2013 Holiday Gift Guide #1 + Santa Strawberries

Yayoi Kusama

Self-Portrait, designed 2008

200 - piece jigsaw puzzle

16 h x 11 inches (assembled puzzle)

edition of 1,000

$75.00

ART

2013 

Holiday

GIFT GUIDE

After weeks of catalog searches, visiting museum gift shops both on line and brick & mortar shops, we found a wonderful "art gift" web-site for our first gift guide: artwareeditions.com. Enjoy selections from the artware editions site. 

Jonathan Van Dyke

Six Cups, designed 2007

hand-cast and pigmented Hydrocal plaster and Renaissance wax

dimensions vary

edition of ten in each design

$110 - $210

Rob Wynne

Plates (various titles), 2011

hand-painted ceramic plate

10½" diameter

signed and dated

$125.00

Louise Bourgeois

10am is When You Come To Me, 2011

set of four bone china coffee mugs

4 h. x 3 diameter inches, each

limited edition

$100.00

Barbara Kruger

beach/bath towel, designed 2012

100% cotton

70 x 60 inches

limited edition

$95.00

MICHELE OKA DONER

Rados Candles

wax

two sizes available:

small: 14" h. x 4.5"
$170.00

large: 16" h. x 7"
$250.00

DAVID SHRIGLEY 

25 Postcards for Writing On

box of 25 A6 postcard designs

approx. 4 x 6 inches; 148×105 mm

$21.00

Yinka Shonibare

"Untitled" (Dollhouse)

various materials

11 1/2 h. x 8 x 9 1/4 inches

limited edition

$900.00

DAMIEN HIRST

Spot clock

approx. 14" diameter (350 mm)

white-powdered metal case and metal back

German Quartz movement

$750.00

Seltzer & Rosenblum

Hand-painted glasses, designed 2011

acrylic on glass

old fashioned, highball, or collins glasses

open edition, Each of these glasses is unique.

fabrication time is 3 – 4 weeks.

$70.00

KEITH HARING

Baby Pull Toy

solid painted wood with string

5 x 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches

$80.00

STEVE KEISTER

Plates

STEVE KEISTER

Plates

hand-made terracotta with food-safe glaze

approx. 2 3/8" h x 9 3/4"x 9 3/4"

open edition / each work unique

$75.00

NOTE ON AVAILABILITY:

Immediately available inventory is constantly changing. We will do our best to fulfill your order as quickly as possible, but there may be a 2-3 week fabrication time for production on some orders.

Steve Keister

Tumblers

hand-made terracotta with food-safe glaze

approx. 4¾" h x 2 1/8" x 2 1/8"

open edition / each work unique

$35.00

Barbara Kruger

Don't be a jerk

100" cotton t-shirt

limited edition

$26.00

RENÉ MAGRITTE

Bird Tote

100% cotton canvas

16 h. x 14 inches

$32.00

RENÉ MAGRITTE

L'Oiseau du Ciel Tray

melamine

10 1/4 x 14 3/4 inches

dishwasher safe

$43.95

DAVID LACHAPELLE
Untitled (Nativity), Tupac Shakur Cards
gift box of 12 cards & envelopes
inside reads: Joy to the World

$12.00

WOODPOINT & KINGSLAND

Unisex Triangle Crew

soft cottons

S, M, L, XL

$60.00

E FOR EFFORT

Unisex Pinstripe Sweatshirt or T-Shirt

50% polyester, 46% cotton and 4% rayon / hand-screened

Eco Tru navy with white silkscreen print

machine washable

XS, S, M, L

Unisex Pinstripe Sweatshirt

XS is like a women's S

S is like a women's S/M

M is like women's M/L or men's S/M

L is like men's L

$80.00

Men's T-Shirt

$50.00

(pinstripe detail)

Yves Klein 

Table rose

designed 1961/1963

rose pigment, glass, plexiglass, wood, and steel

14¼ h x 49¼ x 39¼ inches

placard of authenticity affixed to the underside 

Price on request

PRUNE NOURRY AND JR
Je Te Mangerais Dans La Main Dinner Service

PRUNE NOURRY AND JR

Je Te Mangerais Dans La Main Dinner Service

set of 6 porcelain plates with digital print

(two each of three different designs)

10.6" diameter

signed and stamped on verso

fabricated by Bernardaud

$720.00

"In this project, Prune and I wanted to focus on a man's most essential "tool," his hands, which can function as a drinking cup or as eating utensils. As Darwin put it: "Man could not have attained his present dominant position in the world without the use of his hands." Here, our hands have been photographed.... Prune and I live in New York where we initiated a community of artists that holds big dinners every month. Everybody cooks, everybody brings something. The dinner table is a nerve center where we share a taste for good things, the art of living well!

Michelle Lopez

Brass Nut Ring, designed 2012

brass

variety of sizes available

$98.00

MARCEL DZAMA

Sea Salt & Jester Shakers

porcelain

3" high each

edition of 2,500

$100.00

NARA

Little Wanderer

Injection molded and Rotomolded plastic

11 h. x 6.5 w. x 6.5 d. inches

open edition

$145.00

Cindy Sherman Tea Service Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson), 1990 21-piece porcelain set: 1 teapot edition of 75 in each of four available color options $7,000.00

Cindy Sherman

Tea Service

Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson), 1990

21-piece porcelain set: 1 teapot

edition of 75 in each of four available color options

$7,000.00

WILLIAM WEGMAN
Cane Cards
gift box of 20 cards & envelopes
inside reads: Wishing you a joyous holiday season

and a peaceful new year

$15.00

MALIA JENSEN

Ask Me About My Cat tee shirt, 2013

100% cotton tee shirt

made in USA

machine washable

$45.00

The Pig / Le Porc Dinner ServiceBY SOPHIE CALLE

The Pig / Le Porc Dinner Service BY SOPHIE CALLE set of 6 different porcelain plates with text in platinum (available in English or French) 10.6" diameter signed and stamped on verso fabricated by Bernardaud
$460.00

This dinner service by Sophie Calle consists of six porcelain dinner plates fabricated by Bernardaud. Each plate tells a portion of a story told by Calle entitled, "The Pig." When read in sequence the story is told in full and makes for a unique dinner party experience. The verso of each plate shows details of the service, the artist's signature, and Bernardaud's stamp. This service is available in French or English. Dishwasher safe.

The story reads:

It is a silly story. I was about thirty. A man phoned to say that he and I were making similar work and should meet. I always worry I might miss out on something so I agreed. When he arrived he told me his art consisted of stopping women in the street and asking them to sleep with him. Well, he said, wasn't one of my projects all about getting strangers to spend time in my bed? He told me he was taking me to a barbecue. I spent the whole evening playing the maid, grilling sausages, serving and cleaning up. Time goes by faster when you're busy. Later he dropped me off outside my door. He leaned into me and saught my lips. I pushed him away. "What makes you think I'd want to kiss you?" I protested. "Well, anyway," he answered, "you eat like a pig." Even today, after all these years, his words haunt me. I can't remember a thing about him, yet he's still sitting at my table.

MEN'S GRAMERCY RED BIKE

$899.00

Size: 20.47 inches

martonecycling.com

(Source: www.artwareeditions.com)

FOOD

Santa

Strawberries

for your parties!

Strawberry Santas - Easy Christmas Party Food
Trim the greens off the strawberries and cut the tops off for hats. Use whipped cream for the head, beard, buttons and hat pom-pom. Then finish the illusion by using chocolate sprinkles or black sesame seeds for the eyes.

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Photographer, Najee Amor Smith at LIU's S.A.L. Gallery + Art Style Knock-Offs + Easy Way to Peel Oranges

"LA X" by Photographer, Najee Amor Smith

ART
FLY BY NITE... 
Photographs by 
Najee Amor Smith

Last month at the Hillwood S.A.L Gallery, a part of Long Island University POST, located at 720 Northern Blvd. Brooklyn, Najee Amor Smith showed off his recent black & white prints. (Exhibition dates: Nov. 19-26) 

Editors Note:
By chance I was riding on a plane (over Thanksgiving) sitting next to his father and later through his recommendation I found this photo show. Young talent rarely gets a break, so here for all the world to see is the show: "FLY BY NITE..." Photographs by Najee Amor Smith! Enjoy.

(Second Editors Note: We are working hard on our holiday gift guide, which we will publish later this week.)

Photographer Najee Amor Smith

Najee's peeps at the exhibition.

(All Photographs, above are © Najee Amor Smith, 2013)

ART: 

Art Style Knock-Offs

Many "new artworks" are just appropriations, copies or lampoons of work from the 60s, 70s and 80s!

(This excerpt is a portion of the original article written by John Yau, published in Hyperallergic.com. - To read the entire article go to this link: http://hyperallergic.com/96934/what-happens-when-we-run-out-of-styles/ )

Was Wade Guyton's "OS" exhibition at the Whitney just showing a new medium but only using a borrowed style, "minimalism"?

What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein — Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example — like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist’s work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism. Guyton’s mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Wade Guyton OS, October 4, 2012–January 13, 2013) suggested that if you know how to efficiently package and produce that look, success may well come your way, that you too can be a caboose that makes a difference. In other words, you become a high-end art director in the guise of a forward-thinking conceptual artist.

"What they look like are large facsimiles of Minimalism but without the expenditure of labor that went into the real thing."

For all the praise circling like an irremovable halo above Guyton and his use of an Epson inkjet printer to make his paintings (further complemented by the self-satisfaction of institutional apparatchiks relishing the seamless fit between his lack of creativity and their academic narrative — the one that concludes with the death of painting and all the other attendant deaths — the elephant still in the middle of the room is the way the paintings look.

What they look like are large facsimiles of Minimalism but without the expenditure of labor that went into the real thing. Efficient artistic production with just the right conceptual twist, it seems, is nothing to sneeze at. Guyton and his studio assistants might tug the folded canvas through the printer, but that is hardly the same as an individual making a painting or, for that matter, a drawing.

Their labor is proficient manufacture under the sign of art, which is not the same as Jorge Luis Borges’ fictional author, Pierre Menard, “recreating” Don Quixote word-for-word. Guyton’s paintings are the aesthetic equivalent of the nearly perfect copies of Louis Vuitton bags that you can buy on Manhattan street corners. They don’t cost as much as the original, and they look pretty good.

One reason I am thinking of Guyton and his myriad examples of well-produced scruffiness is because, in the eyes of tastemakers, the creation of  imperfect and, in some cases, ironic variations of the artistic canon is a sanctioned way of dealing with what Harold Bloom called the “anxiety of influence.” The post-Bloom mantra seems to be this: Don’t take on, address or engage, but appropriate, copy and lampoon. If wielded with the right amount of panache, this strategy can significantly cut down the wait time between  a young artist and art world success.

We are well past Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning and their years of struggle, with no intention of looking back. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because the model of the suffering artist is hackneyed and tiresome, a B-movie version of bohemian life. It is the academically approved replacement model that I have a serious problem with, which smugly dismisses anything that seeks to delve beyond the surface. Appearance, it seems, has now become the art world’s highest goal, a shift in aesthetics more in keeping with the aesthetics of Hollywood and fashion designers. Stonewashed, artily torn jeans bought off the right shiny rack are infinitely preferable to ones that have gotten that way through actual use....

To read the entire article go to link: http://hyperallergic.com/96934/what-happens-when-we-run-out-of-styles/ 

FOOD

A new & easy wayto eat oranges,without peeling!

(Source: Jewelpie.com)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.

Nic Hess at The Daimler Collection + SCOPE Miami 2013 + Cold Sweet Tea Fried Chicken

Nic Hess, "highways and byways. together again",
installation view with painting by Oli Sihvonen.
Photo courtesy of Daimler Contemporary, Berlin;
Photo by Hans-Georg Gaul, Berlin.

ART

The Daimler Collection

Nic Hess

Wall Painting Installation

Exhibition up until March 16, 2014

Artist Nic Hess paints on walls, using the existing art on the gallery walls as his point of departure, at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin.

Nic Hess does wall paintings around the other art on exhibition.

Nic Hess at The Daimler Art Collection.

Artist Nic Hess (born 1968, Switzerland, lives in Zürich) uses industrial paint, collaged images, colored tapes, light projections and neon elements to take possession of walls, ceilings and entire rooms. The Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, was started in 1977 and currently includes about 1800 works by German and international artists. The collection focuses on abstract and geometrical pictorial concepts, from which it derives its distinctive character.

( Source: "highways and byways. together again." Group Exhibition - images courtesy: Daimler Chrysler Collection: Daimler Contemporary - Alte Potsdamer Straße 5, 10785 Berlin, Germany)

ART SCOPE Miami Dec. 4 - 8 2013 SCOPE MIAMI BEACH PAVILION NEW LOCATION ON MIAMI BEACH 1000 Ocean Drive at 10th Street Miami Beach, FL 33139

With tremendous enthusiasm, SCOPE MIAMI has announced its new location on the sands of Miami Beach. Situated on the most highly visible location in Miami, SCOPE Miami Beach’s 70,000 sq. ft. pavilion will feature an outdoor beach lounge and stunning views of the ocean, nestled amongst the iconic architecture of Ocean Drive at 10th Street. Working closely with the City of Miami Beach, SCOPE will show an extraordinary presentation of emerging contemporary art.

100 International Exhibitors and 15 Breeder Program galleries will be at SCOPE Miami Beach, it will also feature a wide range of curated projects, sponsor programs and VIP tours. With an emphasis on activating emerging galleries and artists, attendees to SCOPE are seasoned collectors, curators and taste makers looking for new discovery. SCOPE Miami Beach will run December 4 - 8, 2013.

For the second year in a row, SCOPE – the preeminent launching pad for emerging contemporary art – continues its collaboration with VH1, which through its own "You-Oughta-Know" initiative has helped launch some of music's hottest artists.

FOOD

COLD SWEET TEA

FRIED CHICKEN

Sweet-Tea Fried Chicken

Ingredients

1 quart brewed tea, double strength

1 lemon quartered

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup kosher salt

1 quart ice water

8 chicken leg quarters, cut into thighs and drumsticks

3 cups all-purpose flour, divided

2 cups cornflour 

2 tablespoons Old Bay Seasoning

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

8 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

peanut oil

Directions

Combine tea, lemon, sugar and kosher salt - simmer for 5 minutes or until salt and sugar are completely dissolved. Pour in ice water and cool brine completely. 

Submerge thighs and drumsticks in brine for 48 hours.

Remove to a wire rack and allow chicken to drain.

In a large bowl, combine 2 cups of flour and 2 cups of cornflour.

Add the measurements Old Bay, chili powder, salt and pepper to the bowl.

Place remaining cup of flour in a medium bowl.

In a third bowl combine eggs with buttermilk and beat until mixed.

Line up all three bowls next to each other.

Coat the chicken in the flour only, then the egg & buttermilk, then in the "seasoned" flour & cornflour mixture. 

Apply pressure to ensure even adherence.

Put the floured chicken in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to chill before frying.

Pour at least a 3 inch depth of oil into a heavy pot.

Heat oil to 300˚(Fahrenheit).

TO FRY:

Submerge chicken in the hot oil for 15 minutes, turning if needed.

(Internal temp should be 170˚ for dark meat and 160˚ for white meat)

Drain chicken on racks, over paper towels.

Cool Chicken to room temperature and place, covered, in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours and no more than 24. 

Sweet Tea Fried Chicken is intended to be served cold.

Yield 8 servings.

( Source: From: "Fried Chicken, An American Story" by John T. Edge - Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons - 800-788-6262 or www.penguinputmnam.com)

Until later,

Jack

ARTSnFOOD, is an online publication dedicated to "The Pursuit of Happiness through the Arts and Food." ™ All rights reserved for all content. Concept, Original Art, Original Text & "Original or Assigned Photography" are © Copyright 2013 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. All photographs were taken and/or used with permission. Artworks © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.