The good and wise philanthropists listening to Patti Smith Monday
This just in: Tools for Thought’s silent auction at Sotheby’s Monday night, featuring dozens of artists, most of whom were among the more than 600 hundred attendees who enjoyed Patti Smith’s very un-silent performance, raised more than $150,000 to put toward the reconstruction of Haiti. Bravo.
Category Archives: Art
Tools For Thought: Rebuild Haiti update
March 17, 2010 – 9:44 am
Alec Soth’s Rich Imaginary World
March 17, 2010 – 9:16 am
Photos from Dog Days Bogotá
Minneapolis-based photographer Alec Soth is fast at work at becoming a modern master. Since his big splash at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and the appearance of his sensational debut book, Sleeping by the Mississippi (Steidl, 2004), Soth has been a steady contributor for numerous glossy magazines and his languorous landscapes and still-waters [...]
Tools for Thought: Rebuild Haiti
March 16, 2010 – 5:50 pm
Last night Patti Smith rocked the house. The auction house. Sotheby’s.
The venerable ol’ East Side bidding grounds was the venue for a silent auction and cocktail benefit organized by Tools for Thought and Partners in Health to support efforts to rebuild Haiti after the disastrous earthquakes there. “This is good,” said filmmaker Everard Findlay. “The [...]
Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen
March 12, 2010 – 8:35 am
Photographer Karen Knorr’s series Gentleman, presently on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is a witty collection of mustaches on these dandy Mona Lisas. And it predates the fawned-over UnhappyHipsters.com by about three decades.
31 Women in Art Photography
March 7, 2010 – 4:12 pm
In honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts Foundation and Affirmation Arts presents its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a five-week exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography and featuring our friend Amelia Bauer.
Through April 10th at 523 W. 37th Street New York, NY 10018.
Emmeline de Mooij at Capricious
March 5, 2010 – 8:49 am
Capricious Space is presenting Dutch artist Emmeline de Mooij’s first solo show in the United States. De Mooij is a Dtuch artist who works between Amsterdam and New York. Her work consists of installations, photographs and performances. The exhibition at Capricious will include site-specific sculptural installations, photos, collage and screen printing. She will also be launching her [...]
Sean Leonard at Youth Group
March 5, 2010 – 3:35 am
Friday evening artist Sean Leonard makes his debut in a solo show at Brooklyn’s up-and-coming Youth Group Gallery. The show consists of a series of appropriated (‘found’) photographs that have been superficially embellished and thereby recontextualized, immediately undermining any sort of basic, subtextual form. The works have been neither blown up nor titled (and [...]
The Armory Show
March 4, 2010 – 1:08 pm
This year has been a crazy one for all industries, art included. Fifty-four galleries that showed at last year’s Armory Show didn’t come back this year which left room for up and coming galleries to show their stuff. An entire section of the fair was given over to Focus: Berlin, where smaller galleries [...]
Collier Schorr Signing at Dashwood
March 3, 2010 – 5:44 pm
Collier Schorr has been working in Southern Germany for the past 13 years, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Titled Forests and Fields, the project spans several artist’s books that utilize traditional notions of category to create different points of view. In Blumen, volume 2 of the ongoing series, she uses [...]
Rosson Crow at Deitch
March 3, 2010 – 5:41 am
Rosson Crow’s new show, Bowery Boys, is opening this Thursday, March 4, 6-9 pm. The show is up March 4-27 at Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, NY, NY 10012.
