~HELLEN JO . . POSTER / CALA 2018 / COMIC ARTS LOS ANGELES / THIS WEEKEND DEC 8 & 9

MEANWHILE . . in L.A.

HELLEN JO . . made the great poster !!!

def, check out: COMIC ARTS LA

def, check out: HELLEN JO – ARTIST WEBSITE & STORE

~HELLEN JO . . POSTER / CALA 2018 / COMIC ARTS LOS ANGELES / THIS WEEKEND DEC 8 & 9 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 9th, 2018, 9:53am



~DAN MANDELBAUM, MARVIN GARDENS . . UNTITLED / MIAMI / LAST DAY

the smallest for last / calm down.
just joking.
writing an art blog is like being a mini-pilot / on a high flying drone.
B2 BOMBER ?!!!

DAN MANDELBAUM – SCULPTURE
MARVIN GARDENS – UNTITLED ART FAIR, MIAMI – BOOTH B2


DAN MANDELBAUM – SCULPTURES
image via Instagram @marvin_gardens
BOOTH PHOTOS BY DAN BRADICA / @danbradica

~DAN MANDELBAUM, MARVIN GARDENS . . UNTITLED / MIAMI / LAST DAY | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 9th, 2018, 9:38am



~MELISSA BROWN . . in ‘The Strangeness Will Wear Off’ / DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY, MIAMI / OPENING SAT DEC 8

‘The Strangeness Will Wear Off’ – BIG GROUP SHOW !!
incl: MELISSA BROWN
OPENS TO-NITE / SAT DEC 8 / 7 – 10 PM
the show runs thru . . JAN 31, 2019
DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY, 420 Lincoln Road, Suite 300, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Art Basel Week HRS: Dec 5 – 9th / 10 AM – 6 PM

more about: ‘The Strangeness Will Wear Off’ – DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY


image via DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY

~MELISSA BROWN . . in ‘The Strangeness Will Wear Off’ / DAVID CASTILLO GALLERY, MIAMI / OPENING SAT DEC 8 | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 8th, 2018, 1:02pm



~TOM SACHS . . NASA CHAIR / WORLD WIDE WEB / ORDER YOURS NOW !! THE CLOCK IS TICKING !!

lol, meanwhile b-i-g switch-up . . from car travel – to SPACE !!

from $250 to . . $1,000 / but, s-t-i-l-l worth every penny !!

if I had $200 x 5 !!!!!!!

Bad Boy, TOM SACHS . .
is offering up a limited release of his NASA ‘chair’, for $1,000. a pop.
limited time only . . .
“available for 24 hrs on our webstore” / and, the clock started ticking 35 mins. ago. FRI DEC 7 2018 – 12:43 PM

def, check out: TOM SACHS / STORE / NASA chair & where you can order YOURS !!


image via Instagram @tomsachs

@tomsachs: Space program / NASA Chair, 2012
Mars ‘Flown’ Chairs available for 24 hrs on our webstore.
Limited release of Samsonite Model 2250 Mission Control and audience NASA chairs.
Each 31.25″ x 17.25″ Samsonite folding chair was used during the mission (i.e. ‘flown’ that took two astronauts
to the surface of Mars at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC 2012.
Each High Density Polyethylene (H.O.P.E.) and zinc plated, powder coated steel chair is made in U.S.A.
screen printed with NASA, and and labeled with an individual hero’s name and unique serial number.
Chairs contain dust from the Martian surface, and signs of use.
No choices, no returns.
Signed by the artist.
Each NASA chair comes with “Chairs” zine.
Published July 12, 2012

NASA Chair
($1,000.00)


TOM SACHS SWISS PASSPORT DESK

def, see: TOM SACHS WEBSITE

FROM THE ARTLOVERS ARCHIVE: JAN 21, 2003 !!!! 15 YEARS – AGO !!!!


TOM SACHS at his NUTSY’S INSTALLATION / BOHEN FOUNDATION, JAN 21, 2003
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

~TOM SACHS . . NASA CHAIR / WORLD WIDE WEB / ORDER YOURS NOW !! THE CLOCK IS TICKING !! | Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 7th, 2018, 12:38pm



~MELISSA BROWN . . LIMITED EDITION PRINT / NADA & ABSOLUT ART. / MIAMI

KNOCK-OUT.

“I get obsessed with the way a mundane experience can suddenly take on a universal symbolic meaning.”

read more: ‘Rear View Mirror’ by MELISSA BROWN / ABSOLUT ART.


image via Instagram @boogiebrowntown

MELISSA BROWN, ‘Rear View Mirror’, 2018
linoleum cut print / 15.7 x 19.7 in.
limited edition of 15 / signed & numbered / archival ink jet print
($275)

FROM THE ARTLOVERS ARCHIVE: 14 years ago !!!!!


MELISSA BROWN, ‘ROWDY REMIX’ opening, Bill Brady / ATM Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC. MAY 29, 2004
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

oh yeah, Melissa may project ‘buttoned-down’ and ‘straight-forward/, lol
but def, there’s a big crazy & wild heart – beating inside.

see: ARTNET, SPRING 2004 – for the original report.

~MELISSA BROWN . . LIMITED EDITION PRINT / NADA & ABSOLUT ART. / MIAMI | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 7th, 2018, 11:18am



~TOKEN / PRESENTS: ‘GOOD TASTE’ . . incl. PETER SUTHERLAND, JOE GARVEY, CHASE HALL & JULIAN KLINCEWICZ / NYC POP-UP / MIAMI OPENS WED DEC 5

ALL THE POWER – TO YA.

OPENING PARTY – TONIGHT !!

PERFORMANCE BY: JULIAN KLINCEWICZ

‘GOOD TASTE’
curated by KATJA HORVAT & PAIGE SILVERIA
presented by: TOKEN / NYC Pop-Up Shop / see: tokentokentoken.nyc/
Miami Design District
3802 NE, 1st Ave
Miami, FL / Florida
OPENS WED DEC 5 / 6 – 9 PM
show runs DEC 6 – 9, 2018
HRS: 12 pm – 6 pm

GOOD TASTE . . . is a group exhibition platform – curated by KATJA HORVAT & PAIGE SILVERIA


FLYER via Instagram @paigesilveria

JULIAN KLINCEWICZ . . is a multi-disciplinary artist based out of . . SAN DIEGO

def, listen: JULIAN KLINCEWICZ – SOUNDCLOUD


JULIAN KLINCEWICZ . .
IMAGE VIA SOUNDCLOUD/JULIAN KLINCEWICZ

def, yes: MY FAV !!
PLAY THIS: GLIMMER OF HOPE / JULIAN KLINCEWICZ – SOUNDCLOUD

~TOKEN / PRESENTS: ‘GOOD TASTE’ . . incl. PETER SUTHERLAND, JOE GARVEY, CHASE HALL & JULIAN KLINCEWICZ / NYC POP-UP / MIAMI OPENS WED DEC 5 | Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 5th, 2018, 7:12pm



~TAYLOR McKIMENS . . EXUBERANT, RUSTY OLE SPRAY PAINT CAN / plus: GREAT INTERVIEW on OLD PAL !!

RE-PURPOSED, OLD RUSTY SPRAY PAINT CAN / TAKE 2 !!

and, if you can find anything, anything !! anywhere – near as close to that glorious painting – in Miami this weekend / all the power to ya.


TAYLOR McKIMENS. .
just posted this great rendition / of a ‘re-purposed’, spray paint can !! / on IG !!
acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 in.
image via Instagram @taylormckimens

there’s also a great & extensive interview . . with TAYLOR that just popped up, on the OLD PAL . . JOURNAL !!!!
def, check it out: TAYLOR McKIMENS – OLD PAL
lots of great pix, too.


image via: TAYLOR McKIMENS – JOURNAL / OLD PAL


OLD PAL – LOGO

you . . got a great logo – we are putting it out there !!
artlovers is just as much about great graphic design, as it is GREAT ART & catching the mark – on the market / art market.
whatever.

damn, I so much liked what Charlie Finch used to call me – CRACKULA !!
sooooo much better than what Walter Robinson called me, but things being what they are: unfair.
and watered ? Waltered (!!) down.
art lovers – stuck.
we are talking: artnet – golden years 2002-2004.

& A HERE’S A LIL OLE . . . GOLDIE !!

FROM THE ARTLOVERS ARCHIVE – 15 YEARS AGO – SUMMER 2003 !!!!!!

A PRETTY MUCH, STILL PRETTY MUCH UNKNOWN . . . TAYLOR McKIMENS.
with an early one of his ‘hamburger’ paintings – behind him.
KENNY SCHACTER DOWNTOWN POP-UP / JULY 24, 2003
at CAPITAL.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH

~TAYLOR McKIMENS . . EXUBERANT, RUSTY OLE SPRAY PAINT CAN / plus: GREAT INTERVIEW on OLD PAL !! | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 4th, 2018, 12:49pm



~LOW BROW ARTIQUE . . RUSTY, OLE SPRAY PAINT CAN / ‘SUCCULENT’ PLANTERS

IN-YOUR-FACE / DIY . . TAKE 2 !!!!

UP-CYCLE . . THOSE RUSTY OLD SPRAY PAINT CANS !!

LOW BROW ARTIQUE
143 CENTRAL AVE, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, NY 11221
HRS: WED-FRI 12-8 PM / SAT+SUN 11-7 PM
CLOSED MON +TUES / WINTER


@lowbrow_nyc: “Fucking white people with their arts & crafts…
Now making a bunch of these. For sale in the shop.”
image via Instagram @lowbrow_nyc

only $20 !! a pop !! / & NOT an edition.

damn. I had to get me one !!!
is the friggin’ L train running ?
yes . . it’s Thanksgiving weekend !! Praise the Lord.
I’m on !! Jersey to Bushwick . . in a hard-core heartbeat.

everything is so damn fraught . . today.
bring on the DAMN . . DIY !!!

the more in-your-face, and HOMIER !! the BETTER !!!
radical contrarians unite . .
in a new age of rebel arts & crafts !!!

Red rover, red rover, let the insider / outsiders . . . take over.


right in the heart of still authentic Bushwick – a rebel heart grows.


re-purposed rusty old SPRAY CANS bearing succulents – line one shelf.


a seed grows in . . Brooklyn


a radical ‘graff’ artist & purveyor of Spray paint supplies . . blossoms into a pop-up pocket DIY gardener.


take an old empty spray paint can.
the rusting is accelerated by an immersive water bath, first.
then . . “let them dry. Spray (the interior) with a clear varnish by either 94 or Gold.”
then throw in some dirt, & a baby succulent, and you are good to go.


this one is . . . mine.
best $20 – ever !!!!!


BISHOP.
artist/store owner. entrepreneur and . . gardener.
damn, check out the rows & rows . .
of color tonality on the wall / if that ain’t . . ‘pretty little maids all in a row’ / OG ‘garden’ metaphor !!
I don’t know what is.

oh yeah. somebody on your list, wants this.
so, take that brisk trek over to outer Bushwick,
take that lonely $20 bill in your pocket, and fork it over. no brainer.

or better yet, if you are flush.
pull that dirty, well-worn, w-i-d-e elastic band, off that wad of $20s, or if it’s:
Real-fake Basquiat forger / Alfredo Martinez style $100 bills burning a hole in your pocket /
my sincere advice is: flash the cash,
peel off those greenbacks . . & buy out the store.

def, check out: LOW BROW ARTIQUE

they have other merch, including logo t-shirts, graff-centered artworks, Boundless Brooklyn water tower & billboard kits, ink markers and, hands-dpwn,
. . “the largest aerosol color selection on the east coast.”
to peer upon that wall of cans, is to tremble / every time.

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH / logos: LOW BROW ARTIQUE

~LOW BROW ARTIQUE . . RUSTY, OLE SPRAY PAINT CAN / ‘SUCCULENT’ PLANTERS | Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 30th, 2018, 10:36am



~DEVIN TROY . . COLOURED PUBLISHING / CLAY PIPES & . . . !!!

IN-YOUR-FACE . . .
GLORIOUSLY OVER-THE-TOP, WICKED / BOLD & BEAUTIFUL.

IT’S NOT JUST THE SOCIAL POLITICS BUT, THE ‘VICTORY’.
THE ‘VICTORIOUS’ TRANSCENDING . . of the CULTURE, GENRE & ART HISTORY, that went before.
trampled. done. over.
I dunno, maybe that is .. politics ?
well, it damn well puts art history – in it’s place, anyways.
I’m for anything / but most esp. anything supremely ‘outsider/insider’. heavy with the w-i-t, & flat-out . . inspired.

plus . . it’s FUNCTIONAL.

most of these are already sold-out, so duh, it seems,
I’M not, the lonely & only . . one.

‘CULTURAL RECEPTACLE’ – SOLD OUT !! / was $250 ea.
HAND-MADE by DEVIN TROY STROUTHER / & founder of COLOURED PUBLISHING.
one-of-a-kind . . . NOT AN EDITION !!
‘GLAZED CERAMIC . . THAT FUNCTIONS AS AN ASHTRAY’, 6 x 5-7/8 x 1-1/8 in.
images via . . ‘CERAMICS – COLOURED PUBLISHING’

def, check out: CERAMICS . . COLOURED PUBLISHING

there are still some “PIPES” – LEFT !!


‘CULTURAL INSPIRATION (BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT) #20’
HANDMADE BY DEVIN TROY STROUTHER / ONE-OF-A-KIND / NOT an edition / each one is different.
‘GLAZED CERAMIC SCULPTURE . . THAT FUNCTIONS AS A PIPE’.
4-7/8 x 1-1/2 x 1-1/4 in.
$300.
image via ‘CERAMICS – COLOURED PUBLISHING’
to order, check out: Cultural Inspiration – COLOURED PUBLISHING

DEF, CHECK OUT: COLOURED PUBLISHING, BOOKS, etc

~DEVIN TROY . . COLOURED PUBLISHING / CLAY PIPES & . . . !!! | Posted in If I had $200, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 24th, 2018, 10:52am



~MICKEY MOUSE . . as a KATCHINA DOLL ca. 1950 / 2 BRIDGES MUSIC ARTS

just by, you know the power of the . . WEB !!


image via Instagram @2briidgesmusicarts

I was struck . . by the resonance of the Black Friday / day after . . THANKSGIVING IG POST
of . . 2 BRIDGES MUSIC ARTS,
so I decided to cruise their website offerings, Lol !!!


EDMUND CARPENTER, ‘Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!’, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
top right: ZUNI KATCHINA FIGURE, CIRCA 1950 (!!!!)
see: BOOKS – 2 BRIDGES MUSIC ARTS

is that not . . . MICKEY ?!!!!!

HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY – MICKEY !!

YOU . . should only live to be so old, and influential !!

~MICKEY MOUSE . . as a KATCHINA DOLL ca. 1950 / 2 BRIDGES MUSIC ARTS | Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 23rd, 2018, 2:44pm


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