Nicholas Hlobo

Yesterday I headed out to The Frieze Art Fair on Randal’s Island… I absolutely loved the venue and the vibe of being out of Manhattan for the fair, we ate at the Fat Radish and the food was delish too- I need to hit that up back in NYC. This was the first time Frieze is in NYC, in over from London. I’m on the fence on how I felt about the art at the event, now looking back there were a lot of compelling pieces, but in the moment, I didn’t feel it. I’m sad that I didn’t get a chance to check out PULSE or NADA…if any of you were there, what did you think?

Below are some of my favorite pieces from the fair, or at least the ones that attracted me enough to take photos (and I have 100 more…), but I guess looking at these its safe to say I have a type? As you can tell, my friend Casey and I had a blast, and like I said, the vibe was so fun!

Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled, 2012

(Dorky side pony is a little too fresh and tight! But how good would a little shaved sideburn action look? Come on, you know it.)

Joel Kyack

Anselm Reyle

Click through, lot more fun stuff after the jump!

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More new art in my apartment, this one via my nephew photographer Eddie Cohen.  It’s printed on aluminum and its fabulous. He’s a huge Woody Allen fan, so this is a very personal piece to him. And I’m SO happy to have it. It’s too cool for school… and I LOVE how it looks on the silver walls. I generally have enough paintings in my apartment (although I was totally the cobbler with no shoes for the past few months!) so I look for work I love in other fields.  Learn more about Eddie HERE. 

My apartment feels like a whole new place to me. Between the round painting over the high chair, Cookie’s pieces, this Woody and the new paintings, it’s a new world. I also moved the polka dot chairs to the den and left the area in my living room open with just the chair that I rescued from the garbage, and the lucite bench under the big painting. It feels so much more spacious and open now. (Yes Erica, you were right.)

It feels good to be back, baby! And thank the lord I have photoshoots and house tours, cause otherwise I would NEVER finish anything.

Im heading to Frieze today, I’m so excited and Ill report back!

Now that I’ve gone the route of massive, I don’t think I can ever have small paintings there again! I picked these up from the framer on Friday at 4 pm! Talk about crunch time. I’m sitting and drinking my coffee and looking at these babies right now, and smiling because I love them so much. (You can click HERE , HERE  and HERE to see what the apartment looked like with the previous paintings that sold, there are also before and afters and sources listed on those posts.)

Anyway, the Junior League House Tour was so much fun yesterday! Honestly, it was kind of bizarre having so many strangers in my house, but like I told some people yesterday- because of the blog, I’m used to people seeing my stuff, so that part isn’t so strange… Just you know, the in person contact in my house was strange. And even though I’m so out there and exposed, the fear of judgment doesn’t go away.

Above all else, the hardest part was getting everything NEAT and uncluttered and organized for this! I swear to you, I don’t think this house will ever be this neat again, so I took a ton of photos! You have to see the magic that Liz worked in my playroom. Master organizer and stylist! A lot of people wonder how I have kids in this apartment. Two answers: 1, I have a playroom that usually looks like a bomb exploded in it, and 2, nothing in here is actually that precious. Lucite and glass wipe clean, and everything else is actually not that delicate. The only difference between my staged living room and my not staged living room is that on a normal day, I don’t put anything on the coffee table where JoJo can reach it. Thats it. Oh yea, and on a normal day there is cereal crumbs on every surface.

In addition to my own two massive paintings, I also hung work by other artists that I know and love… one of whom is COOKIE! I swear to you, people were instantly drawn to her pieces, and she even had a few offers on her work! People- you don’t need to buy my kids artwork, you have your own amazing artist at home! All kids have some level of artist talent because their strokes are so uninhibited! Like I told some people yesterday- all you have to do is limit them in some ways: don’t give them that many paint colors at once, and take away the paper before they mess it up! Then frame it like a serious piece of art, and trust me, it will look fabulous!

Stay tuned for more photos, and if you are new here, feel free to peruse and ask any questions about sourcing, or whatever else you feel like asking! We are very casual and friendly on this blog! Welcome and enjoy!

New and improved living room for the house tour! More photos coming later… But seriously…. Gigantic paintings. HELL to the YEA.

I went to visit my grandparents today… and I just had to take another picture…She’s endlessly inspirational, my grandma is. Look how she framed that tapestry that my great-grandmother made. Love. Love it all.

(In case you are new here, my grandmother is fabulous, her houses were decorated in the 70′s and have looked that way since… but I think they should and could be in any magazine today. Someone needs to start a column that finds untouched spaces like this!)