTON used to tear up that very same street !! P-A-R-T-A-Y !! – S.P.O.O.K.A.Y !!
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
ELEVEN RIVINGTON
~JOHN HODANY/MICHAEL LAZARUS/CAETANO de ALMEIDA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | February 20th, 2008, 5:40pm
