Articles Posted in the ART Category
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NOWNESS: Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt
HTTP://FIERTH.COM -Filmmaker Phil Pinto celebrates model Peggy Moffitt’s illustrious career, capturing an intimate conversation with the 60s icon and MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch.
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Ian Sklarsky’s Future Zoo at Yotel
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – As an homage to the Frieze Art Fair’s first foray into the New York market this May, and as the launch of what will be a rotating art series, YOTEL New York at Times Square West introduces “NYC Future Zoo”, a temporary exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Ian Sklarsky. Using the Blind Contour drawing method which has become one of his signatures, Sklarsky created a series of colorful animals which will be popping up in various locations throughout YOTEL — including in the elevators, on the glass walls of the Club Cabins and in the YOBOT lounge at Ground Control, right near the front entrance. “NYC Future Zoo” will be on display at YOTEL through May 18. Additional local artists are in the pipeline for future temporary exhibitions at the property throughout the year.
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Dior ‘Secret Garden – Versailles’ Full Length Long version #Fashion
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Dior’s Secret Garden Versailles, Full Length. A film by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, starring Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju in La Galeries Des Glaces – Château de Versailles.
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Happy Birthday Leigh Bowery
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Meadham Kirchhoff, Alexander McQueen, Lucian Freud, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.
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NOWNESS: The Renaissance of Hahn-Bin
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – The Renaissance of Hahn-Bin, Classical Violinist – Presented by Nowness Video by Alison Chernick
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Fierth i-On interview with Artist Lisa Petrucci
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Today’s i-On focuses on Pop Surrealist painter Lisa Petrucci. Lisa’s life long love of pop culture and kitschy items have shaped her artistic vision, Her vivid cartoon like representations of iconic imagery and vampy vixens bring cuteness to gallery walls world wide. Get to know Lisa Petrucci.
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Fierth iON Interview with Photographer Walt Cessna
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Fierth gets to know the prolific artist Walt Cessna. Walt’s talents have lent themselves to many different outlets from his beginnings in fashion as Stylist and Designer, as well as his inspired writing and serving as Editor to several magazines not to mention his overwhelming body of work as a Visual Artist and Photographer. Walt’s latest endeavor in publishing bears the fruit of two books to be released in 2012. The re-release his acclaimed “Fukt 2 Start With”; a collection of short stories, photography and Illustrations as well as “WOLFPACK” a collection of intimate and visually innovative portraits. Get to know Walt Cessna .
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WOLFPACK! Photographs by Walt Cessna Book & Calendar Launch
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – A heady mix of the erotic, the sublime and the seemingly everyday, Walt’s new work, WOLFPACK!, sees him share the most intimate of moments with an eclectic array of model subjects and translate these experiences into photographs that both shock and seduce the senses. Like a shorn and inked Pied Piper with a camera and a creative hard-on, Walt leads us through the pulsating roar of the city, the throb and hum of the candy neon-spilled streets, the clang of strangers shifting in stairwells and into the silent sanctuary of the lover’s bedroom where we’re aware that anything can happen. And it does.
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A Year in New York by Andrew Clancy
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – There is NO other city in the world like New York City.Living in New York , Andrew Clancy grabbed his Canon, and shot footage of what was going on around him. Free Amazon download ‘We Don’t Eat’ by Irishman James Vincent McMorrow
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Damien Hirst and Rankin’s ‘Myths, Monsters, and Legends’: Millionaire Artists Photograph Wookiees With Boobs
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – “Myths, Monsters, and Legends,”the newest show at Rankin L.A., is the obvious product of two good friends completely enjoying themselves — if the two friends were super famous millionaire artists whose idea of a good time was to dress up a supermodel in enough prosthetic make-up so that she looked like a Wookiee with perfect breasts.
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GLAAD Interviews Scott Pasfield Creator of GAY IN AMERICA
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Aaron McQuade: Where did the idea for this book come from?
Scott Pasfield: People always tell you to shoot what you love. You have to start with yourself. The epiphany came one night at home. I was surfing the web and realized what a powerful tool it had become for connecting gay men across the country, from all over, and it just dawned on me. I decided that I would meet men from every state, and photograph them in the hopes that I could do a book that would change opinions and educate. And that started with shooting who I was and what my passions were. -
In Pictures: Patricia Field’s Fashion’s Night Out: SCOOTER LAFORGE
HTTP://FIERTH.COM- In Pictures: Patricia Field’s Fashion’s Night Out: SCOOTER LAFORGE
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Complex Shit goes on the runs
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – From the early days, conceptual art, like Duchamp’s urinal and Manzoni’s canned shit, has always courted controversy. But it hasn’t actually caused chaos — until now.
The harmonious landscaped gardens of the Zentrum Paul Klee museum in Berne, Switzerland, have been home for the past few months to what might possibly be the largest piece of crap art ever made. American artist Paul McCarthy has created a giant inflatable dog turd, the size of a house, entitled Complex Shit.
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An Escape to Fine Art in New York City: GalleryELL on Governor’s Island
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – If ever to gather a group of young, innovative, American artists together in one place to craft organic, fine art for the world to see, how and where would you do it? Why not New York? And why not at a somewhat under discovered, historical site that’s free for the masses to explore? A HopStop, skip, and a jump from anywhere in our city’s metro area exists an understated, virtually unexplored piece of New York City history, a little mecca for revolutionary, natural ideas; Governor’s Island.
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Happy Birthday Andy Warhol – 82 Things You Didn’t Know About Andy Warhol
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” – Andy Warhol
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“I KNOW YOU ART, BUT WHAT AM I?” The Pee-Wee Herman Tribute Art Show
HTTP://FIERTH,COM – “I KNOW YOU ART, BUT WHAT AM I?” The Pee-Wee Herman Tribute Art Show
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In Pictures: Bright Lights Queer City Opening Reception at the Leslie / Lohman Gallery
July 13 – 23, 2011 FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL EXHIBITION Bright Lights Queer City; Images depicting New York City’s Gay Nightlife Scene Curated by Lady Clover Honey and Lovari – Hosted by Michael Musto Contributors to…
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THE RIO WORLD BY MARIO TESTINO FOR VMAN
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – THE RIO WORLD BY MARIO TESTINO FOR VMAN
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Blu, Italian Street Artist Presents “BIG BANG BIG BOOM”
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Blu is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who has deliberately decided to conceal his real identity. What little is known about him is that he lives in Bologna and has been active in the street art scene since 1999. “BIG BANG BIG BOOM” is an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life.
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Banksy (Have You Reached a Verdict?) – The Artist’s works on Video
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – A unique audio-visual approach to the graffiti artist’s (and now also a director) Banksy’s street art.
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“12 Inches” Mark Johnson’s Debut Photography Exhibition
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Having recently migrated to Manhattan from Salt Lake City, Mark Johnson, a film prodigy and emerging star shares his unique view of the world as only his experience can convey in “12 Inches”, his highly anticipated debut showing at VIG 27.
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Bouquet of Bodies
http://fierth.com – Cecelia Webber uses photos of the naked human body to create beautiful images of bouquets of flowers. Her work consists of only the naked human body, often her own, photographed in the most peculiar of positions then painstakingly overlaid using Photoshop to form the familiar shapes of petals, stamen and stem. So familiar the shapes are and so acutely formed that at first glance it is hard to tell that you’re looking at naked people!
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Making of Dieux Du Stade 2011 – Extras
http://fierth.com – A behind the scenes look at the photographic sessions for the new Diuex Du Stade Calendar/DVD debuting this year.
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Nicholas Gorham: One Drop Passing
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Nicholas Gorham: One Drop Passing. February 4th and 5th www.lamama.org
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[VIDEO] – Ralph Lauren 4D Experience – AMAZING !!
http://fierth.com -In celebration of 10 years of digital innovation, RalphLauren.com presents the ultimate fusion of art, fashion & technology in a visual feast for the 5 senses. Watch as the New York women’s flagship at 888 Madison Avenue disappears before your eyes and is then transformed into a series of objects and images rendered in 3-dimensional space.
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FIERTH TV – Behind the Scenes With Mike Ruiz & Tyra Sanchez at Transformations Shoot
http://fierth.com – A behind the scenes look at a red hot photo shoot with photographer Mike Ruiz (The A-List New York) and ‘America’s Next Drag Superstar’ Tyra Sanchez (RuPaul’s Drag Race).
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Takashi Murakami Exhibition at Versailles
http://fierth.com – Amazing Exhibition of Murakami’s work set at the Palace of Versaille – Perfection.
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“Transformations: The Photography Of Mike Ruiz” Exhibition Opening
Robin Souma Photography for Fierth.com http://www.robinsouma.com
Random Thoughts
General Manifold is an immersive architectural environment installed in the abandoned Federal Screw Works factory complex in Chelsea, Michigan.
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Secret cinema found beneath Paris
In September 2004, French police discovered a hidden chamber in the catacombs under Paris. It contained a full-sized movie screen, projection equipment, a bar, a pressure cooker for making couscous, a professionally installed electricity system, and at least three phone lines. Movies ranged from 1950s noir classics to recent thrillers.
When the police returned three days later, the phone and power lines had been cut and there was a note on the floor: “Do not try to find us.”
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Happy Birthday Keith Haring!
I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
– Keith Haring
Image: Detail from Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, © Keith Haring artwork © Estate of Keith Haring . Photo: Charles Dolfi-Michels. Image courtesy Tate Modern.
The following 60 posts on my tumblr today were almost all taken within the lonely confines of an SRO crack hotel I was living in after developinging full blown AIDS and getting so sick that I qualified for HASA, basically welfare for people with the plague. I had just started taking pictures again and was trying desperately to get my life in order. My addiction was out of control and I had recently been mugged in a black-out and thrown head first into the Hudson river where I floated for almost two hours before finding a way out. Everything in my life was spinning out of control and the only thing that gave me even a glimmer of hope was my Sony Mavica digital camera which actually used floppy discs for film. I had just started seriously taking photographs again and that hotel room in Harlem was where I obsessively started what would later ammount to over 5000 self portraits. I was also making the first of many extremely X-rated collages, incorporating every type of porn possible mixed with reconfigured NY Post headlines and Vogue fashion images. They would do random room checks at the hotel and upon discovering three of my walls covered in sublimely ridiculous smut, proceeded to rip it all down and reprimand me for making art even though I was keeping to myself and not wandering the halls in search of a bump like the other residents. Unable to deal with being censored, I proceeded to collage the entire room from floor to wall to ceiling in the most explicit ass & cock images imagineable. With the thickest black Sharpie I could find, I wrote “HAVING AIDS IS ENOUGH OF A PRISON. I REFUSE TO LET YOU PUT ME IN YET ANOTHER CELL. GO FUCK YOURSELF, BUT HAVE A NICE DAY!” and promptly moved out, having no idea of what was to come, where I was going or how I was to live. It didn’t matter. I had no idea that six years later I would be showing my photographs in galleries or having my book published. All I had at that point was my camera, my newly revived health, my imagination and a huge set of balls that masqueraded my fear with fierceness, my cray-cray with correctness. It seems like I’m always starting my life over, pressing re-start and refreshing whatever state I may find myself in. The only thing I can be sure of is that it will never be boring or banal, but always risk filled, random & real. I very recently put myself in the unfortunate position of alienating, insulting and basically being a complete troll to two of my dearest & best friends because of my inability to stay away from someone toxic in my life which caused me to majorly fall off that damn wagon and do a bunch of crazy shit in a black-out. They may be gone from my life forever and deservedly so. All I can do is try and get back up on that proverbial horse and be the best dude possible. Like I always say, cum correct or don’t cum at all.Photograph by Walt Cessna NYC 07
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