AUCTION HOUSE PRE-SALE EXHIBITIONS - What a difference two years make

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"What a difference two years make"       photo: Artchick1 2008

To accompany this wonderful Indian Summer climate we are enjoying, why not drop by Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips DuPury within the next two weeks. "Pre-Sale Exhibitions" will be showcased for viewing with open access to the public.

"...Before the big sales, the auction houses will be filled with multimillion-dollar masterpieces and blue chip contemporary artwork, and are open to everyone, not just the art elite..." New York Times

Take the opportunity to indulge yourself in a wonderful viewing experience that will be a monumental memory.  This artwork consigned for sale to the public at auction arrives directly from private collections - some of it hasn't been seen for decades, and perhaps will never be seen again in your lifetime.

This Fall Auction Season is expected to be exceptionally strong due to the state of the global economic climate.  Many international buyers are expected to be on board for the chance to acquire the objects of their passion or asset investment allocation.

Be there, or be square!

The Fall Auction Season - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/28/arts/20101029-auction.html

For further information check websites for dates and location

Viewing hours vary by day and auction house. Usually the viewing ends the morning of the sale, but Web sites should have the details.

CHRISTIE’S 20 Rockefeller Plaza (49th Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas). Impressionist and Modern art viewings, Friday through Wednesday morning; postwar and contemporary art viewings, Nov. 6-10 (morning); (212) 636-2000, christies.com.

SOTHEBY’S 1334 York Avenue, at 72nd Street, Manhattan. Impressionist and Modern art viewings, Friday through Tuesday morning; postwar and contemporary art viewings, Nov. 5-9 (morning); (212) 606-7000, sothebys.com.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY 450 Park Avenue, at 57th Street. Contemporary art viewings, Saturday through Nov. 7 (sale Nov. 8); (212) 940-1200, phillipsdepury.com.

SCULPTURE THAT MOVES - Ruben Margolin

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MORE MURALS ON EVERYTHING AND EVERYPLACE

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FABULOUS JAPANESE RICE FIELDS MURAL ART WORK
http://nycartgallerywalkschelsea.blogspot.com/

NEW ART MURAL IN SOHO RIVALS HARRING'S

Subscribe to Le Petit Salon by Email New Art Mural in Soho Rivals Keith Harring's reconstructed art wall. A MUST SEE! Check out this SLIDE SHOW and blog post (link blow) http://artchick1.blogspot.com/2009/08/murals-in-soho-rivals-keith-harring.html So Cool...

SOPHIE CALLE, AHEM!

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A lively (read heated) exchange of commentary at the SALON regarding Sophie Calle's exhibition "TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF" at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea is duly noted in our hearts and minds and warranted a mention in ARTS RAVEL. Here is the link to the blog article that is written by one of our Salonistas' elegantly furthering that discussion: http://artsravel.blogspot.com/2009/05/sophie-calles-take-care-of-yourself-id.html I enjoyed reading Arts Ravel and learned some stuff! It's always a pleasant journey for me to follow the links that are posted, and this time I unexpectedly found an "ANSWER" which clarified my own queries about the CALLE exhibition (which I personally loved), and the numerous pieces in the installation.

This is it !!!

For those of you who have seen the installation of the numerous artworks... OULIPO: History: (read later) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

WHAT IT IS ? (read this first)

Some examples of Oulipian writing: Queneau's Exercices de Style is the recounting of the same inconsequential episode ninety-nine times, in which a man witnesses a minor altercation on a bus trip, each unique in terms of tone and style.

Plaisirs singuliers by Harry Mathews (the only American member of Oulipo) describes 61 different scenes, each told in a different style (generally poetic, elaborate, or circumlocutory) in which 61 different people (all of different ages, nationalities, and walks of life) masturbate.

Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes is inspired by children's picture books in which each page is cut into horizontal strips which can be turned independently, allowing different pictures (usually of people) to be combined in many ways. Queneau applies this technique to poetry: the book contains 10 sonnets, each on a page. Each page is split into 14 strips, one for each line. The author estimates in the introductory explanation that it would take approximately 200 million years to read all possible combinations.

FAST FORWARD...THIS IS VERY FRENCH...CALLE IS VERY FRENCH...PASSIONATE ROMANTIC DRAMA IS VERY FRENCH...I won't say La V

ART - IS IT OR ISN'T IT ?

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THE QUESTION IS...OF COURSE...IS IT ART?

TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009 IS IT OR ISN'T IT ? http://ArtChick.blogspot.com Now, you tell me...

All of the hype about "Is it Art?" ... after viewing this exhibition of Lisa Yuskavage at Zwirner it was difficult to say? My own feelings are prejudiced because I abhor women being objectified, however, on the other hand, the artist really knows her craft and paints like a Flemish angel. Yes, there is a niche for this work, and the billionaire Steve Cohen, who is exhibiting part of his fabulous collection "The Women" at Sotheby's has "ONE"! Albeit, a conservative piece at that, but non the less erotic. However, the only cartoon-y reference in Cohen's piece, NIGHT 1999-2000, is the face and the ass, or should I say "cheek-y"comes to mind. LIKE I SAID...this woman can paint...Yuskavage's inclusion in the COHEN COLLECTION is not a surprise, I am sure she has already made her mark on 21st Century art, however one has yet to decide if she is a "keeper" or a member of the flavor of the month club. It is hard to get serious about this work being a female in the 21st Century and to think that this painting NIGHT depicts the modern woman painted by another woman through a man's eyes. To me, not a critic per se, seems "too illustrative and decorative" to be serious art...Helene

WHAT A GREAT ART WEEKEND

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FABULOUS EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW

Picasso/Chelsea

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/25/arts/design/20090326_PICASSO_FEATURE.html?emc=eta3

"THE WOMEN"/ SOTHEBY'S

collection of Steve Cohen

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31010/steve-cohens-women/

ART WARRIORS, YES!

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ANYTHING FOR ART...although the weather report was ominous and we were expecting 10" of snow, the SALON  prevailed as we were proven to be indeed ART WARRIORS...check out the Slide Show Photos for Sunday, March 1, 2009 (scroll down)

Discussions regarding Jeff Koons, why do we always have to get on to him and Damien...I suppose because we are such purests...at least some of us are.  

With the contribution of our SPECIAL GUESTS... Manish Vora, co-founder of Artlog.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc-_S-kZvN0&feature=related

AND

International Photographer, Asca S,R, Aull

website

Links to the artists that we discussed :

Tim Hawkinson

Angela Su

Ruth Marten

Artwork shown by one of our members Abby Levine

http://abbyart.com

Even though the weather and bad colds scared off our core member group of Julie, Kirby, JB, Steve, and Leanne...  there was much more wine and snacks to share...which is always a good thing! 

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