What happened to Hamish? HARD/SOFT opens at the National Arts Club.
Getting into the National Arts Club last Friday was an outrageous production. The line was around the block. Frustrated shouts could be heard throughout Gramercy Park. And Hamish Bowles left in a huff. Yes, that’s right. Hamish Bowles, VOGUE’s...
American Academy of Arts and Letters: Pompous, Stuffy but Brilliant.
In the post regalia of the Armory this Scallywag headed way uptown (155 th st ) to partake in some stodgy revelry of the Academy’s annual patronage to the visual arts.
Viewing the vast amount of heralded work at the...
Will Everything Be Taken Away? UN-SCR-1325 opens at the Chelsea Art Museum.
In the midst of Armory Week’s champagne cocktails and pretentious (albeit enthralling) parties, it was refreshing to attend a powerful opening where the focus was, shockingly enough, the art. Curated by the perceptive Jan Van Woensel and his curatorial...
Amanda Dolan’s “Heart Attack.”
Blinking hearts in a window bringing Amsterdam's red-light district to mind, and a modern day Warhol of a pooch fit to ride in Paris Hilton's luxury handbag clearly signaled that Amanda Dolan's "Heart Attack" exhibit opening at Ward-Nasse Gallery was open for...
Reassessing Self-Worth Via Comparative Discount Shopping:
There has been no assuaging my pain these past eight days. Few of my "friends" have tried offering my broken heart condolences, but mostly, they've not cared to hear me whine and complain which I totally understand, and therefore,...
Goodbye Armory; the Collective cool kids of Hardware celebrate…
Sunday night. A welcoming smile at an iron door, stairs leading to Erik Foss and Paul Sevigny’s Armory After Party at Collective Hardware, and the new cool kids holy land on Bowery. An addictive and entrancing vibe provoked us like a smoky...
Julian Hibbard gives us Noir A-Z.
The death of John Dillenger, infamous bank robber known for his graceful movements during heists such as, leaping over counters and high-speed car chases with narrow getaways was as follows;
Anna Sage, a brothel madam from Gary, Indiana was facing...
Okay, we went to the Armory too, but are Galleries still relevant?
So last night was the last night of the Armory spectacle. To be clear we rather enjoyed the whole experience, the artists, the dealers, the meetings, the parties and the clever banter. Always the clever banter. Yet there was...
Sally Shan. More than just a Club Promoter?
It’s just after two in the morning and I’ve been ignoring the text on my phone all week when I finally capitulate. I’m walking up the stairs of a beehive of young kids, dwarfs, batman look a likes and...
Why French People Love McDonald’s and for that matter the USA.
In Paris, people obey the rules. Take, for example, the Luxembourg Gardens, the city's prettiest and most prominent public park, where people actually resign themselves to looking at the grass instead of playing on it. As a Californian, this...
Why you should be in Berlin.
We’ve been hearing it for ages now, but is it really true? Your mighty self better pack itself off to Berlin and make the most of the vibe, creativity and the vast amount of space that can be had...
Drew Tal giving us Sublime, Bliss and the Ethereal.
If one were to observe Drew Tal’s photograph’s they would walk away with the feeling of a monastic like experience. Serene, humbling and a parlor of ethnic sensibilities Tal’s work on show at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery booth at...
Batsheva Dance Company leaves us Mesmerized at BAM.
Curtain rises, absolute stillness. Women are in a deep knee bend in front of men, statis dripping in the air between them (and us, the audience). Waiting, waiting. An audience member coughs. Another. We are holding our breath. And...
B-lining for the Quadruple kisses at the Armory’s launch party.
The Armory Show 2009 preview party held at MoMA proved to be a New York borough mixology of sorts. From Williamsburg hipsters adorned in regal mustaches, lumberjack plaid, and Lee cords, Chelsea Gallerists, Downtown cool kids, to the Upper East Siders in...
Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness
The issue of race is not black and white. And what isn’t grey is the fact that this fictitious idea of “race” has throughout history picked at the color spectrum in order to ‘extric-hate’. If one...
