'Cowboy' Ray Kelly opened a show of new sculptures at Windows Orchard Gallery on the Lower East Side last week (show is up until Sunday). According to curator Gregory de la Haba, "As a young art student he was Motherwell's favorite bartender. As a young artist he was Rothko's painting assistant for three years during the building of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. As a young man he founded the Rivington School and No Se No social club/art gallery on NY's Lower East Side where everyone from Debbie Harry to Keith Haring stopped in for the one dollar beers and when, in the 1980's, he turned empty, needle infested, lots into welcoming sculpture gardens for all to enjoy. He is a living legend, one who helped transform our great city into the art center that it is, especially on the LES when no one, no one, except crazy, broke, artists wanted to be there."
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Buffalo Brown. Miami's One-Man Super Session
Buffalo Brown has been in every band that has formed in Miami in the last ten years. You can look it up. He plays jazz, blues, soul, funk, Latin funk, salsa, and every other genre of music that exists or will someday exist. He is a force of nature and a natural force. Check out his band Elastic Bond at www.elasticbond.com, and you also must examine Cog Nomen at www.cognomenmusic.com It's magic...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Courtney Love's Extraordinary Art
'And She's Not Even Pretty', Courtney Love's new gallery show at Fred Torres Collaborations in Chelsea, is a clever meditation on what it means to be alive and erupting with inspiration. A violent, sad, and infinitely childlike celebration of fraught relationships and spiritual goblins. She explains to The Minute why creating visual art is in a way more terrifying to her than making music.
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