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2011 Charlatan Ink Art Prize

November 17, 2010

The Charlatan Ink Art Project

was established in 2009 within the walls of the iconic Carlton Arms Hotel, New York, by two visual artists, Dariusz Solarski from Poland and Austrian born Andre van der Kerkhoff. From the moment of its conception, the Charlatan Ink Art Project has grown from a whimsical idea into an ever expanding universe of ideas, which will touch over time all aspects of the visual arts in whatever form or shape.

Within those expanding ideas the Charlatan Ink Art Project contains the essential nucleus of its creation, the establishment of the CHARLATAN INK ART PRIZE for the VISUAL ARTS. Which is part of the CHARLATAN INK COLLECTIVE.

The CHARLATAN INK ART PRIZE for the VISUAL ARTS will be the gateway for the Charlatan Ink Art Project to connect worldwide with artists, galleries and art organizations, facilitating cross pollination and creation of fertile soils to establish new and exciting means to present art to a wider public.

Once the Charlatan Ink Art Project has established itself within the New York art establishment and with time on a global stage, Charlatan Ink LLC New York will pledge itself to metamorphose into an art-entity, that will not only search for new inventive art and art practitioners, but will commit itself to nurture new talents through its facilities of publishing and art management. Charlatan Ink LLC New York will create an innovative new model in artist representation, allowing artists to be free of commercial conformity and limiting art market policies.

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Charlatan Ink LLC
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The National Museum of Cambodia

October 5, 2010

A cultural awakening for when visiting the iconic National Museum of Cambodia today in Phnom Penh is cambodia’s largest museum of cultural history and is the country’s leading historical and archaeological museum. it houses one of the world’s largest collections of khmer art, including sculptural, ceramics, bronzes, and ethnographic objects. the museum buildings, inspired by khmer temple architecture, were constructed between 1917 and 1924, the museum was officially inaugurated in 1920,and renovated in 1968.]

National-Museum-of-Cambodia-Phnom-Penh

Touring the national museum of cambodia I never expected to receive the unique learning experience of diversity of ancient cultures blended so well in a modern museum. the museum buildings were constructed between 1917 and 1924, with the inauguration of the museum in 1920. the central section of the east façade was renovated in 1968 under the supervision of cambodian architect, vann molyvann. the museum in phnom penh is cambodia’s largest museum of cultural history and is the country’s leading historical and archaeological museum. it houses one of the world’s largest collections of khmer art, including sculptural, ceramics, bronzes, and ethnographic objects. the museum’s collection includes over 17,000 items, from prehistoric times to periods before, during, and after the khmer empire, which at its height stretched from thailand, across present-day cambodia, to southern vietnam. george groslier (1887-1945), historian, curator and author was the motivating force behind much of the revival of interest in traditional ccambodian arts and crafts, and it was he who designed this building that is today ‘traditional khmer’ architecture. it is perhaps better described as a building enlarged from cambodian temple prototypes seen on ancient bas-reliefs and reinterpreted through colonial eyes to meet the museum-size requirements. together with the adjacent royal university of fine arts the national museum of cambodia works to enhance knowledge of and preserve Cambodian cultural traditions and to provide a source of pride and identity to the cambodian people. the museum also serves a religious function; its collection of important Buddhist and Hindu sculpture addresses community religious needs as a place of worship. a permanent exhibition, Post-Angkorian Buddha, is supported by UNESCO and a number of individuals and local businesses. . .

Bronze-Buddhist-Triad

Website : http://www.cambodiamuseum.info/

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Affordable Art Fair NYC, 9/30 to 10/3/2010

October 2, 2010

this week we, mary and i attended the affordable art fair at 7 west 34th street, first annual fall fair.

AAF

the affordable art fair has been a staple of spring time art going that Will Ramsey  expanded  to twice a year here. you don’t need to be an art expert to enjoy see and collecting art you. which was Will Ramsey’s idea when he first launched AAF in london in 1999. now eleven years later AAf has become an outstanding global contemporary art fair with events taking place in Amsterdam, Bristol, Brussels, London, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Singapore and Sydney.

this event has workshops in collecting art, framing your collection and open artist studios courtesy of Jen Bekman Project, as well as a kids ‘walk in’ workshops. this is a family adventure, see the web site for schedules

aisle a

with 70 worldwide galleries participating this month one has an eyeful of world tastes and artist, from painters, sculptors, collagest, photographers and installations; one is treated to a wide variety of eye candy. there is even a kiddie corner

kiddie corner

where one can see budding artist. hey why not bring your own budding Michelangelo along for fun. there is something for everyone crammed in the aisles A through F.

aisle f

the fair opened on wed with a private invitation gathering of VIP,friends, families, lots of strollers and kids writing on the walls more than enough to keep ones eyes open. i returned on  friday morning as the fair opened to take some pictures and talk to gallery owners. due to time limitations i didn’t have a chance to speak with everyone nor make notes. these pictures are only a small smattering of what i saw.

first i started with the art installations, take a left coming off the elevators head down the hallway towards the cafe just before the entrance is Jennifer Murray’s The Love Story, 2010 by Raandesk Gallery is comprised of a found wooden ship, a sculptured pierced clay tuna and hanging sculpted clay tear drops. love story begins with the capture of the ‘big one’ ending with symbolically with regret and sadness that couples with the barbaric actions of completing such a capture.

the love story

next is Kamol Akhunov’s vivid Earth Leak installation, courtesy of Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, about the rising dependency on fossil fuel and the consequences of that caustic addiction. tangled, dissonant and spontaneously structured pipes represent the uncontrollable need and unquenchable proclivities towards this natural resource. the earth which is hanging powerlessly drenched with oil represents the current quandary we humans face. this non-escapist idea that we are all connected, linked and splattered by this oil greed and addiction is our desolation and destruction and choice.

earth leak with artist

between these two installations are John LaMacchia’s Canned Laughter sound installation, courtesy of Galeria Bickar,  no pictures as i’ve yet to successfully capture it on film, opps pixels. these sound tracks from Tv producers provide a guide as to when we should laugh. the artist explores the artificial cue as content and response.

next along the wall are Jen Blazina’s Bittersweet, cast rubber lockets, courtesy of Divergence Fine Art. this installation of 1100 amber rubber lockets, which hold images represent relationships between people taken from anonymous family photographs. Most of these people are unknown and lost to a family narrative history. the power of representation creates an intimate moment for the viewer as they approach each piece and engage the idea of holding someones image.

Bittersweet

then we begin with booth 001 where i met two brothers from Barcelona, Spain representing Crisolart Gallery and we talked about that lovely city where i’ve always wanted to go since reading ernest hemingway’s novels about spain.

crisolart gallery

next door is the Hamburg Kennedy Photographs from nyc, something i can get my teeth into.  a lovely blue photoshop composition on the wall caught my eye.

Hamburg Kennedy Photographs

so in no particular order because i am not sure where everything is –  i just show what caught my eye. this Le Siants Gallery from Barcelona paintings stood out and attracted me

Le Siants Gallery

until i saw this. i didn’t have a chance to talk to the gallery owner here, one of those missed opportunities i would liked to have over again.

Woman in Red

And then these paper sculptures from Bulgaria at Latoart gallery

Latoart Gallery

to these unglazed porcelain wall and free standing organic pieces from the Russell/Projects of Richmond Va.

Russell Projects

to Cube Gallery 3D wall boxes which really needs to be seen in person to appreciate – as do all of these art pieces.

Cube Gallery

here are our old friends busy at work in the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery with an art patron in the background.

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery

some very inventive art, photography and sculptures are on display for the rest of this weekend, including these French galleries.  these two from the LM gallery, Paris, France the first from a photographer while the second from a collagest.

Arno Iam

Regis Guerin

and wandering around i discovered these two artist at Envie D”Art also from France

Manolo Chretien @ Envie D'Art

Artist Manolo Chretien ‘ NY Citillusions’ printed on brushed aluminium while Edouard Buzon below works on wood with layers of polyurethane, sanded and polished

Edouard Buzon @ Envie D'Art

last but not least we visited that far away land, home of the long gone dodgers, Brooklyn to the RHV fine art where i talked to henry chung about his computer punch tape pieces, who now has to learn to use a new material as punch tape is discontinued.

rhv fine art

this is just a small sampling of what’s available and with packages of bubble wrapped objects flying in and out of door ways one never knows what creations one will see. you can actually walk out the door with your purchase or have it delivered to your home. now how’s that for service?

i do have a suggestion for galleries doing these type of shows. it’s very helpful if they brought along with then  gallery bio’s along with the artist bio’s. to say it’s on our web site is fine but writing from notes is still the way i work. i didn’t write about the galleries who didn’t have handouts, maybe i wasn’t important enough but i did have clean clothers and took a shower before leaving the house.

well these are my wanderings for this weekend hope you enjoy this beautiful day.

jene

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fotovisura photography grant

September 27, 2010

http://www.fotovisura.com/user/FotoVisura/viewembed/fotovisura-grant

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panama’s diablo’s rojos

September 7, 2010

well dear readers i haven’t found anywhere to load some jpegs up nor a computer or photo store to get a card reader. sorry about that, the weather is nice but hot, i don’t have to go in the steam room because after a few hours my clothes are soaked.

the project of shooting the diablos rojos as they are called is working out pretty good would be better if i knew what i was going but the drivers and their, i don’t know what to call them as each bues has a fellow riding with it who calls out where the bus is going to the awaiting passengers.

each buse is painted by different artist any way they see fit, of course allowing each owner there due. some of them have extensive lighting on them for night driving.

the buses were left here by the us army when they left the canal, sold i guess or maybe given away and are pretty solid but how they’ve been maintained isn’t the greatest. so are even yellow school buses but they are boring.

the helpers or callers for want of a better word sometimes pose in front of the buses and most of them seem to love seeing their pictures. their age groups differ from the old guys to just kids. i was thinking while waiting for a new batch of buses who has ever cared for them? they are just disposable workers who are lucky to have jobs.

at some point these diesel smog spewing diablos are going the way of the doo bird and be replaced by bright shinny new ones. maybe even air-conditioned and bigger so more people can fit in, don’t know how they do it now. but will the city give these buses to these old drivers and clean uniforms?

what do you think? my bets on keeping the new buses  clean along with new drivers. the city has added traffic lights a first along with sewerage treatment plants. this place is coming along.

 to see the amount of new building and renovations i s unbelievable, money is just pouring into this place along with cars and people oh did i mention traffic jams?

i can’t wait to share this new project with everybody.

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Mary has an opening at 3rd Annual Governors Island Art Fair, come meet the artist.

August 26, 2010

NEW YORK METRO ART SCENE

To start the fall display of gallery openings and events, 3 of Mary’s

mary

images will be part of the 3rd annual Governor’s Island Art Fair exhibiting with TheGreatNude Small Works. Although the images are B&W they are a part of my “All That Glitters” body of works.

So come out and support and meet some of the NY Metro area artists who will be there for the opening. be sure to say hello to mary.

The Art Fair runs form Sept 4th through the 26th on Saturdays and Sundays only.  And remember the gift of art is lasting and can have good investment value as the emerging artists’ work original or ltd editions increase over time.

So if you don’t want to be stuck in traffic on the LIE or GSP heading to the beaches, wander around the Island.  The island also is home to the National Historic Landmark District featuring 18th Century fortifications so wear comfortable shoes as you stroll the grounds.

There is no admission fee to enter the Fair where 120 abandoned army barracks will be filled with visual art, music and performers.

Saturday Sept. 4th 11 – 6pm.  opening reception from 3pm to 6pm – Building 12 – Section H-4

By subway:  1 to South Ferry Station

4, 5 to Bowling Green

R, W to Whitehall St Station

By ferry:  FREE from the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 (starting at 11am)  Pier 6 is located at the end of Atlantic Avenue at Columbus Street

There is also a ferry from Manhattan:

Directions to the Governors Island Manhattan Ferry
The Governors Island ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building located at 10 South Street, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry in Lower Manhattan. The ferry terminal is accessible as follows:  click this link for schedules

By Subway
1 to South Ferry station
4, 5 to Bowling Green station
R to Whitehall St. station

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The Work Office (TWO) is now hiring!

August 22, 2010
The Work Office (TWO) is participating in the Dumbo Arts Festival and is now hiring!
Visit www.theworkoffice.com to apply. TWO is participating in the Dumbo Arts Festival from September 24–26th. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis through September 7th.
The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. Informed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to “make work” for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments that explore, document, and improve daily life in New York City. From a temporary, publicly accessible office, TWO’s administrators will hire employees and during the Dumbo Arts Festival will exhibit work and distribute Depression-era wages at a Payday Party. You are invited to submit an application online, choosing from one of the following assignments:
Build a bridge
Document a need for repairs
Make a regional travel guide for your block or neighborhood
Record an oral history
Reinterpret a newspaper photograph
Design a poster to promote something
Catalog existing WPA structures in New York
Make a mixed CD related to…
Give a concert for your houseplant
Start an American tradition that you’d like to be preserved
Assign yourself
A TWO administrator will contact and interview applications of interest. Applications are evaluated based on the strength and clarity of your proposed response to one of our assignments. Once hired, you will have a week to complete your assignment, for which you will be paid $23.50, the weekly wage for an artist in the Federal One Project (the arts division of the WPA). You must be able to complete your assignment during the work week of September 13th–20th.
TWO will hold a Payday Party at the office during the Dumbo Arts Festival on Saturday, September 25th. Employees will collect their wages and the public will be invited to view the week’s works and learn about the project. Completed assignments will also be on view during the entire Dumbo Arts Festival from
Friday, September 24th through Sunday, September 26th.
Questions? Write TWO at: apply@theworkoffice.com
For more about DAF, visit: www.dumboartsfestival.com
The Work Office (TWO) is made possible by a Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant, Two Trees Management,
Brooklyn, NY and donations from generous individuals.
Naomi Miller
The Work Office (TWO)
917 289 0926
The Work Office will be open September 24–26, 2010 during the Dumbo Arts Festival
Friday 5–9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 12–6 pm
Payday Party  Saturday 6–8 pm
We will be located at 45 Main Street, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY.
Take the A/C to High Street, F to York Street

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for all you video artist, video-dumbo seeking submissions

August 13, 2010

video_dumbo is an international festival for contemporary video art. We are seeking submissions for the 2010 edition, as part of the Dumbo Arts Festival, September 24-26 2010.

Our focus is on contemporary video art. We are looking for:

A. single channel work for the screening programs
B. video installations [single/multi channel and interactive software]

NOTE: For video installations the selected artists are responsible for the installation, production costs and all the equipment required for your work to be exhibited. Sorry we are unable to provide extra equipment.

The festival panel will make a final selection of works after the entry deadline. If your work is selected, you will be notified by e-mail by August 30, 2010. The screening copy of your work as a .mov file (in a DataDVD) or in miniDV format will need to be delivered to the festival office no later than September 10, 2010 . Entrants are responsible for shipping costs. Please do not use fiber envelopes.

There is no entry fee. Submission deadline: August 21, 2010.

SUBMIT NOW AT WWW.VIDEODUMBO.ORG

If you have any questions regarding the application process send an email to: videodumbo@gmail.com

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The world’s most expensive car now displayed at

August 5, 2010

The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California

The-Mullin-Automotive-Museum

knowing how much cars mean to californian’s, driving around town shielded by a steel bubble, is almost a religion gone public. one is what one drives seems to be the zen mantra of some californian inhabitants affecting both male and females of that race.

in the short time i lived there, ten years,  i got an automotive education about cars i never even heard of. looking for my cougar i saw many new varieties of cars, ever hear of a jensen? an english car. with all the movie people driving leased lamborghini’s and ferrari’s down the freeway one feels a sense of why not me as they pass or more likely as you both inch along in a traffic event.  slowly as times passes one by while waiting to move ahead we can see ourselves behind the wheel of any number of exotic cars, looking cool.

heads turn towards us, we are somebody not just another toxic carbon monoxide generator killing plants and people because we look cool behind the wheel of ………………. name your poison. but if you’d like to see something dreams are made of then go up to oxnard ca.

Oxnard, CA – If you have a desire to see the world’s most expensive car in all its primal glory, the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., has put it on display. The 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, the first of three built, sold for more than $30 million and possibly as much as $40 million in a private sale brokered in May by California auction house Gooding and Company. The Bugatti will be on display for just two or three months at the art-deco-inspired Mullin museum, which opened April 15. Watch for museum hours, which are sporadic. The first chance to gaze at the Bugatti Atlantic will be Aug.10th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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the end or an era, where in manhattan do artist fit in?

August 4, 2010

Last Carnegie Hall Resident, Elizabeth Sargent, Forced Out of Carnegie Towers

Editta-Sherman

In this image taken Thursday Aug. 2 , 2007, New York photographer Editta Sherman, then 95, stacks celebrity portraits at her studio residence in New York’s Carnegie Hall. The Italian-born Sherman, 98, who photographed famous faces from Monroe and Andy Warhol to Elvis Presley and called the “Duchess of Carnegie Hall” for being its longest resident, was forced from the studio she called home since 1948. She’s not been allowed to sleep there since early July and must also remove her belongings by Aug. 31. A resident since 1949, she raised five children in a studio with 25-foot ceilings and a view of Central Park. Her rent was frozen at $650 a month.- AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

NEW YORK (AP).- All of her neighbors are gone, forced out. Now Elizabeth Sargent, the last holdout tenant of Carnegie Hall’s towers, is preparing to leave the her affordable studios that for more than a century housed some of America’s most brilliant creative artists. Red scaffolding surrounds Carnegie Hall as the city-owned towers are being gutted this summer in a $200 million renovation that includes adding a youth music program. Celebrities like Robert De Niro and Susan Sarandon had fought to save the homes, petitioning the city not to “displace these treasured artists and master teachers.”

Musicians, painters, dancers and actors thrived in the two towers built by 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie just after the hall went up in 1891. The towers—one 12 stories high, the other 16—housed more than 100 studios, some with special skylights installed to give painters the northern light they prize.

Ms. Sargent, a one-time dancer, is now in her 80s and in remission from cancer. For 40 years, she’s lived on the ninth floor of the red-brick southern tower above the famed stage of the 119-year-old landmark. She has until Aug. 31 to clear out.

After a years-long legal battle, the two women finally reached agreement for new Midtown Manhattan apartments where rents will be subsidized by Carnegie Hall Corp. for the rest of their lives.

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