My favorite thing about this show was my friend Liam Gillick's pieces (above).    Liam also suggested the title of the show which is based loosely on the idea of cinema by French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze.   I enjoyed Angela Bulloch's piece installed in the rotunda on the ceiling.    It was a bit like the meeting of the NYC contemporary art glitterati without being too glam. That stereotype about New Yorkers wearing black, well guess what, it's true-especially in the art world. 

Pretty low key actually for such an important opening.     Matthew Barney, Rita Ackerman, Thelma Golden, Chloe Sevigny, Olivier Zahm (purple) all the artists in the show and every gallery director and museum curator in the world was there it seemed.    Unfortunately the space made showing this work very difficult.   Just did not work in my opinion. (as was the general consensus among the viewers)  It would have more suited to the New Museum or a cube like space.  Makes you realize the art and artist have an important relationship to the space itself.      I felt some of the pieces were toooo minimal.  

However, I do recommend seeing this show if you like any of these artists.

October 24, 2008-January 7, 2009

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Using the museum as a springboard for work that reaches beyond the visual arts, their work often commingles with other disciplines such as architecture, design, and theater, engaging directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life to offer subtle moments of transformation. This loose affiliation of artists, each of whom now boasts strong, independent careers, periodically and randomly joins forces to create a variety of projects. Guggenheim exhibition info

The Guggenheim Museum has extended an invitation to a core group of these artists--Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija--to collectively formulate a scenario for an exhibition, one that will reflect and articulate the unique nature of their practices. (entrance installation above by Philippe Parreno)

Swiss installation, video artist , and all around "futurist" has a show opening at Moma in NYC.    Pipilotti Rist's lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. (MOMA)

MoMA commissioned the Swiss artist to create a monumental site-specific installation that immerses the Museum's Marron Atrium in twenty-five-foot-high moving images.

Cutting edge and interactive this is an artist immersed in the 21st century.    .pipilottirist website

Collecting art can be a daunting task.    It can also be the most wonderful way to surround yourself with beauty and artistry.     Blue chip art is often unattainable for the masses and cost prohibitive if you don't have a hedge fund which is about 98% of us.   Don't fret.   There are so many great ways to buy art now and many of them are online.     Here are some of my favorite sites.   Some of them sell editions for as little as $20.00 which is a fantastic way to get your feet wet.   All editions are numbered and some are available framed.   There is detailed information about each artist and lets you browse at your leisure.  

the real art co   images are divided by style, medium, color/bw etc.    something for everyone here.
 
Jerry Hall by Norman Parkinson

20x200
OK image by Trey Speegle

Blindspot
Image by Wijnanda Deroo

Lumas
Image by Mauren Brodbeck

It's all a bit overwhelming because there are ssssoooo many choices.  In the meantime, get those hideous movie posters off your wall and say something with your taste and personality.  Mike Ovitz (CAA founder) told  Richard Prince  that he can tell a lot about a person by how they respond to his art collection.    It also says a lot about you.    No time like the present to get out there and support the arts.    Its really fun and these sites make it affordable .

T Mobile launched their G1 phone with a big party in Hollywood. 
  The Raconteurs (Jack White and pals) played a great show.   I loved the video projection over the soundstage.
  Nick Cannon DJ'ed.  Mark and his gorgeous Lipstick ladies.

I think I was shot and went to heaven.   The CHANEL shoe designed by Laurence Decade for Chanel is the perfect combo of Bonnie and Clyde and Miami Vice.    Decadent and sexy and too high to wear when walking-what's a girl to do.   It looks like a 22 caliber which is traditionally a "ladies gun".
Ofcourse, "der Kaiser" gave Madonna a pair.  I just want to kill her for them.  Violence has permeated pop culture and fashion full throttle with this baby.

   I luv it.

I got this email today from Delia Brown,  an artist I love.  (her feature will be running this November) Back to the matter at hand,  please read her powerful words and get out there and vote.   Lets make this happen.  (self portrait paintings by Delia Brown)

I know I don't need to communicate to any of you just how important this election is - Most likely the most important we'll see in our lifetime. Not just because we need new leadership in a dire way (we've been needing that since the last couple of elections), but also because of the historic and amazing possibility of a president of color in the White House!! And, a president who is very learned and even poetic in his articulations and observations? For me, and I know for many of you as well, totally inspiring and exciting.

I know we've all been inundated with appeals for campaign help. I apologize for adding to that influx of stuff. Meanwhile, I feel a need to reach out on a very personal level and share my feelings about our responsibility -- as creative, intelligent, progressive-minded Americans -- as to what we really need to do to contribute. I want to encourage you all, if you haven't already done so, to reach deep inside for a moment in these crucial last couple of weeks, and determine if there is anything more you can do to move this campaign towards victory.

This hasn't been a great financial year for a lot of people. It has kind of sucked for me, frankly. But rather than decide that I couldn't give, I realized that I couldn't NOT give...If I didn't do all I could for Obama, I would have no leg to stand on and complain if we end up with another disastrous conservative in office. I'm talking about tithing, people! I have given a big percentage of my income this year to my man Barack. I do wish I had been able to spend more TIME hitting the road and knocking on doors on his behalf, and am regretful that my travels beginning tonight which will keep me out of the country for the next 3 weeks prohibit me from going down to Pennsylvania again. Lela Rose is my personal hero right now - She has been shlepping down there several times a week for the last month and I've seen her in action, working the streets and registering voters and giving the most inspiring shpeels to some of our confused or uncommitted co-patriots.

So, if you are thinking about that pair of Louboutins, buy them! But then give the same dollar amount to Barack Obama, and you can wear them when you go out to celebrate his victory. It won't be any fun to be looking good in another sad Republican regime.

If you can't cough up the cash, considering spending a day this weekend down in Pittsburg or Philly. It is really a fun way to spend the day. Your help is needed! I know that PA is already slated to go for Barack, but we need a BIG victory. We can't leave any margins for error. Those of us who know that a lot of healing needs to start taking place here at home, we need to participate in that healing by helping Barack get elected.

Here is the NY State "get involved" page:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nyhome

OK, I'm gonna get off this pulpit now, and get my ass to the studio, and hope that if there is one or two of you out there who might be inspired to action, you will act on it now! The world will really thank you, and you will be very glad you did. I apologize for preaching, but I just had to send this word out as I get ready to leave the country when it is laying so heavy on my mind.

Lotsa love,
Delia

Nymphenburg has long made the most exquisite china in the world.    The Bavarian company is like 1000 years old.    They cast and produce limited edition pieces for artists like Ted Muehling and Studio Job.    Now you can buy a wild boar or a stag bust for your home at Vivre.com

check out Lookbook.nu.     Cooler, younger and design driven this site is more democratic than the sartorialist or facehunter.   This site lets users post images of themselves in their own designs.    lookbook site Readers mark their favorites with "hype" and the coolest kids go to the front of the site.     Great looking cool kids from all over the world.    Amazing style.    check it.

Most of you have probably heard of the Chanel mobile art pod that Zaha Hadid designed for Der Keiser.    Well, Mr. Lagerfeld's pod is coming to a city near you and will be in NYC in Central park Oct. 20-Nov. 9, 2008.    You should check it out. 
One of my favorite artists, Swiss born Sylvie Fleury is showing her Costom Commando purse sculpture.     Sylvie is amazing and has been doing edgy installations and fashion savvy art work for over a decade.

Here is some of her work.    She is so seductive and polished.   I just love it.   

Her little glittering heirlooms are the bejeweled evening clutches I have been lusting after.   I love Judith Leiber's little bauble bags too, these are just edgier.

Streetwear brand FUCT has always done cool shit.    Erik Brunetti, Fuct's founder and designer is a dear friend and creative force.  My Jaws Fuct t shirt is still one of the coolest shirts ever.  His videos are hilarious and the clothes have attitude for days.  Since the early 90's Erik was an enfant terribe on the streetwear scene. All grown up Erik is now an indie dad, look out for his hot wife Emmelie who is working with him to bring us Baby Fuct.    I love this video footage.   It's like Steve McQueens wet dream.     Erik will be releasing a new collection in mid OCT.

Manufactured and sold exclusively in Japan, the FUCT- SSDD (Same Shit Different Day) collection is inspired by classic, traditionally American style . Each garment was carefully engineered to convey a vintage, "worn in" look, using special aging and distress techniques as well as simulated magic marker print detailing. Referencing styles of cinema classics like Vanishing Point, The Trial of Billy Jack and Easy Rider, FUCT's SSDD collection echoes the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960's and 70's such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle./

         fuct  

I was shocked to find out that there have been 23 hijackings and attempted seizures off the Somali coast since mid-March. (Intern. Maritime Bureau)   When Vivienne Westwood created her critically acclaimed pirates collection, I doubt this is what she had in mind.   Weren't pirates characters from big Hollywood action movies, with gorgeous movie stars swashbuckling about in Keith Richard's makeup?   I don't know, maybe I have been sleeping under an art rock, but I thought this was worth blogging about.
 

Somali pirates have launched what the International Maritime Bureau calls the biggest surge of piracy on modern record, attacking more than 60 vessels this year off Somalia and in the adjoining Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden, which connects the Indian Ocean to the Suez Canal, is the main shipping route between Asia and the Middle East to Europe.     For the first time, they attacked a passenger ship carrying 302 civilians, mostly British and American. 

"The southern coastline is among the most dangerous in the world," said Mr Mwangura. These criminals have not only stolen valuable cargo, they are now taking hostages.

I hate to be a fatalist, but no where is safe. .

Washington post article