Kim Beck's Opening (in case you missed it)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Special thanks to ODelle Abney for once again visiting our opening reception and posting a nice video of the scene to Youtube. You can enjoy this pleasant walk-through of the show, even if you missed visiting us last Thursday night. Enjoy!
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Rudy Shepherd's Heroes and Villains
Friday, October 14, 2011
Rudy Shepherd
Heroes and Villains
START Gallery (Wake Forest University)
show info here.
TONIGHT, Friday, October 14 between 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM START Gallery is hosting a free reception open to the public.
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Friday Fun Day
Friday, October 14, 2011
Art Fag City reviews Work of Art. "It spoke to me." "What did it say?" Gallery Girls was here last night filming. Here's a description of the show I found online: "Gallery Girls is a docu-series following the lives of six young, 20-something women that work in New York City’s hippest art galleries. By day they juggle the stresses of their demanding bosses, maneuver through the complicated world they find themselves in and struggle to figure out how to get ahead in a business with so few opportunities to rise up the ranks. By night they are out at the hippest clubs, bars and art scene functions as they juggle their personal friendships, romantic relationships and art world acquaintances. For all these girls, their love for NYC is unwavering but their footing in the art world is anything but solid. Is this what they really want? Will they be able to survive in this business?" AHHHHH!!! WILL THEY SURVIVE IN THIS BUSINESS?? AHHH?!?!?!?!?!?!! (one of the girls had a fur collar on her jacket, so at the very least she'll survive the winter.)
And a rundown on my Pacific Standard Time experience....coming soon
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reading today (couldn't pass this up)
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Jerry Saltz explains why, exactly, he's continuing to judge Bravo's Work of Art:1. It helps him get out of the house.
2. He enjoys the food on set.
3. He's interested in observing how these types of shows get made.
Read his full recap.
AND
Ron Paul's errrr eyebrow malfunction.
NYMAG, you are killing it today. Loving the headlines.
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Beck installation pics
Thursday, October 13, 2011
See you tonight @ Mixed Greens for the opening of Kim Beck's Under Development
Mixed Greens
6-8pm
531 W. 26th Street, 1st floor
NYC
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SHOUT OUT to Little Paper Planes
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
SHOUT OUT to Little Paper Planes for this lovely coverage of Kim Beck's artwork over the years. Be sure to check out Kim's upcoming exhibition, opening this Thursday at Mixed Greens (6-8pm)!
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you saw the skywriting!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
There's been an abundance of press coverage for Kim Beck's The Sky Is the Limit, a skywriting project that happened this past Sunday, October 9th. We're sure you saw it if you were out enjoying the afternoon in NYC on Sunday. I personally watched as a few hundred shoppers in SoHo paused to look up at the sky. I saw about a hundred camera phones point toward the sky in unison to capture the words as they spelled out "Lost Our Lease", "Last Chance", and "Now Open". Read some press here:
The High Line's website
Huffington Post
NY Daily News
New York Magazine
Village Voice Blog
New York Times
NY Observer
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Exposito Deinstallation
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
If you were wondering how, exactly, a super fragile sculpture such as Alessandra Exposito's Florifurn Rodentrium gets moved to and from the gallery, I have posted a picture of the Olympian effort by Rob and Alex as they load it bit by bit onto the flatbed truck.
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Friday Fun Day
Friday, October 07, 2011
Just in case you didn't have any Saturday plans, you might want to pencil this in...if you have a strong stomach. Or if you're a doctor? Seems like it might be nice to have one of those on hand.
I'm talking about the performance artist who will be giving birth in a Bushwick gallery tomorrow. As a performance. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Think I'm kidding?
Friday is Fun Day, after all.
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Gallery Girl Reality TV and other not so fascinating Friday reading
Friday, October 07, 2011
A little birdie came around our gallery awhile back location-scouting for an upcoming reality TV show that was to be "gallery-based". WEll, the news is out. Welcome to "Paint The Town", the upcoming Bravo reality series dedicated to gallerinas. More info from GalleristNY.com: “[the show] follow[s] the lives of six young, 20-something women that work in New York City’s hippest art galleries.” The show is being produced by Magical Elves, the company that makes Top Chef and Work of Art." UGGGGH. Do you think they'll be filmed sitting at their desk proof-reading press releases?? I wonder where this show is going...VARA has some issues with mixed results re: site-specific works.
And...apparently the Taj Mahal could collapse in 5 years???
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Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Yup, LC III was my first personal computer.
Mixed Greens hearts MACs.
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WHOA--some good reading this Wednesday
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
LTB Media has some serious beef with the New York Observer!NERD alert! CERN is offering artist residencies!!!!!
Arrested Development is BACK.
If you're in London on November 26th, the Institute of Art and Law is hosting a study forum. Info here.
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PULSE video footage
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Pulse Los Angeles Art Fair by vernissagetv
For those of you who couldn't be in Los Angeles.....
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yep, we're watching the iPhone live blogging
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
best live blogging is here."Siri" is starting to sound more and more like Dr. Falken's Joshua.
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Pulse: the installation!
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Forgive me for not posting these real-time on Wednesday...turns out the iPad is useless for real blogging. Here are some shots of Steven and Sonya preparing our booth for PULSE LA this past weekend.We begin unpacking.
Look at how high the walls were!
We would have been lost without Rob's grid template.
Sonya is installing her Skillman Street Fence.
We decided to move the awning.
Almost there...
And finally, lighting.
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