In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, education and art is becoming the name of the game. On a chilly Friday night, House of Ladosha hosted an opening night to remember at The Bruce High Quality Foundation University’s new location.
Benjamin Schmidt
Microblogging platform Tumblr and arts commission Electric Objects have come together to develop a materialized version of the online ‘art club’ Electric Objects has maintained, amassing nearly $50,000 in commissioned work by Ai Wei Wei, Bjork and others. The Soho location is sufficiently chic enough (and surely pricey enough) to make it all feel real and validated.
But, frankly, it’s time for digital art to materialize in a ‘real’ way, and get some chic locale for validation as a ‘real medium’. Sometimes it’s the apparently superfluous details that make it all feel more official. Digital art has certainly had a positive reception, it seemed natural in the progression of the whole of art, but exactly how to get digital art ‘right’ in the real world has been challenging. Electric Objects seems to be the nearest thing to practical digital representation of art. Electric Objects has conceived the EO1, which is an Internet-connected display designed from the ground up for discovering and enjoying digital art and ideally will be the ‘go-to’ display medium for art of this nature in the future.
Catch the gallery and see the EO1 in action in downtown NYC at 72 Spring Street or at the New Museum Shop on Bowery.
Zarin Fabrics doesn’t seem real in this day and age. The Lower East Side institution celebrates nearly 80 years of success in NYC.
Jimmy Lion and WHiT revealed collections at Seaport Studios on a rainy NYC evening. An enormous Christmas tree glowed in the center of the Seaport area, but it was a chilly night. The rain began to fall, and we were inclined to go into Seaport Studios, which looked positively warm and inviting, with blond wood tones and soft lights spilling into the streets.
After five highly successful years, TOWN Residential, founded by Andrew Heiberger, has every reason to celebrate in style. On Tuesday, December 15, 2015, TAO Downtown was taken over by TOWN for a massive holiday bash celebrating records and securing TOWN’s position as New York’s leading luxury real estate services firm.
On Wednesday, December 9th, 2015, guests were whisked away to the W Hotel Times Square’s newly renovated Living Room to celebrating the space and Alan Cumming-directed film, Ultimate Encore.
NYC – The Museum of Feelings presented by Glade, opened on Monday, November 23rd, 2015 is a new approach to the idea of ‘museum’, with highly curated, multi-sensory ’emotional experiences’.
On The Scene: Opening Reception Of Pop Artist Burton Morris’ ‘100 Coca-Cola Bottles’
Burton Morris has always been right on the pulse of pop culture. His art surrounded approximately 150 guests at Soho Contemporary Art Gallery in NYC, who came to celebrate race horse syndicate owner Sheila Rosenblum’s Resident Magazine cover on November 19th, 2015.
On The Scene: Phillips Auction House Hosts VivArte Colombia Arts Benefit
Timed conveniently amid the Latin American art sales week in New York, VivArte pulled some big names for its Colombian Arts charity auction this year, artists including Olga de Amaral and Edgar Negret and guests including the chair of the event, the Columbian Ambassador to the UN, and many artists, including abstract artist Fanny Sanin.
The dust surrounding the massive warehouse rave that took place in the Bronx last weekend, ushering in a new era for the northernmost NYC borough, has finally settled (figuratively and literally).