ARTE: PHARRELL WILLIAMS

A BRILLIANT ARTIST, A GENIUS MUSICIAN & AN AVANT GARDE DESIGNER

 

ARTE: BHQFU FTW YEA!

BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY has just released their Spring 2013 curriculum. If your in NY go! Its free, high quality education in art! The schedule this semester is brillant! Open house January 13, 2013 from 2-4pm, meet the instructors and find out which each of the courses are about.

About BHQFU: Founded by former Cooper Union students they offer free classes about art, art practive and other world related topics in art.  They describe themselves like this "BHQFU is a learning experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art and the world."

ARTE: OLAF BREUNING

OLAF BREUNING

The Swiss artist clarifies the pronunciation of his name and describes the unique age artists are working in. More on theavantgardediaries.com

 

ARTE: NICK CAVE FASHIONS

Tis the season! Who wouldn't want to recieve gifts wrapped up in Nick Cave paper. The sculptor and performance artist has wrapping paper, buttons, leggings, sequins scarfs, punching bags, tees and my favorite temp tattoos! Find it at all his shop

ARTE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS NUMA

MISS NUMA GLOVES YOU AND WE ADORE THE ARTIST/ACTRESS/DESIGNER!

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ARTE: THE BOOK OF POERTY & CUBA

So happy to announce CUBA: Life After The Revolution coffee table book is now on sale! Photographer Eric Berry had put together the entire catalog from the exhibition plus loads of other photos that were not on view at the gallery. Get your digital copy now on itunes!

We had the privlige of having Nnamdi I. Okafor perform in the gallery last year...he was incredible. He added publised author to his many titles with 30 Days 30 Poems. Tis the season and this seems like the perfect gift for those with an appreciation for language.

Purchase the book and use a special discount code "QUICKSIX" for additional savings.

ARTE: ROBERT RAIMON ROY IS THE GREATEST

NOBODY BUT NOBODY DOES IT LIKE RRR

ARTE: THURZ + 92CREW = THROWBACK

Was rewatching Part 1 of The Riot Starts Here which we premiered over a year ago at the gallery! I'm still fascinated by this project.

ARTE: Caitlin Cherry

FORE is the group exhibition up at the Studio Museum now, Caitlin Cherry a talented artist in her own right is the sister to one of our good friends and up & coming filmmaker Matthew Cherry.

ARTE: THE SAPEURS

I had tea with one of my favorite persons the other night, the beautiful creative fashion writer Chioma Nnadi and we were discussing Afri-pop, Solange Knowles new video and the article that inspired it.

Chioma wrote an article a few years ago about The Sapeurs when she was the Style Editor at the Fader Magazine.  Solange read that blog post and tracked down those men in the congo.

ARTE: Kermit Oliver x Hermes

Kermit Oliver the only American to design scarves for Hermes. His story was fascinating, read and listen to it here