Every Day's Journey

The Purge: Valentine's Day 2017 Tuesday , Februrary 14, 2017 5-8PM No Guarantees. No Returns. No Love. This Valentines Day, ahead of the US debut of his ongoing project,  The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment , Bjarne Melgaard will be giving away his personal collection of designer fashion and streetwear FREE of charge to the public, on a first come, first serve basis. In groups of 100, the shoppers will have 5-10 minutes to fill their custom  MELGAARD  garbage bags with as much as they can carry. Once their time is up, shoppers will be immediately evacuated from the premise. The hoard includes scores of pieces by  Comme des Garçon, Eckhaus Latta, HUF, Issey Miyake, Jeremy Scott, Lanvin, Margiela, Raf Simons, Stussy, Supreme, Telfar, Yohji Yamamoto  — as well as 100+ pieces from the new  MELGAARD  streetwear collection, which makes its world debut within this purge...  but get ready for disappointment, too... NO GUARANTEES.

Opening this Thursday, February 9th, 2017, 6:30-9pm The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence Daphne Wright: Prayer Project The Fine Print: Selections from the Collection Bequest of Ann Kirk Warren ‘50 Carlo Dolci,  Self Portrait , 1674. Photo Credit: Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali/Art Resource, NY.    The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence The Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present  The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence , the first-ever exhibition in America devoted to the luminous and meticulously rendered paintings and drawings of 17th-century Italian artist Carlo Dolci (1616–1687), and the Davis Museum’s most ambitious Old Master project to date. Dolci was arguably the most important artist in Florence during the 17th-century and the exhibition brings together for the first time in the U.S. the artist's sophisticated devoti

United States Artists Announces Deana Haggag As President and CEO Joins as $20,000,000 Endowment Campaign Nears Finish Line Photograph by Olivia Obineme CHICAGO — January 26, 2017  —  United States Artists ( USA)  is pleased to announce the hiring of  Deana Haggag  as its new President and CEO. She will officially assume the position on  April 3rd . “I’m honored to have been chosen to lead this incredible organization,”  said Haggag . “USA’s mission is more important now than ever. USA Fellows embody the creativity, passion, diversity, and talent of this country, and the incredible heights American artists are capable of. It will be a privilege to support them in their future efforts, and to celebrate what they’ve already accomplished.” Haggag has been the Executive Director of The Contemporary, a nomadic, non-collecting art museum based in Baltimore, MD, since 2013. Prior to that she was the Curator-in-Residence at Baltimore’s Gallery CA. In ad

Rental Gallery Reopens in East Hampton The collaborative gallery has previously existed  in Los Angeles and New York City New York (January 16, 2017)  — Rental Gallery is proud to announce its new location at 87 Newtown Road in East Hampton, New York. Owned and directed by artist-dealer Joel Mesler, the nomadic and collaborative Rental has existed in earlier iterations in Los Angeles (2004-2007) and New York City (2007-2010). The inaugural show will be a Rental retrospective, gathering artists who have shown in the space over the years. It will open in May 2017. Rental will remain open throughout the year, presenting longer-run exhibitions, often of an experimental character, supplemented by a robust, monthly exhibition calendar during the summer season. The move to the Hamptons responds to systemic shifts in the art market. A decade of rising rents in art centers, combined with a global move towards an art fair-driven calendar, has left brick-

Red Bull Arts New York Presents Its Inaugural Exhibition Under New Moniker Bjarne Melgaard: The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment February 16 – April 9, 2017 Preview — By Invitation Only: February 15, 2017    6-9PM Red Bull Arts New York 220 W 18th Street, New York “Bjarne Melgaard is really a ‘bad dad.’ Though as much as this is truly his character and not some contrived act, he knows, too, that ‘bad dad’ is also a canonic artist subjectivity— an art world meme that remains in circulation because it allows in social violence and public transgression, elements that those who reside in the protected, connectionist culture sphere seem to love or at least love to hate.”  — Caroline Busta,  In The Name of The Father Above: © Bjarne Melgaard, muppet in collaboration with Jim Henson Company and Babak Radboy, 2016. Image courtesy of Red Bull Arts New York. (NEW YORK - January 10, 2016) —  Red Bull Arts New York  is pleased to ann