the cards for: TOMOO GOKITA, ‘Vanity Drunko’, at HONOR FRASER,
in VENICE, CALIFORNIA, March 25 – May 19, 2007
if you happen to be in California, you can make the opening, its Sat March 24.
the gallery produced 2 cards for the show.
the top image is from: ‘Flower Arrangement’, 2007, gouache on canvas, 51 x 38 ins
the 2nd image is: ‘Hard Hat Topless’, 2007, gouache on canvas, 76 x 51 ins
(the cards are really nice, they have a matte finish, which really suits the work, and they are printed on heavy stock, with a good proportion for the images – approx 5-1/2 x 9 ins, or about double the standard gallery card/invite size)
TOMOO GOKITA at the opening of ‘drunko’ – his first solo show in NYC, at atm Gallery, CHELSEA
Sept 16, 2006
Photo: Nancy Smith
more TOMOO GOKITA drawings – from ‘LINGERIE WRESTLING’: row 5
photos from TOMOO GOKITA’S ‘drunko’ opening at atm, FALL 2006: starting at row 8
HONOR FRASER
~TOMOO GOKITA/Honor Fraser |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 20th, 2007, 3:40pm
Berlin-based BIRGIT MEGERLE photographed at the opening of her debut New York solo show – ‘Birgit Megerle’.
DANIEL REICH GALLERY, Feb 10 – March 3, 2007
extended to March 10, 2007
Photo: Nancy Smith
according to DANIEL REICH, Birgit Megerle was influenced in part, by German painting of the 1920s, & in particular by CHRISTIAN SCHAD.
By coincidence, one could have seen some examples of this early 20th century
German painting at the MET, at about the same time, in a small but brilliant exhibit:
‘GLITTER AND DOOM’ – German Portraits from the 1920s.
(Nov 14 – Feb 19, 2007)
CHRISTIAN SCHAD, German, 1894-1982, oil on wood, ‘Count St. Genois d’Anneaucourt’, 1927 – in the MET’S ‘GLITTER and DOOM’ – German Portraits from the 1920s.
Photo: Kate Cerigo
more photos from the BIRGIT MEGERLE opening & at the end of that report !! – more photos from the ‘GLITTER AND DOOM’ exhibit.
~BIRGIT MEGERLE, CHRISTIAN SCHAD |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 20th, 2007, 2:45pm
OTTO DIX, German 1891-1969, ‘Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann’, 1920.
One of the paintings to be found on display in, ‘GLITTER AND DOOM’ –
German Portraits from the 1920s, which ran from Nov 14 – Feb 19, 2007
at THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
according to the exhibit notes:
Dr. Stadelmann … “considered Dada a kind of mental disease of society .. worth studying.”
Photo: KATE CERIGO
more photos from ‘GLOOM AND DOOM’ – scroll down to the bottom of that report.
~OTTO DIX/Gloom and Doom |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 20th, 2007, 2:31pm
above: ANNIE PEARLMAN (on the right,) with friend, BRINA THURSTON at the
BRENDAN CASS/BRIAN BELOTT opening at FREIGHT+VOLUME, Chelsea.
( .. dig that “P” for Pearlman on her shirt.)
December 1, 2006.
Photo: Nancy Smith
YO !!! ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB & R. CRUMB FANS !!!!!!
LIVE FOOTAGE OF THE RECENT ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB OPENING !!
ANNIE PEARLMAN was interviewed on camera by ILANA ARAZIE,
at the ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB opening, who posted this video clip:
‘REEL CITY TALES – V: Life as Art’
… what makes it so compelling, apart from all the actual footage of the opening,
is … it turns out that the camerawoman & narrator,
ILANA ARAZIE, (the blonde at the beginning and end of the clip) turns out to be
an actual real-life cousin of ALINE’S – so there’s all these small intimate comments only
a real inside family member could make, .. PLUS ! she points out Aline’s “2nd husband” .. and makes sure to catch the notoriously evasive R. CRUMB in the opening crowd.
Annie says she was interviewed at random.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
ANNIE PEARLMAN is an artist, who works alot with music and web-based videos.
She also happens to be the girlfriend of BRIAN BELOTT. She grew up in VERMONT,
but now lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.
She also has alot of advanced web skills and maintains a pretty extensive & interesting site:
www.anniepearlman.com
ILANA ARAZIE also has an interesting website:
www.ilanadonna.com
love that soundtrack !!!
more photos from the BRENDAN CASS/BRIAN BELOTT opening
(photos start on row: 14)
‘ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB: NEED MORE LOVE’
February 15 – March 17, 2007
ADAM BAUMGOLD GALLERY
more photos from ‘NEED MORE LOVE’ – to post shortly
… yeah, yeah, yeah to JAMES BROWN .. women rule – this season, anyways !!!
…”IT’S A MAN’S WORLD .. BUT IT WOULDN’T BE ANYTHING … WITHOUT .. A WOMAN OR A GIRL”
– the late great JAMES BROWN.
~ANNIE PEARLMAN, ILANA ARAZIE & ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 15th, 2007, 12:20pm
ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB at the book signing for the ‘R. CRUMB HANDBOOK’,
Barnes and Noble Bookstore, CHELSEA, NYC, April 18, 2005
She is wearing a VIVIENNE TAM suit.
… in the news & featured on the artlovers homepage (March 13, 2007)
.. you’ve got 2 more days to make her show !
‘ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB: NEED MORE LOVE’
FEB 15 – MARCH 17, 2007
ADAM BAUMGOLD GALLERY
scoring major press:
“Mr. and Mrs. Natural” by ALLEN SALKIN in THE NEW YORK TIMES
published January 21, 2007
(available on-line on http://select.nytimes.com – its a pay-for-view site, so we can’t hotlink it)
&
a review by ROBERTA SMITH …
‘Aline Kominsky Crumb’
Need More Love
Adam Baumgold Gallery
74 East 79th Street, Manhattan
published in THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2007,
Art in Review section – that begins:
…”Aline Kominsky Crumb may be married to the cartoonist Robert Crumb,
but she is a force in her own right, as a woman, a cartoonist, a writer and
an artist.”
here’s a few more pix from the past:
ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB with PETER POPLASKI, at the booksigning for
‘THE R. CRUMB HANDBOOK’, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, CHELSEA,
April 18, 2005
the photo of ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB and PETER POPLASKI first posted on the artlovers report: APRIL 2005-PART I
(scroll down to row: 7)
above 3 photos: Nancy Smith
ADAM BAUMGOLD GALLERY
~ALINE KOMINSKY CRUMB |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 15th, 2007, 12:07pm
YAYOI DEKI, ‘Untitled’, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 35 x 35 ins
FEB 17 – MARCH 17, 2007
atm Gallery, CHELSEA — LAST WEEK !!!!
YAYOI DEKI, center, with friends …. Tse Tsu Etsuko of TRUX Gallery, TOKYO, left, and on the right, Chris Gaston.
Oct 4, 2006
ABOVE PHOTOS: COURTESY atm Gallery
more photos
atm Gallery
~YAYOI DEKI |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 9th, 2007, 11:37am
(image: DIFC Gulf Art Fair 08-10 MARCH 2007 brochure)
The first ever DIFC GULF ART FAIR opens tonight. It runs from 08-10 MARCH 2007.
It takes place in DUBAI, UAE (United Arab Emirates), which wants to add another
“must-be” destination to the already over-taxed schedule of wealthy collectors.
or seen another way, brings …
high end/high priced “blue chip” art directly home to the mother lode of petro dollars.
(right off the bat – the locale sure looks a lot better than the Armory piers !!)
Some of the 40 international galleries participating:
Diana Lowenstein MIAMI
Galerie Enrico Navarra PARIS
Malca Fine Art NEW YORK
Max Lang NEW YORK
Sundaram Tagore NEW YORK
White Cube LONDON
Albion LONDON
the above image – on the brochure is: :
MARIKO MORI, Beginning of the End (Future), 1996-2006,
Jumeriah, Dubai, courtesy the artist and Albion, London
note: that’s MARIKO MORI in one of her spaceship bubbles in the foreground.
Go for it boys: go get those petro dollars and bring them back home, at least we have something they want ….. who’d have ever thought it .. artists .. contemporary artists, no less .. key to Western economic stability.
guess we really are a decadent, or dying civilization, reminds us of the ROMAN’S love for Greek art, or our own fascination with our vanquished Native American art. Next on the agenda: petro dollars franchise The Louvre ! (price: approx US$540 million)
now, if only it was just as cheap for hordes of dead broke artists to hop a plane to Dubai, as it is to grab a cheap flight to Miami ! they’d have it made. .. the beach looks great.
but better leave the ‘bad’ coke at home !
… the fair must be kosher, New York City slang for “alright” – its got artnet.com listed as a sponsor . .. has WALTER ROBINSON finally hit the big bucks for covering an ART FAIR ? and what’s this, OMG – can there really be a “TimeOut – DUBAI” ..
and . . . just what exactly is that ‘DIFC gulf art fair’ logo design trying to say. . .
(1st image below – on the lower right hand corner ?)
above images: also from the DIFC Gulf Art Fair MARCH 2007 Brochure
(that top row reads: “ASAL”, “artnet.com”, “TimeOut-Dubai” & “canvas”)
UP DATE: MARCH 14, 2007: .. early buzz back from the fair – was that it was a “bust” – with less than expected sales.
www.gulfartfair.com
~DIFC Gulf Art Fair 2007 |
Posted in The Bomb | By Simon Cerigo | March 8th, 2007, 7:15pm
STEVE VINCENT, art critic (Art & Auction) & journalist, hit by “lightning”,
‘100 ARTISTS – 100 T SHIRTS’,
DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY,
July 16, 2003
Photo: Nancy Smith
STEVE VINCENT hit by IRAQI DEATH SQUAD and dumped on a Baghdad highway.
photo: posted on VOA – VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS
the article seems to be in Azerbaijani and its impossible to find an English translation, but still working on it… the VOA doesn’t seem to be forthcoming about providing English translations !!! isn’t that counterintuitive to its mandate ? looks like you’d need a real serious legal order to find out what’s really in that article. scary.
the direct link would be:
www.voanews (03/08/2005)
more ‘ 100 ARTISTS – 100 T SHIRTS’
more STEVE VINCENT photos
SIMON CERIGO’S TRIBUTE TO STEVE VINCENT: ACTION JUNKIE
~STEVE VINCENT/100 T SHIRTS/VOA |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 8th, 2007, 5:46pm
ANDREW GUENTHER, celebrates the close of the opening of the smash summer 2003 show:
‘100 ARTISTS 100 T SHIRTS’, which he co-curated.
DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY (now defunct)
CHELSEA, July 16, 2003
Photo: Nancy Smith
more pix from the 100 T SHIRTS show & a small selection of other ANDREW GUENTHER pix
… from the artlovers archives.
~ANDREW GUENTHER/100 T SHIRTS |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 8th, 2007, 5:04pm
THE GAWKER CHIMES IN ON THE “DASH SNOW/NO-SHOW”
‘A Cloudy Day’s Epiphany’ curated by SIMON CERIGO
DINTER FINE ART
~DASH SNOW: EPIPHANY |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 8th, 2007, 4:40pm
