Weekly Update – February First Friday roundup
This week’s Weekly has my First Friday picks . Little Berlin ’s “ Works on Paper Rejects ”—with drawings, prints, photos and sculpture by artists rejected from the recent Works on Paper exhibit at Arcadia University —is the hot opening this Friday.
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Weekly Update – February First Friday roundup
Filed under: Accessories , Fashion , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Style Photo: Valerie Macon, AFP/Getty Images It looks like Lady Gaga ’s over-the-top fashion antics have made a lasting impression! Well, at the very least, they continue to have people writing about her. (Guilty as charged.) So much so, that the outlandish pop star landed the top spot on Spring 2010 ’s fashion buzzword list, compiled by the Global Language Monitor
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Lady Gaga Tops Fashion Buzzword List for Spring 2010
It’s a blizzard out there — with shows dropping like snowflakes on the Philly art scene. Here’s some pictures and a few comments from our travels around town this past month. All these venues have serious monthly (or bi-monthly) programs and with First Friday around the corner it’s time to get out and see some more.
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Hot stuff this month at Sweatshop, Templeton, Grizzly and elsewhere
I had my overnight with the “famous” guy last night. In his case, famous means: well known in his circles, and maybe you’ve seen him once or twice in a magazine or on TV. In the interests of keeping his identity anonymous, there are some things I would like to say in this entry that I’m going to have to leave out. He’s an esteemed (according to one description of him that google brought up) antique collector/dealer, or at least enough so that if I mentioned certain pieces/collections he had, someone in the antique world might figure out who he is. I realize my blog isn’t really at the level yet that he would have to worry, but who knows, maybe it will take off overnight and I’ll suddenly be outing my johns. I’ll save that for my multi-million dollar, Heidi Fleiss book deal. Until then, he’ll just be known as “antique man.” We talked a lot on the phone beforehand. He was very talkative (on the phone and in person), which I liked. After setting up our meeting and then confirming a couple times via text and phone, I arrived around 8pm. He met me at the door with a beautiful bulldog, who seemed very friendly. He was probably in his 50s (the man, not the dog), but wasn’t terribly out of shape or bad looking. Just looked his age. He led me into his apartment, which was beautiful, although a little cluttered, which seems to be the antique collector’s way. His fireplace was going, which was very nice. I later learned that the building used to be owned by a famous couple… who I shouldn’t mention. I truly wish I could be more specific, but just know, the apartment and the things he had in it were simply beautiful. We made small talk as he grabbed a bottle of Prosecco and poured us both a glass. He told me that I looked different from my pictures, which I’ve been told before. I need to go through all my picture options with my roommate sometime. Although nobody has been disappointed (they say I’m better in person) I don’t want to misrepresent myself. He said I looked a little more… mature? I also am a little scruffier than my pics make me out to be. As he came back from the kitchen he grabbed me and went for the mouth. We made out for a minute, then headed over to the sofa where we lounged, chatted, listened to some music, and fended off his dog, who was pretty nippy. I think he was jealous of the attention that I was getting that was usually his. We listened to a lot of music… jazz mostly. We had talked on the phone about some hard to find CDs he had gotten that he was excited to play for me
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heaven knows, anything goes.
Finally snapped some photos of my space at Homestead. The re-do was a long time coming. Right now there’s only one layaway piece still in my space. And I really need to purchase more smalls to fill it completely, but it’s on the road to recovery … Ironically, this piece isn’t in the shop yet! But…it is a perfect example of irony. I keep lots of white stuff in the shop, so I thought it only fitting to bring in a brown thing that says “White.” It’s a White sewing machine cover. The rubber band’s around it because I had to do some repair work. It’s in shabby condition, but it’s one of those things I’m drawn to for reasons even I don’t understand. Bought this baby in Warrenton…LAST spring. That’s how long I’ve been sitting on it. Time for it to go to the shop. Bye-bye, my pretty. This is, perhaps, my favorite corner of my universe. I could just sit and stare at it. I want to move in. If I had a bed or even a comfy chaise, I might never leave.
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My pretties…
Don’t know what it is, but I seem to paint a lot from bridges lately. Think I like the view, and of course staying on top of things, hehehe. Just kidding, I’ll guess it give me a feeling of distance and it also remembers me of Wales, ..
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Bridge-painting #, … I don’t know.
Explicit views of women’s pudenda have never been in short supply in New York City but one found them on 42nd St.
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Reclaiming Women’s Anatomy: The Visible Vagina at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art and David Nolan Gallery
Well…I did something rather ’silly’… I used my computer without adequate virus and spyware protection in place. My McAffee had expired and I hadn’t downloaded the Security package from my RR account
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My Computer Was Attacked…
Yesterday I felt much much better and decided to go out today, … but this morning when I opened the curtains everything was white completely WHITE! what a surprise, … and not only white but also very beautiful weather as well, I just love snow with sunshine! “Ned
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Back in business!
The Chris Ofili mid career survey at the Tate Britain reveals a sexually charged and scatalogical body of work reminiscent of Gilbert and George’s The Naked Shit Pictures . This survey contains overlooked sensations and under-exploited materials. The energies driving the early works have been tamed and the latest works are in an amorphous state of disarray
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Chris Ofili at the Tate Britain
Still not good enough to get out, and just as well it’s stone cold outside! Just to stay on the radar, I thought I’ll post some photo’s of a previous life of me, before I got hooked on Plein air. In those days I just made Indian ink sketches in the field and worked them out into large abstract paintings, ..
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Still not enough to get out
Living legends are rare birds indeed — most legends forged at least partially, alas, by death, untimely or otherwise — but Takao Tanabe can make a pretty good case for himself. Now in his 80s, Tanabe, the son of a Japanese immigrant and commercial fisherman in Prince Rupert, B.C., measures up as one of this country's most important Modern painters
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Takao Tanabe’s early years
7 1/2″ by 9″ daily pastel painting, unframed I almost made a cappuccino this morning but I decided to have a pear instead. But first I wanted to paint them together. The milk pitcher is what I use to froth the milk.
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milk pitcher and pear
I don’t mean to pick on one writer or on one blog, but here’s a good example of why I’m enjoying the Super Bowl-wager back-and-forth between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art: Yesterday the big sports blog site SB Nation ran a post on it here: “I’m as surprised Indianapolis has an art museum as you are,” SBN editor Holly Anderson snarked.
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The fun of the wager
UPDATE, Wednesday, 130pm EST: The bet is made and done. See below/bottom.
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UPDATE: *The bet is done.* Art museum director Super Bowl trash talk: It’s on.
Illustration: Dorothy Liebes sample of a room divider 1952 Early in her career, while studying art and anthropology at college, Dorothy Liebes bought her first small portable handloom and was able to teach herself the art of weaving. This early start into the world of craft textiles was eventually to lead Liebes into a full time textile career. After a few years into a career of teaching, Liebes took the decision to both study textile design and then to become a textile designer
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Dorothy Liebes Artist Weaver
This morning, via Twitter , I’m playing matchmaker in trying to arrange a Super Bowl bet between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art . IMA director and Twitter-devotee Maxwell Anderson stepped up and wagered a three-month loan of this recently acquired painting
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Two art museums and a Super Bowl loan wager
Yesterday I saw Silvester painting portraits and he gave some tips and tricks, Today I just had to give it a go. My greatest model ever was happy to pose for me. “Annette.” 20 minutes portrait
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"Annette." 20 min. Portrait.
I wanted to tell you about a great idea initiated by Malcolm Rains and followed though on by his dealer, Nicholas Metivier , but I'm happy to report that it's too late. That's a rare circumstance, but the thing is, yesterday I received a note from the Metivier Gallery that they were holdign a fundraising raffle of work by gallery artists for Haitian earthquake relief
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Artists for Haitian relief at the Metivier gallery
Illustration: Untitled 1 by Marion Coleman 2007 These four abstract textile art pieces by Marion Coleman, are all linked through a series of commonalities, colour, texture, and pattern. However, probably the most obvious and noticeable link is that of her use of patterned textiles. In these particular pieces, she uses a mixture of locally American sourced textiles and perhaps more importantly, a generous supply of African sourced textiles
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The Abstract Finesse of Textile Artist Marion Coleman