Thurs 17th Sep: Matt Stone at The Hole NYC

Matt Stone

'Residuum'
November 1 – December 10, 2011

The Hole
312 Bowery
New York, NY 10012

Weds Nov 16th: Rainbow Tribes Minx at WAH! Nails

WAH! Nails founder Sharmadean Reid invited me to try out her new Minx collaboration design "Rainbow Tribes" because she knows I love a spectrum! For my annual Christmas card image shot with Mishkin 2 years ago, we spelt out 2010 in a rainbow manicure by WAH! Nails when they first opened on Kingsland Road. Since this time the business has bloomed and now boasts concessions in different locations around the UK including a brand new bar in the Top Shop at Stratford shopping centre. To launch this latest location, Sharmadean has worked with Minx to create 3 styles from archive designs exclusively for the store. "Golden Tribes" "Rainbow Tribes" and "Cosmic Comic" are available from tomorrow to either be applied by a WAH! artist as I experienced or to take away for pro DIY nail buffs (no pun intended)!
This design is my idea of heaven on the end of my fingers ......... a pattern of striped colour with bands of black and white circles and triangles. If you are a Pharoah / Egytian kinda gal, go for the gold option and if you like tropical prints, try out the zingy pink and orange cosmic colour way............. see the Tumblr for a photo gallery and find your fingers on there after you've visited!

Tues Noc 15th - NYC: Maurizio Cattelan at Guggenheim Museum

ADi and I took a trip uptown to see Maurizio Cattelan at Guggenheim Museum - a perfect use of an incredible space for a retrospective! Another unexpected artist witnessed making the most of displaying their wares .......... this observer and his rad watch denim jacket!!

Tues Noc 15th - NYC: Nan Goldin's Scopophilia

When I thumbed thru Time Out to see what shows where on in the city at the moment, I immediatley drew a circle round Nan Goldin at Matthew Marks Gallery. I always seem to be drawn to this gallery and this is the artist’s first exhibition in New York since 2007 which is a new 25-minute-long slide installation, originally commissioned by the Louvre Museum. The last time I had the opportunity to see her work projected on a large screen was at the collaborative performance with Patrick Wolf in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. Any chance to view more ......... and Im there!

"Scopophilia" is an assembly of 400 photographs from Goldin’s career which she has paired with paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection that echo her own autobiographical images. She was given unique permission to photograph freely throughout the Louvre to choose and document articles that she felt reflect her own intensely personal photographs. Goldin organised the themes around love and desire, calling the selection "Scopophilia", which means “the love of looking,” which has been illustrated in framed montages alongside the slideshow. With her rich history and body of work, this is a format of showing her archive that I hope happens again and again in relation to different site specific settings. As she explains “Desire awoken by images is the project’s true starting point. It is about the idea of taking a picture of a sculpture or a painting in an attempt to bring it to life.” Roll on the next reel of iconic imagery I get to witness from this pioneer.......

Matthew Marks Gallery
October 29 - December 23, 2011
522 W 22 Street, New York, NY 10011

Tues Noc 15th - NYC: Matthew Stone at The Hole

Matthew Stone has been consistently unveiling recent works at regular intervals in London which I have been featuring on here. So I'm dead chuffed that I was in the right place at the right time to see the culmination on a grand scale which has been planted in another city. Matthew's first show in New York has just opened at The Hole at the new premises on The Bowery which has been used to display a plethora of new pieces. I love the bright block colours integrated into his photographic prints soaked onto wood-board in addition to the pastel hues that have previously set off the flesh tone anatomical portraits. This is a must-see show for followers of the latest British movement in image makers redefining YBA art. It answers intellectual approach but serves the purpose of a beautiful object you actually wish to have on your own wall to while away time enjoying looking at and absorbing the optimism the artist is capturing and promoting.

Tues Nov 15th: NYC - Spartacus Chetwynd: Home Made Tasers at the New Museum

I didn't get to see the actual performance but I did snoop around the set for Spartacus Chetwynd at the New Museum........ which all in all was quite enough weirdness for one day straight after Carsten Holler! You'll know what I mean if you go. Congrats to a British artist making waves across the transatlantic shores ........ which brings me to ...........

Tues Nov 15th: NYC - Carsten Höller: Experience at the New Museum

If you are visiting NYC anytime before the end of the year I recommend that you visit the Carsten Holler retrospective at the New Museum to experience an entire institution dedicated to this fun interactive artist. You wear goggles that turn the world upside down, fly down a flume that disects all floors, ride the mirror carousel and take off your clothes for a float in a tank if you so wish ...........and see a rainbow of animals which I couldn't photograph here because of the strobe neon lights. To view images of the whole show and the see videos of the installation process go to the site.
New Museum, 235 Bowery ,New York, NY 10002 212.219.1222

Tues Noc 15th - NYC colourful sightings

A week in New York City .......... some colourful sightings from my time round the metropolis........
(top to bottom: Margot Bowman, Kenny Scharf graffitti downtown, Opening Ceremony vs. Chloe Sevigny window, Fall blossom on blue sky, jeans at Salvor, Olek shopping trolley, Brooklyn thrift shops, more Kenny uptown, Comme Des Garcons store, Bakelite bracelets at This'nThat, Prince Street graffitti, Balenciaga store, rainbow laundry bags.)