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Showing posts with label The Winter Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Winter Party. Show all posts
Monday, March 02, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday at the 2009 Winter Party
This evening I attended the Women’s Art Exhibit, another of the events of the 2009 Winter Party. The reception was held at the Fache Arts & Amy Alonso Gallery on NE 124th Street in Miami.
Amy Alonso specializes in women’s art, having been in the business for a remarkable ten years. As is always the case, she has had to change addresses a few times in order to find affordable rents as neighborhoods become trendy and consequently expensive.
We talked about selling art in a tough economy. Ms. Alonso typically sells three paintings a month, but this month, not a one. We joked about cutting down on restaurants and learning to use our own designer kitchens that have been largely ornamental until now. Ms. Alonso was amazed that she could purchase huge slabs of fresh fish which when combined with sticky rice produce excellent sushi for days!
Ms. Alonso did however have a bit of bright art news. The Los Angeles market seems to be strong and interested in abstract painting. She recently did a show in LA that sold out entirely. We also discussed the extremely weak market for photography. These days, anyone with money to spend on art wants something that does not come in multiples.
Here are (left to right) two artists, Roz Keating and Ana Mettola, with Amy Alonso.
Fueled with a couple of excellent brownies and some chardonnay, I headed to Collins Avenue for another event called Pretty in Pink at the Whitelaw Hotel lounge.
The rooms of the Whitelaw are saturated with the most intense pink imaginable, offset by whimsically padded white headboards.
I was pressed to down shots of a suspiciously sweet and sinister pink fluid with a clot of short black-haired Latinos who would not be photographed, informing me that they were all getting off Facebook, Twitter, Manhunt, Myspace, Friendster and all other similar venues. It seems that obscurity is the new black. When I asked them how they would keep track of each other, they assured me that they had ways, but these they would not divulge. Oh for the days of the princess phone. In pink, of course.
Amy Alonso specializes in women’s art, having been in the business for a remarkable ten years. As is always the case, she has had to change addresses a few times in order to find affordable rents as neighborhoods become trendy and consequently expensive.
We talked about selling art in a tough economy. Ms. Alonso typically sells three paintings a month, but this month, not a one. We joked about cutting down on restaurants and learning to use our own designer kitchens that have been largely ornamental until now. Ms. Alonso was amazed that she could purchase huge slabs of fresh fish which when combined with sticky rice produce excellent sushi for days!
Ms. Alonso did however have a bit of bright art news. The Los Angeles market seems to be strong and interested in abstract painting. She recently did a show in LA that sold out entirely. We also discussed the extremely weak market for photography. These days, anyone with money to spend on art wants something that does not come in multiples.
Here are (left to right) two artists, Roz Keating and Ana Mettola, with Amy Alonso.
Fueled with a couple of excellent brownies and some chardonnay, I headed to Collins Avenue for another event called Pretty in Pink at the Whitelaw Hotel lounge.
The rooms of the Whitelaw are saturated with the most intense pink imaginable, offset by whimsically padded white headboards.
I was pressed to down shots of a suspiciously sweet and sinister pink fluid with a clot of short black-haired Latinos who would not be photographed, informing me that they were all getting off Facebook, Twitter, Manhunt, Myspace, Friendster and all other similar venues. It seems that obscurity is the new black. When I asked them how they would keep track of each other, they assured me that they had ways, but these they would not divulge. Oh for the days of the princess phone. In pink, of course.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Meet the Press
I've got about five minutes to catch my breath while Himself is asleep. We've just returned from the simply fabulous "Under One Sun" pool party at the Surfcomber Hotel, 1717 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. It will be tomorrow before I can sort out the photos of this sun-and-fun saturated afternoon.
Yesterday, we attended a Meet-and-Greet for the press, at the Sagamore Hotel. (Joey had a press pass. I fluttered my eyes.)
We were surprised to find that because a Republican Congresswoman was staying at the Hotel, an exhibit of photography by the well-respected Spencer Tunick had been veiled! (His works involve public group nudity but are not what most anyone would consider erotic.) This was called to my attention by a charming man named Mark whom I met at the reception.
Joe and Mark liberated the exhibit.
We also met the two Peruvian Javiers. Veeeeeery cute. Together two and one half years. Did I mention that they were cute?
As the sun went down, We chatted with the extremely genteel Matt Foreman, the outgoing Executive Director of The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the org that sponsors the Winter Party. In the warm new air of evening, we strolled to the Fashion show with Matt's partner, Frank, a photographer with a huge camera.
Yesterday, we attended a Meet-and-Greet for the press, at the Sagamore Hotel. (Joey had a press pass. I fluttered my eyes.)
We were surprised to find that because a Republican Congresswoman was staying at the Hotel, an exhibit of photography by the well-respected Spencer Tunick had been veiled! (His works involve public group nudity but are not what most anyone would consider erotic.) This was called to my attention by a charming man named Mark whom I met at the reception.
Joe and Mark liberated the exhibit.
We also met the two Peruvian Javiers. Veeeeeery cute. Together two and one half years. Did I mention that they were cute?
As the sun went down, We chatted with the extremely genteel Matt Foreman, the outgoing Executive Director of The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the org that sponsors the Winter Party. In the warm new air of evening, we strolled to the Fashion show with Matt's partner, Frank, a photographer with a huge camera.
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