Author Archives: Blair Asbury Brooks

Art Basel 2011

By Blair Asbury Brooks | Published: June 22, 2011
Unlike last year’s quick stop in Basel, I was there for the whole fair trek this year: installation through the final gong (literally). Before arriving in Basel, I was in Paris, attending a symposium at the École des Beaux Arts on Franz Erhard Walther—one of our gallery’s artists.  Spending days focused on the breadth, history, [...]
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Art for a Cause

By Blair Asbury Brooks | Published: January 27, 2011
Thursday, 27 February from 6-8pm, Peter Freeman, Inc. opens a two-week benefit exhibition for the Shelter Foundation. Shelter raises awareness of the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women, and supports organizations delivering aid and education to women forced into prostitution, mainly in the Balkans.  Created in 2001 in Basel, Switzerland, by Alexander and Silke von [...]
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Art Basel (Part 1)

By Blair Asbury Brooks | Published: June 28, 2010
This was my first Basel fair.  I arrived in the afternoon of June 16th, so I missed the opening night and most of the first day.  By that first afternoon, sales were already strong.  The general mood among sales staffs seemed relaxed, thanks to sales, but also relieved about the future.  Things were not back [...]
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BRENT GREEN – ON KENTRIDGE, ANIMATION, AND MAKING THE WORST CIRCUS EVER

By Blair Asbury Brooks | Published: May 31, 2010
It’s nearly impossible to catch Brent Green in a calm moment these days.  When we sat down at the beginning of May, Brent had just opened an exhibition at the Andrew Edlin Gallery.  The night before, he’d performed at MoMA.  Two hours after our coffee, his first feature-length film, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, would [...]
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