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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Rob Pruitt and Master of Ceremonies Glenn O'Brien at Webster Hall for Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards Photo: Roger Kisby © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards Rob Pruitt and Master of Ceremonies Glenn O'Brien at Webster Hall for Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards Photo: Roger Kisby © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Rob Pruitt has teamed up with writer-editor and art world veteran Glenn O’Brien to host the second annual Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards on December 8, 2010 at Webster Hall. Pruitt considers the event a performance-based artwork that parodies self-congratulatory Hollywood awards ceremonies, while relishing his own role as ringmaster and host. Other presenters will include critic Jerry Saltz (of the TV show Work of Art), Mary Heilmann, the 2009 “Artist of the Year,” Marina Abramovic, and John Currin among others.
The awards ceremony honours the stalwarts of the art world, who are mostly hand-picked by him, while benefitting the Guggenheim Foundation and the not-for-profit, White Columns. And this year, the Lifetime Achievement Awards is going to… Jonas Mekas and Martha Rosler, and The Artist-Educator Achievement Award, a new category, will be presented to Marilyn Minter.
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Tags: Glenn O’Brien, Guggenheim Museum, Jerry Saltz, John Currin, Jonas Mekas, Marilyn Minter, Marina Abramovic, Martha Rosler, Mary Heilmann, Rob Pruitt, White Columns, Work of Art
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
By Kiša Lala
Simon de Pury, turning law and reason on its head, in front of Maurizio Cattelan's Frank and Jaime, 2002. Edition of 3. Estimated at $1-1.5 million. Photo credit:Kisa Lala
Let the drum-rolls begin – Simon dePury, the market-savvy chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, was at hand to christen the new Park Avenue location for the inaugural preview of the Part 1- Contemporary Art Evening Sale. The collection, entitled ‘Carte Blanche,’ curated by Phillipe Segalot, former international head of Christie’s Contemporary Art, is scheduled for auction November 8, 2010, with a low-estimate of $80,000,000.
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Christie's, Jeff Koons, Kisa Lala, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul McCarthy, Phillipe Segalot, Phillips de Pury, Richard Prince, Simon de Pury, Sotheby's, Stephanie Seymour, Takashi Murakami, Walter Benjamin
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
Kate MccGwire, Slick, 2010, Magpie and crow feathers, mixed media and antique fire basket, 250 x 250 cms
All Visual Arts, an arts organization based in London’s Fitzrovia, showed an exhibition of works at Frieze around the tradition of Vanitas, and the theme of memento mori, with art containing symbols and reminders of death. Joe La Placa, one of the curators behind the show, explained, “the original Vanitas works were a response to the culture of conspicuous consumption in Holland in the 17th Century, and a reminder that you can make all the money you want, but you can’t take it with you…”
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Tags: All Visual Arts, Bouke de Vries, Chapman Brothers, Frieze, Hans Peter Feldman, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Joe La Placa, Kate MccGwire, Kisa Lala, London, Sue Webster, Tim Noble, Tom Gallant, Wim Delvoye
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
By Kiša Lala
Jeff Koons, Hand on Breast, Courtesy of Luxembourg and Dayan Gallery
It has been twenty years since Jeff Koons’ show Made in Heaven opened at Sonnabend to busloads of cruising tourists – unleashing endless debate, was it art, was it porn, and did it successfully titillate…the mind?
Made in Heaven has come back down to earth, to the Upper East side gallery, Luxembourg and Dayan where it is celebrating its 20th anniversary incarnation, and remains if not new, surprisingly timeless. The gallery has released a catalogue of the works with an informative essay by Alison Gingeras in which she posits that Koons’ career can be dissected in terms of what came before and after the exhibition of these paintings, “with Made in Heaven he broke away from the aloof and ironic sphere of the art world ‘brat pack’ into a perilous zone of full exposure,” she says. Although Koons’ reputation for cheekiness was already established by such works as Michael Jackson and Bubbles, (1988), and his stainless steel Rabbit, (1986), he catapulted into celebrity after his collaboration with Illona Staller (better known by her porn-star moniker, Cicciolina) who was already at the time a championed porn-star member of parliament.
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Tags: Alison Gingeras, Cicciolina, Illona Staller, Jeff Koons, Kisa Lala, Luxembourg and Dayan
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
By Michelle Cheung
The only table in the house, Cesar Ramirez's chef table in the Brooklyn Fare's kitchen
Chef Cesar Ramirez of Brooklyn Fare, gourmet food market by day and fine dining destination by night, is not your famed media-hungry celebrity chef. So the fact that reservations for his nightly dinners are booked through June is very telling. In Ramirez’s 10-seater stainless steel kitchen table, craftsmanship stays alive with culinary artisans at work every night serving more than 15 courses of salacious dishes featuring impeccable quality and creativity.
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Tags: Brooklyn Fare, Cesar Ramirez, David Bouley, new york
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
By JRS
The Pruitt Award Is an empty champagne bottle surrounded by plastic ice, which is also a fully functioning lamp.
Was the art world ready for its Oscar moment? Regardless of that answer, the first annual Art Awards presented by Rob Pruitt took place last night in the Guggenheim’s rotunda. (more…)
Tags: Connie Butler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Delusional Downtown Divas, Guggenheim, James Franco, Jeff Koons, Jeffrey Deitch, Jerry Saltz, Joan Jonas, Jonath, Julianne Moore, Kanye West, Kasper König, Kylie Minogue, Manzoni, Martin Kippenberger, Mary Heilmann, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso, Rob Pruitt, Ryan Trecartin
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