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EXPO CHICAGO: The New Dazzling Art Fair
EXPO CHICAGO: The New Dazzling Art Fair By Brook S. Mason Top tier art collectors and consultants along with curators and civic leaders converged on the Windy City for the inaugural EXPO CHICAGO, the...
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Schulenberg's Page
Bleecker Street 3-11-61.Schulenberg’s Page This is a second series of Sketch’s from the artist’s sketchbook dated “January 27 to May 10, 1961” in New York. A new face in town himself, born and bred and...
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The Queen's portrait
Queen Elizabeth II imagined in the Coronation Theatre of Westminster Abbey where she herself was crowned in 1953. The painting is lifesize: 9 x11 feet. The artist was given two nights in Westminster...
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Frieze Fair New York
Paul McCarthy's Balloon Dog (2013).Frieze Fair New York Makes the City an Art Destination Supremo By Brook S. Mason, photographs by Rena SilvermanArt world insiders have long said the city hardly...
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The Art Set: Rule Britannia!
The scene inside McKim, Mead and White's magnificent James Farley Post Office for Tate Americas Foundation Artists Dinner.The Art Set: Rule Britannia!Charlie Scheips Last week certainly was the apex of...
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The Art Set: Art & Enthusiasm
Philip Haas, Four Seasons. Painted fiberglass sculptures in situ at The New York Botanical Garden, 2013. Courtesy The New York Botanical Garden.The Art Set: Art & EnthusiasmCharlie Scheips Amidst...
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The Art Set: The Glass of Art, Architecture and Nature
Charlie behind a Michael Heiser in the Sculpture Gallery of The Glass House.The Art Set: The Glass of Art, Architecture and NatureCharlie Scheips A couple weeks ago, I drove out to New Canaan,...
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The Art Set: The Jugglers
David Hockney (b. 1937), still from The Jugglers, June 24th 2012, 2012. Eighteen-screen video installation, color, sound; 9 min. © David Hockney. Image courtesy Hockney Pictures and Pace Gallery.The...
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The Art Set: I’m Shocked! (NOT)
Adults only in the old days (©Bettmann/CORBIS)The Art Set: I’m Shocked! (NOT)Charlie ScheipsOne of my favorite lines in Michael Curtiz’s 1942 masterpiece, “Casablanca,” is delivered by Claude Rains as...
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The Art Set: California Dreamin and the Last Address
Installation view of James Turrell at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: David Heald.The Art Set: California Dreamin and the Last AddressCharlie Scheips This summer New York is chock-a-block with...
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Paris — when it sizzles
Taking a snap of a special edition Andy Warhol can of Perrier that was just released this week, while getting my haircut at David Mallett’s salon on the rue Notre-Dames-des-Victoires.Paris — when it...
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The Art Set: Size Matters!
Ron Mueck's Studio, January 2013 © Ron Mueck Photo © Gautier DeblondeThe Art Set: Size Matters!by Charlie Scheips You can appreciate life in Paris on both the grand or a small scale — often at the same...
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The Art Set: My family in France
My friend Jean-Michel's produce stand at the entrance of the Bric à Brac brocante in Molineuf. The Art Set: My family in France.by Charlie Scheips If you are lucky enough to spend more than a couple...
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The Art Set: Paris History
Charlie at Musée Carnavalet in front of the opulent 1925 murals by José-Maria Sert for the ballroom of the Hôtel Wendel.The Art Set: Paris History by Charlie ScheipsOne of my favorite places in Paris...
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The Art Set: Rule Britannia!
The scene inside McKim, Mead and White's magnificent James Farley Post Office for Tate Americas Foundation Artists Dinner.The Art Set: Rule Britannia!Charlie Scheips Last week certainly was the apex of...
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The Art Set: Art & Enthusiasm
Philip Haas, Four Seasons. Painted fiberglass sculptures in situ at The New York Botanical Garden, 2013. Courtesy The New York Botanical Garden.The Art Set: Art & EnthusiasmCharlie Scheips Amidst...
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The Art Set: Au revoir, Paris :-(
Graffiti in Beaubourg.The Art Set: Au revoir, Paris :-(by Charlie Scheips Soon after I filed my most recent installment of The Art Set last month, I had an accident in Paris. On the Saturday afternoon...
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The Art Set: Back in the New World
A screen shot from the Paris 3D project — an amazing creation that allows one to not only explore the city of today but to go back into its history in three dimensions.The Art Set: Back in the New...
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The Art Set: On Vanishing Bohemia and High Francophilia
A spread from the program at Taylor Mead's send-off.The Art Set: On Vanishing Bohemia and High Francophiliaby Charlie Scheips In the early 1990s when I was living in the heart of the East Village...
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The Art Set: Devastation and Creation
Bright Lights are leaving the Chelsea Hotel.The Art Set: Devastation and Creation by Charlie Scheips The other night I went down to the Chelsea Hotel to have dinner with artist Michele Zalopany. What a...
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