Currently the New York Artist Series has finally worked out a deal for a
great space which would officially become the New York Artist Series! I can't
tell you which space we are looking at but it would house large art gallery,
special event/concert/film production space, a recording studio and office
space. We will also have live broadcast capabilities and Film/TV post-production facilities on-site as well.
I have been working on putting everything together from cameras, sound,
design and everything else. I am working on acquiring the investment capital
and then there will be an official announcement!
Paul Kasmin Gallery announces a two-fold exhibition of works by the
renowned pop artist Kenny Scharf, on view at the gallery’s Chelsea
locations from January 27th through February 26, 2011. NATURAFUTURA, a
new series of large-scale paintings inspired by the surroundings of
Scharf’s coastal studio in Bahia, Brazil will premiere at 293 Tenth
Avenue, and THREE DOZEN!, a collection of his iconic donut paintings
will be shown at 511 W. 27th Street.
Born from the transitional zone where the jungle meets the sea, the
paintings in NATURAFUTURA explore the richness of this landscape and
humankind’s multi-layered connections to it. In these paintings, Scharf
uses his own visionary lens to bring forth images of a fragile paradise
populated by vivid flora and fauna set against voluminous grounds of
highly keyed, patterned color.
The global Democracy is… conversation expands July 7 with the launch
of the inaugural Democracy
Photo Challenge. The contest asks
people around the world to complete the phrase “Democracy is…” through
digital photos submitted online. The Democracy is… conversation
leverages social networks and creative challenges to allow global
publics to share, consider, debate, and learn from diverse perspectives
on democracy.
Photo entries will be accepted from July 7 through
July 28. Democracy is… partners worked with Google’s Picasa Web
Albums team to create the contest platform, which is the first of its
kind, specifically to power the Democracy Photo Challenge. An
independent jury will announce 36 finalists August 19, and the public
will select 12 winners during a global online vote beginning August 19 -
August 26. The winners will be announced on the United Nations’ (UN)
International Day of Democracy, September 15, with the winning
photographs exhibited at the UN in New York.
“How
appropriate that the winning photos should be on display at the UN,”
said jury co-chair and International Center of Photography Director,
Willis Hartshorn.
On October 12th 1978 Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper and heroin addict, was found dead in a bathroom at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. She also happened to be the girlfriend of he Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious, who was quickly accused of her murder. Less than 6 months later, he died of a heroin overdose and the case was closed.
The death of Sid and Nancy has passed into rock legend and has only added to the controversial and notorious image of the Sex Pistols and punk music.
At the request of Sid's mother, who committed suicide in 1996, rock author and punk expert Alan Parker has devoted himself to discovering WHO KILLED NANCY? By interviewing 182 people and re-examining NYPD evidence, he investigates what really happened that night in room 100.
May 01, 2010 — May 29, 2010
18 Wooster Street, New York
Deitch Projects is pleased to present May Day, an exhibition of new work by Shepard Fairey, as its final project. Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Day resonate throughout the artist's new body of work. Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker's Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.
With energy and urgency befitting the title May Day, Fairey captures the radical spirit of each of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate some of the artists, musicians and political activists he most admires. Says Fairey, "These people I'm portraying were all revolutionary, in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future."
