So ... where to eat between the canvases in Chelsea?

-

I've published my now-and-then little neighborly roundup of hidden Chelsea suggestions over here.

Stimulating the local economy, one calorie at a time!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Damien Hirst Spot Challenge: The dottiest scavenger hunt ever

-
Image
I popped up out of the subway in Athens to face a phalanx of police riot shields. In LA, Stephen Spielberg's mother proudly toured me through her shrine to her son's talent (it's on the way to the restroom of her diner). Then there was Occupy London with its dystopian yet fiercely activist vibe ... and the $10/night Kung Fu hostel buried in one of Hong Kong's buzzing cities-within-a-building with its Changi prison aesthetic and crazed woman who refused to budge from my bunk bed … SPOT PLANKING: One of the funnest things you can do in Geneva at the Gagosian Geneva gallery. Thanks to Johan @Gogo for being a great sport! My latest escapade was a complete departure from anything I've attempted before: the  Damien Hirst Spot Challenge  - a kind of global art scavenger hunt. The brief: dash across datelines visiting 11 galleries showing the artist's Spot Painting retrospective, get your official "been there, spotted that" card stamped, and as a ...
Read more

West Chelsea Street Art: alive and ungentrified

-
Image
Street/fine artist  Anthony Lister  puts a creepy face on Billy Marks dive Bar   ASK ANYONE who lives (as opposed to absentee-invests) in artsy West Chelsea and they'll tell you it's becoming "artless." All but the bluest of blue chip galleries are fleeing to (slightly) more affordable zip codes, no thanks to rampant "condo-mania."  Three of my favorites - Lori Bookstein Fine Art , Alexander and Bonin and Andrew Edlin , which formed an artsy little men-art a trois on 10th Ave have been swept away by the winds of gentrification. So it I was thrilled to discover that street artists are alive and doodling, pasting, spraying and "throwing up" (in a good way - I'll explain later) in the nabe, on a tour hosted by "recovering street artist," Patrick Waldo. Recovering from what, Patrick? A fall from a ladder at 2am while tagging an Absolut billboard?  "I got caught," said the impossibly tall, millennial-appar...
Read more

Art Me Up: Learning to collect & critique with the SVA (15 years later)

-
Image
Portrait 5 (Stephens) sold for $27K at the Phillips de Pury March 2011 Auction. All proceeds went to DonorsChoose.org.  See what it was up against  and my "review" below. Time for a throwback - 15 years ago I completed a 6-week SVA Contemporary Art Appreciation course. It kickstarted my collecting journey. Has anything changed? You be the judge...  +++ I've just completed my 6-week SVA Trends in Photography and Contemporary Art  : What's Happening Now mini-course. It's an indulgent immersion in the contemporary art world, toasting your eyeballs on everything from priceless modern art icons to the proverbial "my 6 year-old could do that." (Ah, but your 6-year old, my friend, is not named "Warhol").  We got to traipse through the galleries of Chelsea, the Upper East Side and the Lower East Side, plus attend a Phillips de Pury "mid-season" auction preview, and a couple of Armory Arts Week shows.  And yes, some of us were b...
Read more