Habitatation in Bklyn @ Russell Janis Salon

A new boutique salon has just opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Here writing and art and home wares, privisions, prints and good vibes are all housed in a cool new space.  Address: 29 Manhattan Avenue (on Devoe St) 11211.   Currently Habitation, an art exhibition with: Louise Eastman,
Kathleen Kucka, Janis Stemmermann and Wendy Small.

See the virtual art tour here: Habitation Art Exhibition Virtual Tour.

See everything else here: http://www.russelljanis.com/

No Big Macs in Crimea

 

 

McDonald’s has closed its restaurants in Crimea, citing logistical problems after the region was annexed by Russia. Credit James Hill for The New York Times.  See the New York Times article: Life in Crimea after Russian Annexation.

SCOPE NEW YORK 2014 OPENS 6 MARCH

IMAGE: MATTHEW ROSE, SECOND NATURE, 2009.  COLLAGE ON WOOD, 56 x 56 CM 
 
SCOPE New York
312 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
Converge Gallery • B03 • 570-447-5778

First View and Press Preview
Thurs | March 6 | 3pm – 6pm

Show Hours
Fri | March 7 | 11am – 8pm
Sat | March 8 | 11am – 8pm
Sun | March 9 | 11am – 7pm

Trey Speegle: Drink Up With Michelle Obama @ The New Museum

From Trey Speegle: "MICHELLE OBAMA VISITS THE NEW MUSEUM (...and signs my painting!) Last month my friend, artist and curator Pierre Bernard Francillon, asked me to participate in WAT-AAH!‘s “Take Back the Streets” exhibit at the New Museum along with 12 other artists like Kenny Scharf, Shepherd Fairey, and Swoon. WAT-AAH! water was started by former ad exec Rose Cameron with the intent to get kids to drink more water in school so...." More here: https://trey-speegle.squarespace.com/010113

Trey will exhibit his work with Converge Gallery at the Scope Art Fair NYC 2014, March 6 - 9.  

BEATLES ROOF TOP PERFORMANCE ATOP APPLE RECORDS IN LONDON: LAST DANCE 45 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

From Alan Parson: 45 years ago on this date, The Beatles performed together for the last time on the roof of Apple Records in London. In honor of this I'm sharing with you a rarely seen photo. That's me to the right of the cameraman in the orange shirt and black suit.

KIM TRIEDMAN : THE OTHER ROOM

On the hot literary list for 2014: Kim Triedman's The Other Room. The author, graduate of Brown University, goes head first in this heart breaking novel.  This is Triedman's first novel, published by Owl Canyon Press.  Read: Interview with the author from Fiction Writer's Review:  Kim Triedman on The Other Room.  

Buy the book: Literati.

PETE SEEGER | 1919-2014

PHOTO: REUTERS

NYT OBIT: Pete Seeger dies at 94. Article by Jon Pareles.

Urban Archeology Dept: Willoughby Sharpe Gallery Unearthed In New York City On Spring & Bowery

Wonderful article and photos by Lori Greenberg: Legendary Willoughby Sharp Gallery Storefront Rediscovered on Spring Street.  View: Robin Winters exhibition.

FAR FUTURE TIME LINE

The long road to the end of time as we know it. Hurry up and wait.
See your future up close and personal: BBC.

Louis Vuitton, Ray Johnson, Keith Sonnier, John Himmelfarb, Hope Kroll, Ari Rosser & Courbet & More : Letter From Paris 2013 Wayback Machine

A little year in review: Louis Vuitton, Ray Johnson, Keith Sonnier, John Himmelfarb, Hope Kroll, Cecil Touchon and Ari Rossner's take on Courbet... Read it, see it all : Letter From Paris.

A Conversation With Ray Johnson By John Held Jr

Best Solo/Museum Show: 2013 Liberta Award

More here: http://www.theartblog.org/2013/12/the-2013-liberta-awards/

Banksy Wall With Security Guard: Art Miami 2013

Banksy wall complete with security guard. Yes, there's everything at the world largest art orgy. Photo: Casey Gleghorn/Converge Gallery.

JIM SHAW'S THE HIDDEN WORLD – THE CHALET SOCIETY, PARIS

The very brilliant Jim Shaw opens his private collection of Christian, Mormon and Scientology literature, his Ad Reinhardt Art World Comic book and a host of images about the hidden world around us – all captured in 50s, 60s and 70s technicolor. Amazing. All at The Chalet Society, 14 Blvd Raspail 75006 Paris, France.  Photos by: Pierre.

Simon (right) was making silkscreens from Jim Shaw's archive of hiddenness, gorgeous.  Each silkscreen print sells for 20 euros.  Get one or two or 10. Each is stamped and numbered.

The exhibition fills most of the spaces in a fluid display of books and posters and photographs, each smartly placed on the lovingly destroyed walls of The Chalet Society, a former Catholic girls school in the heart of Paris, just off of Blvd St Germain.

The Fiorricci Angels are from a detail from end of painting Ad Reinhardt's witty cartoon portfolio explaining and skewering the art world with clever insights and spot on drawings.  Shaw apparently picked up the 1975 portfolio on sale somewhere.  We should note that a previous post on Store Front Windows we featured Yale University Art Department Head Robert Storr giving a good half-hour yak on this very subject at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City.

The Hidden World is typical Jim Shaw.  The artist seems to walk through the world picking up anything that seems pure but it is totally extreme.  Shaw's collection is a Good Will of specifics: colorful kids' encyclopedias (like the ones I had as a 60s child), anatomy prints, pictures of Goofus and Gallant and of course tons of Bible Posters. The exhibition also has a do-it-yourself put your name on a log (for only 30 euros, see photo above), a ceramic workshop for children, silkscreen souvenirs, and a promotional card by the art collective The Bells Angels.  The Catalog includes some of Jim Shaw's Didactic Art Collection gems, and the little 3 euro book is a limited edition (only 500).

He has pioneered the curator as artist profile and there's no one better at it.

 See more detail from this totally unexpected exhibition (in French and English) and bear in mind that it was Jim Shaw who launched the phenomenal Thrift Store Paintings show at Metro Pictures in New York way back in the 20th Century.  So ... get on a plane to Paris before The Hidden World closes on 29 December 2013.

AMERICALATINA PHOTOGRAPHY - FOUNDATION CARTIER PARIS

America Latina Photographs, Foundation Cartier Paris. November 2013. More here. And enjoy this short film about Bocanada, a collage work by Graciela Sacco, opposite the FC on Boulevard Raspail, Paris 75014.

Gap's Defense of Sikh Model in Ad Campaign

From Yahoo: "Every holiday season, the Gap rolls out a new campaign that typically creates a lot of buzz, and this year is no different. However, controversy around one photo shows that the Gap is willing to stand up to racism. The theme of the holiday campaign is "make love" and the Gap posted this image in store windows and in outdoor ads.  ...

The two people in the photo are model and filmmaker Quentin Jones and actor and jewelry designer Waris Ahluwalia, who happens to be a Sikh. New York photographer Robert Gerhardt noticed that one of the posters outside a New York City subway had been vandalized. The word "love" in "Make Love-"' was replaced with "Bombs," and "Please stop driving taxis" was also scribbled on the poster. Gerhardt snapped a photo of the defaced ad and forwarded it to Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor at the "Islamic Monthly."

Read the rest of the article: GAP DEFENSE OF SIKH MODEL.

Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald is moved by Dallas police, 1963

Jack Ruby about to shoot Oswald who is being escorted by Dallas police detectives Jim Leavelle and L. C. Graves.

Jack Ruby Bio.

PUT IT IN A MUG: ROB WHITE COMES OUT OF THE CUPBOARD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STUFF TO BUY FROM UK ARTIST ROB WHITE : See more Rob White stuff: 

http://society6.com/thearthole/mugs

 
 

Christian Lacroix : Paris Storefront Window Autumn 2013

PHOTO: JACQUES MIGEON/SEATTLE & PARIS.

Curator Robert Storr on Ad Reinhardt at David Zwirner, New York