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The 2010 installment of The Armory Show has come and gone.  Hundreds of galleries from around the world all packed tightly together for a few days on the piers jutting out over the Hudson.  A fitting location as it felt like a sort-of sardine cannery for art.  I walked the entirety of the show on Saturday [...]

I have been thinking about the new ‘Raindrop Besace’ bag by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.  And I think I love it.  Well… to clarify… I love it… because it is so confusing. 
It is, literally, a trash bag.  Except that it is not.  A neo-realist representation of a trash bag.  But done in glossy treated [...]

I know I am late to this party but Danziger Projects is currently showing an exhibit of Andy Warhol Polaroids titled, ‘Greatness; Andy Warhol Polaroids of Sports Champions’.  Currently hanging in Danziger’s 534 West 24th Street gallery, the exhibit features sports stars such as Muhammad Ali, O.J. Simpson, Pele and John McEnroe.  Most of the champions [...]

Andy has done it again.  Hot painting of the moment ‘200 One Dollar Bills’  (1962) sold at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction last night for US$43,762,500. Over three times the high estimate of $12 million.  The New York Times article about the sale describes five collectors in competition for the piece.  The painting is a [...]

I have a new respect for Mick Jagger. 
He’s rock n’ roll.  He appreciates art and the artistic process.  He’s polite (although I guess that’s sort of a common British thing).  And evidently he is happy to pay his subcontractors well.  If only every client could be like this. 
No wonder the Queen knighted him.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nice letterhead by [...]