Tanja Grunert and Klemens Gasser presented a drawing/video/performance exhibition last night at Gasser Grunert by Michael Alan.

Michael Alan creates moments in time that overlap drawing, painting, sculpture, music and video. They inspire live performance and installation happenings. All of his work begins with drawings. These drawings serve as the foundation for his installations, performances, and videos. Working with a team of performers, Alan assembles living installations where all these creative elements merge.
Harmonious Opposites is about the beauty of balance in a state of extreme cultural and artistic change. It includes large and small works on paper and wood panel, a video installation, and on the closing night, Thursday July 29th, a 6 hour Living Installation performance entitled, "Cleaning the Clouds". The public is invited to
come watch, participate, draw, and write at this performance.
A celebration of movement, Harmonious Opposites explores the act of occupying and embodying multiple spaces at once, without confusion. The creative process behind it ... Read More

Mark Borghi Fine Art in Bridgehampton celebrated the opening of  “Andrew Levitas: Metalwork,” photographs on aluminum of images taken in Sagaponack and elsewhere on the East End. The show will opened Saturday with a reception at 6 p.m. and it can be seen through July 11.
    By the age of 15, Mr. Levitas, who grew up in New York City, was writing, painting, shooting photographs, being mentored by Allen Ginsberg, and was involved in an experimental theater company.
    After pursuing an acting career, he developed a method of photography, called metalwork, “a process involving the transfer of photographs into transparencies that are in turn melted onto hand-detailed metal sheets,” according to the gallery.
    “The result is a work that combines the imagery of a photograph with the presence of a sculpture,” the gallery said.
    Mr. Levitas has had several well-received exhibits, including a 2007 show on Los Angeles life combining ... Read More

On Monday night in Sag Harbor, director Angela Ismailos welcomed guests to the Sag Harbor Cinema for the Hamptons screening of Great Directors and subsequent after party at Paradise Café. Great Directors, is a celebration of films and filmmaking starring ten of the worlds most acclaimed, provocative, and individualistic living directors. The documentary, which had its world premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, is a deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, and features original, in-depth conversations with world-class filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. These interviews more than just chronicle Ismailos’ encounters with ten remarkable men and women. Extensively illuminated by clips and historical archives from the subjects’ works, they also reveal the distinctive personalities who created the timeless images that have ... Read More

On Tuesday, Lisa Weiss, owner of Début New York, hosted the 2010 Annual Parsons The New School of Design graduate exhibition and trunk show.  The third annual partnership between the store and Parsons The New School for Design showcased the best in fashion and accessories from the senior class.  The week long showcase and trunk show kicked off last night with a cocktail party co-hosted by Weiss and Parsons graduate, handbag designer: Sang A Im-Propp.


Each year, Weiss collaborates with Parsons in selecting students from the graduating class to present at Début.  As part of the exercise, Weiss assumes her role as buyer with the students including taking each through the nuts and bolts of retail from pricing to sampling to selling their collections at Début.   The retailer explains, “Working with the students, watching their progress and seeing them gain ... Read More