Art Blog

1>Wall Street Journal ARTSY SAG HARBOR IS UP IN ARMS ABOUT A LONG, SHAPELY PAIR OF LEGS and don't miss the WSJ video !!
NOT TO BE OUTDONE, CHANNEL 11 CALLED IMMEDIATELY FOR A LIVE INTERVIEW - I WAS ON THE 8AM JITNEY INTO NYC, IN SHOCK, READING ARTSY SAG HARBOR...MY BLACKBERRY WAS BUZZING AWAY WITH INCOMING MAIL. Determined to run the story on their 10pm news, they said they would do the story with, or without my involvement - [Vered was en route back from Israel at that very moment]. Forced to agree to an interview, the Channel 11 crew arrived at my apartment in the city late afternoon. [How to impress ones neighbors??!!!]

2>WPIX (SAG HARBOR, NY) LONG LEGS IN THE HAMPTONS and don't miss the Ch 11 video !!

3> As I was about to post this footnote to Art History 101, NY Magazine weighed in.
For two years, a sixteen-foot sculpture of a pair of shapely legs by the artist Larry Rivers has been on display in the side yard of art dealers Janet Lehr and Ruth Vered. Despite the sculpture's pedigree (Rivers, who died in 2002, was a well-regarded local artist) and the precedents that have been set for sculptures of this sort, some local officials fail to recognize its genius and have been trying to use arcane building ordinances to force the owners to remove it.

Sag Harbor's village attorney, Fred Thiele Jr., told the Buildings Department in an email: "While some may consider this to be 'art,' it is irrelevant...." The legs, he said, were a structure subject to the village building and zoning requirements and needed a building permit as well as historic and architectural review.
In other words.

But other officials have come to the sculpture's defense ("I like the legs," Michael Mensch, a member of the town's architectural review board, told the Journal), and thus the debate rages on. At least until the night Thiele sneaks over under the guise of watering the plants and knocks the thing over, shattering it to pieces. Out of jealousy.

Don't ever want you to miss Vered's incredible, inadvertent activities! BUT VERED DOES SOLID ‘STUFF' TOO, NOT JUST ‘ILLEGAL' BOOZING AND THE ERECTION OF A BUILDING EXTENSION PARADING AS A LEGGY, WONDERFUL RIVERS SCULPTURE. IF YOU PLAN BEING AT BASEL MIAMI - THAT'S INTERESTING. LET ME KNOW. IF WE CAN BE OF HELP WALKING YOU THRU THE SHOALS, THE WHOLE VERED CREW - VERED, JANET, NICK & DAMIEN WILL BE THERE c.516 353 6450.

Vered Gallery has a wonderful Abstraction Expressionist show -inspired by MOMA's NY School show. It's up for the Thanksgiving / Channukah / Christmas season. Enjoy it this weekend, we're all ready - Pollock, De Kooning, Delunay, Bearden, Brooks, Vicenti, Fine, Marca Relli, Avery, T Smith, and yes, Larry Rivers.
WANNA BY A HOTSY TOTSY PAIR OF LEGS - PROVEN TO ATTRACT LOTS OF ATTENTION?