ARTE: ADL Art Auction

Last night I attended the art auction for the Anti Defamation League LA at the home of Jeanne and Tony Pritzker.  The host was Eli Broad and there were tons of awesome pieces up for grabs!  Kehinde Wiley, Gary Baseman and Kenturah Davis were just a few of the talents involved.  Kenturah made a drawing for the occasion.  A portrait of Alpha Robertson, the mother of Carole Robertson the 14 year old girl that was killed in the 1963 church bombing.  Read the article published in the Jewish Journal which features a quote from Kenturah about her art practice.

ARTE: Silkscreen How To

Love this from the Bruces!

ARTE: STWTS

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is an artist we have worked with in the past and have featured many times on ARTE: Her project Stop Telling Women To Smile is kick starting!  Check it out and pledge to get some really rad things :-)

ARTE: Metamorphose x AD Interieurs x Paris 2013

The trip to Paris was for the opening of Metamorphose which is sponsored by Architectural Digest France.  It launchs design week in Paris and honors the top 10-15 architects and designers in Europe you should be working with.

Elliott Barnes is one of the designers picked for the top honor! He along with the others were invited to design a room in a classic old Parisian mansion.  Elliott commissioned 5 hand written drawings from Kenturah to display in his "Le Salon de Compagnie"  The exhibition is on view September 7 - 22, 2013 at 47 quai de la Tournelle 75005 Paris

Kenturah sharing a moment with Padma Lakshmi

A view of the room Elliott Barnes designed

ARTE: Roy Lichtenstein

Had the pleasure of checking out the Roy Lichtenstein retrospect at Centre Pompidou in Paris.  This video from My Art Agenda sums up the exhibition experience perfectly!

ARTE: Science and Invention is Cool

ARTE: Samuel Levi Jones

Oakland artist Samuel Levi Jones!

ARTE: Supertoy x Hek Hernandez = Warhol Baby

Amir George from Black Cinema House put us on to this track.

ARTE: B.A.R.

Last week installation artist and sculptor Theaster Gates hosted the first Black Artists Retreat in Chicago.  This also served as an introduction to the many projects Theaster has in progress.  The Black Cinema House, Archive Library, Blair House, Dorchester Artist Housing Collaborative, Hyde Park Art House, and the Kimbark Warehouse are all located on the south side of Chicago and will serve the communities they reside in, in a most immediate way.

The retreat was an opportunity for artists of many generations to meet, talk and plan for collaborative initiatives and ideas for the future.

Kenturah Davis and MJP were lucky and honored to be invited.  Were looking forward to the wonderful new things that will come out of it!

All photos below by Kenturah Davis

MJP & Carrie Mae Weems in dialogueTheaster GatesDinner at the Kimbark WarehouseB.A.R. guest & Curator Amanda HuntArtists - Kenturah Davis & Terence NanceArtists - Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems & Todd Gray

ARTE: SANDY iPhone Photo Book

#SANDY is a book of iPhone Photos by acclaimed photographers who captured the tragic devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut. #SANDY will be published by Daylight Books in 2014 but when you purchase now, you will get an early copy in October 2013!

100% of the royalties from the book will be donated to Occupy Sandy to support the rebuilding efforts in New York City and the Sandy Storyline project.

The book is only available for purchase through our IndieGogo campaign and you will receive it by the first year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy in Late October 2013. If we do not meet our funding goal, the book will not be published.  

Featured photographers include Benjamin Lowy, Stephen Wilkes, Ed Kashi/Vll, Richard Renaldi, Hank Willis Thomas, Lyle Owerko, Wyatt Gallery, Ruddy Roye, Craig Wetherby, Andrew Quilty, 13th Witness, Michael Christopher Brown, Yosra El-Essawy, Erica Simone, Giles Clarke, Sam Horine, Stanley Lumax, Dylan Chandler, Brent Bartley, and Nicole Sweet.

This book is the first of it's kind to showcase the impact of the iPhone combined with Social Media to inspire others to make a difference while simultaneously reporting the news.

Photo by Ruddy RoyePhoto by Wyatt galleryPhoto by Benjamin Lowy

Photo by Lyle OwerkoPhoto by Hank Willis ThomasPhoto by Ricard Renaldiindiegogo.com/projects/sandy-iphone-photography-book

ARTE: I LOVE JANY

Came across this incredible video telling the story of one of the first Black models in fashion.

"Shot in New York by artist Sasha Huber. Story is about Jany Tomba, Haitian girl that moved to NY as a child with her family and explains how she became a model as a black girl, being one of the first black girls to get into magazine covers in US."

ARTE: Mad Decent x ADHD X Ben Jones

Mad Decent records is back on tour and collaborating with new animation channel ADHD which is creatively directed by artist Ben Jones who we love!

More stuff from Ben Jones

New Dark Age at Deitch Projects 2009New Dark Age at Deitch Projects 2009

Stills of a video paintingIce Cream Truck

ARTE: Scholarships for Young Photographers

Scholarship for young photographers – Rome Photo Workshop, October 2013, with Francesco Zizola

YarT Photography offers a scholarship available to cover 50% of the workshop fee for young photographers under 30 years old. Scholarship application deadline is August 15 2013.

The workshop is open to all ages and nationalities!

For information about the workshop and registration (with o without scholarship): info@yartproject.com

ARTE: This Week In Art

Spike Lee and Marina Ambramovic launch kickstarters (separately), both are worthy of supporting!

Marina is forming her own institute for the creation and advancement of long durational work.

Spike is making a new Spike Lee joint!

Picasso Baby debuts...Jay Z's 6 hour "performance art" piece (or music video) shot at PACE in NY last month.

And finally Lady Gaga announces new album titled "ART POP"

ARTE: Friends of Free Expression

These Ai Weiwei new phone and ipad covers are stellar. Staying true to his idea of free expression you can put various quotes from the artist on the backs of your devices.  They are genius and starting at just $15 there is no reason not to get one! Here is what Friends of Ai Weiwei had to say.

"This is the first in a series of high quality gelskins and cases designed to personalize and protect portable devices. Proceeds go to help fund our efforts to raise awareness to the challenges Ai Weiwei faces with the Chinese Authorities and promote free expression via art and activism around the world. Thank you for your support and following."

Get them at friendsoffreeexpression.com/collections/skins-and-cases

ARTE: ONOMOLLIWOOD

Senegalese photographers Omar Viktor Diop and Antoine Tempe reimagine American cinema with Onomolliwood, a series that shows what some of the biggest Hollywood films would have looked like if shot in Africa.

American Beauty, Frida, Breakfast at Onomo's, The Matrix, Thelma and Louise

ARTE: ART DEALER CHIC JEFFREY DEITCH

Jeffrey Deitch is truly one of the genius icons of our time.  I have never met any one like him before and I will never meet anyone like him again, he's an original and his contribution to art is unparalled.

ARTE: EL'S FLOWERS

This is worth downloading...were loving Sunni Colon's latest EP

ARTE: INEZ & VINOODH

The photography duo from Amsterdam are at Gagosian Beverly Hills now!

Basically every picture we take is a self-portrait—a picture of how we feel at that moment in our lives.
—Inez & Vinoodh

ARTE: BLACK BOX + MANDELA MURAL

Black Box opens today! While the Nelson Mandela Mural unveiling is Sunday, click the thumbnails for larger view and GO CHECK THEM OUT...