Hey, Weekend!

Hey Everybody!

This week's installment of Hey, Weekend features a fun mix of photography, film, music, and NYC Pride. We're excited about this heat, and if you aren't just headed to the beach--we got you covered.

We'll see you next week!

Love,

3rd Ward

#1

FRIDAY, 6/22 // PHOTOVILLE

June 22 to July 1, 2012

Why call it a festival, when you've got a town? This pop up photography village is made of freight containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The scope is huge: exhibitions, lectures, hands-on workshops, nighttime projections, a photo dog run, a camera greenhouse, and a summer beer garden amid food trucks.

image courtesy of Photoville

#2

THROUGH 7/11 // BAMCINEMAFEST

 We're lucky that all the celebrated films from Cannes, Sundance, SXSW (and more) come to us here in NY first. Even better that it's in Brooklyn! Besides the motley of flicks we want to check out, we want to see Jon Krasinski (Jim from The Office!) play half of an LA couple, whose lives are stirred up when a woman moves in with them.

photo courtesy of BAMcinemaFest

 #3

SATURDAY, 6/23 // GHOSTFACE KILLAH HEADLINES LYRICIST LOUNGE 20TH ANNIVERSARY 

Doors Open @ 6:30. Def Jam core artist GHOSTFACE KILLAH, hailing from the Wu-Tang Clan pantheon, headlines this birthday celebration for the legendary Lyricist Lounge.  Special guests include: CAMP LO, ASTRO,  FARAH BURNS, RAH DIGGA, KID CAPRI, and more!

photo courtesy of Celebrate Brooklyn!

#4

SATURDAY, 6/23 // I LOVE VINYL @ LE POISSON ROUGE 

Keep listening to Hiphop after the Ghostface show is over. This party features NYC DJ heavy-hitters who know how to play the classics we wanna hear. If listening to 90s music does you right, or you prefer traveling even farther back into the funk and soul era, then this is where you need to be. 

photo courtesy of ilovevinyl.org 

#5

SUNDAY, 6/24 //  NYC PRIDE MARCH 

March begins at Fifth Ave and 36th St and proceeds south to the reviewing stand at Fifth Ave and 8th St before turning west down Christopher St to Greenwich St.  

Grand Marshals of this year's pride: Cyndi Lauper, Kiehl's president Chris Salgardo, the first same-sex couple to legally marry in New York, Phyllis Siegel and Connie Kopelov! 

Pride // NYC courtesy of bestofnewyork.com

The Unabashed NADA Art Fair NYC Trend: Color Blocking

 

With each season comes a new set of trends, and in that respect, the art world is no different from any other market. Jerry Saltz--New York Mag's resident art critic--pointed out several in his recent, excellent piece on "How to Make It in the Art World." Amongst the listed trends: Trash, "Cindy Sherman-esque," neon words, candy-colored sculpture, video-game art, busted open canvases and art about the art market. Sure, there was a great deal of that on view at NADA NYC, but we'd like to add one more to the list, and that is: Color blocking.

In general, the showing at NADA was unexpectedly colorful, but these bright, blocky compositions were clear standouts. In particular, Sadie Benning's untitled Gouache works on collaged newspaper drew us into Vogt Gallery's booth. Benning had several pieces on view alongside the super-flat figurative paintings by Mernet Larsen, who took traditional color blocking for a spin with Sit Ups Leg Lift, a depiction of two people stretching on exercise mats (as featured up above.)

The showing from Galerie Christian Lethert continued the painterly take on the trend with Joe Fyfe's wood and acrylic Pursat. Fyfe's other work is similarly rough in technique but more involved and often incorporates a variety of media like fabric and large planks of wood. In fact, out of all his pieces, Pursat seems like the least representative of his work, but despite its extremely DIY appearance it attracted a flock of potential collectors. 

The Rome gallery 1/9 unosunove was the most direct in their boldly color block-only booth, with three pieces by Dan Shaw-Town and a smattering of Jamie Shovlin's take on the famous Fontana Modern Masters (above), a series of pocket guides on writers, philosophers and thinkers. First published in the 70's, the guides became better known for their cover art than for their content. Art director John Constable was one of the first to use a sans-serif typeface on his abstract and op art compositions. The last book was published in 1995, but from 2003-2005 Shovlin reinterpreted the 48 covers "as a series of flawed paintings" with missing titles and running colors. While he was working on these he discovered 10 titles that, for whatever reason, were never published; amongst them Fuller by Allan Temko and Sherrington by Jonathan Miller.

In related news, consider checking out our Color Theory course, in which we prep you and your work for imminent NADA dominance (or the actualization of your individual, artist-oriented goals, which we feel is probably more vital.)