The disappointment of auction season aside, Phillips de Pury was most definitely kickin’ last Tuesday evening for the launch of Timo. Neckwear, a new luxury neckwear label from designers Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein. Models lined the main party room while attendees sipped on Brazilian-themed cocktails and danced to peppy tracks (MGMT anyone?) provided by DJ MessKid. [...]
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Temple Fair: Jakkai Siributr at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
November 19, 2008 – 1:14 pm
Temple Fair: Jakkai Siributr, the inaugural show at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, a new West Chelsea gallery dedicated to Southeast Asian contemporary art, showcases thirteen fabric collages by renowned Thai artist Jakkai Siributr.
Siributr, who works exclusively in textiles, is less interested here in pretty wall hangings — although his collages are indeed eye-catching — and [...]
Apartamento Issue #02 Release at Matter
November 6, 2008 – 5:36 pm
Last Thursday, I attended the Apartamento Issue #02 launch party, which was, surprisingly, not held at an apartment. The crowd, primarily European art types, gathered at downtown design store Matter to sip on what seemed like an endless supply of Peroni, and toast the second-ever issue of a magazine exclusively devoted to “everyday life interiors.” [...]
theanyspacewhatever at the Guggenheim
October 30, 2008 – 5:10 pm
Using the Frank Lloyd Wright Rotunda (both its interior and its exterior) as their medium, the ten artists showcased in theanyspacewhatever, the latest exhibition at the Guggenheim, experiment with the gamut of artistic methods and techniques in one, cohesive exhibition. Among them are Rirkrit Tiravanija, Philippe Parreno, Angela Bulloch, Carsten Höller (with his now infamous [...]
Move Over Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Hello Zaha Hadid
October 22, 2008 – 1:23 pm
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 2.55 quilted Chanel handbag (and in an effort to further blur the lines between fashion, commercialism and art), Karl Lagerfeld has done the unthinkable — he’s created a movable homage. Chanel Mobile Art, a 7,500-square-foot traveling art pavilion, designed by celebrated starchitect Zaha Hadid, includes twenty commissioned [...]
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton at the New Museum
October 14, 2008 – 2:15 pm
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton is the first-ever survey of the artist’s work, which includes over 100 portraits — paintings, drawings and prints — of icons ranging from modern-day musical legends like Kurt Cobain and Liam Gallagher to historic figures and revered monarchs like Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth. Armed with only a petite canvas and an [...]
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha at the FLAG
October 9, 2008 – 2:01 pm
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, currently on view at the FLAG Art Foundation, is an homage to one of America’s most beloved artists. Named after Ruscha’s celebrated canvas, Wall Rockets (2000), which sits front-and-center at the elevator entry, the exhibition includes a multi-media mixture of works by over seventy international artists — including [...]
Don’t Throw Stones: Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House
October 2, 2008 – 3:52 pm
Before Phillip Johnson’s Glass House and the lucid frenzy that ensued (not to mention the one presently taking place in New York), there was the Farnsworth House. Arguably Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s most famous structure and a beloved National Historic Landmark, the Farnsworth House set the standard for pared down, minimalist style that continues [...]
