Electric Windows 2010
Over the course of one week in late July, the historic river city of Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley will transform into a Mecca of Urban Art when local gallery Open Space unveils the new ELECTRIC WINDOWS 2010. In a one-day live art and music event, 28 of some of the country’s most prolific street artists will converge on Main Street to create original, large-scale works that will be permanently installed on the exteriors of vacant 19th-century buildings. The public installation and launch of the exhibition will be held on Saturday, July 31, at 510 Main Street, beginning at 12pm. ELECTRIC WINDOWS will then be a permanent public art destination, to remain on view year-round.
Raquel Nave
Currently on view at Mountain Fold is of “Live Free in Hell,” an exhibition of photography and video by Raquel Nave. The show contains polaroids of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, Nave, her family, and her companions. The snapshots represent the identity exploration of a young woman and the journey of an artist working in her style and medium.
55 Fifth Avenue 18th Floor, New York, NY 10003
Through 17 July 2010
Supreme book
Recently published by Rizzoli, this book is a visual history of the brand that includes an introduction by Glenn O’Brien, an essay by Aaron Bondaroff and an interview between Kaws and James Jebbia. The book surveys many of the brand’s products over the years including projects with Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Public Enemy and Lou Reed, among others. The book also includes a product index from Supreme’s archive.
Richard Prince – Salon 94
Salon 94 is pleased to present Richard Prince: T-Shirt Paintings, the inaugural exhibition at Salon 94 Bowery. The show serves as a mini-retrospective of Prince’s painting, spanning nearly twenty-five years of his work. The setting of the show, a raw, un-renovated, former restaurant supply store on the Bowery, echoes Richard Prince’s seminal exhibition “Spiritual America,” which took place in 1983-4 around the corner at 5 Rivington Street.
A full color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Salon 94 is located at 243 Bowery, New York, NY. Through June 26, 2010.
THIRTYDAYSNY
THIRTYDAYSNY is a celebration of arts and culture within a live gallery space that is open to the public for one month in the heart of New York City. The gallery is curated by Family Bookstore and will feature weekly performances, symposiums, and showcases from contemporary artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers from all over the world.
70 Franklin Street, Tribeca, NYC
Matthias Schaller
This is the first gallery show in the U.S. for Matthias Schaller who has focused almost exclusively on shooting people-less interiors. Whether photographing photographer’s and architect’s studios, Cardinal’s desks in the Vatican, artist’s palettes or original astronaut suits, Schaller’s series or sequences engage with the spirit of the objects and the environment they inhabit. All his different works follow this strategy of indirect portraiture.
April 16 - May 22, 2010
Leslie Hewitt: On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance
This solo exhibition presents the US premiere of Leslie Hewitt’s most recent investigations in photography, sculpture, and site specific installation—that explore her long-standing interest in non-linear perspective and early twentieth century notions of double-consciousness.
Through 10 May 2010
Ryan McGinley
For his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley has shifted his focus away from constructing a youthful sublime within the boundless American landscape and has concentrated instead on creating imagery within the confines of his New York studio. The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture.
Through 17 April 2010
Leo Fitzpatrick at Half Gallery
With a launch in the middle of New York fashion week, Leo Fitzpatrick shows collages of book inserts, both humorous and dark, at the Half Gallery until March 12th.
Alfred Dunhill Installation
With their first mark on the city, Alfred Dunhill held an installation recreating his London mansion, Bourdin House, in the Meatpacking District of New York City. Open for 7 days starting on February 11th, this coincided neatly with fashion week, and was a one-off chance to see designer Kim Jones a/w collection.
Fashion Loves Hanuk
Hanuk, a former fashion designer turned photographer, opens his first exhibition at Bellhaus, featuring New York’s fashion-ites in various stares of revelry.
Partners & Spade Books
Check out two new additions to Partners & Spade′s ongoing publishing program of concept photo books. BENEFITS OF LOOKING UP contemplates the surprising and uplifting moment of finding a balloon trapped in a tree, while I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN looks at explores the seemingly impossible through images of plants growing through cracks in concrete. After dozens of titles with limited print runs, sold only in their gallery and select stores, Harper Collins hope to bring these to a wider audience with purchase available at www.harpercollins.com for $10 each.
Opening Ceremony at Ace Hotel
Upping the cool factor of the already hip Ace Hotel, Opening Ceremony opened their second New York outpost on Valentine’s Day. The space will include a special collection of traveled minded-essentials, as well as seasonal offerings from designers such as Band of Outsiders, Proenza Schouler, Philip Lim and Alexander Wang. Along with the Project No. 8’s anti-souvenir shop, and hot-spot restaurant The Breslin, Opening Ceremony joins the Ace posse like the cherry on top.
Damien Hirst – End of an Era
Damien Hirst arrives stateside with an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures at New York’s Gagosian Gallery. Having recently announced the end of the various series for which he has become known over the last twenty years, including the spot, spin and butterfly paintings, Hirst makes reference to the seachange in his own work with the exhibition’s title. ‘End of An Era’ runs until the 6th of March, 2010.
Erwin Olaf
The Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf’s latest photo and video series, “Hotel” and “Dawn & Dusk,” opened last week at New York’s Hasted Hunt Kraeutler. ‘Dawn & Dusk’ mixes colour and black-and-white photography (a departure for Olaf); while ‘Hotel’ sees melancholic images of doll-like nude women in noirish hotel rooms.
Until March 20 at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, 537 West 24th Street, NYC
C’H'C’M
We’re big fans of Brooklyn-based etailer C.H.C.M, stockist of some of our favourite menswear brands (Drakes, Mackintosh, John Smedley, Gloverall…). For those who missed their 4 day pop-up at 34 East 1st St, head to www.chcmshop.com to check out their selection…we think you’ll agree.
HYPER – Denis Darzacq
HYPER has opened at The Laurence Miller Gallery in New York - an exhibition of 15 photographs by the French photographer Denis Darzacq. Darzacq brings street dancers to the shopping aisles of garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen and asks them to perform leaps and jumps - capturing them mid flight. Denis Darzacq has exhibited extensively in Europe and Australia over the past ten years. He has worked on music videos and feature films since 1985, collaborated with Agnes B on fashion catalogs, and has three monographs published.
Until March 27, 2010
Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Week-end by Alex Prager
Currently on show at Yancy Richardson Gallery NYC is Week-end, an exhibition of new work by LA-based artist Alex Prager. Inspired by her native city, Prager’s dramatic portraits of female characters are reminiscent of the work of Guy Bourdin and David Lynch; infused with a dark sense of foreboding. This is the third installment in the photographic trilogy, and will simultaneously be shown at the M + B Gallery in Los Angeles.
January 14 – February 20, 2010
It’s already the end of the world
A new exhibition opened this week at the Haunch of Venison New York by Brooklyn-based artist Brian Alfred. The show features 14 paintings, collage works and video that all reflect the connection that people or places have to power, influence and conflict. A 336 page catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Until Feb 20, 2010