Went to another opening tonight at White Box in Chelesa.  I'm finding many of the galleries I'm looking at are Non-Profits, artists collectives, things like that.   I'm not even sure there's a dealer running these galleries.    I think of White Box as a place where artists can create their own world - like the NY WATER ROOM that's coming in November (Annie Ratti will transform White Box into a pool, reflecting, through a series of multimedia effects, the social complexity of Urban Life on the waterfront.) to be an interesting place to attend an opening. Also, next March a show is planned called IMPULSE, curated by the original IMPULSE Magazine editior Eldon Garnet, that looks back to one of the most influntial magazines of Art and Culture in North America.  Original issues as well as 200 commisioned works will be exhibited. This is all interesting but what I'm more struck by is how Artists and Art Galleries are becoming Tax Deductable Foundations.   Here's an article I found about about this:  An Auction with Training Wheels

     

It was kinda crowded and warm - there was free Rum, free Beer and lots of people hanging out - I watched people for a couple of minutes and then left.

The Cool Hunter is a pretty cool website  - even if I don't understand all the stuff that's posted on Cool Hunter - or why it's on the site at all; they select a lot of wierd stuff and also are looking for people to report on and upload wierd, interesting videos.  Not my bag. However, I did see Chanel's worst nightmare - a NY artist, Tom Sach, who uses Chanel to make something entirely unlike the Chanel brand (like these two pictures below).

"New York born artist Tom Sachs is something of a troublemaker on the art scene. Focused on critiquing fashion and street cultures, he manipulates our ideas of consumption, branding, commercial imagery and objects of money and power.  Tom Sachs addresses the mania around fashion, attempting to change viewer’s perceptions of precious items and revered brands.  His pieces have a very "do-it-yourself" quality, made from mundane materials: foam core, Sharpie markers, duct tape and hot glue.  Several of his sculptures include Chanel Guillotine (Breakfast Nook '98), Chanel Chainsaw ('96) and Prada Toilet ('97) made from original Prada packaging."

Fun eh!  Every time I think of Chanel now, I'll see something else in my minds eye.