Alias Arts

Attending First Saturday today at the Brooklyn Museum with a friend.  According to FreeNYC – the schedule is the following.   I’m curious to see the photography show which has a take off from one of my favorite Manet paintings – and it’s not bad, not bad at all …

Andy Earl (British, born circa 1955). Bow [...]

Had a good time listening to literature being read to music at the INTERFICTIONS 2 NOVEMBER TOUR last night @ HousingWorks – and filmed much of it, as I was swaying to the music.
True, I often can’t follow all of what’s being said – but I thought the jazz music accompanying the readings really worked [...]

Well, I will be in London from November 15th – 21st for a very special event – Monitoring Social Media 09, where I’ll speak on a panel on November 17th on the Future of Social Media Monitoring.
If any of my readers live in London and wish to meet, let me know – my twitter handle [...]

I’m attending FRIENDS OF THE ARTS PARTY AT CHRISTIE’S ON NOVEMBER 13, 2009, 6:30-8:30 pm – here’s the press release, below:
NEW YORK, November 4th, 2009—The Alliance for the Arts will partner with the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) to host the annual Friends of the Arts Party at Christie’s, opening the galleries [...]

I’m really liking the guys at Artlog.com who come up with openings that no one else seems to have – and overall, if there’s one site I’d consider supporting, based on what I’ve seen, it’s ArtLog.   Having said that, due to Artlog.com listing of an opening tonight of Just what is it that makes today’s [...]

I was invited to MoMA today, as a member of the press, for the preview of Bauhaus 1919-1933 Workshops for Modernity, opening  November 8th, running till January 25th, 2009.   I took a lot of video footage and here’s what I decided to save (decided not to upload footage I took of the curators, Barry Bergdoll [...]

I saw an unexpected treasure last Friday night at The Rubin Museum of Art – The Red Book of C.G. Jung.

I felt as if I was looking at  Dr. Strange’s book of the Vishanti and the Rubin Museum, with it’s glass ceiling, 6 stories and the basement – become Strange’s residence, the Sanctum Sanctorum, but [...]

I stumbled on Douglas Gayeton’s book signing tonight at Clic Gallery on 255 Centre Street and spoke with the photographer for a few minutes.

Una Scampagnata 45 x 24 inches, Digital Print car of Clic Gallery, NYC
I found the photographs interesting to look at, though at first, I didn’t understand them.  Upon closer examination, the photographs [...]

I’ll be at the MOMA opening of Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity next week – which is about time, since the 70th anniversary of Bauhaus Movement is this year and there was already a major show in Berlin this summer.

Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus Stairway. 1932. Oil on canvas. 63 7/8 x 45″ (162.3 x 114.3 cm). The [...]

Found an interesting piece in the New York Times tonight on how Banks Hoard Troves of Art where …
Deutsche Bank is believed to own the largest corporate collection in the world, with some 60,000 pieces of contemporary art. UBS owns 40,000 pieces, and JPMorgan Chase 30,000. Combined, that approaches the Museum of Modern Art’s trove. Banks have various [...]