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Skye Nicolas- Mortelle Series Act I @ ION space.
“Just kill them!” ordered Marlon Richards of Skye Nicolas; and the “Mortelle Series: Act I” was born. How can beauty be captured without repeating the clichés of art history, the enticing curvaceous Venus of Urbinos, the delectably innocent Daphnes?...
A paparazzo turns up to Moeller Snow Gallery.
The taxi dropped us at the Moeller Snow Gallery on Bond Street minutes before 9:00. Outside stood a crowd of dapper gentlemen, one of which who was quick to strike up a conversation. In a refined accent he inquired,...
How to Behave like you Know what you are Looking at. Etiquette at the gallery.
"This is how you are supposed to stand," Umberto whispered in my ear as I took a sip of my PBR and stared at the painted and carved wooden slab on the wall. He slid apart his stance another...
The art of Being Held Hostage. Allan D Hasty and Parker Wolf Get Tied Up…
We here at Scallywag and Vagabond are quite adamant about championing provocative work from those artists whom we deem unique, highly talented, a smidgen deranged and with a sensibility that continually forces us the consumer of their work to...
World opening in Germany. The Hidden Trace- Jewish Paths to Modernity.
On December 6th, I missed Art Basel Miami and the party sponsored by Asprey Jewelry, which one of my dealers, Kiptonart, was throwing at the luxurious Setai Hotel, in South beach. I could not make it to Miami this...
Agathe de Bailliencourt; “Je m’en fous.”
"Occupation bleue", Acrylic painting on floor & walls, Tanglin Camp. Singapore Biennale 2006. Artistic Director: Fumio Nanjo
Meeting the very liberated Miss Agathe de Bailliencourt a rising star of the Berlin and Parisian court and not to...
Serge Strosberg; The Dorian Gray Syndrome.
What is in an identity? How does one prevail? How does one negotiate their outward appearance and the gnarling contradictory feelings that come along with being. In his role as spectator, sympathizer, provocateur Belgian born painter Serge Strosberg takes...
Cultural Disarray; Starring ‘Google,” “Michael Jackson,” and “Paris Hilton.”
Given the recent capitulation of society at large being parlayed in vast banking failures, improbable political imperatives (invading Iran and Russia brought to you care of Fortune 500), and the fervent following of meandering television audiences looking for their...
