Wednesday, July 4, 2012

ArtHamptons | July 13-15, 2012 | Bridgehampton, NY



ArtHamptons | July 13-15, 2012 | Bridgehampton, NY

5th Annual ArtHamptons
Receives Major Support from
both NYC & Local Museums

ArtHamptons.com


The 5th successful ArtHamptons is preparing for record attendance this summer, surpassing last year’s 9,500. In an effort to attract a wider network of art buyers to the fair, we have reached out and received promotional support from a new tier of prestigious art organizations who will join us this summer. The Guggenheim Museum and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museummembers, as well as the Whitney Contemporaries and major donors of the Whitney Museum of American Art will be exclusively invited to ArtHamptons. The influential charity Hedge Funds Cares, comprised of Wall Street’s most prominent hedge fund executives, will be hosting a fund-raising event onsite. Sotheby’s Auction House is hosting their top 400 art clients from the NYC area. The Young Presidents/World Presidents Organization from NYC will be converging onsite, as well.

Opening night, a “must attend” glamorous  Hamptons tradition, which was re-enacted in an episode of USA Network’s Royal Pains last summer, is expected to attract 3,000 art collectors and again benefits the Longhouse Reserve. We will also be joined by a multitude of prominent local art organizations and charities, such as Guild Hall, Nassau County Museum of Art, Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Heckscher Museum of Art, Southampton Fresh Air Home, and East End Arts Council to name a few. In total, an unprecedented 30 + important art organizations and museums will embrace and support ArtHamptons this summer. This promotional activity will generate many more active art buyers than prior years.

Friday’s Pollock at 100: A Centennial Celebration Turning into One of Summer’s Premiere Events

Our Friday night fund-raiser for the Pollock- Krasner House celebrates Pollock at 100.Hamptons Magazine has selected this July 13 charity event to serve as the unveiling of their uber popular cover party.

2012 Arts Patron of the Year Awarded to Performer/Collector Cheech Marin

Primarily known as an actor, director and performer, Cheech Marin has developed the finest private collection of Chicano art in the country. He states, “Chicano art is American Art. My goal is to bring this genre of art to the forefront of the art world.” He has authored three books on the topic, and his traveling exhibition has appeared in 16 museums. He will be teaming up with L.A.’sThomas Paul Fine Art to show a select group of young Mexican American artists.  Participating also as an exhibitor, and as the star of the current CBS TV hit series “Rob”, he will actively be involved with the media to promote ArtHamptons.

Exhibitor Applications Are Now Being Accepted Online

Reduced in size to assure the highest caliber of art, ArtHamptons is still accepting applications online. Held on an amazing 97 acre bucolic reserve in Bridgehampton, the site features a dramatic Sculpture Park, polo field, and horse pasture. Held in a spectacular 40,000 sq ft modular museum-like structure with spacious soaring glass lobby, ArtHamptons production standards will be up to international standards. 

The Selection Committee welcomes early acceptances Gerald Peters Gallery (Santa Fe/NYC),June Kelly Gallery (NYC), Throckmorton Fine Art (NYC), Danziger Gallery ( NYC), Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London), Mark Borghi Fine Art (Palm Beach/Bridgehampton), Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta), and Madison Gallery (La Jolla).
 

Los Angeles, June 18, 2012—Art Platform



 

 
Art Platform — Los Angeles partners with Frederick Fisher and Partners to transform the
Barker Hangar’s exhibition spacefor the second edition of the fair
 
— Los Angeles recently announced its relocation to the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport for the second edition of its modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles. Further realizing the fair's commitment to broadening audiences and contributing to the vibrant Los Angeles art community, Art Platform — Los Angeles has partnered with renowned architecture firm, Frederick Fisher and Partners. Known as a leader of the Los Angeles art and cultural community, Frederick Fisher and Partners specializes in creating environments that resolve the complexities of culture by delivering spaces that heighten the aesthetic experience of the artworks on exhibit.

The Barker Hangar, located on the grounds of the main private jet airport for the Westside of Los Angeles, is uniquely situated amongst some of Southern California’s iconic landmarks such as the Santa Monica Pier, Third Street Promenade and Pacific Coast Highway. The Westside location is not only in proximity to major Los Angeles museums such as Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Getty, Hammer Museum, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art but to significant private collections as well.
 
2012 Art Platform—Los Angeles
The modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles
 
Show Dates and Times:
Private Preview: Thursday, September 27, 2012
General Admission: Friday, September 28 - Sunday 30, 2012

 

Life’s Work of Ronald Carvell Meaux Tops $10,000 at Gray’s Auctioneers



Cleveland, Ohio – July 2, 2012 – Gray’s Auctioneers Llc,

Life’s Work of Ronald Carvell Meaux Tops $10,000 at Gray’s Auctioneers

Gray’s Auctioneers in Cleveland, Ohio is thrilled to announce the results of sale for the life’s work and collection of a previously unknown, self-taught, Cleveland artist, Ronald Carvell Meaux, whose introduction to the art market sparked international interest and fiercely competitive bidding at Gray’s June 27th auction.

Sold in group lots of artfully selected works, Meaux’s portfolio of imagery secured hammer prices that well exceeded estimates and expectations for this previously, completely unknown artist. Meaux’s lyrical abstractions express the pathos of an embattled, homosexual, African American man struggling with his identity in a Midwestern city in the 1960s. Featuring such fantastic titles as Bacchanale with Telepathic Window and The Metamorphosis and Influence of an Ancient Demi-God or Aphrodite Feigning Virginity, Summer 1965, his dynamically expressive paintings and works on paper are a revelation of the artist’s personal demons.

Meaux passed away in a state of total reclusion in 2012, with neither friends nor family to take on his final expenses. Gray’s is currently working with the consignor and local authorities to see that the proceeds from the artist’s exceptional auction performance are used to finally and properly put Meaux’s body to rest, bringing dignity to the passing of this late, great Cleveland artist.

About Gray’s Auctioneers Llc
With more than two decades of experience as a licensed auctioneer Deborah J. Gray returned to Cleveland, Ohio to open her eponymous auction and appraisal showrooms in June 2007. As VP of Operations for Sotheby’s, the largest auction house in the world, Deborah was uniquely qualified to start a new auction and appraisal service in Northeast Ohio.  Gray’s on staff team of appraisers offer USPAP certified appraisal services for insurance and estate tax purposes, as well as fair-market value reports if an item’s worth is all that is required.  Gray’s also offers free appraisal services at their showrooms, every Friday from 11am until 4:00pm.

Through their state of the art website and their global partnerships they attract bidders from all over the world, who can bid live online, and also through absentee or telephone bidding.  Gray’s commitment to excellence in customer service is demonstrated by the elimination of punitive fees and the holding of accurate reserves. Gray’s experts work closely with banks, trustees, executors, institutions, corporations and attorneys to inventory, appraise and realize the full value of collections & estates. Gray's Auctioneers provide pick-up and local delivery services with their own Mercedes truck, together with their experienced team of Fine Art packers and movers.

To learn more about Gray’s Auctioneers Llc, please visit www.graysauctioneers.com.

Painting below, Aphrodite Assuming the Responsibilities of Aurora, Summer 1966.

 




In NYC @ the Whitney Yayoi Kusama 7/12-9/30

Whitney Museum of American Art
Yayoi Kusama


Yayoi Kusama
July 12–September 30, 2012

The artist’s first survey in New York in fifteen years, this major retrospective traces Kusama’s development—over the course of more than six decades of intense productivity in Japan and the United States—into one of the most respected and influential artists of her time. 

DePrima, Switzerland. 7/8


Newsletter

July 2012
    

De Primi Fine Art, Lugano

has the pleasure to welcome you to

OPEN GALLERY # 3


OPENING HOURS

SUNDAY, 8th JULY 2012
from 3 to 9.30 pm
Open doors for free to Lugano art galleries and museums in order to discover the places in town where art is the protagonist and participate to the many free events specially organized for the occasion.
The list of all the art galleries is on the site:www.longlake.ch



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Hybrid Identities & Hidden Cities | Rome
Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities, a festival of video art and photography exhibition will be held in Rome at theRipa Hotel & Café starts again from the day July 6, 2012. Were forty-selected artists from different countries, of which fifteen twenty-seven video artists and artists photos.
The selection was made ​​based on the concept of "Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities" which analyzes the hybridization of the physical and social identities in contemporary cities.
"They blend the colors of the hidden city with its evanescent hybrid identities: the day and night, the neon lights that illuminate the facades, the patchwork of contamination where new faces emerge, the crowds of passers-by, the subways, up to construct geometric shapes in which to play invent memories. the urban landscape, and its human bodies, perceptions become indelible. Its dynamics and characteristics are in the excess, in the static or nell'incompiuto. In these cities migrations and transformations are self-generated. Such a voracious bodies that reconstruct utopias. seductive idiosyncrasies in such imitation, repetition, the symbol and the sublime are connected all'estraniazione of modern alienation. Imagine yourself portrayed as an unexpected passer, in these vortex streets, between buildings - in a film flow of an unusual setting and unstable polymorph ". Camilla Boemio, 2012
. Organizer: International ArtExpo
. Editors: Luca Curci, Fabiana Roscioli
. Project coordinator: Claudia Dionesalvi
. Exhibition & screening places: Riparte Cafes & Space Suite, Rome - Italy
. Dates: photo exhibition: July 06-August 5, 2012 / video screenings: July 07/06/08, 2012
. Opening: July 6, 2012 at 18:30 Riparte Ripa Hotel & Cafe, Via degli Orti di Trastevere, Rome 3 -00153

In Miami catch Nina Torres's opening 7/6


 
July Contemporary is the 2nd exhibition of the Contemporary Series that will feature painting, sculpture, installation, photography, collage and lightboxes from artists working in Austria, Colombia, Cuba, Greece, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, UK, United States and Venezuela.

Select artists that had shown artwork for the June Contemporary exhibition will show new artwork and the entire gallery will be recurated.

In addition, there will be an encore video presentation by emerging visual artist, Melissa Pita.

» RSVP to the July VIP Opening Preview | Friday July 6, 2012 | 7 - 10PM