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Favorite Pink Artworks From the Affordable Art Fair, Spring 2017!

AAFNY Spring 2017
All Photos By Gail

You say you want Pink Things? I got yer Pink Things right here. The Spring edition of the Affordable Art Fair has come and gone from NYC, until it returns in the fall, and we had a ton of fun this year seeing many old friend and lots of exciting new artworks all priced to own! Affordable Art!

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With so very many galleries exhibiting at the fair from all over the globe, we like to distill it down by choosing our favorite Pink Artworks and bringing them to your face, which will give you a good idea of the scope of painting, photography, sculpture and multi-media that finds its way into the two levels of the Metropolitan Pavilion when the AAF rolls into town. Though the fair is over for
now, you can still purchase many of these pieces, or others by the same artist, from the galleries via their brick and mortar locations, or websites. Continue reading Favorite Pink Artworks From the Affordable Art Fair, Spring 2017!

Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Glitter Kids Sneakers

Pink Glitter Kids Sneakers
Photo By Gail

All the best sneakers are made for kids, amiright? I would kill to have a pair of either of these designs in my size.

Photographed in the window of Lesters at 2nd Avenue and 80th Street in Manhattan!

Pink Thing of The Day: Elizabeth Taylor by Russell Young

Pink Elizabeth Taylor
Photo By Gail

Russell Young (born March 13, 1959) is a British-American artist. In the late 1970s, while living in London, he gained recognition photographing the early live club shows of Bauhaus, R.E.M. and The Smiths. During this period he shot portraits of Morrissey, Bjork, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, New Order, Diana Ross, and Paul Newman. In 1986, he shot the Faith sleeve for George Michael. In the following ten years he directed more than 100 music videos during the heyday of MTV.
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Video Clip of The Week: Badflower, “Soap”

Finally, here’s an authentic, hard rock track that possesses serious balls in an otherwise nearly neutered aural wasteland. Badflower are a kick ass band from LA who seem too young to have integrated such classic, bulletproof rock influences into their high energy sound, but just listen to a few bars of “Soap” (see what I did there?) and tell me you don’t want to high-five them all around for delivering a wildly contagious burst of melodic noise that only continues to grow on you with repeated listening.
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Mickalene Thomas, Tete de Femme at Lehmann Maupin

Tete de Femme
All Photos By Gail

Lehmann Maupin is delighted to debut Tête de Femme, a new body of work by artist Mickalene Thomas. In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Thomas explores the intricacies of female beauty through painting and collage, focusing on how artifice serves both to mask and reveal the individual essence of her subjects. Continue reading Mickalene Thomas, Tete de Femme at Lehmann Maupin