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Pink Thing of The Day: KiKi Big Doll By Takashi Murakami

kiki big doll takashi murakami photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

During a recent visit to the BrooklynMuseum, I was excited to see that they’ve relocated their rather ad hoc gift shop from a tiny corner tucked away at the front of the lobby to its own main-floor gallery space that is absolutely massive! In the new shop, they have all kinds of very nice but crazy expensive shit that you can spend way too much money on, not the least of which is this Kiki Big Doll oversize plush by Japanese superflat artist Takashi Murakami, who currently has a show at the museum. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: KiKi Big Doll By Takashi Murakami

Surreal Portraits of Fictional Female Icons By Ellannah Sadkin

Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman (All Photos By Gail)

Ellannah “Ella” Sadkin is a London-based artist who works primarily with acrylic and graffiti pens to produce colorful and abstract works. With its hard black lines, bright flat color and organic and geometric shapes, her style is often described as surrealist cartooning.
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Discovering the Art of Keiicha Tanaami: Visible Darkness / Invisible Darkness

Dream Furor Colligendi, 2014
Dream Furor Colligendi, 2014, By Keiicha Tanaami (All Photos By Gail)

You never know what you will discover on a Saturday afternoon art crawl in the Chelsea Gallery District. What happens more than you can imagine is that Geoffrey I fall in love with the work of an artist who is new to us, despite them having a career that spans decades. Sometimes, that artist has already passed, and we have occasion to mourn a great loss at the same time that we are welcoming a lifetime of beautiful art into our own lives. Because when it comes to art, it is just impossible to know everything. Continue reading Discovering the Art of Keiicha Tanaami: Visible Darkness / Invisible Darkness

A Visit to The Broad Museum!

Broad Museum Exterior
All Photos by Gail

When I was in California at Christmastime, a little bit of advanced planning allowed me to enjoy a visit to the new Broad Museum of contemporary art, located in beautiful downtown Los Angeles. Featuring 2,000 works of art from the private collection of philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad (pronounced like Bro-d”), admission is free of charge, but because the museum just opened on September 20th, 2015, the demand for tickets is so high that they must be reserved online in advance.

By December, the list was already booked up through February 2016! It is times like these that writing an awesome blog like The Worley Gig comes in handy. With a  couple of exchanged emails, the Broad’s press office was kind enough to extend VIP-treatment to myself and two guests, which included front-of-the-line cutting privileges that saved us about two hours of waiting in a queue that already wrapped around two sides of the building by the time the museum opened at 11 AM.  It is good to be the King, or Queen, whatever.

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Seonna Hong, If You Lived Here, I’d Be Home By Now at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Remember The Good Things
Remember The Good Things By Seonna Hong (All Photos By Gail)

If you stop by Jonathan LeVine Gallery to see the latest Martin Wittfooth exhibit, be sure to also see If You Lived Here I’d Be Home By Now, a series of new works by Los Angeles-based artist Seonna Hong,  her debut solo exhibition, which is running concurrently in the rear gallery. After completing a series of self-reflective work throughout her career, Hong has discovered a way to look forward, with this collection of paintings that signify her return to the New York art world after eight years. Of course, I had an immediate attraction to all of the paintings in this exhibit, because there is so much pink in them!
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