UNTIL MONDAY…

Le Violon d’ingres by Man Ray, 1924, copyright Man Ray Trust/ADAGP
Man Ray Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, February 7 – May 27, 2013

ARTISTS FOR AFRICA SPRING GALA

We are very pleased to be working on the African Rainforest Conservancy’s Artists for Africa Spring Gala on Tuesday, April 23 at The Bowery Hotel. There is a virtual auction on Paddle8 happening right now until the day of the event with incredible works of art by Kiki Smith and Gerald Forster among many others. Check out this fantastic auction for this very vital organization.

www.africanrainforest.org,  https://paddle8.com/auctions/artistsforafrica

BILL BRANDT: SHADOW & LIGHT

We recently visited the Museum of Modern Art secretly hoping to find Tilda Swinton sleeping in her glass case — unfortunately we were most unsuccessful. Instead, we decided to check out Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light that opened last month. Regarded by many to be one of the most significant British photographers of the 20th century, Brandt was born in Germany in 1904. After a brief stint in Vienna, he spent five years in Paris, from 1929 to 1934, before moving to London permanently. During his time in Paris he briefly assisted in Man Ray’s studio which proved to have a lasting influence on his work, most obvious in his nudes from the 1950s and his photographs of eyes from the 1960s. We found the nudes among the most compelling in this exhibition, quite abstract and some even quite surrealist. His series of eyes of notable artists including Alberto Giacometti and Louise Nevelson, photographed extremely close up, are also among the most powerful in this really great show. Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light is on view until August 12.

https://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1343 

LITTLE FRENCH SONGS

Carla Bruni’s fourth album, Little French Songs, was released today by Verve. We have always found her music to be a reflection of the independent, stylish and intriguing woman vibe she projects. We can’t help liking Carla Bruni, and her music!

BATTERY URBAN FARM

We were down at Battery Park all day on Monday — arguably the most beautiful spring day we have had yet — working on the Soho Rep Spring Gala. Adjacent to the event venue is the Battery Urban Farm, a very cool and very magnificent one acre community garden. Shaped like a turkey (a nod to Zelda who has called Battery Park home for the last decade) it is surrounded by a tremendous bamboo fence designed by Scott Dougan who also conceived and created the farm itself. Best of all, the bamboo poles were donated by artists Doug and Mike Starn and repurposed from their 2010 installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden: Big Bambú. In their second growing season last year, Battery Urban Farm educated over 600 volunteers and 1,800 students from 30 schools on sustainable and organic farming, more than doubling their outreach from the first season, and supplied produce to 2 downtown public school cafeterias. And they continue to grow!  
A great Earth Day celebration is planned at the Battery Urban Farm next Saturday, April 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Check out their website for more information about the farm and ways to get involved: https://www.thebattery.org/projects/battery-urban-farm/  

BERGDORF WINDOWS

Last week we were in the neighborhood and had a moment to walk past Bergdorf Goodman. As always, the windows are stunning — mounds of cascading feathers and black and white fashion gorgeousness. Oh my. And, if you haven’t yet seen Windows at Bergdorf Goodman Anniversary Edition by David Hoey and Linda Fargo you are in for a treat. 

Bergdorf Goodman, 5th Avenue & 58th Street, New York City www.bergdorfgoodman.com 
Windows at Bergdorf Goodman Anniversary Edition (Assouline, 2012)

SOMEDAY IS NOW: THE ART OF CORITA KENT

Corita Kent, E eye love, 1968

We recently saw a great exhibition at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College curated by Michael Duncan and our friend, the museum’s director, Ian Berry — Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent. A prolific graphic artist and print maker, Kent created murals, posters and serigraphs with themes of spirituality and politics at the forefront. Her work, the bulk of which was made in the 1960s and 70s, very much speaks to those tumultuous years, and Kent’s overwhelming hope for peace and love. She was an art educator and nun in Los Angeles where she counted among her friends design luminaries Buckminster Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames. She left the order and L.A. in 1968 and moved to Boston to focus full-time on her art. This is the first major retrospective of Kent — clearly one of the most important and influential pop artists and women of her generation. 

Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent is at the Tang Museum through July, and will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland in 2014 and the Andy Warhol Museum in 2015. 

https://tang.skidmore.edu/index.php/        

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