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Last night after a day of photo shoots and other creative business I stopped in for a brief appearance at my friend Joe Mode's In The Mix party at HK Lounge. The event was packed, sexy and chic without pretense.

As I slipped out the door on my way to a late dinner I was stopped by a very nice young woman named Esther. She handed me a mini flyer promoting a website and organization called Society HAE. Centered on fashion, music, art and culture, Society HAE serves as a point of convergence for the creative community across the globe. Their intent is to establish an international collective that supports and nutures the efforts of emerging artists, musicians, designers and creators worldwide.

We introduced ourselves and when I handed her my business card she had an excited and very curious response: "OMG, you're Ricky Day!" I said "yes, I am." She went on to tell me that we have a mutual friend and that I should definitely visit the site asap because I would be surprised. Of course I was very curious and checked the site as soon as I got home.

Well as it turns out the site is a very cool mix of social networking, blog, and online magazine. Front and center is a video window and one of the featured videos is a piece shot by Sekiya Dorsett of The Rainbow Collective about yours truly. I don't like seeing myself on camera, but I must say that Sekiya found a way to make me almost seem cool.

In any event check out the site and give me some feedback on what you think of what they're trying to accomplish. I think it's pretty cool (and that was before I realized I was being featured.

http://www.societyhae.com

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Migratory Drift

September 17 – October 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 6-8pm

P·P·O·W Gallery is pleased to announce Migratory Drift, our first solo exhibition with George Boorujy. In his expansive and finely observed drawings, Boorujy uses a naturalist's eye to depict iconic North American animals and landscapes, presenting a vision of life on the continent that is at once foreign and familiar.

Within vast landscapes, plausible yet imagined human structures exist in environments that exhibit evidence of change. Not only has the climate and ecology shifted in these places, so has the interaction and behavior of their inhabitants both human and animal. Something big has happened, what is not clear is whether these are scenes of collapse – or renewal.

Through these images, Boorujy explores ideas of community; of the relationship between the built and the natural; and the cycles of predation and interdependence which postindustrial cultures hold at a distance. The connection of these concepts creates a vision that may be a glimpse into the not so distant future, an allegory for our own times, or the revelation of an alternate history.

George Boorujy was born and raised in New Jersey and now lives and works on the far Western tip of Long Island.

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There's a beautiful song on Brandy's most recent CD and I was listening to it today and decided to share it with you all. peep da lyrics, google da song and enjoy. It's the theme song for my on-going portrait series This is The Life and one of my mantra's for living.

Enjoy.

Camouflage as sung by Brandy

I’m a work in progress
I’m a seed grown into a flower
I’m a storm that’s rising
Getting stronger with every hour
And god knows I ain’t perfect
Tell me who in the world is
All I know is that I’m searching
For somebody to love me with

These flaws I’ve got
There all apart of who I am
Take me, all night
That I finally understand
I’m so done trying to be everything you want
When I have to stop
Because baby you ain’t worth it
If I’ve got to Camouflage
For love, for love
No I won’t Camouflage
For love, for love
I won’t Camouflage

I need a lot of improvement
Not even half way to destiny
But I’m a train that’s moving
And everyday I’m picking up speed
And god knows you ain’t perfect
So who are you to put pressure on me
That’s why I’m still searching
For somebody to love me with

These flaws I’ve got
There all apart of who I am
Take me, all night
That I finally understand
I’m so done trying to be everything you want
When I have to stop
Because baby you ain’t worth it
I’ve got to Camouflage
For love, for love
No I won’t Camouflage
For love, for love
I won’t Camouflage

I’ve learned from my mistakes
The only way you’re gonna be happy
Is if someone’s down to Take
Here when it’s good and it’s bad you see
I tried giving half of me
In the end I came up empty
And that’s why I’m searching yeah
For somebody to love me with these flaws

These flaws I’ve got
There all apart of who I am
Take me, all night
That I finally understand
I’m so done trying to be everything you want
When I have to stop
Because baby you ain’t worth it
I’ve got to Camouflage
These flaws I’ve got
There all apart of who I am
Take me, all night
That I finally understand
I’m so done trying to be everything you want
When I have to stop
Because baby you ain’t worth it
I’ve got to Camouflage
For love, for love
No I won’t Camouflage
For love, for love
I won’t Camouflage
I can’t Camouflage

Because baby you ain’t worth it
If I have to camouflage
Baby you ain’t worth it
If I have to camouflage

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Alison Jacques Gallery announces the first UK solo show of acclaimed American artist Ryan McGinley with an exhibition of 24 new colour photographs shot in caves across North America. Over the last year, McGinley and his crew explored huge caves underground, venturing into unknown territory, seeking out spectacular natural spaces, some previously undocumented. The title of the show “Moonmilk” alludes to the crystalline deposits found on the walls of many caves; it was once believed that this substance was formed by light from celestial bodies passing through rock into darkened worlds below. A book of McGinley’s new photographs will be published by Morel books to coincide with the opening of the London show on September 10.

GALLERY

16-18 Berners Street London W1T 3LN
Telephone +44 (0) 20 7631 4720
Fax +44 (0) 20 7631 4750
OPENING HOURS

10-6pm Tuesday - Saturday, or by appointment.
The gallery is closed on Mondays
TRANSPORT

Nearest London Underground Stations
Oxford Circus Station and Tottenham Court Road Station

http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

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Check out my boy Derricks Adams participation in two very exciting events this coming weekend.

MoMA MIXX
The Museum of Modern Art
Saturday, September 26, 2009, 8:00 p.m. -12:00 a.m.

Featuring Derrick Adams and Mickalene Thomas AKA DJ Professor of Music and Dean of Admissions, Hercules and Love Affair, and Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin. MoMA MiXX pairs major artists with world-class musicians or DJs. At each dance party, both the DJ and the artist will spin a set of music that has been influential in their lives and work.

A benefit dance party hosted by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art . Tickets for cocktails and dancing start at $75. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/7277.
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The Kitchen Block Party: A Neighborhood Street Fair

The Kitchen

Saturday, September 26, 12-5pm

Featuring a project by Derrick Adams + Arvay Adams What's A Wiz? Second Life; Silkscreen T-shirt project in collaboration with Housing Works

Kick off the fall season with a free, family-friendly street festival featuring an afternoon of live performances alongside dozens of artist-led activities and crafts, including face-painting, puppet and mask-making, temporary tattoos, cookie decorating, collaborative sculpture projects, unusual photo booths, hula-hoop and drumming workshops, and many, many more! http://www.thekitchen.org/

For those of you who won't be able to come down this weekend, please be sure to look for Collette Blanchard Gallery at the NADA Art Fair this December, where Mr. Adams will have solo booth and perform Bizarro Wiz. http://www.newartdealers.org/miami/2009/

December 3-6, 2009, 2009
The Deauville Beach Resort
6701 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33141

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“HARLEM IS THE NEW BLACK”
N Boutique debuts
Private Label Specialty T-shirts

NEW YORK, NY, September 14, 2009. N Boutique, Harlem’s chic
multi-designer store launches its debut collection of “urban luxe” N
branded stylish t-shirts for men & women.

“Harlem is the New Black” * is one of seven images in its exclusive
inaugural men and women’s fashion range that is designed to be smart,
stylish, and celebrate Harlem. The initial collection is available
immediately online (www.nharlemnewyork.com) and in store early October.
The 100% combed cotton shirts are sized sm-2X for men and sm-xl for women.
Pricing is $20-$25 per shirt.

The brand is a new take on urban luxury. Young, sophisticated and fresh,
The N Harlem New York shirt collection takes its cue from the soul and
vitality of Harlem, one of New York City—and the world’s—most famous and
exciting neighborhoods. The shirts are all about mixing an uptown style
sensibility with a downtown edginess.

The designs are sleek, modern and timeless, paying homage to style icons
and Harlem’s international influence on style, music, art and
entertainment by referencing everything from the 1920s jazz era to
contemporary “Ghetto Fabulousness”.

Co-owner/creative director Larry Ortiz has gone beyond the typical t-shirt
line trend by using bold, graphic techniques and pairing them with slimmer
silhouettes more associated with higher- end designer collections. Says
Ortiz, “Our signature shirt, ‘Harlem is the new Black’ says it all: Harlem
is fresh, hot and very sexy. It’s a classic—like Gucci.”

"Harlem is the new Black" signature tee for men & women

"La Revue D'Harlem" references the banana skirt made famous by the
irreverent & fabulous Josephine Baker who was the toast of Harlem & the
world

T-shirt styles celebrating female icons in entertainment:
"Billie" is a silhouette that references the instantly recognizable
gardenia that Billie Holiday wore in her hair

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About N Boutique
The meatpacking district has Jeffrey; the Upper East Side has Barneys; and
Harlem has N—a specialty boutique that after 3 years recently relocated to
tonier section a few blocks away at 171 Lenox Avenue, between 118th &
119th Streets. The soft re-launch is October ‘09.

* “Harlem is the new Black” is a registered trademark of N Harlem New York

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New Michael Jackson Album and Song
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
UNRELEASED MICHAEL JACKSON SONG "THIS IS IT" TO BE UNVEILED OCTOBER 12TH

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE TWO DISC ALBUM WITH MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE SONY PICTURES FILM MICHAEL JACKSON"S THIS IS IT ON OCTOBER 26TH/27TH

On October 12th, the first new Michael Jackson song to emerge since the world mourned the loss of this musical icon will be released – a brand new single entitled "This Is It." Soon after, Sony Music Entertainment's Columbia/Epic Label Group will release the two-disc album This Is It featuring the music that inspired Sony Pictures' forthcoming film MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT. This two-disc album will be available internationally on October 26th and North America on October 27th to coincide with the worldwide release of the motion picture which arrives in theaters on October 28th and runs for a limited two-week engagement.

"This song only defines, once again, what the world already knows - that Michael is one of God's greatest gifts," comments John McClain, co-producer of the album.

Disc one will feature the original album masters of some of Michael's biggest hits arranged in the same sequence as they appear in the film. The disc ends with two versions of the never-released "This Is It." This song is featured in the film's closing sequence and includes backing vocals by Michael's brothers, the Jacksons.

Disc two offers previously unreleased versions of some of the artist's classic tracks. This disc also features a touching spoken word poem from Michael Jackson entitled "Planet Earth" that has never been heard before.

The two-disc This is It is a stand-alone companion to the motion picture and includes a 36-page, commemorative booklet featuring exclusive photos of Michael from his last rehearsal.

The motion picture MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a chance to discover the man they never knew through this privileged and private look at Jackson. In raw and candid detail, MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show.

Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson's creative partner and the director of the stage show is also directing the film, which is being produced by Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega and Paul Gongaware. Executive producers are John Branca and John McClain. The film will be distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing.

Tickets for the limited two-week engagement of the film go on sale beginning September 27. For more information about the motion picture, please visit the website www.thisisit-movie.com.

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This is a new clip from the upcoming film This is It.

Check it out.

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Keep ya eyes open, ears ready and be ready for the NEW-NEW. Urban Pop Life is ready to grow. I'm hard at work making a bright new future personally, professionally and creatively. It's been a challenging year of change, but I can see clearly now that the transition needed to happen and was worth the angst.

New photos, new art, new me, new twist on the blog..it's all coming soon.

Are you ready to Pop forward?

I am.

Love U all.

Peace and be funky.

Ricky

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www.rickyday.net

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STEPHEN J. SHANABROOK

Liquid LUSHES and Late Night House of PILLS

September 17 - October 17, 2009

DANEYAL MAHMOOD GALLERY
511 West 25 St. 3FL, New York, NY 10001

Looking at Stephen j Shanabrook's work is like watching the horse jumping over an obstacle and instead of landing on the other side it starts to float and you are lost. Like a man on a wire, Shanabrook restlessly walks the disturbing line between heaviness and zero gravity, between painful and sweet, death and beauty; melting them together - metaphorically and literally - into one frozen state, one fossil. In 'Hopping Hills, the Pharmaceutical Landscape', the artist melts plastic prescription pill bottles and presses them into the form of Easter bunnies. An installation of running and hopping rabbits made out of hundreds of empty pill vessels suggests that prescription drugs have become the new religion, with addiction to drugs the new American side effect - the result of lost hopes and multiplying disconnections between people and reality.

In Shanabrook's sculpture 'Island of the Lotus-Eaters' the viewer is seduced by the beauty of a huge flower, which upon closer examination becomes again, just a pile of melted drug bottles. On his long journey back home Odysseus visited the lethargic island of Lotus-Eaters. The lotus fruits and flowers, which were narcotic and addictive, were the primary food of the islanders. The Lotus-Eaters entertained Odysseus' men to the drug causing them to forget about their strong desire to go home, now they only wished to stay and eat more lotuses. The labyrinthine journey back home is the methaphor of our lives. While drug induced illusions have the tendency to bring us 'home', most of the time it's a wrong turn on a slippery road - and often a fatal one.

Shanabrook isn't a stranger to addiction, he went to hell and back on his own. Whith a mix of materials in non-stop experimental process, which for the addictive personality is never enough, in combination with themes of longing for home - strongly reminds us of another mover - Martin Kippenberger. With similar types of gestures, such as one where Kippenberger painted his Ford Capri in brown paint imbued with oatmeal, Shanabrook covers common plastic soldiers in delicious dark chocolate in his new installation 'Battle of Losers and Lovers'. The sweet, desirable chocolate dripping on the white surface of stacked office tables (an allegory of the everyday working process) becomes messy bloody evidence of fear and dissatisfaction with one's self.

In his rather horrifying statement 'The Chocolate Soldier or Heroism - The Lost Chord of Christianity' C.T. Studd (1860-1931) said "a soldier without heroism is a chocolate soldier! ...dissolving in water and melting at the smell of fire. Sweeties they are! Bonbons, lollipops! Living their lives in a glass dish or in a cardboard box, each clad in his soft clothing, a little frilled white paper to preserve his dear little delicate constitution." More than a hundred years later we understand that there should be place for all - chocolate soldiers, losers and lovers. While, and especially because, society puts so much pressure on people's lives, that every day feels like a battlefield. And in the end of the day we want a prize, we want chocolate, we want home. Shanabrook remembers reading an account of a field medic from the Vietnam War. "He was explaining what he carried with him in his medic satchel, these bare necessities as he called them included: gauze, morphine, tape, comic books and M&Ms. The candies were for the mortally wounded soldiers, the ones that would never make it to the field hospitals. For these soldiers the candy was a way to satisfy a simple desire to feel closer to home, before they slipped away into that unknown jungle." (Veronika Georgieva, 2009)

Daneyal mahmood
info@daneyalmahmood.com
DANEYAL MAHMOOD GALLERY

511 WEST 25 ST, 3FL
NEW YORK CITY 10001
phone: 212 675 2966

Tues.-Sat. 11am to 6pm
(between 10th and 11th aves.)

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Kinsey/DesForges presents:

Angelika J. Trojnarski After The Gold Rush

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 12, 6-9pm

Kinsey/DesForges is delighted to welcome Düsseldorf-based artist Angelika J. Trojnarski to Los Angeles for her second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will open on September 12th with an artist’s reception from 6-9pm, and will continue through October 10th.

Variegated decay and abandonment are the protagonists of Trojnarski’s work—dissolving dwellings and orphaned amusement parks, rusted ship hulls and the rickety edifices of a civilization desperately denying its own condition and fate. Focusing on the architectural remains and industrial excess of an economic fall-out, Trojnarski examines how humanity’s true strengths can be dwarfed by the greed and myopia of a dominant few, leaving those affected clinging to their residual past and wondering what went wrong.

In this investigation, Trojnarski creates a certain Baudelairean beauty; fractured planes propel outward, sustained by unfaltering scaffolds and solid foundations, all brilliantly illuminated under a wash of radiant light. A heroic optimism motivates the apparent wreckage, demonstrating the vast potentiality for change and regrowth. She explains, “This exhibition is a dichotomy of attraction and rejection, temptation and redemption.“ These “seductive still lifes of destruction,“ caught in arrested motion like a neglected construction site, hauntingly bear witness to the traumas within our collective memory. Like skeletons of their former selves, the images seem to lament an irrevocable loss while implicitly calling for an effort to move forward and rebuild the twisted spine of social conscience.

Born in Poland in 1979, Trojnarski lives and works in Düsseldorf, currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Kunstakademie). Her works have been shown in Germany and the U.S. as well as in London and Basel, Switzerland.

Kinsey/Deforges
6069 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California
www.kinseydesforges.com

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Wadsworth Jarrell emerged on the Chicago Art Scene just as the Civil Rights Movement was rapidly escalating. As an African American artist, he felt compelled to produce relevant work that would not only echo the liberation movement, but influence the visual identity of black culture. His visual language would pull from traditional African art forms, luminous colors, rhythmic patterns, and black subject matter to envoke pride, power, and self-awareness.

Jarrell's work became distiguished for its vibrant character, as well as for the artist's loyalty to African symbolism and geometric pattern. Even as Jarrell has added three-dimensional works to his repertoire, he remains dedicated to the aesthtic. As Dr. Robert Douglas wrote in the book Wadsworth Jarrell: The Artist as Revolutionary, "Because his life has been a continued thrust for independence and free expression, because his art has remained truthful to African people's struggles, Wadworth Jarrell, the artist as revolutionary, is a beacon of possibilty for others."

Jarrell's iconic work has been featured in close to 200 exhibitions, including 28 solo shows. Major instutions like the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Contemporary Museum of Art in Chicago, and the Smithsonian International Gallery have exhibited his work. Collectors include the Shomburg Center, the High Museum of Art, the Coca-Cola Corporation, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, and the Montreux Office of Tourism (Switzerland). He completed his undergraduate studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, and received his Masters of Fine Arts at Howard University.

International Visions The Gallery | 2629 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20008

gallery hours. wed-sat, 11am-6pm or by appointment | t. 202 234 5112
www.inter-visions.com

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This blog is about art, love and the human spirit. One of my very favorite musical artists of any genre is the extremely talented Tonex. In an incredible interview conducted recently Tonex speaks candidly about music and his personal life and comes clean about homosexuality. It is a riveting, powerful and honest conversation. I thought it was something I needed to share for those of you who may be facing similar circumstances. I am very interested in your opinions on the interview and the subject.

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I have nothing to add that you wont get from watching this BEAUTIFUL, STYLISH AND BANGIN VIDEO from Mary J. Blige.

Enjoy.

Music Videos

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TONIGHT IS A MAJOR EVENT IN FASHION! Check the details below and get out, go shopping and have some fun too.

In the United States, American Vogue has joined with NYC & Company, the City of New York, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to enliven again the consumer spirit that churns the economy and boosts the local industry of America’s fashion capital, New York City. Next only to finance, fashion is the second-largest sector of industry in New York City—the headquarters of more than 800 fashion companies employing 175,000 people and generating $10 billion in total wages. At City Hall’s May 20 press conference to announce Fashion’s Night Out, Vera Wang said, "To put it bluntly, if people don’t shop, people lose their jobs."

The first evening of New York Fashion Week, Fashion's Night Out will encompass festivities galore— from inventive window displays to model and celebrity appearances. Champagne may flow; hors d'oeuvres may be passed. Rumors of musical performances, downtown barbecues, shoe capsules, limited-edition rings, and sweepstakes abound. Apparently there will be makeovers, brow bars, and haircut stations at sundry spots, too.

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Free Fashion’s Night Out Shuttle Bus

During Fashion’s Night Out, there will be free shuttle buses running in Manhattan 6–11pm. These special double-decker buses have been generously provided by Gray Line New York and Payless ShoeSource as the official ride of Fashion’s Night Out.

There will be uptown and downtown bus loops provided. Both bus loops will make their first two stops on Sixth Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets, and across from the Payless ShoeSource store at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. Riders can transfer from an uptown bus to a downtown bus, and vice versa, at either of these locations. After each bus completes its loop, it will return to the starting point and continue the route again.

Below is a list of the downtown and uptown stops that each bus loop will be making. Just hop on and hop off for free at any stop. Look for the Gray Line New York buses with Fashion’s Night Out signage on the front.
DOWNTOWN ROUTE
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Sixth Ave. bet. 35th and 36th Sts.
Stop: West side of Fifth Ave. at 39th St.
Stop: In front of Macy’s at City Sights tour bus stop (north side of 34th St. bet. Broadway and Seventh Ave.)
Stop: South side of 14th St. bet. Hudson St. and Eighth Ave.
Stop: Seventh Ave. South bet. W. 4th and W. 10th Sts. (Gray Line bus stop in front of Rivera Café)
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Broadway between Spring and Broome Sts.
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Broadway between Cortlandt and John Sts.
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Sixth Ave. at 8th St.
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Sixth Ave. bet. 35th and 36th Sts.
Stop: In front of Macy’s at City Sights tour bus stop (north side of 34th St. bet. Broadway and Seventh Ave.)

UPTOWN ROUTE
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Sixth Ave. bet. 35th and 36th Sts.
Stop: West side of Fifth Ave. at 39th St.
Stop: East side of Madison Ave. bet. 49th and 50th Sts.
Stop: 716 Lexington Ave. (bet. 57th and 58th Sts.)
Stop: Gray Line bus stop at Central Park South (59th St. bet. Fifth and Sixth Aves.)
Stop: Gray Line bus stop in front of Time Warner Building (59th St. and Broadway)
Stop: Gray Line bus stop on Sixth Ave. bet. 35th and 36th Sts.
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Join the conversation by following FNOnyc on Twitter, and be sure to look up Fashion's Night Out on Facebook.

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Republican or Democrat...I really don't care what party you belong to. I do care about affordable health care for all. After many recent personal struggles with care for loved ones, not to mention the challenge of being self employed and worrying about coverage, health care matters to me. I am passionate about seeing to it that these people we elect actually get something significant done about health care at last. The only way real change ever comes is when average people demand it.

Read the plan. If you support Obama's plan then voice your support and do everything you can to get it passed. If you disagree with his health care proposal then engage in a positive way to make it better.

if you're wondering why I am talking about this on an art blog it's because artists need health care too. I'm talking about it because God made each human being in his image and that means we are creative beings...each and every one of us. The greatest works of art we create are ourselves. We all create solo artistic projects called our lives as well as jointly conceived works like children, companies and sports teams. Let's make our collective work called the United States of America a little more beautiful by coming together and doing something that needs to be done NOW! Passing a compassionate and meaningful health care reform NOW!

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Why the hell would anyone ever wanna be anything other than who they are? I will NEVER understand this. Check it out.

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WHITNEY WOWS WORLDWIDE!!!

WHITNEY HOUSTON’S I LOOK TO YOU DEBUTS AT NO. 1 ACROSS THE GLOBE

WHITNEY LAUNCHES OPRAH’S SEASON PREMIERE WITH POWERFUL INTERVIEW AND PERFORMANCE ON

SEPTEMBER 14 AND SEPTEMBER 15

(New York, NY – September 9, 2009) Proving that it was well worth the wait, Whitney Houston’s long-awaited album I Look To You debuts at No. 1 on several charts across the world, including the US Top Albums and R&B Album charts, according to Nielsen/Soundscan. With 304,801 units sold within the first week of release in the US, this marks Whitney’s biggest first week sales of her career and the best selling first week by a female artist this year! Houston’s No. 1 position extends across the globe and claims the top spots in Canada, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.

Led by the dual release of the album title track and “Million Dollar Bill” at radio, coupled with presale promotional campaigns on Amazon.com, QVC and iTunes, and a heavily promoted appearance on Good Morning America, the chart-topping result marks the official return of “The Voice.”

And the critics agree! The New York Times boasts that Whitney “re-emerges with full diva qualifications,” USA Today said: "Strong, confident and ready, she clearly hadn't forgotten how to sing imbuing the material with emotional power." The Washington Post cites I Look To You “hits all the right marks” and the Associated Press states “the pop queen still has a dazzling voice that can leave you spellbound.”

The spell will continue next week when Whitney Houston launches the 24th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show with a two-day event, inclusive of what Oprah calls “the best interview I've ever done,” and an emotional performance of “I Didn't Know My Own Strength" that had “grown men and women weeping in the aisles” according to Oprah’s recent Twitter post. "The Oprah Winfrey Show: Season Premiere: Oprah And Whitney Houston – The First Interview" airs Monday, September 14, 2009. "The Oprah Winfrey Show: Season Premiere Part II: Whitney Houston's Show-Stopping Surprise" airs Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (check local listings).

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Nicholas Robinson Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition exploring the employment of trompe l'oeil devices in contemporary art, and in particular how this technique/premise is more readily embraced by sculptural work than painting, the traditional antecedent.

The exhibition focuses on a few artists who are among the most interesting practitioners of these ideas, including Susan Collis, Jud Nelson and Gavin Turk. The intention is for the show to appear very casual in its manner of installation, reinforcing the fact that much of this work meticulously replicates detritus or humble household items, subverting not only the materiality of sculpture, but also the kind of things that are traditionally considered 'worthy' of being represented in sculptural form.

Also relevant to the show is a consideration of the Duchampian readymade, and how many of the included works turn this key concept of modernism on its head. Fastidious and obsessive lengths are gone to in order to convince the viewer that they are viewing actual rather than facsimile items.

The exhibition will include works executed in virtually every possible media, including carved and painted wood, painted bronze, paper, carved marble, glazed ceramic, wood veneers and semi-precious stones.

For more information, please contact the gallery at 212.560.9075 or www.nrgallery.com

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TIM BAVINGTON

Up in Suze's Room

September 11 - October 10, 2009
Opening Reception:Thursday, September 10, 6 - 8 pm

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Up in Suze's Room, an exhibition of new paintings by British-born, Las Vegas-based artist Tim Bavington.

Taking music as a starting point, Bavington translates chords, notes, guitar necks and solos into visual systems by approximating their equivalents in color and then spraying them with synthetic polymer onto canvas. Here Bavington presents a number of large-scale paintings in vibrant hues of red, fuchsia, orange, green, electric and pale blue, which pulsate like sound on the surface of the canvas. While the exhibition includes vertically striped paintings that are typical to Bavington's oeuvre, it also features a new style of work such as All I Want to Do Is Rock (Fretboard) that displays a grid of larger bands of color. It also includes Cold Fire and Up in Suze's Room, which both exhibit an uninhibited looseness where colors bleed into one another or fade in and out creating open spaces of white light within the composition. Vertical lines stand alone or mix with diagonals or horizontal bands. In some instances hazy, Rothko-like compositions inspired by album covers replace lines altogether. The album covers serve only as initial inspiration for these works that take on a life of their own. In doing this, Bavington unleashes colors intuitively to create paintings that offer harmonious visual impressions rather than simple representations of his source material.

Along with references to popular music such as jazz, Paul Weller, David Bowie, REM and Oasis, Bavington's influences include the desert landscape of the West, neon signage, and color field and optical paintings from the 1960s and 70s. Further, on a more conceptual level, Bavington's works refer to Newton and Goethe's studies of the relationship between sound and color, which continued through the paintings of Kandinsky and the composers of early 20th century Russia. He also deals with contemporary neurological studies of synesthesia--the concept of joined perception or the fusing of separate senses.

Bavington balances a systematic approach with intuitive paint handling, resulting in canvases that dazzle the eye while bridging the gap between the dueling concepts of real vs. synthetic, digital vs. analog and straight symbol vs. coded metaphor.

Tim Bavington earned his BFA at the Art Center in Pasadena, CA and his MFA at the University of Nevada, NV. He has participated in numerous group shows, including Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA (Current); Diaspora at the Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV curated by Dave Hickey (2007); Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2005); Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA (2004); New in Town, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR (2002); Neo Painting, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangu-City, Korea (2002); The Magic Hour: Dir Konvergenz von Kunst Und Las Vegas; and Ultralounge, University of South Florida Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL (2000); and DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston TX (1998). His work is included in numerous public collections including MOMA New York, NY and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. This will be Bavington's third solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery.

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To call me a fashionista would be wrong. I know style and I possess it, but I also keep it in it's place because quite frankly I've had far more important things to be concerned with over the past 36 months of my life. However, I do like to look, smell and feel good and respect those whose careers exist to make me (and others) with these goals.

This weekend I finally took a lil time off and saw a movie for the first time in months. The irony is that the last two movies I made time to see were both documentaries about fashion industry icons. Valentino: The Last Emperor was the previous film I saw and this weekend I checked out The September Issue.

The film is a revealing look at Vogue Magazine's iconic Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and the process that she and her team go through to produce the most important issue of the year "the September issue." For those of you who don't know or care much about fashion, the fall fashion issues of major magazines share trends from the upcoming season and essentially tell women (and men) what they should be wearing for the rest of the Fall/Winter season. For advertisers it's even more MAJOR because they know that anyone who cares about fashion will be reading these issues and advertisers from design houses to retailers spend huge sums of money producing ad campaigns and buying space in fashion rags to target fashionistas everywhere.

The film captures what appears to be the essence of Ms. Wintour and does a wonderful job at showing why she is at once feared, respected and oft hated. Anna Wintour and Creative Director Grace Coddington play off of each other like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the NBA finals. Grace Coddington is quite literally the best stylist on the planet and the kind of person I tend to appreciate. She is classy, creative, passionate, professional, kind, generous and longs for a kinder, gentler and more gentile age when models wore the clothes and people treated each other with more respect and kindness. Ms. Wintour on the other hand is all business. She is focused on task, has no room for nostalgia, no time for treading lightly on people's feelings and essentially there to do her job, which she does better than anyone in the business. There's something pathetic about watching grown men and women cower at her feet, but after her watching her do what she does so well you start to understand her methods and mission. Anna Wintour is simply the best in the business and if she gives something the stamp of approval then it's likely to end up very successful very quickly (reference Oprah Winfrey). I'll never understand why humans give one person such power, but it's something we tend to do and kudos to those who learn how to wield it with grace.

She and Grace Coddington spar throughout the film and I admire Grace (as does Ms. Wintour) for standing up for what she believes in and defending her own vision and incredible work. Though they don't see eye to eye Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington are there for each other when it counts the most. When the issue needs to close and there's a shoot that needs to be done overnight Grace creates magic from scraps and well...see the movie and see what happens for yourself.

The September Issue works on so many levels. The film educates, entertains and shows us a world that few and have entered. It manages to humanize the most iconic figure in fashion and show another side without destroying her mystique. It may even achieve the most unlikely goal of all; it may succeed in generating some respect for a 300 billion dollar industry, Vogue Magazine and it's editor with her daughter an aspiring lawyer who wants NOTHING to do with the family business.

This film is a must see for all fashionistas and recommended for anyone who enjoys an engaging portrait of a very human icon.

Note to my fashion industry friends who want to imitate Anna - Her thing works for her because she KNOWS WHAT SHE IS DOING, paid her dues and people respect her accordingly. (Anything less just makes you another b*tch with a bad attitude). For stylists, I suggest Grace Coddington as a far better role model for you.

Make sure you Pop everyday.

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DUMBO ARTS CENTER WILL PROUDLY INAUGURATE THE FALL SEASON WITH:

THE EXPERIENCE OF GREEN
by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen

Opening Reception: Friday, September 25, 6 - 9 PM

Exhibition Dates: September 25 - November 29, 2009
Artists' Talk: Thursday, November 5, 7 PM
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6 PM

Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) 30 Washington Street Brooklyn, NY 11222
www.dumboartscenter.org
Directions: F train to York Street A/C train to High Street B61 to York and Gold Streets.

Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen will fill the Dumbo Arts Center with their enormous site-specific installation The Experience of Green. Opening September 25, 2009, the exhibition will emphasize the contrast between the organic and the built environment. Viewers will step out of Dumbo’s stark brick-and-glass commercial district into a fantastical forest; a walk-through labyrinth of old growth trees made entirely from red kraft paper. The spectacular network of gnarled tree trunks and twisted roots will extend over every inch of the gallery, suspending the boundaries of space and time while fully immersing the viewer.

The Experience of Green is Kavanaugh and Nguyen's most ambitious work to date as well as the artists' first major debut in NYC of their ongoing collaborative series of visually phenomenal, meticulously crafted paper installations. Here, the staggering volume of paper that the artists stack, splice, layer and coil will be in a brilliant crimson, burning an impression in the viewers’ mind. The Experience of Green may come most clearly into focus only after viewers exit the gallery, the color persisting as an optical after-image, accentuating the relationship between experience and memory, landscape and longing, nature and the sublime.

DAC and the artists acknowledge the following for making The Experience of Green possible:
The Walentas Family and Two Trees Management Co. LLC, who generously donated a studio space for six months to the artists; DAC Board Members, Michael Murray, CEO surroundart, and Jake Salik, CEO, Talas, whose efforts substantially cut production costs, and Anna Kraske, Attorney, for legal counsel.

The Experience of Green, a full-color catalog with essay by Jen Schwarting will be published by DAC in December, 2009.

DAC will be open until 8:30PM October 1 and November 5, 2009. We are a proud participant in the Dumbo First Thursday gallery walk series.

Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public registered charity. DAC is supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. This organization also receives additional funding from The Robert Lehman Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Dedalus Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., and The Cowles Charitable Trust. DAC's gallery and office space is generously donated by the Walentas Family and Two Trees Management Co. LLC.

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Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison:

The Force Majeure

September 12- October 31, 2009
Artist Reception: September 12, 2009 6-8 p.m.

There is a gentle beauty in their work, and much charisma in the otherworldly maps and text panels
that are poetic and personal rather than dryly official. The exhibition is, of course, a call to action,
but is foremost a lyrical meditation on what ecological disaster and collective recovery might one day look like.
Elizabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 2008


Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison will be exhibiting a new multimedia installation
titled The Force Majeure at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art. The Force
Majeure takes form as a body of photos, text, drawings, large-scale mappings,
ecologically based proposals and global warming narratives. Indeed, the crisis of
global warming is not a recent concern for these artists, but one they have
addressed throughout an exhibition career going back to 1970. (The 1970-71
period, for example witnessed the Harrisons’ Ecosystem of the Western Salt Works at
LACMA’s famous – or notorious – Art and Technology exhibition, their controversial
Portable Fish Farm project at London’s Hayward Gallery and as well, a spirited debate
with artist Robert Smithson on the paradoxes of art and ecology). The Harrisons, whose
proposals have influenced long-term public policy planning, are internationally recognized
for their visionary artworks grounded in the natural sciences.

8568 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
www.cardwelljimmerson.com
310-815-1100
Tuesday-Sunday
11AM until 6PM

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NICOLAS RUEL
8 secondes

From September 16 to October 4 2009

Opening : Wednesday September 16, from 6 – 9 pm

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In connection with Mois de la Photo (Montréal), Galerie Orange is pleased to present 8 secondes, a solo exhibition of photographs by Nicolas Ruel. 8 secondes depicts urban civilization captured by the photographer in sustained interval of eight seconds. He explored evocative cities, in daytime and nighttime settings, such as Paris, Tokyo, New York and Sydney. This series, exclusively printed on stainless steel, benefits from the intrinsic and intense luminosity of its support material. Focusing on the concept of the Monumental, this interconnected approach creates parallels between urbanism, architecture and the citizen, entities that become indivisible within a few tumultuous seconds.

¬ Nicolas Ruel was born in Montreal, Québec in 1973. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Seine 51, Paris (2009) and Thompson Landry Gallery, Toronto (2009). His works can be found in art collections such as Colart, Loto-Québec, TD Bank, MGM Grand, Microsoft, Power Corporation, Rothschild Investment Banking, Warner Brothers, and various private collections in North America and Europe. He lives and works in Montreal.

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An exhibition catalogue will be available.

For further inquiries please contact the gallery.
info@galerieorange.com / 514.396.6670

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Joseph Smolinski, Sycamore, 2008 ink, watercolor, graphite on paper, 26” x 40” courtesy of the artist & Mixed Greens, NY

Disjointed Terrains

September 3 – October 3, 2009

Curated by: Zeina Assaf

Works by: Stanislav Ginzburg, Kim Holleman,
Lisa Lebofsky, Asya Reznikov, Joseph Smolinski

Artists Reception: Wednesday September 9, 7-9pm

NY Studio Gallery is pleased to present Disjointed Terrains. This group exhibition brings together works depicting un-sublime frontiers from modern day realities of interventions with nature to imaginary dystopic landscapes.

Stanislav Ginzburg's photographs and video reflect a state of mind or unreal scenes where daydreams, memories, and flashbacks replace the real-time environmental encounters.

In blending art, science, technology, and architecture Kim Holleman addresses concepts of utopia, utilitarianism and environmentalism. She examines our relationship to conceptual and physical space by co-opting found physical forms and changing them physically with new matter, created and found.

While using aluminum as her canvas, Lisa Lebosky paints landscapes strewn with devastation fluctuating from a portrayal of tragedy to a realm of disassociation and contemplation.

Asya Reznikov layers culturally specific imagery, situations, and artifacts into unexpected combinations aiming to diminish the gap between different cultural realities. In her work she creates places that are a fusion of elements from actual locations, built models and imaginary structures.

The subjects in Joseph Smolinski’s drawings include parasitic cell tower trees that populate the landscape and spinning tree turbines that question the notion of control of the environment and envision an optimistic and apocalyptic view of the future.

About NY Studio Gallery
NY Studio Gallery combines exhibition and workspace to create an atmosphere of interaction, collaboration and integration of media, styles and artistic genres for US and international artists.

NY Studio Gallery
154 Stanton Street @ Suffolk, New York, NY 10002
info@nystudiogallery.com l 212.627.3276l www.nystudiogallery.com
Thursday - Saturday 12 - 6pm or by appointment

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HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE

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September 03, 2009 — October 17, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

The collapsing of two conflicting states is the central theme of HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE, Tauba Auerbach’s new exhibition at Deitch Projects. The artist deliberately composed the title as an anagram. The paintings, photographic works, sculpture and the musical instrument that comprise the show are all structured around the threshold between order and randomness. The philosophical conflicts explored in the work include:

The liminality, or intermediate state between two dimensionality and three dimensionality.

The past and the present.

A combination of the two: a past three-dimensional state and a present two-dimensional state.

Being HERE vs. Being THERE, and being both HERE and THERE at once.

Randomness vs. Determinism and the unpredictable order of chaos.

In the marrying of two conflicting states, the work is also about the number 2, a concept that is inherent in the remote interdependence central to the sculptural works in the exhibition.

There are five bodies of work represented in the exhibition:

Crumple Paintings

The next generation of the Crumple paintings previously shown in Deitch Projects’ Constraction exhibition last summer and in the New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus. These new works have been created for the large space of Deitch’s 18 Wooster Street gallery and require that the viewer stand far back from the work to perceive the illusion of a crumpled surface constructed from large Ben Day dots.

Static Photographs

A new series of more representational, but still undecipherable Static photographs. They focus less on the emergence of pattern as in the previous series, also shown in Younger Than Jesus, and more on the emergence of form. They address the question of what makes something “something.”

Fold Paintings

A series of incrementally sized fold paintings, painted on raw canvas with an industrial paint sprayer. They explore the merging of a past three-dimensional state with a present two-dimensional state.

A sculpture that is half inside the gallery and half outside of it.

There will be a form resembling a black orb hanging from the gallery façade. It will blow in the breeze. Inside the gallery, there will be a light source dangling from a thin rod, moving around exactly the same way as the form outside. The sculpture is based on the phenomenon of entangled particles, two particles that, when separated from one another, continue to behave identically, even at a great distance. If you stimulate one, the other reacts too. It is as though they are supernaturally connected.

The Auerglass

The Auerglass, which is the central work in the show, is a two-person wooden pump organ designed by the artist with her friend Cameron Mesirow of the band Glasser. The instrument cannot be played alone. It requires two people to play. One player has to pump in order for the other to play and vice versa. There is a four-octave scale that is divided so that each of the two players plays every other note. Auerbach and Mesirow will play a composition written specifically for the instrument. It combines music that Auerbach wrote as a child, songs from Glasser and new material. The Auerglass will be played at the opening on September 3rd, as a prelude to a Glasser performance at 8pm on September 11th, and daily at 5pm from Tuesday through Saturday during the exhibition. Ida Falck Øien, who creates the costumes for Glasser, has created special costumes with shifting states for the Auerglass players to wear.

Deitch Projects has locations on 76 Grand Street and 18 Wooster in SoHo. These spaces are open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12pm to 6pm. We are easily accessible by subway via 1-9 train, the A, C, E train, the N, R, W train and the 4, 5, 6 train at the Canal St. stop.

Deitch Studios, located at 4-40 44th Drive in Long Island City, is currently open for special events. Deitch Studios can be reached by taking either the E or V Train to the 23rd Street/Ely, the G train to LIC/Court Square or the 7 train to 45 Road/Court House Square. Walk down 44th drive to the water's edge. Deitch Studios is located on the left hand side.

SoHo Locations:

76 Grand Street
Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

18 Wooster Street
Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

SoHo Locations:

Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive
Open to the public Thursday through Sunday from 2PM to 8PM

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(Kehinde Wiley and Ricky Day)

Last night I attended the opening of the new Kehinde Wiley show called Black Light at Deitch Projects in SoHo. If you're already a Kehinde fan this show will be a treat for you because it provides a glimpse into the process behind his paintings which have always been photo based works. Check out the summary of the show from the Deitch Projects website.The show is accompanied by, Black Light, a full-color book published by Powerhouse and which is also available at Deitch Projects.

September 03, 2009 — September 26, 2009
76 Grand Street, New York

Deitch Projects is pleased to present Black Light, an exhibition of photographs by Kehinde Wiley that thrusts the black male image, captured by means of light manipulation and digital technology, into focus. This shuffle of Wiley’s artistic process reveals an integral component of his studio practice rarely seen while remaining, uniquely, Kehinde Wiley portraiture.

Enlisting the technical tenor of Hype Williams’ hip-hop videos from the 90’s, Wiley saturates his consummately styled subjects of Fulton Street Mall pedigree— caps flipped backward, wearing gear of New York legend— in “super rapturous light”. To transcendental and beatific effect, such illumination proffers a new measure of Wiley’s technical abilities, so that the medium of photography propels each figure to the point before paint consumes canvas— the moment when flesh, at its three dimensional, truth-telling, reveals scars long ago enacted. Browned fingernails, questioning red-glazed eyes and voluptuously glossed, cigarette-charred lips heighten what, for some, is no longer visible: a vulnerable microcosm of our metropolis— a black light. Through the 17 photographs on display, Wiley produces an intimate study of embattled psychologies whose adherents are at once flawed and majestic, canonized and misunderstood.

The exhibition Black Light will be accompanied by, Black Light, a full-color book published by Powerhouse and will be available at Deitch Projects.

Deitch Projects has locations on 76 Grand Street and 18 Wooster in SoHo. These spaces are open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12pm to 6pm. We are easily accessible by subway via 1-9 train, the A, C, E train, the N, R, W train and the 4, 5, 6 train at the Canal St. stop.

Deitch Studios, located at 4-40 44th Drive in Long Island City, is currently open for special events. Deitch Studios can be reached by taking either the E or V Train to the 23rd Street/Ely, the G train to LIC/Court Square or the 7 train to 45 Road/Court House Square. Walk down 44th drive to the water's edge. Deitch Studios is located on the left hand side.

SoHo Locations:

76 Grand Street
Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

18 Wooster Street
Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

SoHo Locations:

Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive
Open to the public Thursday through Sunday from 2PM to 8PM

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I get cool letters and emails on a regular basis, but this one was so nice I had to share it with you all.

Stephen Maglott wrote:

"You manage to put a smile on my face every time I open your posts. Not down with Cindy Mizelle, but I will be this week! Thanks again."

Always,
Stephen
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I do what I do because it brings me joy to share with you the people, places and things I appreciate and enjoy. I think it's important to share art, music and culture in a way that is accessible for us regular folk because art really does enrich ones soul in so many ways.

I'm not even close to perfect, but I do try to be positive and life affirming. It feels good to know that I can affect someone in a positive way.

Stephen thank you for letting me know that reading Urban Pop Life puts a smile on your face. It puts a smile on my face to know that I manage to drop a lil joy into a sometimes less than joyful world.

Have a great weekend.

Tell a friend to "pop" today.

Ricky

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FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: ROBERT FRANK’S “THE AMERICANS”
06.14.09 - 10.19.09
In 1955, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant to photograph American people and places. For two years, Frank traveled by car throughout the United States, amassing over 20,000 negatives. The edited portfolio of 83 photographs was published in book form as Les Américains by Robert Delpire in France in 1958, and as The Americans in 1959 by Grove Press in New York. The American edition included an introduction by Jack Kerouac, the Beat writer most famous for his novel On the Road. Describing the emotional scope of Frank’s portfolio, Kerouac wrote: “After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin.” Frank’s photographs, which have become landmarks in the history of photography, were created with a hand-held Leica camera, often with a wide-angle lens, resulting in compositions that appear unplanned, spontaneous, and are ultimately revealing. In this 50th anniversary year of its publication, MOCA presents a rare showing of the complete set of photographs comprising The Americans, in the order carefully devised by Frank for the book. MOCA’s portfolio, which is the only complete set on the West coast, was purchased in 1995 with funds provided by Ralph M. Parsons Foundation. From the Permanent Collection: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” was initiated by Rebecca Morse and Corrina Peipon.

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Kalup Linzy is really out there doing his thing. Check his website for updates on his new projects, new videos and upcoming feature film.

http://www.kaluplinzy.net/

Right here, right now check out his latest video work Lil Myron's Trade. Be aware there is some adult content so if you have your children near by.

Enjoy.

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So on August 31st after shooting some images of Nico Wheadon and Amani Olu for Binge Magazine I looked out of the window of PPOW Gallery and saw 3 good friends of mine sitting in a convertible.

I went down to say hello and my friends proceeded to introduce me to a new client of their management company who as it turns out is an actor and model who I already knew from Facebook and Model Mayhem.

Then one of my friends goes back into the rehearsal hall and brings out this BEAUTIFUL sista and introduces her to us. Everyone very politely says nice to meet you and I said " oh shit...you're CINDY MIZELLE!" Her eyes lit up knowing that I recognized her for exactly who she is. She didn't look at me like I was a crazed a fan. She didn't go into diva mode. She simply opened her arms and welcomed me with a hug. A spirit as warm as her voice.

Here's why I was so excited: Cindy is an incredible vocalist!

Cindy Mizelle had solo success (including This Could Be The Night from the breakdance movie Beat Street in 1984 and I've Had Enough in 1994) and she is of course a beautiful black woman. However, the reason I knew exactly who she was is because one of my best friends and I are music heads. I MEAN REAL MUSIC HEADS. Nerds who used to read liner notes, collect 45rpm records and albums with our allowance and can tell you everyone who sang background vocals and played the instruments on most records form the 70's, 80's and 90's. Music heads who miss the days of session singers working in the studio (at the same time) as the lead vocalist and creating that special chemistry that comes from true collaboration. Well CINDY MIZELLE is one of THOSE GIRLS who sangs sangs sangs and has done it for years in the studio and on tour with legends!

Man oh man was it a pleasure to meet someone whose voice helped to shape classic recordings and tours including Luther Vandross and others. I'm not telling you anymore, DO YA OWN RESEARCH...lol...I'm tired of doin all da work up in this piece!

Cindy is currently singing backing vocals with Whitney Houston (yeah that's the rehearsal that was going on inside when I dropped by). I share these things with you guys NOT TO BRAG, but to bring a smile to your faces and hopefully a lil extra joy to your day. Everyday in every corner of the world people are making their dreams come true and having special little moments like the one we shared with Cindy. I just like to share mine so that you'll be inspired to live and share yours as well.

Love U Cindy Mizelle. Keep on SANGIN!

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I was blessed yet again to have great access to a special event. This time I was on hand for the Whitney Houston taping of Good Morning America. The show airs tomorrow morning on ABC from 7am until 9am. The segment with Whitney airs from 8am until 9am.

Today was simply a beautiful day. Perfect New York weather with lots of sunshine, a light breeze and temps in the 70's. Whitney took the stage around noon and looked great again. She breezed through a vibrant version of her single Million Dollar Bill and even gave us an unscheduled extra tune which was a real chill version of My Love is Your Love. The second scheduled song for GMA was the title track from the new CD called I Look To You.

If you read this blog then you know I tend to celebrate life. I simply think that for whatever reasons humans tend to focus on the negative all the time and I no longer want to participate in that particular exercise. I am not close to perfect, but I refuse to join in the chorus of negativity.

To say that Whitney was in classic voice today would not be the truth and I value my word so I wont go there. However, it saddens me that human beings constantly focus on the negative without giving thanks for all that we have. My focus is on the fact that a beautiful woman with a very special gift is still here to share it with us. I am thankful that she did not meet a tragic end like some others before her. I am thankful that I am alive and well enough to experience new music from her and that she is still inspired to make it and share it. No Whitney Houston is not the same girl we met and listened to all those years ago. She's a woman who's lived a very full and sometimes not so happy life. However, she is a human being finding her way through the journey of life. She is a soul who was strong enough to pull herself out of a dark place and make her way back to a happy space in which she can return to living her musical dream and raising her daughter. For me that alone is cause for celebration.

It's my hope that everyday we can all take the time to be grateful for what we have and spend less time tearing ourselves and each other down for our shortcomings and occasional failures. If we held ourselves to the standards that we hold celebrities to I think it's fair to say that most people would have committed suicide by now. Challenge yourself to do your best and yes expect our entertainers to give us their best when the present art for public consumption, but don't forget that they too are perfectly imperfect human beings.

To Whitney,

I love you and I do not expect you to be today who you were when you were 20. However, I DO wish you well. I DO want to see you to take care of yourself and your voice and present us with the very best you when grace the stage or our television screens. More than anything, I pray you enjoy a full life, great career and continue to raise your beautiful girl to be an equally beautiful woman.

Thank you for sharing your life and your gift with us.

Click on the link below and download your copy of the special photo collage I created. Click on the second link and check out other hot images from the concert today in Central Park.

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Whitney on Good Morning America

Enjoy because I like to share.

Ricky

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I recently met George Worrell. George is a D.C. based fashion stylist, event planner and tastemaker. He is now hard at work on a new local television show that focuses on style.

George M. Worrell of GMW Enterprises LLC "has been putting his stylish imprint on DC for the past 15 years" wrote DC Modern Luxury in their latest "People You Should Know" issue.

GMW Enterprises has collaborated on mid-Atlantic promotional events with the Coca Cola Company and The Ronald H. Brown Foundation, which featured former President William Clinton. Worrell and GMW Enterprises have been a major part of some of the most historic events to happen in DC's recent history including planning the groundbreaking ceremony for the Washington National's Ballpark with over 1500 VIP guests in attendance as well as coordinating the Inaugural events for Washington, DC's Mayor Adrian Fenty, which included the Inaugural Ball with 20,000 guests in attendance, the Prayer Breakfast and Swearing-in ceremony.

Mr. Worrell has produced shows for some of the most sought-after designers, including the b. michael trunk show for Saks Jandel. Not to mention having the distinct privilege of dressing the wives of the city’s biggest influencers and DC appointees. Bringing the fashions of a growing list of Manhattan designers like Tracy Reese, Rachel Roy and Carolina Herrera to "the highest stratosphere of local government", Worrell has become a true style icon.

Worrell was named DC's chicest suitor by DC Modern Luxury in their most recent "People You Should Know" issue. George' pilot for his show "Whatever Happened To Style" which has caught the interest of network producers.

Keep an eye open for this DC based mover and shaker. Check him out on television in our nation's capitol.

http://www.oct.dc.gov/services/on_demand_video/channel16/WFC_7.asx

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