MEET ALFONSO VELEZ, the ‘Russian Bear’ in NYC

Alfonso Velez (New York, NY)

Over the summer, I ran into Alfonso Velez’ music and really liked his work. His music takes a very interesting angle due to the fact that he was raised by a Mexican father and Cuban mother all over the globe: Moscow (in the early 90s, when the Russian Federation was handling with the democratization and opening up to an international market), Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico and New Jersey.

His last album was released last month and it’s worth checking out. Please take 4 minutes of your time and check this instant classic song “Love for Life”.

If you like it (and I’m sure you will), you can download for free his entire album on his website.

I’ll be putting event info and other details on Velez.

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Face Hunter book signing in New York City!

FACEHUNTER book by Yvan Rodic

Collective Hardware, in association with Prestel Publishing, presents a FACEHUNTER book signing with author and street style blogger Yvan Rodic.

It would be at Collective Hardware tonight (Thursday, May 6, 2010) from 7 to 9PM. There would be an open bar (mostly vodka), and there’s going to be a lot of people, so I would recommend you to get there early.

Collective Hardware
169 Bowery
New York, NY 10002

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PeopleMatter by Nic*Rad @ Rare Gallery (NYC)

PeopleMatter by Nic*Rad (New York City)

Nic*Rad’s media project “PeopleMatter” is comprised of 99 paintings of traditional and new Media personalities exhibited, and then given away to those in attendance at Rare Gallery.

This gift experiment is conducted in response to the impact of technological advances that allow for increased sharing of information and content. The project will survey distorting effects of this transition on emerging and developing ideas.

Subjects were chosen based on personal Googling, Twittering, Hyperlinking, Facebooking, RSS culling and otherwise staggering around the internet and media cyberscape.

Recipients of the work will be encouraged to participate in the on going gift actions of the PeopleMatter community as well as setting the second hand value of  art works as conversation vessel, novelty, or digital and physical barter.

You shouldn’t miss it, I totally loved Nic*Rac’s work and I’m sure you all will too! The show was installed on April 3rd, and can be viewed in total up until April 29th when the work will be given away.

Rare Gallery
547 W 27 Street | No. 514
New York, NY 10001

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For The Moustache You Love @ NYC

For The Moustache You Love @ Santos Party House, NYC

Andrew W.K. is throwing a piano performance for a good cause. For The Moustache You Love is a show in New York City with an open bar. All profit will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society via Adam Indrisek, who is riding a 100-mile bike century to raise funds for a cure. The event is on Monday May 3, 2010 and will start at Santos Party House.

This event will sell out. Please buy tickets in advance via TicketWeb here.

Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street
New York, NY‎
Tel: +1 (212) 584-5492‎

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“ELFERING – 1642″ by Matthias Schaller @ Danzinger Projects (NYC)

"ELFERING - 1642" by Matthias Schaller (Dillingen, Germany)

Matthias Schaller is presenting a new exhibition opening this Thursday in New York City. The title “Elfering – 1642” refers to the famous German collector, Gert Elfering, and the number allocated by Christie’s to Elfering’s single owner sale in October of 2005. The auction comprised 135 works that Elfering had defined as the distillation of his interests, and featured the most famous pictures by the masters of fashion and editorial photography – Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon – as well as works by Man Ray, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Robert Mapplethorpe. The sale fetched over $7 million and its success signaled the ascension of the editorial/fashion genre to the highest levels of price and desirability in photography.

Matthias Schaller was born in Dillingen, Germany, in 1965. Over the last decade he has been widely exhibited and published in Europe but “Elfering -1642” will be his first U.S. gallery show. The opening is in April 15th from 6 to 8PM at Danzinger Projects.

Danzinger Projects
534 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: +1 (212) 629-6778

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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere @ Team Gallery (NYC)

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Ryan McGinley (c) 2010 Teamgal.com

Team Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by the New York-based photographer Ryan McGinley. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere will run from the 18th of March through the 17th of April 2010.

For his latest exhibition, Ryan McGinley has shifted his focus away from constructing a youthful sublime within the boundless American landscape and has concentrated instead on creating imagery within the confines of his New York studio. The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture. Here we see McGinley not as a chronicler of youthful adventure, but as an engine for an almost scientific cataloguing of a kind of emotional optimism.

Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013

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Leslie Hewitt’s On Beauty, Objects and Dissonance @ The Kitchen (NYC)

Leslie Hewitt's at The Kitchen (c) 2010 D'Amelio Terras, New York

The Kitchen presents On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance, an exhibition of New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt’s most recent investigations in photography, sculpture and film installation. Hewitt is known for work that riffs on political, social and personal material in order to expand confining narratives.

This exhibition features a selection from three photographic bodies of work: A Series of Projections (2010), Midday (2009), and Riffs on Real Time (2008), alongside a new film installation created in collaboration with experimental cinematographer Bradford Young.

Curated by Rashida Bumbray, the exhibition will be on view March 27—May 10, 2010.

The Kitchen’s gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Saturday, 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Admission is free.

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

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Thirty Days NY begins tomorrow!

FAMILY Los Angeles presents Thirty Days NY (New York City)

As a few of you know, FAMILY Los Angeles has been working in a project in New York City called Thirty Days NY. They have been curating the physical space at 70 Franklin St, and it seems to be ready. The project consist on an exhibition that will take place from April 8 to May 7, where Dallas Clayton has been gathering material by some great videographers interviewing artists around the US.

Tomorrow night is the opening night and I personally can’t wait to see what they’re going to show us. It’s going to have live sets by Aska and Brian Degraw (from Gang Gang Dance).

Thirty Days NY
70 Franklin St
New York, NY 10013

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Rodarte Sample Sale in New York City

Rodarte Sample Sale

Rodarte is having a sample sale in New York City this month (April 20-21, 2010). In order to get there, you need to RSVP as soon as possible.

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Patrik Ervell Sample Sale today in NYC

 

Patrick Ervell is having a sample sale today in New York City

 

If you’re interested, you should take some time today to hit the sample sale Patrik Ervell will have in New York City. And just remember everything sales quite fast, so don’t hesitate a lot if you’re curious. And hit the ATM first, since the sales are going to be cash only.

Patrik Ervell Sample Sale
Friday March 12th & Saturday March 13th, 2010
Noon – 6pm

35 Howard Street, Buzzer #4
New York, NY 10013

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