The Unique Art Awards

3rd Ward: Open Call

Become an International Art Star. Now for the first time, the selected artist of the 3rd Ward Open Call will get to show his or her work in a solo presentation at Art Taipei AND a solo show in New York City. Introduce your artwork to the world's most vital community of international art world players, including artists, collectors, curators, gallerists, and critics from both sides of the globe.

The world is yours, if you want it. Click Here to Register

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Awards

The Selected Artist Will Receive:

New York City
Solo Exhibition at 3rd Ward Gallery in NYC

Taipei
Solo Feature in Art Taipei, Asia's longest-standing art fair

Worldwide Exposure
Online Feature promoting your artwork internationally

AND a $5,000 Cash Grant!

All participants will be considered for the $1,000 People's Choice Award

PLUS: The top 25 runners-up will receive online features, gaining worldwide exposure!

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Judges

Get your work before the eyes of our esteemed jury panel:

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Who We are
The 3rd Ward Open Call is a global search for dynamic, inventive and provocative work in all mediums: sculpture, painting, photography, illustration, installation, design, performance, video and more. This is your opportunity to be an international star.  Learn More >>

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Sherry Mills Perspective Opening Reception Thursday June 30, 6-8pm

Sherry Mills
Perspective

Opening Reception Thursday June 30,  6-8pm

Win a documentary film about your art and a solo show at Rogue Space | Chelsea.

 

Following the success of our 2010 international, all-medium juried art show and award of the top prize of our "Artists Exhibition Package", FilmsOnArtists is proud to announce our 2011 competition. 

40 artists will be juried by our judge David Masello for a show at our gallery Rogue Space | Chelsea. From that show one artist will be selected to have a solo show, reception and a screening of the documentary we create about their art. 

As an artists friendly initiative FilmOnArist does not take commission from sales. However we ask that artists who sell work during our juried show make a tax-deductable donation to FOA's Haitian Children's Art Project at the Maranatha School and Orphanage in Port-Au-Prince. 

FilmsOnArtists (FOA) is a new media production company based in the Chelsea district, NYC that creates enlightening and inspirational documentaries about artists around the globe. Our intent is to illuminate and educate via the experiences of the creatives who are interpreting our world.

526 West 26th Street, 9E  New York, NY 10001

info@roguespacechelsea.com

www.roguespacechelsea.com

Perspectives - Nine Women, Nine Views

Art Hampton& on the Set Of Royal Pains

Art Hampton's on the Set Of Royal Pains , a set on Flickr.

This was a fun visit to the Set of Royal Pains. Ann Chwastsky set up the recreation of the ArtHampton's opening night Gala with the Royal Pains staff. Rick Freidman has organized a great ArtHampton real life opening July 8-10, 2011 July 7 Opening Preview to benefit LongHouse Reserve
Sayre Park, 154 Snake Hollow Rd, Bridgehampton, NY.

Fine Art Magazine's trip to the set of Royal Pains at the invitation of Art Hampton's Rick Friedman with Cindy Lou Wakefield, Ann Chwastsky & the cast and crew of Royal Pains, including Mark Feuerstein, Reshma Shetty, Jill Casey, Margo Johnston, &

Royal Pains recreated the opening night Gala of Art Hampton's tent and all. I think you will see Rick and Cindy Lou on the new Royal Pains episode which airs 7/16 on the USA network.

I had Fun Thanks Rick for including Fine Art Magazine

For more info HEG - Hamptons Expo Group
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Southampton, NY 11968 Phone: 800-211-0640
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Fine Art Magazine's trip to the set of Royal Pains with Art Hamptons Rick Friedman

 Fine Art Magazine's trip to the set of Royal Pains: with Art Hamptons Rick Friedman, Cindy Lou Wakefield, Ann Chwastsky &  the cast and crew of Royal Pains Mark Feuerstein, Reshma Shetty, Jill Casey, Margo Johnston, & Jamie Forbes

ArtHamptons

ARTHAMPTONS 2011

4,000 Works by 500 Artists Represented by 77 Galleries from 10 Countries

July 7 – 10, 2011

Southampton, NY, 6/20/11 - From July 7 through July 10, 2011, the fourth edition of ArtHamptons, the international art show of modern, post-modern and contemporary works, will return to Bridgehampton.

ArtHamptons will be a tightly vetted show as the number of galleries will be reduced to 77 in order to provide fairgoers a more cogent, manageable viewing and art- buying experience. There will be 4,000 artworks and 500 artists represented. International galleries will be from Israel, Korea, Japan, Greece, U.K. Canada, Spain, China, and Finland.

U.S. galleries will include Abby M Taylor Fine Art, Arcadia Fine Arts, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Cernuda Arte, Danziger Projects, Eli Klein Gallery, Finch & Ada, Jackson Fine Art, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Jerald Melberg Gallery, June Kelly Gallery, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, McCormick Gallery, Robert Klein Gallery, Throckmorton Fine Art, KIWI Arts Group, Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, Waterhouse & Dodd, and Westwood Gallery. Local Hamptons dealers will include Mark Borghi Fine Art, Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery, Keszler Gallery, Tulla Booth Gallery, Eric Firestone Gallery, and McNeill Art Group.

The Galleries will showcase paintings, drawings, sculptures, art glass, and photography. Prices will range from a thousand to several million dollars for museum-quality pieces. As a benchmark, last year's show sales in the $20,000 to $50,000 range predominated and amounted to $6 million. During the four-day run, 8,000 visitors attended, establishing the show as one of the highlights of the Hamptons' summer season.

ArtHamptons will inaugurate photoHamptons, a fresh focus on fine art photography. As the largest selection of fine art photography ever offered in the Hamptons, photoHamptons is designed to encourage and stimulate Hamptonites to buy and collect the medium. Historically, the Hamptons has been considered a serious photography buying marketplace, but before now has offered few venues with museum-level work. Limited to a dozen elite photo dealers, fairgoers will experience the finest in vintage, contemporary, modern, and post modern as well as photo-based art and video. Sponsored by Aperture Foundation and photograph magazine, the photo dealers will include Danziger Projects (exhibiting a new collection of iconic pictures of Kate Moss from photographers including Chuck Close and Annie Leibovitz), John Cleary Gallery, Throckmorton Fine Art, Tulla Booth Gallery, Finch & Ada, Robert Klein Gallery, Cavalier Galleries, KIWI Arts Group, and Catharine Edelman Gallery. They will be located throughout the ArtHamptons building

"ArtHamptons has emerged as one the premier summer must-attend events," said Rick Friedman, founder, Hamptons Expo Group and ArtHamptons, Southampton. "Hamptonites and art lovers have come to appreciate and look forward to experiencing the selection of significant fine art in the dynamic global art marketplace that we create for four days. With the rebounding Hamptons economy, driven by record bonuses on Wall Street this year, we expect the level of serious art buying to exceed last year."

There will be a British invasion with 11 U.K. galleries exhibiting, more than double from the year before. They will be Alicia David Contemporary, Cube Gallery, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Fine Art Consultancy, Long & Ryle, Northcote Gallery, Woolff Gallery, Waterhouse & Dodd (London and NY), HackelBury Fine Art Ltd., Rebecca Hossack Art, and Turner Barnes Gallery.

For instance, Woolff Gallery will be bringing Russell West's "Slow Big Bang," conceived to represent the Big Bang theory. A colored board was placed on a wheel and each day a wire was added and paint dripped down the wire. The work was dried overnight, the wheel was turned a fraction and the process was repeated every day for a year. On November 7, 2010, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland created a mini big bang. ad the similarities were amazing, according to the gallery.

Long & Ryle Gallery will be showing paintings by Spanish artist Ramiro Fernandez Saus and Katharine Morling, to  name a few. The light in Ramiro Fernandez Saus’ paintings has an extraordinary character. By day, it varies from the pale clarity of an equatorial morning to the glow of languid Mediterranean afternoons. Regardless of the light source it has the same effect: transporting the scenes that Ramiro depicts from reality to a dream world of heightened feeling. Ramiro captures the imaginative thrill of discovering unexplored lands, stunning sea voyages and inventive interiors. It is Ramiro’s subject matter that the distinguished painter Craigie Aitchison loved.

Katharine Morling creates animated scenes with an unusually dynamic appearance for the medium of ceramics. Morling describes these objects as three- dimensional ‘sketches’ and the true nature of the material is at first, not immediately clear: paper or fabric? It is only through touching the sculptures the viewer discovers the material is clearly ceramic. Morling’s aim is to bring dreamscapes to life by creating physical artifacts. Morling was awarded the ‘European Triennial of Ceramics and Glass’ in Brussels.

Waterhouse & Dodd will return with its stellar lineup of contemporary artists including Jean-Francois Rauzier, Jeremy Duncan, and Robi Walters. British artist Jonathan McCree's new landscapes paintings that question ideas of what a landscape may consist of, and test our aesthetic, historical and theoretical ideals, will be shown by Northcote Gallery.

Abstract Expressionist painter Mary Abbott will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award that honors excellence in visual art. Now in her 90s, Abbott has created a powerful body of work in which she combines spontaneous, gestural brushwork with a highly creative use of color. She resides and maintains her studio in Southampton. Meet Mary Abbott on Saturday, July 9, from 12 noon to 2 p.m., in our Collector’s Lounge.

Legendary Hamptons artist Peter Dayton is using digital photography to create his iconic surfboard imagery on a 2012 VW Touareg produced especially for ArtHamptons 2011. Sponsored by Volkswagen and hosted by artnet. Peter Dayton's other art works will be displayed in the Mark Borghi Fine Art booth.

 There will be a Northeast premiere of the short film: "Full Circle: Before they Were Famous," featuring Warhol superstars Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead who will be present to meet and greet and sign their books. The documentary chronicles the astonishing journey of the images taken by fine art photographer William John Kennedy in the early 1960's of Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol with their iconic works. The negatives sat in a box for nearly 50 years, rarely seen by the world or his subjects until now. The film is full of personal anecdotes and remembrances by many of the principals of the story, and includes appearances by Indiana, Ultra Violet, and Mead as they view their images for the first time. The film is a presentation of the KIWI Arts Group. 

Russell Simmons, media mogul and philanthropist, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, and Danny Simmons, visual artist and philanthropist (RPAF), will receive the Art Patrons of the Year Award. Russell will sign copies of his new book “Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All.” "Art saves lives, it's that simple," says Russell Simmons who will be present along with his brother Danny Simmons, on July 9, 5 pm to 6 pm, to receive the award and to hold the book signing of both of their latest works.

The Opening Preview Party will be held on July 7, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m, and the proceeds once again will go to LongHouse Reserve. Last year, the show's opening drew 1,500 art collectors and guests from around the Hamptons, New York and beyond.

Most of the Hamptons' arts and cultural organizations will be exclusively supporting and promoting ArtHamptons as cultural partners. They are the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall, Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center, LongHouse Reserve, Hamptons International Film Festival, Ross School, The Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Children's Museum of the East End, Southampton Fresh Air Home, and Heckscher Museum of Art.

The USA Network, a sponsor to ArtHamptons, will use ArtHamptons as a central theme for an upcoming episode of “Royal Pains”. The hit TV show is about a doctor that makes house calls in the Hamptons. Since attending ArtHamptons is one of the highlights of the Hamptons social and cultural summer season, USA Network considers it is an ideal backdrop setting to convey the ultimate Hamptons experience. The twist is, they are not shooting inside the actual fair in Bridgehampton, but rebuilding and reenacting a portion of the ArtHamptons Opening  Preview Gala scene with their stars on their set in an undisclosed location. 

These partnerships are expected to increase the attendance to surpass last year's record. Beneficiaries of a portion of the ticket sales will be the Guild Hall Museum, Bridgehampton Historical Society and Parrish Art Museum, respectively.

Celebrity spotting has become a sport at ArtHamptons as exhibitors had the pleasure of meeting "famous art lovers" including Kelsey Grammer, Joy Behar, Connie Chung, Rosanna Scotto, Jon Bon Jovi and Edward Albee. The scene is reminiscent of and referred to by attendees as "the mini-Art Basel" of the Hamptons.

Special Events will include:

• ·        Screenings of the short film Full Circle: Before they Were Famous, featuring Warhol superstars Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead. Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead will be part of the panel discussion following the screenings of the film, and will be signing a limited edition print of them photographed by William John Kennedy in 1964. Additionally, Ultra Violet will be signing copies of her international best seller, “Famous for 15 Minutes, My Years with Andy Warhol” at 4 pm, Saturday, July 9 in the Collectors Lounge. The film will be shown throughout the weekend: Friday, July 8, at 3 pm and 5 pm; and Sunday, July 10, at 3 pm and 5 pm.
  • Art lovers can meet Mary Abbott on Saturday, July 9, 12 to 2 pm, when she also will be signing a catalogue.
  • Meet Russell Simmons and Danny Simmons on Saturday, July 9, 5 pm - 6 pm. when they will be signing their books.

  ·        Meet artist Peter Dayton and his painted 2012 VW Touareg created especially for ArtHamptons 2011 on Thursday, July 7, 6 – 9 pm, and throughout the weekend.

  ·        A photoHampton's photoFocus: Ruben Natal-San Miguel, president of Natal-San Miguel Fine Art Photography Consulting Svcs., and 'Art Most Fierce' blogger, will be leading a walk around tour & lecture on "How to Invest and Collect Fine Art Photography."  Visiting all of the photoHamptons dealers, this walk around tour will give the novice and professional insider tips of looking, collecting, and investing in fine art photography. Saturday, July 9, at 1 p.m., and Sunday, July 10, at 1 p.m

  •     Pop into the Platinum Lounge to a “Meet the cast" wine reception with stars from Bay Street Theatre's "Betty's Summer Vacations," and bid in a silent auction for a 1981 John Chamberlain screen print benefiting the Theatre, Sunday, July 10,4 pm – 5 pm.

  •  Interior designer Scott Sanders has designed the ArtHamptons Collectors Lounge in a nod to the environment of the Longhouse Reserve with a twist. . . an exterior living space with foliage and furnishings (from Mecox Gardens). Join him in the Collectors Lounge on Saturday, July 9, 1 - 4pm, when he will be signing his book “Picture Perfect.”
• A photoHampton's photoFocus: Ruben Natal-San Miguel, president of Natal- San Miguel Fine Art Photography Consulting Svcs., and 'Art Most Fierce' blogger, will be leading a walk around tour & lecture on "How to Invest and Collect Fine Art Photography."  Visiting all of the photoHamptons dealers, this walk around tour will give the novice and professional insider tips of looking, collecting, and investing in fine art photography. Saturday, July 9, at 1 p.m.; Sunday, July 10, at 1 p.m.

Located at Sayre Park, the fair will feature a significantly upgraded building construction and infrastructure from last year. It will be one massive open room, a 50,000 square foot modular building with thicker flooring, a dramatic glass façade lobby, impeccable climate control, a movie theater, and a larger parking area. Show hours will be Friday, July 8, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, July 9, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday, July 10, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sayre Park is located at 154 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, NY. For tickets and information go to www.arthamptons.com. 

MORA: VICTORIA KOVALENCHIKOVA,The opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 18th from 3pm to 6pm

THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART

cordially invites you to the
first solo exhibition in the USA of

VICTORIA KOVALENCHIKOVA
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
oil paintings

"HEAVEN'S TEARS"

June 18th-June 26th

At the Museum of Russian Art
80 Grand St. Jersey City, NJ 07302

The opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 18th
from 3pm to 6pm

The artist will be present

The closing reception will be held on Friday, June 24th
from 4pm to 9pm

Exhibition hours: June 18th-June 26th from 2pm to 6pm and by appointment.
Museum will be closed on Monday,June20th and Tuesday,June 21th

mfc-michèle didier @ Basel

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ART I 42 I BASEL

From June 15 to June 19

Hall 2.1 - Booth Q2

At the occasion Art I 42 I Basel, mfc-michèle didier has the great pleasure to announce the publication of the Dream Object Book by Jim Shaw. 

mfc-michèle didier will also present the works from the following artists:

Robert Barry, AA Bronson, On Kawara, Christian Marclay, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Jonathan Monk and Allen Ruppersberg.

To learn more about these previous and new productions by mfc-michèle didier, we cordially invite you to join us on our booth at the art fair. 

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Scope Basel June 15-19

A NEW MOBILE APP AIMS FOR THE  TECH SAVVY ART COLLECTOR IN BASEL Collectrium Powers SCOPE Basel Basel, Switzerland -- Thanks to Collectrium-a new "next-gen" mobile technology that recognizes works of art-collectors and collectors-to-be at this summer's gathering of art world glitterati in Basel will experience art as never before at SCOPE Basel (Tuesday, June 14 to Sunday, June 19, 2011). Collectrium is part of a new generation of art enthusiasts, looking to change the way people learn about and collect art via new innovations in technology.  With Collectrium's mobile app, a visitor to the fairs will be able to point her iPhone or iPad at any registered artwork and instantly receive extensive information on the artist and the piece; add the artwork to her "My Collection" favorites; share with friends via Facebook, Twitter, and email; and contact the gallery about the artwork. Tapped as one of 'America's Most Promising Start-ups' by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (4/15/11), the Collectrium mobile app has been warmly embraced by gallerists around the world since its launch in Basel last June.  With Collectrium, visitors to any of the Basel fairs, including Art Basel, no longer have to make scribbled notes on postcards and flyers. The collector can leave the fair with a browsable list of her favorite artworks on her mobile device, complete with detailed information on each work, artist, exhibiting gallery, and personal notes - in effect creating her own personalized virtual gallery and catalogue of the fair.  Collectrium also functions as a QR code scanner, so for sculpture, installation, moving image pieces, or any work with a QR code on the label, visitors can use Collectrium to scan the QR code to identify works of art. "Collectrium's image recognition capability is absolutely unique.  It's one reason I see them as the leader in the new breed of mobile and social applications for the art world," said Alexis Hubshman, Founder and President of the SCOPE Art Fair. "This is a social art management system, part of the next generation of tools for appreciating art," says Boris Pevzner, the former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded Collectrium. "Our app makes the experience of visiting an art fair more interactive for the art lover-enhancing the on-site visit, while also allowing visitors to take the fair home with them." In addition to using the Collectrium app to automatically identify artworks, visitors to the participating fairs will browse the entire art show catalogue on their mobile device; enter images, details and personal notes about works of art not already registered in the system; and view all the programming and scheduling information about the fairs. Pevzner concludes: "We've created a bridge between the physical and virtual art worlds by bringing the power of online technology to that live moment of discovery." Furthermore, the visitors who manage their own private collections using Collectrium will have easy access to their artworks through the same mobile app, alongside the artworks exhibited at the art fairs. About Collectrium Founded by Boris Pevzner in 2009, Collectrium is a New York-based company providing innovative technology for discovering and displaying art on the web and mobile devices, including the revolutionary art identification and art similarity tools.  Over time, the Collectrium team-which has extensive expertise in the fields of in technology, finance, and the contemporary arts-will offer collectors and galleries integrated services for art storage, appraisals, financing and other needs. Pevzner's business ventures are built around a deep understanding of how different kinds of communities can be enhanced and transformed through innovative technology solutions. In 2003 he helped to conceive and develop xfire, a revolutionary social networking online service ($102M exit via a sale to Viacom). He has also co-founded Centrata, a pioneer in cloud computing for enterprise-class datacenters, and conceived and developed Lontra, a leader in service management of Information Technology (IT).   Pevzner is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences, and he often serves as an advisor to senior technology executives of Fortune 500 companies on issues of IT management and security. Pevzner holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was born in St. Petersburg, only a stone's throw away from The Hermitage. SCOPE Basel This year's Basel edition of SCOPE, June 15-19, 2011, in historic Kaserne just blocks from Art Basel 42, presents 85 international galleries upholding its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The unique SCOPE experience expands this year in partnership with Kaserne's cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, theatre and performance. General Information To learn more about Collectrium, visit http://www.collectrium.com. To download the free Collectrium app on iPhone and iPad, go tohttp://collectrium.com/iphone or at the Apple App Store. SCOPE Basel iPhone and iPad app, powered by Collectrium, can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store.

Fine Art Magazine/ Mary Delaney Cooke Gallery/ Karyn Mannix Contemporary at her Sole East Reception

The Hamptons were fun this weekend.  Enjoy our pictures from two of the events Fine Art Magazine attended.

From Left: Guest, Steve Zaluski, and Joan Kraisky

Solé East Reception Visitors

From Left: Bill Collage, Joseph Eschenberg, Karyn Mannix, and Steve Zaluski

From Left: Rachel Thompson of Hamptons Tanning and Alison Stager Photography

From Left: Mary Delaney, Joan Kraisky, and Marilyn Goldberg, owner of Museum Masters International MMI at the Delaney Cooke Gallery Reception in Sag Harbor for Joan Kraisky and Michael Knigin

Steve Zaluski

From Left: Renee Dahl and Mary Delaney

Artist Athos Zacharias

From Left: Chris Jones, founder of MTK, Chris' Son, Harrison, David Ceva, owner of Solé East

Solé East Musicians

All Photos © Jamie Forbes, fineartmagazine.com