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Ellis Gallagher: Urban Legend?
New York nightlife abounded at Ellis Gallagher’s New York City-reflective art exhibit on Bowery and Delancey at the Collective Hardware Gallery Thursday night. A couple of skips and a shimmy past the Williamsburg Bridge, it was easily accessible enough...
Summer Wasted: Motorcycle Mayhem at Heist.
It’s not what you expect but actually what you’re kind of hoping for; the visage of some peroxide blonde dominatrix look alike preening over the handlebars of a deluxe racing bike with the biggest scowl in the world on...
BridgeHampton shines light on Art.
Arthamptons was the premier destination this past weekend. Priceless Modern & Contemporary Art worth $200 million dollars was seamlessly displayed in infinite rows of fancy white tents. Over 5,000 savvy art enthusiasts, gallery owners, observers, and inevitable...
Passing by China.
Though the recession has put pressure on New York City’s dwindling studio art scene, attending gallery openings remains a favorite pastime of those looking for a 7PM activity a bit more cultured than your average happy hour. Passing By...
Sally Golan finds her Bunny hole…
My second trip down the Gallery Bar rabbit hole occurred yesterday evening. Unlike our heroine Alice, however, I did not know what quarry I chased. Was it a time constrained rabbit?
As a writer, I generally give myself license to...
POP Art…
When a special event is held to showcase the work of several New York artists, it is sometimes hard to ascertain by what criteria the event should be judged. Does one evaluate it based on the talent of the...
“Chase”; Machine does not equal man, unless inclined…
The thing with Liz Magic Laser is she doesn’t like banks, which is ironic because she’s in our opinion going to be banking quite a bit going forward. When we say doesn’t like banking what we ought to say...
A Tribute to Brooklyn (Crooklyn) NY , courtesy of Spike Lee.
This past Thursday night big things were happening in a tiny curved gallery as the art installment of the Spike Lee Tribute opened. Greeted with red velvet cupcakes from Cake Man Raven, the night was going to be Glory...
Sally Golan Night of Social Exposure
The starving artist is a character that appears often in romantic renditions of New York City life. In a city whose door is always revolving, where the young and novel are soon shunted aside as old and stale,...
CJ Reilly- From one tip of Bushwick to South America.
The Bushwick Open Studios and Art Festival is a bit of a Renaissance Fair where intrepid travelers can return to the Williamsburg of yore. Dressed in the costume of hipsters, they can participate in cheap-beer swilling contests, weave golden...
Christie’s keeps them coming…and how!
In an unusual move, architecture was the surprise star of Christie’s recent 20th Century Decorative Art and Design event. Around fifty potential bidders were treated to a reception at the famous auction house to get a sneak peak of...
Flamenco stars at Soho Art Salon Party.
Gilles Larrain, preeminent SoHo photographer, artist, and flamenco guitarist has added another notch to his belt: supporter of New York City studio artists (and damn good party host). Along with organizer Thomas Shelford and Gilles’ wife Louda, Larrain opened...
What happens when you bring an Englishman to NY via LA?
Once in a while in their merry excursions across town one can come across an interesting eclectic group of individuals. That said we did just that quite recently when we ran across English émigré Alexander Purcell and his Californian...
Alix Smith: “The Dislocation of Self.”
According to Alix Smith celebrated photographer/artist the moment of self arrives not with the construct of self but the deconstruction of self. In a society intimately concerned with appearances, the look of things, what often goes on is that...
Akut and Hera- if only you were as beautiful as us…
If you Google “Redflagg Herakut opening”, you will undoubtedly be directed to a number of art forums, each with multiple frantic posts from Herakut fans stunned that they hadn’t heard about the opening party Thursday night that kicked off...
