With just five days into the Kickstarter campaign, founders Maxwell Bogue, Daniel Cowen and Peter Dilworth got over $1.9 million in pledges and undoubtedly surpassed their goal of only $30,000… (you can see our initial report here).

So, what is the 3Doodler you might ask?

The 3Doodler is a pen which heats up plastic sticks and releases them.  Once the plastic comes out of the pen, it cools really quickly and solidifies into wherever you lead the pen!  This allows you to “draw in 3D”.

Brilliant!

To develop such creative technology, it undeniably takes minds that are programmed to think outside of a box.

So, I got to ask the founders Maxwell, Daniel and Peter exactly how they did it:

What inspired you with the idea to create the 3Doodler pen?  How was it birthed?

The idea came about as we frequently use our own 3D printers for rapid prototyping.  We wanted to see if the process could be sped up and made “freer” by placing the parts of the 3D printer in a pen form.  The first iteration was called the teacup, basically an extruder with a handle.  It worked horribly, but it did work.  The team then added to this, creating a unique cooling mechanism and evolving to the 3Doodler you see today.

Are you developing any new products?  If so, how do you find time to develop them?

Yes, we recently announced some new products at CES.  The first is a holder for the pen, which makes storing the 3Doodler in between doodling easier, while also doubling as a moveable platform to allow you to create larger structures with far less hassle.  3Doodler will also be launching the first in a series of changeable nozzles, allowing users to extrude plastic in different shapes and sizes; as well as DoodleBlocks™; silicon molds that can be easily “filled in” with the ABS or PLA plastic from the pen.  The molds come in various shapes including stars, numbers, and letters, making it effortless to create perfectly shaped objects.

What were your biggest challenges leading up to the launch of the 3Doodler?  And any advice to our readers with product ideas of their own?

Prepare, prepare, prepare.  If you think you have something that could get very big, I’d recommend reaching out to media before the launch.  The idea that you can just throw it up there and see how it does might work for smaller projects, but for something really big, you need to reach out.  Logistics are important as well – you need an idea or a basic plan for how you’re going to deal with the craziness.  If you’re thinking of launching on Kickstarter, talking to a Kickstarter veteran is helpful as well.  I spoke to Joe Schlesinger (of Arcbotics) a lot about the pitfalls he hit with Kickstarter. You’re going to get a ton of emails.  My girlfriend took a few weeks off from work, just to help us answer them.  We had some amazing help to strategize and execute the whole campaign.  In short: it’s really important to prepare completely – have exactly the right hands and brains on deck.  There aren’t really any negative points about our Kickstarter experience – but if we were to give advice for those considering it, we’d say be prepared for the amount of emails and publicity, and try and get back to all enquiries if you can!

Thank you all for sharing your knowledge and process with us!  If you would like to purchase your own 3Doodler, check it out here:  www.the3doodler.com

Written by Laura West

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Each year at this time I make the trip to my childhood home and stare at a refrigerator full of holiday cards from distant relatives and old family friends. Many of these cards include an annual photo, each year the same people in the same configuration, in front of the same fireplace, or a new vacation location. In the spirit of the season, here are fifteen artworld family photos.

Merry Christmas from the Impressionists

1. Above is the painting A Studio in the Batignolles by Henri Fantin-Latour. This image depicts a bunch of the French Impressionists, including Manet, Renoir, Monet, and the critic Emile Zola. An oil painting of an artist’s friends and colleagues that probably took weeks to complete really makes you appreciate the immediacy of Instagram.

Let It Snow, the Futurists

2. This is a Futurist banquet in Tunis with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto, front and center. (image via)

Winter Greetings, The Ashcan School

3. Here we have the Ashcan School artists at the painter John French Sloan’s Philadelphia Studio in 1898. The original “Philadelphia Five,” included the great American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper, among others. (image via)

Spreading Holiday Cheer, the Stieglitz’s

4. Meanwhile, over in New York is the Steiglitz Circle. This is an early photo, so Alfred is in there, but not Georgia O’Keeffe or Arthur Dove.  (image via)

Peace, Love & Joy from Weimar

5. This is a photograph from the Meeting of the Contstructivists and Dadaists in Weimar, 1922. Pictured here are some of the movements’ heavy hitters like Theo van Doesburg in the middle with his makeshift hat, El Lissitsky, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, and Hans Richter. (image via)

Happy Holidays from The Bauhaus

6. Here are members of the Bauhaus on the roof of their building, 1926.From left: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl, Oskar Schlemmer.(image via)

Seasons Greetings from The Surrealists

7. And here are the Surrealists – among them, Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, and Man Ray.

Feliz Navidad!

8. While Frida and Diego have a variety of options to choose from for their annual holiday greeting card, we need at least three people to fit in our group theme. Here they are with architect Albert Khan. (image via)

Celebrate The Season with The Irascibles!

9. Can you imagine what their Christmas party would have been like? Everyone drunk, night ending with fist fights and arguing over representation. From left, rear: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottleib, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne;(next row) Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst (w. bow tie), Jackson Pollock (in striped jacket), James Brooks, Clyfford Still (leaning on knee), Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; (in foreground) Theodoros Stamos (on bench), Barnett Newman (on stool), Mark Rothko (with glasses). (image via)

Merry Fuckin’ X-Mas from The Factory

10. This Richard Avedon portrait of the Warhol Factory, “Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, New York, October 30, 1969”, would actually be a really amazing thing to see on your mom’s ‘fridge. In addition to some beautiful feathered 1970’s hair and a whole lotta D, this photo features the fabulous Warhol Superstars Viva, Candy Darling, and Brigid Berlin. (image via)

Happy New Year from the Castelli Family

11. This is an invitation to the birthday party of legendary galleriest Leo Castelli by Hans Namuth in 1985 with Castelli and  his artists: Ellsworth Kelly, Dan Flavin, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Serra, Lawrence Weiner, Nassos Daphnis, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Salvatore Scarpitta, Richard Artschwager, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Cletus Johnson, Keith Sonnier, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, James Rosenquist, and Robert Barry.(image via)

Christmas Greetings from Mr. Chow’s

12. Here is another group shot that includes man-about-town Andy Warhol. The staged group photo seemed to be a popular format in the late 80s. (image via)

Fort Greene Felicitations

13. This image which features artists from music and film as well as art such as Lorna Simpson and Spike Lee. You can see these people featured in the documentary Brooklyn Boheme, which is available on Netflix. (image via)

Holiday Greetings from Christie’s

14. While flipping through a recent Art in America print issue, I clocked this double page spread which is not a cover photo for a feature on the auction house, but an advertisement. An advertisement for what, exactly? Well I’m not quite sure other than that these Christie’s staff are serious, they have names, and they sure seem to like hanging around on installation equipment. It mostly bums me out, thinking about the art handlers who had to unpack, move, place, and then re-crate those big Basquiat and Mark Grotjahn paintings in the background for this casual photoshoot. (image – author scan from Art In America November 2013)

Warm Winter Wishes from Work of Art!

15. And finally, everyone’s favorite bunch of reality artists – the cast of Work of Art Season 1. Just kidding! (image via)

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NEW YORK CITY – Monday, December 16 – Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

New York is getting back to speed after Basel.  Chelsea and the Lower East Side’s gallery scenes were crackling with life last Thursday.  Although this week it might be slushy out, and a little nippy, the galleries will be warm, and the wine will be flowing, and arty Holiday Parties ABOUND!  This week, wear red, dress warm, pocket some mistletoe and hit the town. – Cojo

Monday, December 16th, 2013

8:00 pm  U.E.S. 24 Internet Communities Class  | Mellow Pages– 56 Bogart St. Bklyn
7:00 pm – 10pm DART Pop-Up Show | Evelyn – 171 Ave. C, NYC
6:30 pm – 8pm Every Artist Insured | CUE Art Foundation – 137 W.25th St. NYC
7:00 pm Evening w/ Tom Thayer | MoMA – 11 W. 53rd St., NYC

Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

6:00 – 9pm Birdhaus Holiday Happening | S & J Projects – 191 Henry St., NYC
9:45 pm  Expression Sessions <Poetry> | Alphabet City – 638 E. 6th St.., NYC
10am – 6pm  A Week of Films | Anton Kern Gallery  – 532 W 20th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm  Ellen Letcher | Pocket Utopia  – 191 Henry St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Chris Martin | KARMA  – 39 Great Jones St., NYC
5:00 pm – 7pm  Michelangelo Pistoletto | Luhring Augustine Bushwick  – 25 Knickerbocker Ave, Bklyn

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

7:30 pm – 10:30pm  BKNUDE Figure Drawing | Bunnycutlet 158 Roebling St., Bklyn
6pm – 8pm Holiday & Closing Party | Asya Geisberg Gallery – 537 W. 23rd St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Come Like Shadows | Zürcher Studio – 35 Bleeker St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Special Guests | Sardine – 286 Stanhope St., Bklyn
6:30 pm – 10:30 pm  Polarity 3D Projections| Center For Holographic Arts – 29-27 41st Ave, LIC

Thursday, December 19th, 2013

8:00 pm -10pm Qinza Najm Solo Show | PizzArte – 69 W. 55th St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8:30pm PostPictures | bitforms gallery nyc – 529 W. 20th St., NYC
7:00 pm – 12am Bushwick Daily Holiday Party | The Rookery – 425 Troutman., Bklyn
7:00 pm – 10pm Harbor Holiday Party | Harbor – 17-17 Troutman, Ridgewood Qns.
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Du | CANADA – 333 Broome St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm A Young Collectors Exhibition| Leila Heller Gallery – 568 W. 25th St., NYC
8:00 pm Late Night Work Club (Animation) | BAM Rose Cinemas – 321 Ashland Pl. Bklyn

Friday, December 20th, 2013

5:00 pm – 10pm Holiday Hoedown | Fair Folks & a Goat – 96 W. Houston St., NYC
7:00 pm   Holiday Group Show | Harlem Wine Gallery – 762 St.Nicholas Ave, NYC
7:00 pm – 10pm Cocktails & Dreams II | Airplane Gallery – 70 Jefferson St., Bklyn
7:00 pm  Fruit Machine 2 | New Museum – 235 Bowery, LES, NYC

Saturday, December 21st, 2013

3:00 pm – 7pm Holiday Sale -Meet The Artist | Le Salon d’Art – 90 Stanton St., NYC
7:00 pm – 10pm December’s Letters | Orgy Park – 237 Jefferson St., Bklyn

Sunday, December 22nd, 2013

5:00 pm – 7pm Hot Wine & Cool Art | frosch&portmann – 53 Stanton St., L.E.S.,NYC

Written by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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NEW YORK CITY – Monday, December 9 – Sunday, December 15th, 2013

While a lot of galleries were recovering from their trips to Miami Beach for Art Basel last week, others still in NY were hanging their new exhibits.  Here are some openings coming up this week that should put people back into the NY state of mind.

Monday, December 9th, 2013

6:30 pm – 8:30pm $ Holiday & Chip Kidd | Type Directors Club – 347 W 36th St., NYC
7:00 pm  Draw-mania! | Fish Bar – 237 E. 5th St, NYC
8:00 pm  Bridging Bushwick Discussion | The Living Gallery BK – 1094 Bdway, BKLYN

Tuesday, December 10th, 2013

7:30  The Line Blurs :  Filmmaking | DCTV – 87 Lafayette St., NYC
7:00 pm – 9pm Typhoon Haiyan Benefit | The Lodge Gallery – 131 Chrystie St., NYC

Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

7:00 pm  Gary Stephan Lecture | SVA – 136 W. 21st St. 418F, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Rafal Olbinski | Studio Vendome – 330 Spring St., NYC

Thursday, December 12th, 2013

5:00 pm – 8pm STIK The Liberty Project | Dorian Grey Gallery – 437 E. 9th St. NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Black & White Group Exhibition | Dacia Gallery – 53 Stanton St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Danielle Durchslag | Denny Gallery – 261 Broome St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Touch The Moon | Louis B. James – 143b Orchard St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Domonique Echeveria | Strange Loop Gallery – 27 Orchard St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Drunk-Tank Pink | Field Projects 526 W.26th #807, NYC

Friday, December 13th, 2013

7:00 pm – 9pm Mapping Heaven | Front Room Gallery – 147 Roebling St., Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm  Ways and Means : JMR | Mighty Tanaka – 111 Front St, Dumbo NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Tetes | Storefront Ten Eyck – 324 Ten Eyck, Bushwick,NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Let’s smell it together | CUE Art Foundation – 137 W. 25th St., NYC

Saturday, December 14th, 2013

3:00 pm Mandy Patinkin & Taylor Mac | Abrons Arts Center – 466 Grand St., NYC

Sunday, December 15th, 2013

11:00 am – 5pm Ridgewood Artisan Market | Gottscheer Hall – 657 Fairview Ave, QNS

 Written by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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If you’re traveling into New York City or are lucky enough to abide in the area this holiday season, I highly recommend stopping by Forum Gallery to catch a glimpse of leading figurative artist, Steven Assael.

Channeling the grace, technique and voices of Old Masters, their souls are left whispering in the air as they’re brought to life in the drawings created by the delicate hands of Steven Assael.

Steven Assael is known in America as one of the top representational figurative artists who marvelously captures intimate psychological portraits in fine detail. Every piece has its own story to tell as a human image is captured in moments of stillness and muted scenes.

A realist, Assael works from life and is selective in the way he represents a human figure.

Allowing the pencil to drift into essential lines, this organic detail gives a spaciousness and a haunting tonality to his pieces.

It was astounding to witness the individuality he managed to capture in each of his portraits.  The eyes possess a distinct personality, even in the most complex expression.

Assael has fine-tuned an incredible technique that really warrants one to look up close at the technicality.  Using graphite and crayon, he is able to capture exceptionally intricate detail, tasteful space, unique personalities and a mastery in his craft.

This exhibition will not disappoint.  It will leave you breathing in the elegance of Steven Assael’s new drawings and wanting to see more.

Steven Assael: New Drawings will be on exhibit at Forum Gallery from November 21, 2013 to February 1, 2014. Be sure to stop by!

Written by Laura West

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Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey – October 11, 2013–March 9, 2014 – At the Brooklyn Museum

Wangechi Mutu‘s new show, A Fantastic Journey, is currently up, and it is beyond a feast for the eyes. One could search her name, and find a plethora of digital photographs of her collages, but to say you’ve really seen Mutu’s work, you need to see it in person. The saturation and dissipation of paint, with all the intricate combinations of pasted photographs, is hard to completely see on a computer screen.

For those who are not familiar with her collage work, she renders the black female form with application of intensely innovative surface quality techniques, all along challenging those who use the term “exotic” to categorize a black woman. Perhaps the title, “A Fantastic Journey” comes from the visual voyage the viewer takes as they stumble across the hidden creatures, and varied patterns lying within a figure that has so many colors, that it brings a new meaning to the word, “colored woman.”

She demonstrates a mastery of balance between ambience and rich, detailed content. The hidden treasures found within her work range from decontextualized elements of animal heads and limbs cut out from magazines, combined with violent red splatter reminiscent of blood massacres, to pornographic images, and machinery parts, all of which compose most often in her works, a slender female warrior.

Viewing these images from a fine artist perspective, she nails all they needs to make visually pleasing and evocative imagery within her collages. Nothing less than extraordinary intuitive placement, each pattern synergistically flows from one to the next. If an art student is running short of what mark to make next, it is urgent to see this show, because Mutu knows how to experiment with color and juxtaposition.

When and if you see Wangechi Mutu’s show at the Brooklyn Museum, on the fourth floor, I strongly suggest you actually appreciate it, and pause at each collage, considering the painstaking details, the sophisticated color choices, and those suggestions of gender, war, race, colonialism, global consumption, and science-fiction. Don’t breeze past them, because you will regret not being attentive to the wide range of visual language she has developed at and since her education at Cooper Union and Yale. Each of her collages has its own unique hook to allure the viewer into its clusters of warm polka dots, and black mold ornamentations curving to the contours of the figure, or the figure’s bulbous lips and wide nose.

Her collages were her strongest work. Mutu is known for her collages, but this show was also an opportunity for her to demonstrate her strength in video installation, and sculpture. Her video work touches upon how “wild” and “untamed” her black female characters are, as one of her videos displays the artist, herself, eating cake without utensils in a fancy white dress, in some outdoors environment. Her other video, which immerses you within its cinema-like presence, displays a woman with a giant attachment of mechanized, industrial forms, oozing, smoking, eating bats. Her video work recalls the attention to detail and conglomeration of content that her collage work does, but it also moves on-screen.

She also installed trees made of multi-colored carpet throughout the exhibition space, and in another room (photo not included), she hung black plastic bags in tied hemp string from the ceiling. Her sculptures omitted the knowledge of color, tonality, and heavy-subject-matter-infused photographs. Her sculptures are simple, exploring the wrinkles the materials make. Her sculptures didn’t exploit the colors that people often associate with exotic fruits and flowers, but rather stuck with browns, grays, and earthy hues.

Wangechi demonstrates her vast imagination, and attention to detail so vividly in her fiery, colorful collages, I was hoping to literally walk into one of her worlds, being able to touch the different textured forms, smell the body odor of one of her figures, or hell, even eat some exotic fruit off the branches of her installed trees. Her installations are shadowed by her collage work. Mutu seems to work liberally, without restraint in her collages, and she challenged herself with her sculptures. My hopes were not let down by seeing this show, but I wonder if in the future, her installation and immersive sculptural work will truly compete with the seductive nature of her collages and 2 dimensional work. She is certainly in her element on flat surfaces, but it seems apparent that she could further push her installation work.

I have no doubt that this artist will continue to grow, and share her incredible gift with the world, especially through her 2-d work, but I’m still waiting for her sculptural work to grab me like her collages do.

Written and photographed by Andrew Kaminski

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NEW YORK, NY – Wednesday, September 18- Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

7:00 pm Muse Fuse: Ann Fensterstock | Storefront Bushwick – 324 Ten Eyck St., Bklyn,NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm The Inaugural Rub Out | Christine Cha | Kraine Gallery & KGB Bar – 85 E. 4th St., NYC
8:00 pm – 11pm Lädy Millard “Luxury”| Con Artist Gallery – 119 Ludlow St, NYC

Thursday, September 19th, 2013

4:00 pm – 10pm Photoville | Pier 5 Brooklyn Bridge Park –360 Furman Street, Brooklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Herb Jackson | Claire Oliver Gallery – 513 W. 26th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Roxa Smith | Conde Nast Building – 4 Times Square, NYC
6:00 pm – 10pm Members Only | CultureFix – 119 Ludlow St, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Edward Burtynsky | Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery – 505 w. 24th St., NYC
6:00 pm Greenpoint Film Festival | Opening Screenings & Panel $ – 67 West St. Greenpoint, Bklyn
6:00 pm – 8pm Jonathan Callan | Josee Bienvenu Gallery – 529 W. 20th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm David Herman | People/Places II | Denise Bibro Fine Art – 529 W. 20th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm David Kassman | Lost | Winston Wächter Fine Art –  530 W. 25th St., NYC
7:00 pm Openings | Faith Based Group Show | Church of St. Paul the Apostle – 405 W. 59th St., NYC
9:00 pm – Midnight Red Bull Curates | Canvas Cooler Project | The 1896– 215 Ingraham St., Bklyn, NYC

Friday, September 20th, 2013

11:00 am – 6pm Behind Closed Doors $ | Brooklyn Museum – 200 Eastern Parkway, Bklynt, NYC
2:00 pm – 7pm The NY Art Book Fair | MoMA PS1– 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm In The Good Name of the Company | See | Exhibition Space – 26-19 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Fountain Art Fair Chicago | Mana Contemporary – 2233 S. Throop St., Chicago, IL
7:00 pm – 9pm Augustin Doublet | Skin of the City | fuchs projects – 56 Bogart St, Bushwick, Bklyn, NYC

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

6:00 pm – 8pm Rosalind Nashashibi | Murray Guy– 453 W. 17th St., NYC
12:00 pm – 12am Galerie Project | $ | Light Space Studios – 1115 Flushing Ave., Greenpoint, Bklyn
7:00 pm – 10pm You Are My Sunshine | Group Show | Associated Gallery -The Active Space 566 Johnson Ave., Bklyn

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

More coming soon

Monday, September 23rd, 2013

More coming soon

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

More coming soon

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I was fortunate to get a intimate sneak preview screening of HERB & DOROTHY 50×50 at the SEE.ME gallery last week.  This is the follow-up documentary to 2008’s award winning HERB &DOROTHY(add this to your que!).

The original documentary recounts the amazing story of a New York couple, Herb and Dorothy Vogel, who on a NYC postal worker and a librarian’s salary (her income went to expenses, his to buying art)  managed to amassed one of the largest collections of minimalist art ever, and fit it all in a one bedroom apartment .

In the original film SPOILER ALERT Herb & Dorothy donated their collection to the Washington DC National Archive.  In the new film we catch up with the collecting duo and find that the archive didn’t  have room for the entire collection.  The accept  half of the work and for the other half they come up with a proposition.  A 50×50 concept, to donate 50 pieces, to 50 museums- thus breaking up the massive collection into 50 separate collections.   50 COLLECTIONS – ONE MUSEUM PER STATE –  FOR ALL 50 STATES!
View the Trailer.

I got to see the film and then a Q & A with Dorothy Vogel and the director Megumi Sasaki.

Director Megumi Sasaki fell in love with their story, and had to put it on film.  She succeeded.

Dorothy Vogel fielded multiple questions from the small audience at the screening.

“The first film was about us building the collection, the second one is about how we gave it away.” – Dorothy Vogel.

I will write more about this experience next week on ARTSUCKS.com, with more photos and details and the questions  I asked, as well as her answers.  Until then I encourage you to see it, it opens today at the IFC Center in Manhattan.  The director will be there as well as some of the artists who are featured in the film including Christo, Charles Clough, and Martin Johnson.  On Saturday & Sunday Dorothy will be there as well.  Here is a list of showtimes and in person appearances over this weekend at the IFC Center.

Fri Sep 13

5:20pm: Q&A with director Megumi Sasaki and artist Martin Johnson

7:30pm: Introduction by Christo and Q&A with Sasaki

9:40pm: Introduction by Sasaki

Sat Sep 14

3:10pm: Q&A with Sasaki and Gail Stavitsky (Chief Curator of the Montclair Art Museum)

5:20pm: Q&A with Sasaki and artist Charles Clough

7:30pm: Q&A with Sasaki and subject Dorothy Vogel

9:40pm: Introduction by Sasaki and Vogel

Sun Sep 15

3:10pm: Q&A with Sasaki and Vogel

5:20pm: Q&A with Sasaki and Vogel

Written and Photographed by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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NEW YORK, NY – Wednesday, September 11- Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

10:00 am – 5:15 pm Janet Cardiff | The Cloisters – Fort Tryon Park, NYC
5:00 pm – 7 pm Degrees of Separation | SVA Gallery – 209 E. 23rd St., NYC
5:00 pm – 8 pm Kerry James Marshall | Jack Shainman Gallery– 524 W. 24th St., NYC
5:00 pm – 8 pm Hayv Kahraman | Jack Shainman Gallery– 513 W. 20th St., NYC

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

6:00 pm – 8pm Pond, Mirror, Kaleidoscope | Visual Arts Gallery – 601 W. 26th. St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Josh Smith | Luhring Augustine – 25 Knickerbocker Ave, Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Lucas Grogan & Andrea Mary Marshall | Garis & Hahn – 263 Bowery, NYC
>6:00 pm – 8pm Nina Könnemann | Ludlow 38 – 38 Ludlow St., NYC

Thursday, September 12th, 2013

2:00 pm  Cathrine Opie Artist Talk| NYU Fales Library – 70 Washington Sq. S., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Jonas Wood | Anton Kern Gallery – 532 W. 20th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Evening With Bob & David | Town Hall – 123 W.43rd St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Joel Grey | Max Kozloff | William John Kennedy | Steven Kasher Gallery – 521 W.23rd. St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm David Ellis | Joshua Liner Gallery – 540 W. 28th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Lucas Michael | Danziger Gallery – 527 W. 23rd St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Susan Derges | Danziger Gallery – 527 W. 23rd St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Show #15: Four Lives | Field Projects – 526 W. 26th St. #807, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm The Creator Series | Bar Catalonia – 206 W. 41st St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Susie MacMurray | Inaugural Show| Danese Corey – 511 W. 22nd St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Harriet Bart | Driscoll | Babcock – 525 W. 25th St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Andreas Blank | Benrimon Contemporary – 514 W. 24th St., 2E, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Antoinette Wysock l| Blank Space– 511 W.25th St.,#204, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Decline & Fall of The Art World Part II | Freight + Volume – 530 W. 24th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Josh Smith | Luhring Augustine – 531 W. 24th St., NYC

Friday, September 13th, 2013

10:00 am – 5pm Rethinking Landscape with Le Corbusier | MoMA – 11 W. 53rd St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Superstitious 13 Group Show | Gspot – 66 Greenpoint Ave., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Greenpoint Gallery Night |Greenpoint Brookyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Greenpoint Now Art Show | The Yard – 33 Nassau Ave, Greenpoint, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Ugly Art Room | The Yard – 33 Nassau Ave, Greenpoint, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm “WHITE WASH” Group Show | Brian Morris Gallery – 163 Chrystie St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm #ThrowbackThursday | Calico – 67 W. St. #206, Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Skewville | Mighty Tanaka Gallery – 111 Front St., Dumbo, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Charlotte Becket, Emmy Mikelson, Robert Egert – 464 Seneca Ave, Ridgewood, QNS, NYC
7:00 pm – 10pm Paul Gagner | Centotto – 250 Moore St., #108, Bushwick, NYC
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Sonic Front | Front Room Gallery – 147 Roebling St., Bklyn, NYC

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

7:00 pm – 10pm COLLIDE- Group Show | Harbor Gallery – 17-17 Troutman, Ridgewood, NYC
7:00 pm – 10pm Dave Hardy | Regina Rex – 17-17 Troutman, Ridgewood, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm All-over or Nothing | Parallel Art Space – 17-17 Troutman, Ridgewood, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Bad As I Wanna Be | Ortega Y Gasset Projects – 17-17 Troutman, Ridgewood, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Jane Fox Hipple | Dodge Gallery – 15 Rivington St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm A PINCH OF SAFFRON… (group show) | Dodge Gallery – 15 Rivington St., NYC
7:00 pm -10pm Don Pablo Pedro | English Kills – 114 Forest St., Bushwick, NYC

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

1:00 pm – 5pm MICA THEN/NOW | Ethan Cohen Fine Arts – 211 Fishkill Ave, Beacon, NY
3:00 pm – 7pm Brooklyn Acts | Performance | The Living Gallery– 1094 Broadway, Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Jordan Tate | Denny Gallery -261 Broome St., NYC

Monday, September 16th, 2013

7:00 pm   Tom Sito Lecture & Book Signing | SVA Theatre – 333 W. 23rd St., NYC

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

6:00 pm – 9pm listings to come…

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NEW YORK, NY – Wednesday, September 4- Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

6:00 pm – 9pm James Charles | Art Now NY– 548 W. 28th St.2nd Fl., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Kaoru Okura & Jerry Madson | Caelum Gallery – 508 W. 26th St. #315, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Barbara Takenaga | DC Moore Gallery – 535 W. 22nd St. NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Daniel Borlandelli & Juxtaposition (Group Show) | Deniese Bibro  – 529 W. 20th St.#4W, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Fall Group Show | Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art –  111 Front St., Dumbo, Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Sungsic Moon | DOOSAN Gallery New York – 533 W. 25th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Vicki Sher | frosch & portmann – 53 Stanton St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Luca Dellaverson | Tilton Gallery – 8 E. 76th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Lisa Levy | Littlefield – 622 Degraw St., Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Present Memory | Christopher Henry Gallery – 127 Elizabeth St.,NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm A2A: Annuals To Art $ | Art Directors Club – 106 W. 59th St., NYC
7:00 pm – 12am Lexi Bella & Amanda de Souza | reBar – 147 Front St., Bklyn, NYC
8:00 pm – 11pm BK vs. Dali | Sacred Gallery NYC – 424 Broadway, 2nd Fl., NYC

Friday, September 6th, 2013

6:00 pm – 8pm Greg Haberny | Lyons Wier Gallery – 542 W.24th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 10pm Brian Galderisi | et al projects – 56 Bogart, NYC
6:00 pm – 10pm BYO Art | The Living Gallery – 1094 Broadway, Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm James Cullinane | Robert Henry Contemporary – 56 Bogart St., Bklyn, NYC
6:30 pm – 9pm “Station to Station” – $25| Riverfront Studios -420 Kent Ave, Bklyn., NYC
7:00 pm – 9pm Liz Sweibel | NURTUREart Gallery – 56 Bogart St.,Bklyn , NYC
7:00 pm – 9pm Amy Hill | Front Room Gallery – 147 Roebling St., NYC

Saturday, September 7th, 2013

11:00 am – 6pm Governors Island Art Fair | Governors Island, NYC (Every Sat-Sun. in SEPT.)
3:00 pm – 9pm WARM UP 2013 (Final)| MoMA PS1 Courtyard – 22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, NYC
5:00 pm – 7pm Carmen Papalia | Cue Art – 137 W. 25th St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm MATERIAL Group Show | Storefront – 324 Ten Eyck St., Bklyn, NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Matthew Mahler | Sardine – 286 Stanhope St.,Bklyn, NYC
7:00 pm – 9pm Blek le Rat | Jonathan LeVine Gallery – 529 W. 20th St., NYC
8:00 pm – 9:30pm Free Screening “Drivers Wanted” Doc.| 55 Stan – Long Island City, NYC

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

4:00 pm – 8pm Cara Phillips | Station Independent Projects – 164 Suffolk St., NYC
4:00 pm – 8pm Brian Leo | S & J Projects – 191 Henry St., NYC
4:00 pm – 8pm Vicki Sher | frosch & portmann – 53 Stanton St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Will Rogan | Laurel Gitlen – 122 Norfolk St., NYC
8:00 pm – 10pm Gaslight Anthem – Performance $ | The Paramount – Huntington, NY
6:00 pm – 8pm Ron Gorchov & Group Show | Lesley Heller Workspace – 54 Orchard St, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Session One | Pocket Utopia – 191 Henry St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Joan Lurie & Beth Dary | Muriel Guépin Gallery – 83 Orchard St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Jeila Gueramian | Allegra LaViola Gallery – 179 E. Broadway, NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Johns Lichtenstein Stella | MARC STRAUS – 299 Grand St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Jeff Talman | MARC STRAUS – 299 Grand St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Antonio Santin | MARC STRAUS – 299 Grand St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Tomaz Hipólito | Rooster Gallery – 190 Orchard St., NYC
6:00 pm – 8pm Morten Schelde | Munch Gallery – 245 Broome St., NYC
6:00 pm – 9pm Viking Rappers | NOoSPHERE Arts – 251 E.Houston, NYC
6:30 pm – 8pm Looks Of The L.E.S. | Fashion Show | Lower East Side – Orchard btwn. Broome & Grand

Monday, September 9th, 2013

12:00 am – 1am Zombie Boy | Live Performance | Webster Hall – 125 E.11th St, NYC

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

10:00 am – 5:15 pm Janet Cardiff | The Cloisters – Fort Tryon Park, NYC
5:00 pm – 7 pm Degrees of Separation | SVA Gallery – 209 E. 23rd St., NYC
5:00 pm – 8 pm Kerry James Marshall | Jack Shainman Gallery– 524 W. 24th St., NYC
5:00 pm – 8 pm Hayv Kahraman | Jack Shainman Gallery– 513 W. 20th St., NYC

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X101 Jamz and Gallery 69 Present Tribeca Urban Arts Fashion Week 2013

Stay tuned in for the week long upcoming event at Gallery 69 during fashion week here in 2013. There will be silent benefit auctions, a daily show along with break dancing competitions and several mini shops for lifestyle brands. Several different art programs exist that you can get involved with including art festivals, summer programs, professional development, among others. There are several cultural movements within the hip-hop world and graffiti art movement.

On the Graffiti Art website you can check out some of the art pieces for sale along with find out about upcoming events.

There will be pieces of art from famous street artists such as: Crash, Futura 2000, Quick, Blade,  COPE2, RD357, STAYHIGH 149, T-Kid , TAKI 183, CornBread, Seen,  TRACY168, KING BEE NIC 707, Duro, Sonic, LA 2, Duster

Check out the press release blow and let us know your thoughts about the upcoming event in the comments below.

Gallery 69 is where you can find GraffitiArtNewYork.com along with X101Jamz.com.

For more information about the event check out: UrbanArts.org

Check Out The Official Press Release PDF Here: -Press Release-Tribeca Urban Arts Fashion Week 2013

FEATURED SPOT BY: Josh Bois, Co-Founder Global Good Networks

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You too can appear on the cover of Time, if only as a reflection.  Today is your last chance, before the Frieze Art Fair New York big top three ring circus packs up its tent and moves on.  The mirrors with the classic red time border and very “un-Time-like” colors and uncharacteristically outlined Time logos are works by contemporary Los Angeles based artist Mungo Thomson in the Galerie Frank Elbaz (Paris, France) booth.

Apparently Mungo has been doing Time mirror since at least the early 2000s and it gets even more interesting if you put two of the Time mirrors across from one another with just a tripod filming, creating recursive reflection, or a “house-of-mirrors effect.”

Mungo Thomson: June 25, 2001 (How the Universe Will End) and (reflected) March 6, 1995 (When Did the Universe Begin?), 2012, enamel on low-iron mirror with poplar and anodized aluminum; courtesy the artist and SITE Santa Fe  [From an article on SantafeNewMexican.com]

There were a lot of mirrored and high-polish pieces of art in all of the art fairs this year, a trend I should have picked up on it earlier.

People before me were taking a picture of themselves in the cover, and people after me as well.  This must have been a constant flow of photos, as everybody has a camera phone, if not a camera, and you don’t get many opportunities to shoot yourself in a full body mirror in the middle of an art fair.

Knowing that since I was here by myself this would be the only photo of me at Frieze, I took a few to make sure I got a decent one.

The work wasn’t labeled, but the curator was nice enough to write the artist’s name down on their business card for me.  You can see behind it a guy is taking a picture of himself with an iPad.  The weird thing about taking a picture of yourself with an iPad in the mirror is that the apple logo will be reversed.

Oddly enough, I have actually had a self portrait printed in the real Time Magazine because I thought it would be a fun thing to do.

Click the image to read about it on ArtSucks.

Frieze runs May 10 -13 rain or shine.

Written and Photographed by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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One of the weird, and strange realities about conceptual art is that sometimes it needs to somewhat be explained to the viewer, in order to fully convey what’s going on in the piece.

At Frieze Art Fair New York I was passing by the booth of Galeria Plan B, based out of Cluj, Transylvania, Romania as well as Berlin, Germany in the Focus section of the fair.  Galleries in the Focus section are galleries less than ten years old who are debuting works previously unseen in an art-fair context.  I noticed what appeared to be a wooden box with a stack of art books on it.

At first it reminded me of a sculpture by Derick Melander which I had seen and photographed at the Flux Factory Gala in the Winter of 2011 (read here – ArtSucks.com).

Curator and Galeria Plan B co-founder Mihai Pop came over when he noticed I was curious about the piece.  I asked him,”What exactly I’m looking at here?”  He pulled out his smart phone and started scrolling through photos and explaining to me that the Romanian artist Ciprian Muresan has created a series of prints which you normally would press flat in between boards with weight stacked on top of them.  This is a series of dozens of prints in between boards, stacked in a perfect 90 degree stack, with the books stacked above for ballast.

Normally the books would be removed, the boards lifted apart and the artwork taken out and framed, but in this case the artist has chosen to leave all of the prints entombed.  You can see what they are through the pictures of the process of making them, but they are not for display.

None of the work was credited so when I asked Mihai the artist’s name he wrote it on the back of his business card and even drew this great line-art pictogram.

I love high concept art,  but it’s a good thing some pieces are just beautiful paintings that could be summarized as a “pretty picture.” If every piece in every booth in an art fair showing the works of 180 galleries had a larger concept behind it which needed explaining, it would take a month to get through one row.

Frieze runs May 10 -13 rain or shine.

Written and Photographed by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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Thursday, April 11th

11:30 am   MoMA TALKS : Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 – by Elisabeth Bardt Pellerin – MoMA
1:30 pm     MoMA TALKS : Highlights from the Collection:1885-1945 – by Elisabeth Bardt Pellerin – MoMA
6:00 pm    Desaturated Rainbow: Opening Reception – Field Projects – W.26th St., NYC
6:00 pm    Stanley Whitney | Other Colors I Forget: Opening Reception – Team Gallery – 83 Grand St.
6:00 pm    Echo of Echo Pt.1 | Joo Yeon Park: Opening Reception – Doosan Gallery – W.25th St.
6:00 pm    Bryan Graf | Broken Lattice: Opening Reception – Yancey Richardson Gallery – W. 20th St.
6:00 pm    Tallur L.N. | New Yorked: Opening Reception- Jack Shainman Gallery – W.20th St.
6:00 pm    Charles Fréger Wilder Mann: Opening Reception – Yossi Milo Gallery -245 10th Ave.
6:00 pm    John Klukas | Shape Shifter: Opening Reception – 511 Gallery – 252 11th Avenue, NYC
6:00 pm    Joshua Lutz | Hesitating Beauty and Amsterdam: Opening Reception – ClampArt Gallery – W55th St.
6:00 pm    3 & 6 | Anoka Faruqee, On Kawara, cont..: Opening Reception – Leo Koenig – W.23rd St. NYC
6:30 pm    Where are the Utopian Visionaries? Architecture of Social Exchange: Panel – Cooper Union
7:00 pm    Animal Farm : The Musial – by The Bruce High Quality Foundation – East Village
7:00 pm    Brain Cave Festival – Europa – Greenpoint, Brooklyn
7:00 pm    EXHIBITION: Manet | Great Art On Screen- NYU Skirball Center – West Village, NYC
8:00 pm    RAW:natural born artists NYC Presents MARVEL – 52 Walker St., NYC

Friday, April 12th

6:00 pm    Wessel Castle Alli Miller + Trey Burns : Opening Reception – et al projects – 56 Bogart, Bushwick, Bklyn
6:00 pm    Ben Durham | Portraits, Maps, Texts: Opening Reception: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery – W.24th St.,NYC
6:00 pm    Seeing Double | Ellen Stagg & Hiroshi Kumagai – Mighty Tanaka – Dumbo, Bklyn
6:00 pm    Assonanze/Dissonanze: Opening Reception: Italian Cultural Institute – 686 Park Ave.,NYC
7:00 pm    Buff Monster & L’Amour Supreme : Number Of The Beast- Cotton Candy Machine, Williamsburg, Bklyn
7:00 pm    Definitions 03: Brainstorming for Ideas City 2013 theme: Untapped Capital – 97 Kenmare, NYC
7:00 pm    Uncharted Waters: REVERSE 2013: Opening Reception: – Reverse – Brooklyn, NY
7:00 pm    Static: Elana Adler and Hannah Lamar Simmons: Calico – Brooklyn, NY
7:00 pm    18 drawings and 1 painting: Paul Pagk: Opening Reception – Studio 10 – Bushwick, Bklyn

Saturday, April 13th

12:00 pm   Greenpointers Spring Market – From The Source – Greenpoint, Brooklyn
3:00 pm   Rainbow Book Fair – Holiday Inn –Midtown, NYC
4:00 pm   Lili Reynauld-Dewar | I Am Intact And I Don’t Care: Opening Reception – Clearing – Brooklyn
4:00 pm   Families/Cities Shift: Opening Reception- Susan Teller Gallery – 568 Broadway, NYC
6:00 pm   Rutgers MFA Show – White Box – Lower East Side
6:00 pm   useful pictures: Opening Reception -Michael Matthews – Harlem
6:00 pm   Janine Polak “Shoulder Touch” – Sardine– Bushwick, Bklyn
6:00 pm   De-rezzed: Henry Chung and Jennifer Grimyser : Opening Reception – Harbor – Ridgewood, Qns
6:30 pm    Gravity Light: New Paintings by Mike Olin: Opening Reception – Parallel Art Space – Ridgewood, Qns
7:00 pm    Gridworks : Bill Miller:  Opening Reception – Transfer Gallery – Bushwick, Bklyn
7:00 pm    Cold War Kids : Live Performance- @ Webster Hall, Nyc, NY
7:30 pm    Vintage NYC Magazine Launch Party – West 40th St.
8:00 pm    n+1 Magazine Issue 16 Launch Party– Bushwick, Bklyn

Sunday, April 14th

11:00 am – 4:30 pm    FIRST EVER: Ridgewood Market – Gottscheer Hall – Ridgewood, Qns
3:00 pm    Marking Spaces: Opening Reception – Queens Museum of Art

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