Source: https://www.washingtonian.com/2007/05/01/luxury-homes-may-2007/
In DC: Journalist David Brock and restaurateur/art dealer James Alefantis bought a six-bedroom Federal-style rowhouse on California Street in Kalorama for $1.75 million. The house has a second-floor reception hall and three fireplaces. Once a right-wing journalist, Brock changed his politics in the 1990s. He’s the founder of Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, and author of several books, including Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Alefantis co-owns DC’s Buck’s Fishing & Camping restaurant and the Strand on Volta, a Georgetown art gallery.
https://dcartnews.blogspot.nl/archives/2004_05_01_dcartnews_archive.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20161205223502/https://dcartnews.blogspot.nl/archives/2004_05_01_dcartnews_archive.html
The Post's chief art critic, Blake Gopnik delivers his veredict on the DC pandas public art projects as "art."
Rainbow colored pandas... Hmmmm... pedo bear?
** Margaret Boozer** “Land/Marks” is at Strand on Volta Gallery, 1531 33rd Street, NW in Georgetown, Washington, DC until June 5, 2004
Last night it was also good to see Dr. Jonathan Binstock, the Curator of Contemporary Art for the Corcoran, visiting the various new shows in the four Canal Square galleries. A couple of weeks ago I also ran into** Binstock at the Margaret Boozer opening at Strand on Volta gallery**. It is refreshing to see a local museum curator taking an interest in our area artists and galleries!
When hung on the wall, the shiny black forms sometimes resemble a horizontal beehive, but like no bee on Earth would build. Other pieces have a strange sexual association to them, as if we’ve been offered a voyeuristic view of a new sexual organ no one knew existed.
Lastly, she has pushed the envelope even further in one major piece titled “Angle of Incidence.”
In these visceral maps, organic sexual forms, and evolving works, Boozer has created something that is refreshingly new while being pleasant to the senses of visual enjoyment and mental intelligence. In this show, this artist has smashed her “label.”
Spoiler, her art is literally DIRT, old Tar, etc!! LMAO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Boozer
http://www.margaretboozer.com/index.html
http://mag.rochester.edu/aroundmag/jonathan-binstock-named-new-director/
he was a senior vice president and senior advisor in modern and contemporary art for Citi Private Bank’s Art Advisory & Finance group.
An expert in post-World War II art,** Binstock** joined Citi in 2007 as senior vice president and specialist in modern and contemporary art, working with clients and their families in the U.S. and abroad to build personal art collections. He also worked with Citi’s art finance program, ensuring the quality of artworks and assessing their value.
https://priceonomics.com/why-is-art-expensive/
Jonathan Binstock advises some of the world’s top collectors from his post at Citi Private Bank, yet neither he nor any of his colleagues are bankers. He describes their role as helping clients assemble collections that are “culturally significant and more valuable than the sum total of prices paid.” Personal preferences matter as much or more than return on investment. Their clients don’t “buy a painting for $5 million because we think it will be worth 2% more in 3 years,” he says. “And they rarely sell” the artwork they acquire.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120100416.html
"Public Matters, Private Matters" at Strand on Volta, is a small group show of video work addressing, from various standpoints, the meaning of "private" vs. "public."
Why, I wonder, would anyone go to an art gallery to watch this stuff?
The three "Public/Private" artists selected by curator Lucy Hogg (full disclosure: Hogg is married to Post art critic Blake Gopnik) have little in common, other than theme.
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/09/29/31401.html
Curator James Huckenpahler has selected works whose common thread is the representation of mortal bodies in ways that emphasize their gross, material nature.
Frank Day’s images of animal fetishes are part of a larger series set in the West African city of Accra. His earlier work includes a study of the persistence of memory amidst the rebuilding of east Berlin in the 1990’s, and an extended meditation on grace and resilience in marginalized landscapes, a project which involved four years of observation and photography underneath I-95 as it passes through Baltimore. Day’s work is in many public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He will be included in a book on the history of landscape photography being published by National Geographic this fall. Images from his Berlin series were on view recently at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and in Berlin, and will be shown in Great Britain in the spring of 2004.
James Huckenpahler, the curator of “Meat and You,” is a Washington, DC-based artist working primarily in electronic media.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/03/04/the-commodification-of-gerhard-richter/
Jonathan Binstock is the head of Citibank’s art advisory and finance operation — the shop which was famously founded by Jeffrey Deitch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Gopnik
Melissa Gopnik, managing director of the Boston area Rape Crisis Center
After receiving the Knights of Pythias Prize, Shakespeare Gold Medal, the McCullough Latin Prize and, the Commonwealth Scholarship, in 1989 Gopnik began doctoral studies at the University of Oxford.
grew up in Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67.
Gopnik is married to the artist Lucy Hogg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Pythias
The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society [2] founded in Washington, D.C., on 19 February 1864.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Safdie
Moshe Safdie was born in Haifa, Israel to a Syrian Jewish family
Among the projects he has designed in** Jerusalem are Yad Vashem**
Safdie is the uncle of Dov Charney, founder and former CEO of American Apparel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Charney
sexual harassment lawsuits involving ex-employees
http://lucyhogg.com/home.html
Lucy hoggs art is again, literally trash
2004 Strand on Volta, Washington, DC, Sliding Landscapes, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON.
PIZZA THEMED
Creepy kids paintings
https://lucyhoggwriting.wordpress.com/
https://lucyhoggwriting.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/a-night-out-at-performa-november-18th-2013/
She went to a naked performance art!
We signed up for the performance, and when we got there we were told we would each have 3 minutes alone in a room with what turned out to be one performer. We signed a waiver which was quite long, the most salient points of it seeming to be that we were not to describe our experience to anyone, after (which is why of course I’m describing it now).
I watched the first two people come in and out intact with no readily interpretable expressions on their faces. I was ushered in, after a loud knock informed the facilitator that the performer was ready. I found myself in a pitch-black room, reminding me of other times I’d been in pitch-black rooms, at other performances.
A voice asked me if I could hear him, and to identify where I thought he was. He then provided some simple directions to navigate around the room, at one point taking my hand, asking me to stand in one corner or the next. In the first corner he asked me to say something, anything I wanted. Realizing he had expectations for me to be more interesting I became bereft of thought. In the second corner he told me to ask him any question, any question at all. I felt very badly because the only question that came to mind was whether he had any clothes on or not. I countered instead with a position of social nicety, and asked him if his background was in Performance Art. He said, somewhat dramatically, “I have no background”. I could feel myself being propelled towards what I knew, now that my eyes had adjusted to the light, was the exit. I stifled the impulse to apologize for being so boring. Feeling summarily dismissed, I had the nasty feeling for the rest of the evening that I’d been on a very unsuccessful date, but at least it only lasted three minutes.
TO BE CONTINUED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT!
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