No New Enemies Network
Anonymous Gallery hosted a live painting brunch with seminal New York “street artist” ( I feel weird using today’s definition of that term here) Kenny Scharf on Saturday, as he prepared the walls for Wednesday’s opening of “In Dialogue”, which is guest curated by Peter Makebish.I love seeing Kenny Scharf pieces around town, although they are few and far between. They feel like part of a time capsule from the Lower East Side of the 80s when he ran around painting the streets with Keith Haring and showed with the likes of the infamous Fun Gallery and Tony Shafrazi. Ever influenced by television and cartoons, Scharf has always tried to test the line between high and low art with his spacey cartoon characters, which seems more playful and poppy than younger street artists today.
http://nonewenemies.net/2010/04/13/mimosas-and-kenny-scharf/
UPCOMING SHOW – IN DIALOGUE
IN DIALOGUE – Four Generations of Painting
APRIL 14 – MAY 23
OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 14 6-9PM
Curated by Peter Makebish
Donald Baechler . Ross Bleckner . Kadar Brock
Brendan Cass . Sante D’Orazio . Matt Jones . John Newsom
Hermann Nitsch . Bill Saylor . Kenny Scharf . Ouattara Watts . Dustin Yellin
For more info you may proceed to – http://anonymousgallery.com/art/
NYPOST.COM
24-hour arty people
Collective Hardware, an art space on the Bowery, revives the spirit of Andy Warhol’s Factory
By INNA DESILVA
The Bowery has played host to CBGB, homeless bums and, more recently, upscale museums, hotels and bars. But now there’s an underground art scene straight out of the debauched ’60s era of Andy Warhol’s Factory.
Collective Hardware, housed in a rundown building between Broome and Delancey streets that used to be Weiss Hardware, has nothing to do with wrenches. Instead, it’s a five-floor party-studio-gallery-music space filled with a never-ending parade of pretty people, downtown artists and hangers-on.
Last Thursday, at a launch party for the nonprofit Fund Art Now, jazz floated through the first-floor gallery from a rented Steinway. On the second floor, members of the cool set were lounging, either getting a trim from the Astor Place haircutters while sipping a no-brand cocktail from a makeshift bar or participating in a séance — there’s an oversized hand-painted Ouija board on the floor.
“I can give an unknown artist an opportunity to show in a place that consistently attracts tastemakers and patrons of the arts,” says Stuart Braunstein, a self-proclaimed “urban instigator” and deejay who launched the space with his business partner, Rony Rivellini, in 2007. The buzz about their venture has grown ever since.
“Where else can you meet MIT think-tank guys, Astor Place haircutters, beautiful models/actors and high-profile gallerists?”
Warhol’s Factory, the art studio where the pop artist made silk-screens from 1962 to 1968, drew all sorts of artists, actors and celebrities (from Dylan to Factory-made “Superstars” such as Edie Sedgwick), who made music and movies among the druggy scene.
Braunstein never met Warhol but was inspired to create a similar environment by Factory alumnus, artist and friend Ronny Cutrone.
The building’s top three floors (which house offices, artist studios and plenty of hard-partying scenesters) are off-limits unless you’re invited. Now Braunstein has a newly minted liquor license, and says he’s negotiating to open a rooftop restaurant.
Andy Warhol, welcome to 2010.
To view full article click: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/hour_arty_people_mBLGTOcn5Zgj0AJuU7S1UP
NAP BOULE BENEFIT
N’AP BOULE – A BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAITI
MARCH 7 – 28
On Sunday March 7, 2010, Anonymous Gallery @ Collective Hardware, SCOPE Art Show, {he}Art For Haiti and Prographix New York City joined forces to present N’AP BOULE: A BENEFIT FOR THE PEOPLE OF. Hosted by Joseph Henrikson, Andrew Lockhart, Raquel Cepeda, Sacha Jenkins, Henry and Kathleen Chalfant, Lisa Shimamura, and Christie’s auctioneer Xan Serafin, the event proved to be a memorable and successful evening, raising tens of thousands of dollars (as of this press release, we are still tallying and will announce the final sum at closing) in financial support for the people of Haiti. All of the proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières www.doctorswithoutborders.com <http://www.doctorswithoutborders.com/> (MSF) Haitian mission after the show’s closing on March 28.
Prographix New York City www.prographixnyc.com <http://www.prographixnyc.com/> donated their services—with a kind assist from American Apparel—producing commemorative T-shirts featuring original artworks by John CRASH Matos, Greg Lamarche, Ricky Powell, COPE2 and Indie184, Doze Green, Aaron SHARP Goodstone, FUTURA 2000 and Jose Parla. The limited edition T-shirts are being sold for $30US at the gallery: all proceeds will go to DWB/MSF. To view and purchase, please visit www.anonymoushop.com <http://www.anonymoushop.com/>
Due to increasing public demand for an opportunity to view the exhibition and purchase artworks that are still available for purchase, Anonymous Gallery and {he}ART For Haiti have agreed to continue the display until March 28th. For available artwork, please contact
info@anonymousgallery.com
Brian Ormond : 10001 : new paintings
Brian Ormond debuts his first independent art show at Collective Hardware’s gallery space.
Dates: Thursday 4th February – Saturday 20th February inclusive
Gallery opened daily : mon – sun : 12 noon – 6pm
(broome & delancey streets)
subway B/D at grand
Feel free to stop by and check it out!
xxx
Rhong Tiam and Collective on Eater NY.
(via Eater NY)
Last night marked the beginning of a new chapter in the Kurve/Rhong Tiam saga. Community Board 3 had no trouble greenlighting Andy Yang, owner of those two locations, for a full liquor license at 169 Bowery, the 3,000 square foot Collective Hardware space, as mentioned last month. 169 Bowery was once home to vaudeville house Miner’s Theater. After nearly burning down in 1922, the space turned into a Chinese theater and then eventually became Weiss’s hardware store. Now it’s Collective, a gallery space/designer boutique/hair salon/music venue/pop-up store, and according to its website, Rhong Tiam will be moving into the second floor…
PANKABESTIA: PUNK BEASTS OF THE SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA
As the 53rd Venice Biennale enters its last days and the world’s art community reflects, Anonymous Gallery, curator Spy Emerson and the artist Swoon provide a glimpse of what critic Jerry Saltz called “…The most moving moment I had at the Biennale…”
Pankabestia: Punk Beasts of the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, is a retrospective of artist Swoon’s “Swimming Cities of Serenissima”, the artist’s recent invasion of the Venice Biennale. Traveling from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy, Swoon and more than 30 other artists braved the waters of the Adriatic Sea and navigated a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels. The exhibition, curated by Spy Emerson, opens on November 20, 2009 and will include large-scale wall drawings, original Swimming Cities boat installations, portions of the ships, found objects acquired from sea. The exhibition will also feature performers Moses and Spy, Tianna Kennedy and Adina Bier, beautiful photographic documentation from artist Tod Seelie, and original artwork from Swoon, Spy Emerson, Monica Canilao, plus many more.
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Retina Overload— the Photography of Scott Alger.
“One-one thousand, two-one thousand,” Scott Alger counts time as he shines a bright yellow light in the face of a frozen Juliet. He is in the middle of composing his first of twelve photographs in a set depicting the tale of the star-cross’d lovers and their journey through the predestined tragedy…
Read more by clicking the image above.
The Demise of the Nightclub.
Special Guest Contribution from Stuart Braunstein of Collective Hardware.
Night life in NYC: what happened, where did it all go wrong? There are lots of reasons. I’ve been a derelict in the biz for over 20 years and I have to say I am disappointed in…
Read more at: http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2009/10/the-demise-of-the-nightclub/
Randy Lebeau; Journey of a Male Model.
Check out the story written by our in-house magazine Scallywag and Vagabond on Collective’s very own Randy Lebeau.
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2009/10/randy-lebeau-journey-of-a-male-model/
Written by Christopher Koulouris
Collective Hardware 
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