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The show was chuck full and the opening attendance was strong. The conversations full, Different and interesting. Brian Hoffman has accomplished a lot in a year. The snacks were good (Thanks Ladies) an all around nice night out.

“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
Dr. Wayne Dyer

Collector comments after purchasing Urban Thought sculpture-
“It’s the only piece here with personality”

Seemed as though the numbers were well over 300 pieces of art. The attendance was astounding with standing room only.

Chad sporting his new hand made Arrogant suit. And how HOT he looked!

It was a fun night but in the burbs we don’t call it performance art we call it poll dancing!

The phone rang and the caller said glad you invited us to The Jack Shainman opening.
We will meet you there-
What are you going to wear did you bye new shoes for the event?
This offers me continued surprise as what I wear or my shoes has Nothing to do with me producing/ realizing/ raising/ supporting good art!
So let me make myself clear- I always wear clean business, causal or formal, as event requires attire. I do not bye shoes for every event- I am good with the black dress boots same style that I have worn for the last 20 years. Most of you who have known me for that long or longer can stop asking!
Thanks- Look forward to seeing you all there!

Thursday, January 28, 2010, 6:30–9pm

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street (10th Ave)
Chelsea, NYC

$20 @ door. No tickets in advance necessary. Free drinks.

200+ affordable 8 1/2 x 11 Drawings, collages and mixed media works from Williamsburg, Bucharest, Los Angeles, Berlin, Miami, Cluj…an international visual art commissioning project. All proceeds benefit cancer patients and visual artists.

Thursday, January 28, 2010, 6:30–9pm

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street (10th Ave)
Chelsea, NYC

$20 @ door. No tickets in advance necessary. Free drinks.

Duchamp has been compared to Leonardo da Vinci, as a profound philosopher-artist. But there is also a comparison to be made with Buster Keaton, another handsome deadpan clown whom Duchamp somewhat resembled. He valued humour, telling a New York newspaper that, “People took modern art very seriously when it first reached America because they believed we took ourselves very seriously. A great deal of modern art is meant to be amusing.”
Actual article go to

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3671180/Duchamps-Fountain-The-practical-joke-that-launched-an-artistic-revolution.html

To think its not only me in this time space reality that thinks-
we should enjoy our art experience.
Having fun and not taking every thing to seriouse.
I can agree there are time to be serious and some art pieces are all about seriouse.
In the end it is about the ART and not the shoes or the degree.
Just…. Balance- Form- Movment- Experience……….

Proclivitys End

I am probably the only one to say,
“I love a good wonder around the Junkyard”.
My significant other thought it would be a good way to bring in the New Year.
200+++ pictures and 8 hours later we enjoyed ideas, played out seniors, stimulated visuals for project builds, engaged in conversation of imagination – all in the rust color of old, on the crisp snow white back drop in the quiet serenity of the cold to bring in the New Year.
Yup- I’m a Cheep date! Ha- Ha!