EASEL ART FAIR CLOSING PARTY TONIGHT 5 pm

 EASEL ART FAIR

CLOSING PARTY

TONIGHT

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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Call for Artists: Liquid Identities - Venice (Italy) - September 28-29-30, 2012 Deadline: September 10, 2012

Call for Artists: Liquid Identities - Venice (Italy) - September 28-29-30, 2012 Deadline: September 10, 2012   International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films and photo works to include in the next 2012 Exhibition:   Liquid Identities - International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition at Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, Venice (September 28-29-30, 2012)   organizer: International ArtExpo (www.lucacurci.com/artexpo) curators: Luca Curci project coordinator: Biagio Ciraldo press office: It’s LIQUID Group (www.itsliquid.com)   opening: September 28, 2012 at 6pm at Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora, Castello 3811/B – Campo della Bragora, Venice - Italy   exhibition & screening places: Scoletta di San Giovanni Battista e del SS. Sacramento in Bragora dates: September 28-29-30, 2012   The deadline for applications is September 10, 2012.

37th Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show Grand Prix Sunday

37th Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show Grand Prix Sunday THE HAMPTON CLASSIC                                        Hampton Classic Horse Show, Inc. • PO Box 3013 • Bridgehampton, NY  11932-3013 631-537-3177 • 631-537-5443 (FAX)  • info@hamptonclassic.com • www.hamptonclassic.com WHAT: 37th Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show Grand Prix Sunday WHEN: Sunday, September 2, 2012               Horse Show runs Sunday, August 26 through Sunday, September 2, 2012 WHERE: 240 Snake Hollow Road                  Bridgehampton, NY     FEATURES: The Hampton Classic Horse Show draws many of the world’s top horses and riders, including Olympic, World Cup and World Championship veterans.  Headlining this year’s field is defending Grand Prix champion and two-time U.S. Olympic team Gold Medalist McLain Ward. The featured attraction of the Hampton Classic is the $250,000 FTI Grand Prix and FEI World Cup™ Qualifier, one of the most highly anticipated show-jumping classes in the country and a World Cup Qualifier, gaining valuable points for riders hoping to qualify for the 2013 Rolex FEI World Cup Final in Gothenburg, Sweden. The $10,000 Hermès Hunter Classic for junior and amateur-owner riders tops off a week of outstanding hunter competition. Another highlight of Grand Prix Sunday is the $25,000 David Yurman Show Jumping Derby. The line-up of celebrities who have attended in the past includes Alec & Billy Baldwin, Candace Bergen, Christie Brinkley, Kate Capshaw, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Glenn Close, Katie Couric, Robert Duvall, Katherine Hellman, Mariel Hemingway, Bianca Jagger, Billy Joel, Mick Jones, Quincy Jones, Donna Karan, Caroline Kennedy, Calvin Klein, Kelly Klein, Matt Lauer, Ralph Lauren, Susan Lucci, Joan Lunden, Elle MacPherson, Kelsey Grammer, Chynna, Bijou & Mackenzie Phillips, Stefanie Powers, Randy Quaid, Chuck Scarborough, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen, Martha Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Kathleen Turner, Robert Wagner, and Tom Wolfe.

Join Peter Leone for a Book Signing on the ASPCA Patio at the Hampton Classic on Friday August 31

www.HamptonClassic.com Join Peter Leone for a Book Signing on the ASPCA Patio at the Hampton Classic   on Friday August 31 Bridgehampton, NY- August 30 2012- Olympian, Peter Leone will be on hand to personalize his book, Peter Leone's Show Jumping Clinic: Success Strategies for Equestrian Athletesand his DVD, Ride the Body: Select Insights of Peter Leone at the ASPCA Patio at the Hampton Classic on Friday, August 31st from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon and again after the $50,000 Spy Coast Farm/Young Horse Show Series Grand Prix Qualifier. "The Hampton Classic is always a favorite on the Lionshare Farm horse show calendar and I whole-heartedly support the efforts of the ASPCA. Our love of show jumping was born out of a deep affection for horses. I look forward to seeing friends and helping this great cause that means so much to me personally," shared Leone, who serves as an official ASPCA Equine Welfare Ambassador. Friday will be named "ASPCA Equine Ambassador, Peter Leone Day" at the ASPCA Patio at the Hampton Classic. The ASPCA will have Leone's books and DVDs available for sale all day with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the ASPCA's horse welfare efforts.

Hi All My preview of the Hampton's Classic Horse Show

Victor Forbes at the Sweetest Way Home booking signing 8/16

Mary Martin Galler: MARTIN EICHINGER Opening 6 pm to 8 pm on October 5th,

Mary Martin Galler: 

MARTIN EICHINGER 

Your invited to the opening reception Opening 6 pm to 8 pm on October 5^th,

please contact: Elaine Hruska843-723-0303 elaine@marymartinART.com

“THE POST-MODERN SERIES, FINDING BALANCE AND STRENGTH DURING TIMES OF CHALLENGE” BY “The Post-Modern Series, Finding Balance and Strength During Times of Challenge” by Martin Eichinger at the Mary Martin Gallery, 103 Broad Street. Eichinger will be unveiling his newest bronze sculpture series, “Post Modern”, during this the featured show for the month of October. Compared to the great renaissance sculpture Donatello, Martin Eichingerhas been internationally recognized for his romantic classical bronze sculptures.  For more than twenty years, this dynamic, visionary artist has produced limited-edition sculptures that engage the minds and hearts of art lovers and collectors.Grouped into themed series—Dream, Circus, Exotic Women, Goddess, Duet, Passage, Dance, Mythic Man, Ideoforms, and Meditation—Eichinger sculptures chronicle the eternal human pursuit of meaning, happiness, and growth.The “Post-Modern” series invites a conversation for the viewer to contemplate. Each figure is delicately balanced on a post that represents a new way of approaching an idea.According to Eichinger: “To summarize the significance of the Post-Modern series: The tides are shifting for humanity and we are in the process of discovering a new perspective and perhaps a new dance.”“Open, balancing freely in flight, grounding and stable on one hand while the other hand is unburdened. His actions showing that anything is possible” is how Eichinger describes “On the Other Hand”, (35 h x 15 w x 11 d, Edition 75).Eichinger sculptures are also known for their unique patina. Eichinger designed a new silver style patina specifically for the “Post Modern” series by to express and reflect the cool toned contemporary nature of the sculptures and to create an “edgy” effect, symbolizing the concept of Post-modern. Martin Eichinger’s narrative, romantic sculptures grace numerous private and corporate collections around the world. Working in his 6,000-square-foot studio, with its 16-foot-high-ceilings, Eichinger creates dramatic bronzes that range in scale from intimate to monumental.  Important large-scale, public, and commissioned works include Windlord, a 16-foot cast-bronze sculpture commissioned by the City of Lansing, Michigan; a high-relief plaque for the Christopher Columbus Quincentennial Celebration; a plaque and bust commemorating President Ronald Reagan; and Ski Trooper, a sculpture commissioned in honor of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Army’s Tenth Mountain Division. Eichinger has won numerous awards and honors, including First Place in the International ARC Salon, the C. Percival Dietsch Prize for Best Sculpture in the Round, Kellogg Internship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  In 1993, at the invitation of His Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, he exhibited his Circus series at the Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo.

In Charleston, Eichinger is represented by Mary Martin Gallery, 103 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401. PRESS CONTACT: To arrange an interview with the artist, request print resolution images or additional information, please contact: Elaine Hruska843-723-0303 elaine@marymartinART.com ####

This looks like Fun : MIAMI AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL

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INTERNATIONAL

The Miami VIP Social Networking is Happening at MIAMI AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL!

We're having a cocktail party and you shouldn't miss it.

Come and enjoy complementary Wine & Drinks after work.

Friday, August 24th 2012
5:00 PM to 9:30 PM

MIAMI AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL
10200 NW 25 ST, Suite A-103
Miami, FL 33172
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A Favorite of Mine : Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons
Gagosian  Gallery 

JEFF KOONS

Balloon Flower, 2006

High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating

114 x 132 x 108 inches (289.6 x 335.3 x 274.3 cm)

Version 4/4

Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed "idea man," Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: "Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is."

Jeff Koons' artworks rarely inspire moderate responses, and this is one signal of the importance of his achievement. Focusing on some of the most unexpected objects as models for his work, Koons' works eschew typical standards of "good taste" in art and zero in rather precisely on the vulnerabilities of hierarchies and value systems. As critic Christopher Knight has written "He turns the traditional cliché of the work of art inside out: Rather than embodying a spiritual or expressive essence of a highly individuated artist, art here is composed from a distinctly American set of conventional middle-class values."

 

Since his first solo show in 1980, Koons' work has been widely exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo shows include the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (2003), the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2004), which traveled to the Helsinki City Art Museum (2005); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008); "Jeff Koons: Versailles,"château de Versailles, France (2008-2009). In 2009 alone, Koons had four major solo exhibitions in public institutions: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; and the Serpentine Gallery, London. Koons lives and works in New York City.

 

Please visit the artist's website jeffkoons.com

Carol Hunt at the Spanirrman Modern Aug. 23-Oct. 6

Special: The Hampton Classic Horse Show 8/26-9/2

The Hampton Classic Horse Show 

Above The Hampton Classis Horse Show 2011/© Jamie Ellin Forbes/ SunStormarts Publishing Co Inc.                           Hampton Classic Horse Show, Inc. • PO Box 3013 • Bridgehampton, NY  11932-3013   631-537-3177 • 631-537-5443 (FAX) • info@hamptonclassic.com • www.hamptonclassic.com  37th Annual Hampton Classic Horse Show Opening Day  Sunday, August 26, 2012               Horse Show runs Sunday, August 26 through Sunday, September 2, 2012 240 Snake Hollow Road                  Bridgehampton, NY FEATURES: The Hampton Classic, August 26 – September 2, is one of the most prestigious horse shows in the nation and features competitors at every level from young children in leadline to Olympic veterans in the Classic’s feature event, the $250,000 FTI Grand Prix and FEI World Cup Qualifier. Opening Day at the Hampton Classic will feature hundreds of riders from Long Island competing in local hunter divisions.               Headlining competition on Opening Day is the $20,000 Nicolock Time Challenge, beginning at 8:00 a.m.  More than thirty top show jumping riders and horses are expected to compete in this popular speed class. Following a brief Opening Day ceremony at 1:30 pm, the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, presented by MeadowView Farms, will take center stage in the Grand Prix Ring.  This class features some of the nation’s best hunter horses and riders.

Hamptons Classic Horse Show update: Best ever

Extensive Broadcast Coverage Planned For Hampton Classic Horse Show USEF Network and HRTV to Webcast $50,000 USHJA Hunter Derby and $250,000 FTI Grand Prix WVVH-TV and ShowNet.com to Present Live Coverage Each Day Bridgehampton, NY—August 22, 2012—For those who can’t make it to the 2012 Hampton Classic to see its world-class horse show competition in person, there will be extensive opportunities to watch the excitement of this year’s horse show on television and online. The 37th annual Hampton Classic Horse Show returns to Bridgehampton, NY, August 26–September 2.  Those wishing to watch competition will be able to do so through several outlets. WVVH-TV, the official Long Island television station of the Hampton Classic, will broadcast live competition and highlights each day during the Classic.  These broadcasts can also be seen online at www.wvvh.tv. ShowNet will webcast all classes held in the Grand Prix Ring live throughout the entire horse show.  Access to this pay-per-view stream may be found on the Hampton Classic website at www.hamptonclassic.com, or via ShowNet membership at www.ShowNet.biz.  In addition, most of the Classic’s jumper and hunter classes from all other rings will also be available, many live, through ShowNet at www.ShowNet.biz. Two additional outlets, the USEF Network.com, Presented by SmartPak, and HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, will both offer free live webcasts of the Classic’s featured events on its two Sundays—the $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby, presented by MeadowView Farms, on Sunday, August 26 and the $250,000 FTI Grand Prix and FEI World Cup™ Qualifier on Sunday, September 2.             “We are thrilled to announce expanded broadcast coverage of this year’s Hampton Classic,” said Shanette Cohen, Executive Director of the Hampton Classic. “In addition to our traditional coverage on WVVH-TV, we will have most classes from all our show rings available online through ShowNet plus two featured live class webcasts on both the USEF Network and HRTV.  Access to Hampton Classic competition has never been greater!” For those who want to watch all the excitement of Opening Day’s $50,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby and Grand Prix Sunday’s $250,000 FTI Grand Prix and FEI World Cup™ Qualifier, the USEF Network, Presented by SmartPak, and HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, will be featuring these events as part of their equestrian coverage.  The Hunter Derby on Sunday, August 26 at 1:30 pm, features some of the nation’s best hunter horses and riders and the $250,000 FTI Grand Prix on Sunday, September 2 at 2:00 pm, features some of the world’s best show jumping horses and riders including riders just back from the London Olympic Games. In addition to providing online coverage of most of the classes in the Classic’s six show rings, ShowNet will be providing the camera shots and video coverage for the Hunter Derby and Grand Prix webcasts on USEF Network.com and HRTV. ShowNet LLC provides real-time equestrian event management, updates and results as well as live video webcasts of competition at several horse shows throughout the year.  Information on all of ShowNet’s services is available at www.ShowNet.biz. WVVH-TV, a broadcast partner of the Hampton Classic Horse Show since 1996, will provide live television coverage daily from 1:00-5:00 pm.  Nightly specials will recap each day’s activities from 8:00-10:00 pm.  The WVVH broadcasts can also be seen online at www.wvvh.tv. WVVH-TV will be providing a total of over 40 hours of coverage including live coverage of the Grand Prix with a repeat broadcast primetime that evening.  WVVH-TV will again activate its permanent Lightpath fiber optic link between the Bridgehampton Hampton Classic Show Grounds and the WVVH-TV studios in Wainscott, New York to bring the excitement of the Hampton Classic live in digital quality to WVVH-TV’s viewers, an unprecedented commitment for coverage of a live sports event by a New York television station. The USEF Network.com, Presented by SmartPak, is an online broadcast platform provided by the United States Equestrian Federation, Inc. (USEF), the National Governing Body for equestrian sport in the United States.  As the country's largest multi-breed organization serving 27 breeds and disciplines, the Federation licenses more than 2,600 equestrian competitions nationwide each year. HRTV, The Network for Horse Sports, is a television-based multimedia network dedicated to equine sports. HRTV's programming features horseracing from top U.S. and international racetracks, as well as a wide range of world-class English and Western horse competitions, news, original programming and award-winning documentaries covering the world of horse sports. The live stream of HRTV is available on a subscription basis to high-speed Internet users worldwide at www.hrtv.com. In the U.S., the HRTV television network is available via telco, cable and satellite in over 19 million homes. For more information on the Hampton Classic Horse Show, please visit the Hampton Classic website at www.hamptonclassic.com or call (631) 537-3177.  Hampton Classic Horse Show, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation.

For you Cooking Buffs this may be fun: MAN FIRE FOOD

MAN FIRE FOOD

Airing on Cooking Channel Tuesday Nights at 10:00PM ET | 7:00PM PT

The heat is on as chef Roger Mooking travels the country to discover inventive ways to cook with fire, in Cooking Channel’s new series Man Fire Food.  Roger endures the heat as he visits with pit masters, chefs and home cooks, all looking to create complex, flavorful dishes utilizing the element of fire.  Whether cooking over an open fire in a rustic chuck wagon or smoking meat from inside a double-decker, Roger follows the smoke signals for a mouthful of flavor and a whole lot of heat.

Feast Over Flame | SERIES PREMIERE

Tuesday, September 18^th at 10:00PM ET | 7:00PM PT

The fires glow bright in the Carolinas.  Roger visits Skylight Inn, family-run restaurant in Ayden, North Carolina who have been serving whole hog-style barbecue for 65 years.  In Greer, South Carolina, five friends create an extravagant two-day, meat-filled feast called “Bovinova, Barn Yard Burn.”  Six hundred hungry barbecue lovers come for the surf and turf paella, roasted chickens, roasted lamb, pigs and the main attraction, a whole roasted cow!