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VILNIUS.- People attend a candle light vigil at the Vilnius Cathedral as it stands unlit during Earth Hour in Vilnius on March 19, 2016. Lights went off in thousands of cities and towns across the world for the annual Earth Hour campaign, aiming to call for action on climate change. Petras Malukas / AFP
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A well-heeled crowd made their way to midtown wednesday night for Art Production Fund’s gala, which was held at the Diamond Horseshoe. Recently vacated by Queen of the Night, the taxicab advertised cabaret, the subterranean ballroom provided ample rumpus room for the annual fundraising fete. Arriving in a steady stream of black cars, a mix of uptown socialites and downtown artists made their way from the bustle of Broadway down into the depths of the cavernous dining room where glasses of Dom Perignon awaited them.
On the stairway, camera flashes washed over perennial It Girl Chloe Sevigny, but she wasn’t the only spectacle on the stairs. A tank holding artist Petra Collins and Madelyne Beckles caused a traffic jam. Performing in their skivvies, the artists sucked on pacifiers tethered to their necks for a performance called Not Your Art Baby. While their focus was on their stuffed animals and each other, the performers would pose behind the glass when friends like Ryan McGinley strode by.
During cocktail hour, Art Production Fund heads Doreen Remen, Yvonne Force Villareal and Casey Freemont Crowe worked the room greeting and thanking their supporters, artists and collectors alike. The trio was entirely decked out in Gucci, the evening’s fashionable sponsor.
“I like the darkness and glamour that Gucci brought to the evening,” said Israeli artist Nir Hod, who had donated a painting to the live auction. “The energy of the art production fund girls is unparalleled. I’m inspired by the things they do.”
Taking the dress code, “Tooth and Nail” to heart, artist Jessica Craig-Martin had pinned her hair back with a nest of golden nails. Snaking through the cliques, Miss Craig-Martin snapped party shots in her signature off-the-cuff fashion. There were plenty of appealing subjects: art world regulars like Rachel Feinstein, Cindy Sherman and Hope Atherton were all dressed to the nines. While not many were brave enough, Aimee Mullins got into the “Concrete Jungle” theme by applying the free Joyce Pensato tattoos to her toned arms.
When it was time for dinner Fab 5 Freddy called the room to attention. Once everyone found their table, the MC warmed up the crowd for the night’s honorees: philanthropist Jane Kaplowitz Rosenblum and artist Ryan McGinley. A long-time friend to Art Production Fund, Mr. McGinley stole the show with his heartwarming speech. “It’s hard for me to breathe not because I’m nervous but because I’m uptown,” McGinley joked before launching into a laundry list of supporters who the artist felt were directly responsible for his continuing success. Last but not least, Mr. McGinley gave a shout out to his mother, who was in the audience.
“She still hasn’t come around to the nudity,” he admitted before handing the mic over.
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100architects shrinks Shanghai's skyline into spatial seating for Bar Rouge
SHANGHAI – Offering exclusive views of the iconic Shanghai skyline, the new VIP Lounge at Bar Rouge plays on the typography of the urban setting. The project proposal requested a design which would ‘reinterpret the known cityscape of Shanghai, with an intervention which would maximise its visual impact, transforming the way the space is conceived’. Taking a very literal approach – by abstracting the silhouettes of the surrounding buildings – local firm 100architects devised an ‘inhabitable architectural object’ which nestles into place along the edge of the roof terrace.
The object is constructed entirely from the highly durable and versatile solid surfacing material Corian, in a shade defined as ‘hot red’ which fits perfectly with the visual identity of the bar. The glossy material finish emphasises the area’s exclusivity and reflects the dancing lights of the city skyline. Cubic proportions add a symmetry and balance to the overall design. Five distinctive seating arrangements – from individual cube stools to a stepped bench wall – offer a range of environments to cater to the specific needs of the clientele.
The firm explains: ‘We possess a singular vision: we design architectural objects that attract people and encourage social interaction.’ Specialising in inhabitable interventions, Bar Rouge is an exemplar project of the firm’s overall portfolio.
Drawings courtesy of 100architects and photos courtesy of Nemanja Aleksic
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The object is constructed entirely from the highly durable and versatile solid surfacing material Corian, in a shade defined as ‘hot red’ which fits perfectly with the visual identity of the bar. The glossy material finish emphasises the area’s exclusivity and reflects the dancing lights of the city skyline. Cubic proportions add a symmetry and balance to the overall design. Five distinctive seating arrangements – from individual cube stools to a stepped bench wall – offer a range of environments to cater to the specific needs of the clientele.
The firm explains: ‘We possess a singular vision: we design architectural objects that attract people and encourage social interaction.’ Specialising in inhabitable interventions, Bar Rouge is an exemplar project of the firm’s overall portfolio.
Drawings courtesy of 100architects and photos courtesy of Nemanja Aleksic
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Exhibitions
5 Key Works That Chart the Digital Art Revolution
March 17, 2016
Oliver Laric's Versions (Missile Variations), 2010
As with all things Internet, newer is better at the Whitechapel Gallery’s current show "Electronic Superhighway" (through May 15), which features 100 digital and pre-digital artworks by 70 artists and works backwards from the present to the mid-1960s "Experiments in Art and Technology" that paired artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Yvonne Rainer with Bell Laboratories. Technology’s ever-quickening race to a theoretically apocalyptic finish line makes it hard to appreciate older forms of media art, which can look obsolescent, clunky, metaphorically sepia.
But it’s edifying, and fascinating, to see artists of the "Post-Internet" generation, including Jacolby Satterwhite and Hito Steyerl, on a continuum with pioneers of computer art such as Stan VanDerBeek and Nam June Paik (who coined the term "electronic superhighway" back in 1974). Here, in chronological order, are the five works not to miss if you’re planning a visit.
The widely acknowledged founder of video art originally showed this "global disco" TV broadcast live on New Year’s Day of 1984. It’s become a digital roll call of 1980s trends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Allen Ginsberg figure in it, but so do the critically derided (though successful) UK chart act the Thompson Twins. Today, the piece's eye-blitzing fast cuts make it seem like a precursor to the free-for-all, non-hierarchical nature of the internet.
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESONLorna, 1979-82
In this installation, you sit in "Lorna’s apartment" and watch a TV on which an apparently agoraphobic woman is shown applying makeup and going about her daily tasks. Flip through the channels, and you might even come across her fiddling with a gun. After a while, the experience becomes a little unnerving—you start to wonder if this person, or a representation of her, will come in and blast you away. The piece was originally conceived as a comment on the sanitizing effect of TV. Viewed in this context however, it seems to anticipate the immersive illusions of virtual reality.
Arcangel has taken on the role of an Internet and computer art historian. For his "Lakes" series he used a Java applet on photos of Paris Hilton, Hilary Clinton and Beyoncé to create a vintage, rippling watery effect. To the digital immigrant it’s a reminder of the fuzziness of early computer images; to the digital native though, it has an undeniable Warholian Pop art feel about it.
This painting series with a voiceover soundtrack is based on an image, showing four rockets surging into the sky, that was released in 2008 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. After the release, photo agencies noticed it was a fake and that one of the rockets was a composite of the other two. A meme was born, and the internet exploded with myriad versions of the picture—some adding more than 40 missiles. Don the headphones that accompany the images, and you'll hear Laric saying that if you google the story now, the images with four and 40 missiles co-exist, leaving new viewers to wonder which—if either—is the "authentic" one.
A modern day version of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, Satterwhite’s surreal, 3-D-animated tableau surveys various disparate offerings of the internet—including a bit of gay porn and scenes of climate change—and works them into a coherent universe. It’s a visual feast that, regardless of your view on its subject matter, is pretty much a state-of-the-art depiction of what it’s actually like to be in a dream.
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But it’s edifying, and fascinating, to see artists of the "Post-Internet" generation, including Jacolby Satterwhite and Hito Steyerl, on a continuum with pioneers of computer art such as Stan VanDerBeek and Nam June Paik (who coined the term "electronic superhighway" back in 1974). Here, in chronological order, are the five works not to miss if you’re planning a visit.
NAM JUNE PAIKGood Morning, Mr. Orwell, 1983
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESONLorna, 1979-82
CORY ARCANGEL
Snowbunny/Lakes, 2015
Snowbunny/Lakes, 2015
OLIVER LARIC
Versions (Missile Variations), 2010
Versions (Missile Variations), 2010
JACOLBY SATTERWHITEEn Plein Air: Music of Objective Romance, 2015
10 Black-and-White Flowers by Mapplethorpe That Will Seduce You
March 16, 2016
Detail of Orchid (1977) by Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe is generally associated with his controversial and homoerotic photography, documents of New York’s gritty underbelly during the 1970s and ‘80s. Here, however, are ten images from Phaidon’s new compendium Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers that show the American photographer bringing his skill with light and shadow to bear on another favorite subject: flowers. If you’re hungry for more of Mapplethorpe’s floral works, read a piece of Herbert Muschamp’s introduction to the book here, check out some of his color imagery here, and purchase the full book here.
1. Orchid, 1977
2. Flower, 1980
3. Flower Arrangement, 1980
4. Bird of Paradise, 1981
5. Flower, 1983
6. Flowers, 1983
7. Iris and Zinnia, 1984
8. Rose with Smoke, 1985
9. Tulip, 1985
10. Calla Lily, 1988
1. Orchid, 1977
2. Flower, 1980
3. Flower Arrangement, 1980
4. Bird of Paradise, 1981
5. Flower, 1983
6. Flowers, 1983
7. Iris and Zinnia, 1984
8. Rose with Smoke, 1985
9. Tulip, 1985
10. Calla Lily, 1988
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10 Vibrant Flowers That Show Mapplethorpe's Mastery of Color
March 16, 2016
Detail of Anemone (1989) by Robert Mapplethopre
Robert Mapplethorpe is best known for his subversive black-and-white photography, but these 10 photos from Phaidon’s new compendium Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers show the American photographer’s capacity for making visual poetry across the chromatic spectrum. If you’re hungry for more of Mapplethorpe’s floral works, read a piece of Herbert Muschamp’s introduction to the book here, check out some of his black-and-white imagery here, and purchase the full book here.
1. African Daisy, 1982
2. Flower, 1983
3. Orchid, 1986
4. Calla Lily, 1988
5. Irises, 1988
6. Poppy, 1988
7. Tulips, 1988
8. Anemone, 1989
9. Mum, 1989
10. Rose, 1989
1. African Daisy, 1982
2. Flower, 1983
3. Orchid, 1986
4. Calla Lily, 1988
5. Irises, 1988
6. Poppy, 1988
7. Tulips, 1988
8. Anemone, 1989
Art Production Fund’s Annual Gala Unites Fashion and ArtBy • 03/18/16 3:38pm
From left: Doreen Remen, Yvonne Force Villareal, Jane Kaplowitz Rosenblum, Ryan McGinley and Casey Freemont Crowe.Neil Rasmus/BFA.com
On the stairway, camera flashes washed over perennial It Girl Chloe Sevigny, but she wasn’t the only spectacle on the stairs. A tank holding artist Petra Collins and Madelyne Beckles caused a traffic jam. Performing in their skivvies, the artists sucked on pacifiers tethered to their necks for a performance called Not Your Art Baby. While their focus was on their stuffed animals and each other, the performers would pose behind the glass when friends like Ryan McGinley strode by.
Chloe Sevigny.Neil Rasmus/BFA.com
“I like the darkness and glamour that Gucci brought to the evening,” said Israeli artist Nir Hod, who had donated a painting to the live auction. “The energy of the art production fund girls is unparalleled. I’m inspired by the things they do.”
Alessandra Neidich.Neil Rasmus/BFA.com
From left: Aimee Mullins and Rachel Feinstein.Neil Rasmus/BFA.com
“She still hasn’t come around to the nudity,” he admitted before handing the mic over.
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