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The bad boy of fashion and the darling of haute couture, Alexander McQueen is honored in this illustrious and artful publication. Order your copy here.

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). Self-Portrait (Strangulation), 1978. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, ten parts, 16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm) each. Collection of Anthony d’Offay. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Ten years after an acquaintance, Valerie Solanas, attempted to assassinate Warhol, he created a series of self-portraits. The self-portraits of 1978—his first in more than twelve years—reveal Warhol, who had just turned fifty, in a period of self-examination, reflecting on his mortality. Here Warhol stages his own strangulation in an image that suggests his previous near-death experience and confirms his obsession with the subject of death.  

June 18–September 12, 2010  

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Encompassing nearly fifty works, the exhibition reveals the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques. 

Subway: Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum Get detailed directions

I was on Facebook and came across a link to the screening for “Kid Creole and His Coconuts” by Adriana Kaegi at the Chelsea Art Museum. I remember dancing around to “Endicott” and the spicy “Que Pasa/Me no Pop I”,  my Coati Mundi favorite. My cousin Fatima and I would do some crazy salsa moves to that one and ham it up Coati style! Later on in the 90′s I would become friends with coconut Cheryl Poirier. She always had outrageous stories from their world tours and adventures but she never mentioned her affair with August, married to Adriana. I was slightly embarrassed to find out at the screening this delicate detail. Read the rest of this entry →

New York Film Premier Documentary Screening Q&A with Adriana Kaegi.
Wednesday, June 2nd at 6pm

“KID CREOLE AND MY COCONUTS” is a delightful, danceable and very personal documentary memoir chronicling Swiss – born artist/choreographer/designer Adriana Kaegi’s adventures as Mama Coconut — co-founder of the 1980s multicultural tropical funk machine called Kid Creole and the Coconuts and wife to August Darnell the mercurial man behind the glamorous combo. Read the rest of this entry →

Kenny Scharf talk about his art in this video from the Whitney Museum.

HMHnyc Trivia Question: What NYC nightclub featured a Kenny Scharf room?

Keith Haring  20 year Anniversary
 

Tony Shafrazi Gallery

February 13 – April 3, 2010
544 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
Tel. 212-274-9300
Fax. 212-334-9499

Hours: Tues – Sat 10-6

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