At Sons of Essex last night, stars of the new independent comedy Liberal Arts as well as downtown habitués toasted the film’s release at a screening party hosted by Quintessentially and the Peggy Siegal Company. Read More
The artist Nicola Tyson, whose twisted figures are currently on display at Friedrich Petzel were called “Lily Pulitzer meets a concentration camp” by one admirer at the opening, will hold a performance at that gallery on October 6 during which she will read letters to her forebears, among them Francis Bacon, Thomas Gainsborough and James Ensor. Read More
The wavy graphite drawings were visible from the street at On Stellar Rays last night, falling and curving in long smooth lines or crossing over and reversing in another layer. They were huge, and beckoning like long dark hair on a pillow. One of the works even had attractive flecks of grey. Hair, clearly.
“It Read More
Some time during Callicoon Fine Art’s first Manhattan show last night, the artist Glen Fogel was forced to pop the hood of the Cadillac taking up most of the space in the small gallery. Using the light of an iPhone to poke around, he explained to a bystander that he suspected the battery Read More
Thierry-Goldberg Projects will open its first show of the fall season tomorrow in a new space at 103 Norfolk Street, at the base of the large blue condominium building on that block. Read More
Next week, the Swiss Institute contemporary arts center will move from its current location on third-floor space on Broadway to the nearby 18 Wooster, former home to a larger space of Jeffrey Deitch’s Deitch Projects.
“It was a longterm wish to have a storefront,” Swiss Institute director and curator Gianni Jetzer told The Observer. “And Read More
Former Metro Pictures bookkeeper Photios Giovanis will open a new gallery on the Lower East Side next week. Callicoon Fine Arts will open at 124 Forsyth Street with a show by Glen Fogel, called “Goldye” on September 7.
The address, says local blog Bowery Boogie, was recently divided into two storefronts. Callicoon will reportedly take Read More
This September, fordProject will host a group exhibition showcasing three young Japanese artists, representatives of what the gallery believes to be an untapped contemporary market from that country. “Reflections” will feature paintings by young artists Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo and Toru Kuwakubo.
Rachel Vancelette, the director who curated the show, is passionate about Read More
Artnet’s Twitter feed is saying that Steven Harvey Fine Arts will be opening a space next door to Half Gallery on Forsyth in the Lower East Side’s ever-expanding cluster of galleries. Bowery Boogie, which closely monitors the changing storefronts in the neighborhood, mentioned that sheets of brown paper were recently placed in the windows at 208 Forsyth, indicating the imminent arrival of a new business (the storefront is pictured to the left). Read More
London gallery White Cube will be opening a new space in Hong Kong next year according to the London art market web site ArtLyst. This is further validation of the city’s ever-burgeoning art market, following Gagosian’s opening of a branch there in January and Art Basel’s recent takeover of the Hong Kong International Read More
