A: Is for Art Openings!

There are two art openings this week that are worth attending. One is curated by a friend and both include artists who are friends. The first opening is tonight Tuesday, September 23rd from 7:00- 9:00 PM at Aurum located at 2252 First Avenue at 116th Street in East Harlem. ROUGH is the first in a series of exhibitions to be curated by Frederique Beccari. ROUGH is to introduce and raise funds for the development of BEAM, a newa 7500-square foot arts center in East Harlem. Includes is a 1250 sq. ft. sculpture garden/cafe to be designed by the New York Restoration Project. ROUGH takes you through the medium of photography, into the artists perception of NYC. Capturing the neighborhood of East Harlem Enid Alvarez, staff photographer for the Daily News and Sherry Mills, Founder of A CLOSER NY, revealing beauty through its rough edges. Sherry's lens captures the major shifts and transformations of New York City and they are the photographs highlighted. Enid focuses on East Harlem as the last place where the mix of cultures creates a flavor and intensity that is becoming the defining trademark of a newly energized neighborhood. If you miss the show, you can catch it until October 26th, 5:00 PM to Midnight.


On Thursday, a showroom doubles as an art gallery. Thos. Moser furniture, has turned into an alternative art gallery where local and national artists display their works on an ongoing basis. Located on bustling Madison Avenue between 62nd and 63rd streets on the second floor it provides a perfect merging of two art forms. Their featured Artist is Danielle Mailer in “A Room with a Muse” and features her newest work. Danielle is the daughter of the late Norman Mailer and the abstract artist Adele Morales Mailer. She is also the wife of jazz trombonist Peter McEachern. Danielle credits Kahlo and Klimt among her influences and they are there to see in her work. Conjuring up her Latin-Jewish background in all of its vibrancy and color, through her paintings she beomes a cat, a goddess hidden away or center stage. Narratives dealing with contemporary issues of womanhood upon an intimate landscape.
A Surrealistic terrain full of artichokes, chile peppers, trombones and skulls. A tapestry of personal symbols that speak to all who enter her world. To meet Danielle come to a Reception with the artist…Thursday, Sept 25, from 6-8pm RSVP requested.

Art is just around the corner and that is a F.A.C.T.