Molly Barnes Brown Bag Lunch Art Discussions

Timothy Nye owner of the Nyehaus Gallery in Chelsea and The Brown Gallery in L.A. will talk about the current Getty show Pacific Standard Time, the history of L.A. art from 1965 to 1980.

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Mark Kostabi talks about his art work and introduces his new game show “Title this“.

Gail Levin, a biographer, art historian and curator, discusses her new biography of Lee Krasner

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Thursday – Marilyn Church – Artist, Court Reporter, and author of: “The Art of Justice”. The Library of Congress has acquired 4,000 of her courtroom drawings including Gotti, Woody Allen, Bernie Madoff, P. Diddy, and Norman Mailer.

Friday – Henry Adams – Art Historian and Writer with books on Pollack, Bellows and Benton, will talk about his new book about the “Kokoon Arts Club”, which existed in Cleveland, from 1912 to 1938 featuring a modernist approach to producing art which created an artistic revolution.

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Over coffee at Lily’s, with myself, Danika Druttman and James Knowles, we tossed around the idea of building a young collectors art program. To be honest the idea might have been in circulation for sometime (you never know where the origin of these things comes from). Whether we came up with it or it had been a rolling stone, nothing is new, just rearranged…

James Knowles as Ben Franklin #RogersRewards

Anyway, out of his wallet he pulls two crisp $100 bills and presents them to the both of us.

The objective is to build a body of work with the intent of capturing and stimulating a collector’s imagination. For a long time our efforts have been focused on the subject and perspective of the artist and their motivations. This new initiative takes into account the mind and eye of the collector, the stories and perspectives of the people who purchase works of art.

Sent into the summer months with an idea, we now revisit the concept with newly acquired works of art. After spending a couple weeks at the Vermont Studio Center, I returned to New York with two works from a fellow artist in residence, Ester Hasskamp.

As I canvassed her studio during the open studio visit, my eye was drawn to a small black piece of paper with a threaded outline of a blue moon and its rays. Without receiving a formal title from the artist, I call it “Blue Moon & Ray”.

The second work that caught my attention was a gravestone rubbing with the name Alice. This stimulated a funny memory that involves my sister Phoebe. Phoebe and I went to support the new Bier Garden that had just opened in our neighborhood. There was a live band that was playing one of those songs similar to “Sweet Caroline” where a full crowded bar participate in the chorus… This song, which neither of us had ever heard, has burned itself into my memory as a bar room classic and will always stimulate the question, “Who the fuck is Alice?”

“Who the fuck is Alice?”

As we begin to build our collectors’ portfolios we have a confidence that our decisions have the potential to appreciate in value with each contribution. The stories that motivate the purchase and relationships that we build with the artist become long-lasting.

This is just the beginning.

As we grow this collection, we embrace artists and collectors alike to participate. As the collector has his/her own identity and personality, so will the collection. I have created my own personal blog that will follow my contributions to the overall collection and will also be providing updates to Roger Smith Life as the project grows.

Not to make it too much of a competition, but I am interested to see what Danika brings to the table.

Cheerio.

Be well,
John Knowles
a.k.a Panman

Follow @pancity on twitter.
Other related links
My100artcollection.tumblr.com
Panmanmixtapes.tumblr.com

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Thursday June 16th

ULTRA VIOLET

Warhol superstar will talk about her work and her books, including “Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol”

Friday June 17th

JIM KEMPNER

Chelsea art dealer and comedian will show new excerpts from his series “The Madness of Art” about the New York art scenes.

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Audrey Flack

Painter, Banjo Player, Lyricist. Her “The History of Art

String Band” will play music dedicated to Krassner,

Sargeant, Gauguin, Pollack, and others.

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Elaine Grove

Painter and (widow of Dan Christensen) recently shown

at Spaneirman Modern and Sideshow, will talk

about her art and toys.

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-John Birdsong

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Mimi Gross, daughter of Chaim Gross talks about her life in art.

Stephen Haller, a Chelsea Gallery owner who exhibits work by Giorgio Morandi, Larry Zox, Ron Ehrlich, and Ronnie Lanfield, talks about his friendship with Morandi.

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Thursday – Julie Martin

Writer, currator, documentary film maker, who with her husband Billy Kluver produced films on Rauschenberg, John Cage, and David Tudor will talk about her film “Experiences in Art and Technology E.A.T.”

Friday – Regina Weinreich

Journalist, professor at SVA, and co-producer and director of the masterful documentary “Paul Bowels: The Complete Outsider” will talk about her film about the powerful writer of “The Sheltering Sky”.

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