ARTS
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Mar 10
Armory Arts Week & Artlog
From Fashion to Food it seems like every industry has their week in the NYC sun or snow depending on what day it is. MY favorite week of them all, The Armory Arts Week started this past Thursday. The week’s main event, The Armory Arts Show takes place at Pier 94 exhibiting contemporary art from more than 30 countries. In addition there are dozens and dozens of smaller events and parties happening all around the 5 boroughs. So how does anyone know what are the best places to go, what parties are hot, or what exhibits are cool? The answer is artlog.com. Their slogan “Art and Culture in Real Time” says it all. This is the ultimate destination for real time updates on what is going on during Arts Week. They utilize social media via their Artlog live link where peoples tweets about Armory Art Week are redirected directly to the live section of their site. Recently as a part of the Pernod Creator Of series, I interviewed the founders Manish Vora and Dylan Fareed about Artlog.com and got a first hand demonstration of Artlog Live in action. Check it out.
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TrevzNewPop
22
Feb 10
Futura & The 151 Wooster Wildstyle Wall
A couple of years ago I documented a story about the 151 Wooster Wildstyle Wall. As Paper Magazine put it “a wall covered with the tags of old school superstars Fab Five Freddy, Futura 2000, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others. Believed to have once belonged to art critic Edit Deak, the apartment became a hang-out, a let’s get high spot where the walls became a canvas for the aerosol artists.” This story got a ton of press and I found it hard to present it with a unique perspective, consequently the project got put on hold.
Recently I found myself watching a video on HypeBeast on artist Kenny Scharf who was a part of the 1980’s Post Punk Art scene in NY. A scene that I was totally fascinated with ten years ago before I was “plugged in” and jaded. Kenny Scharf was a roommate of Keith Haring, who was a friend of Fab 5 Freddy, who collaborated with Futura 2000. These guys were at the center of what was the coolest 10 year run of art and music in NY. You had the uptown hip-hop scene, coming downtown to the Post Punk/New Wave scene, and at the center of it all were the street artist. Among them, Futura 2000. In books like Keith Haring The Authorized Biography, The Keith Haring Journals, & Basquiat A Quick Killing In Art, Futura 2000 was referenced numerous times as one of the best artist of this period. Veiwing the Scharf piece combined with a broader perspective as a result of time inspired me to dig up the old tapes and reconsider the footage. I thought that it might be cool to tell the story of the 151 Wooster Wall through Futura’s eyes. A risky approach considering I am excluding the interviews of folks like Fab 5 Freddie, Lee Quinones, and several others involved with this amazing discovery. In the end I was pleased with this approach. Futura seemed to be instantly transported back to the days when this movement was at it’s zenith and that enthusiasm translated well in this piece.
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TrevzNewPop
4
Jan 10
“Creator Of” series featuring James Fuentes
I am working with Pernod Absinthe on a new web series called “Creators Of”. This series features local artist, entrepreneurs and personalities who are making a name for themselves by being originators in their respective fields. Our first video feature features James Fuentes who was the former gallery director for Deitch Projects and now runs his own Gallery on the edge of Chinatown and the L.E.S. Check it out. Also if you’re an artist Pernod is giving away over 2k in prizes and a New Pop video feature in its “Creator Of” contest. click here for more details.
