In an interview with Rolling Stone in November of 2007, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z revealed that he owns works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Takashi Murakami. Within this very same month two Jeff Koons pieces Diamond (Blue), 1994-2005, and Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold), 1994-2006, sold for a combined $35.4 million, which shattered auction totals for a living artist. Ironically, we live in a world where rapping can provide you with the quality of wealth required to collect highly expensive works of fine art and artists' can make more money in two nights than most people can gross in a life time...
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What Comes Naturally @ Fake Estate by Ana Finel Honigman, New York
Doing "What Comes Naturally," usually refers to something racier than floral painting. But New York's Fake Estates, the experimental group show by that name demonstrates that a sharp and gritty artistic imagination can make even modest flowers appear more raw and earthy than nature intended. In the gallery's 80 square foot space (it was once a utility closet for a photographer's studio in the Chelsea Arts Building) the eleven works on view offer a variable bouquet for the senses...
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New Art Forum in San Francisco by Jessica Silverman
New Art Forum began on May 31 with visits to the artist's studios of Ali, Naschke Messing, Eric Reyes-Lamothe, and Leo Estevez in San Francisco and Oakland. Our group was intimate, myself, Maria del Carmen Carrion (Curator of New Langton Arts), Langton Arts; with Langton Board Kate Connally,Vice President, Addicting Games; and Verda Alexander,Partner,Studio O+a and some new faces! Art collectors keep surprising me – they're younger than I thought, more approachable, thoughtful and inquisitive...
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Neo Rauch @ David Zwirner by Emily Schroeder, New York
Neo Rauch's paintings are said to be of dreams or by dreams. Rauch's work was described as a "neo-romantic socialist realism by way of Courbet, Delacroix, surrealism and Kippenberger," but also touches on Pop Art. The light seems to come from underneath in early canvases as any good Renaissance painting should, post conservation. Rauch's 2005 at David Zwirner, Regeneration, was aptly so...
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