LE SALON des Artists...

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Awesome people showed up...15 Art Enthusiasts who did not know each other!

Exactly at 2PM the door bell rang...open door...hang coat...I turn slowly...

Guests, one by one, immediately enveloped in the buzz buzz buzz... greeting and exchanging smiles... there is much intermittent laughter...a little white wine, some cruedite'... the Soiree had begun... the ART SALON was no longer an apparition! There are no strangers in this room?

There are artists, writers, a contest show celebrity, musicians, composer, collectors, enthusiasts, art bloggers, creatives of urban planning and architecture, published author, all of us intimately engaged in a lively conversation, asking questions, divulging secrets, showing artwork, sharing themselves, feelings, jokes, information on openings, exhibitions, performances, recommendations on upcoming events of interest to the arts community...truly enjoying each others company and most importantly... laughter, lots and lots of laughter!

A short video 

Just a snippet of our conversation for the afternoon, a take on the game of "Truth or Dare" I suppose...

Recommendations for events were mentioned and among them dePury http://artlog.com/events/2724-audience-and-the-eavesdropper-new,

Also, Calder Circus at the Whitney Museum and Calder Jewelry at the Met

I am in the process of editing the video footage that was taken at the SALON ... seems to be too long to post in its current state!

Check back to see how discrete I've been ...

I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF...

...Can't blow this house down!

At the SALON  discussing and looking at Art is always  affordable, actually it's FREE, therefore, the one thing I am not "worried" about "because worry is not preparation" for anything, just a drain of positive energy,  is the doom and gloom reality of the art market relating to our economic circumstances. 

Truly, many a writers' column was negative, however, those by art critic, Jerry Saltz regarding the '08 ART FAIRS were not as thorough.  

The re-created SALON  exists independently of the external world  and lives only through the energy of an artistic internal reality...again

Counting down to Sunday, January 25 at 2PM

IT'S REALLY HAPPENING...

All set up for the first SALON at the end of the month here in NYC...great response...20 people may show up!  My long time dream of having an ongoing SALON, and channeling Gertrude Stein, is "really happening"...

Some very interesting artists, writers, video/filmmakers, poets, musicians, and art enthusiasts will be gathering for conversation and sharing ideas and god-knows-what-else, on Sundays.  I requested that they answer a few pertinent questions and post their websites...I am overwhelmed with the quailty of this  fantastic group's work which will be a part of the content of this Blog.  

... Are you interested in participating?

Le Petit Salon: ONE OF THE SALON ARTISTS SPEAKS HER MIND...

Le Petit Salon: ONE OF THE SALON ARTISTS SPEAKS HER MIND...

ONE OF THE SALON ARTISTS SPEAKS HER MIND...

NO doubt, Alice Lipping, abstract colorist extraordinaire would be interviewed ... NY Magazine no less, and here is only one of the reasons why...her paintings glisten on the walls of the Private Dinning Room in one of the best restaurants in NYC as featured recently in The New York Times

ALICE LIPPING has been a friend of the "SALON" since it's inception, supporting the concept and helping me gather in the community of artists, writers, critics, and other art enthusiasts in a unique environment that has successfully re-recreated an important part of what has been missing from the art community for quite some time...a certain AMBIANCE and CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE for sincere and direct commentary regarding our feeling and aspirations for our own works, but mostly sharing  our favorite exhibitions, museum shows, art events, philanthropic endeavors we've instigated and pursued on behalf of others...

and mostly channeling GERTRUDE STEIN through the personae of the founder of LE PETIT SALON, Private Art Advisor/Consultant  HELENE FORBES

And, WOW, do I get headaches !