Now in its 24th edition, Outsider Art Fair has come to NYC. We had early access and present a selection of artists we found particularly exciting in the diverse and occasionally abstract field of ‘outsider art’. The event ran from Friday, January 22nd to Sunday, January 24th at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea.
On Thursday, January, 22nd, 2015, the Museum of Modern Art hosted its annual Modern Party in NYC, which brought together hundreds of arts patrons in a celebration of the MoMA and all things art.
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.
A colorful collection of black empowerment
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.
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.
Guests enjoyed music by Solange Knowles and a late night set by DJ Ruckus, while marking the USA launch of the new Dom Pérignon Vintage 2006.
On Thursday night Christie’s auction house in Rockefeller Plaza hosted the star-studded 13th annual Tibet House auction to benefit Tibet House US and its goal of preserving Tibetan culture.
Calvin Klein launches new “ck2” campaign.
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.