Agathe Snow & Tino Seghal all to myself!

If you have any interest in Art whatsoever, you couldn’t have missed last week’s frantic art week. Between the Armory, the Art Dealers show, Scope (I couldn’t take much more after that), Art – the Good, the Bad & the Ugly – was just popping right at you without filters. And then there was the art scene that follows to the T, the codes of their tribe: old school classic at the Park Avenue location, international avant-guards at Scope and everybody in between at the Piers!

So what propelled me to seek more this afternoon ? Just the sheer bliss of living in New York and catching the most of it!

I had bumped into Agathe Snow at one of the Armory booth where she was exposing. She invited me at her friend and Art Dealer Anatole Shagalov’s home where she is showing some pieces that were never exposed in NY. Anatole’s apartment is this amazing raw space with soaring ceiling. It reminded me the times when my mother took me to see shows on the day the museum was closed -she worked with the museum. The sheer luxury of being with an artist and her work in an uninterrupted space and time. And we had God in the room…

Until March 11th @ Anatole Shagalov’s apartment, 34 East 70th Street, apt 2w from 12 to 6 pm everyday.

Then I went to the Guggenheim to catch Tino Seghal‘s piece before it closes in 2 days.  It lived up to all the hype. Already just being in th empty  Guggenheim felt – I can’t find a better analogy-  that your lover had taken off his clothes at last!

Upon entering the museum, I was swept away by a little girl who asked me the definition of progress and proceeded to repeat whatever I had managed to blurt out in my surprise to a younger girl. And then suddenly a third women in her forties appeared and the previous one disappeared. At last, I was led to a women in her early sixties, who shared with me some of her later life experiences. All this was just like an electrochoc: being part of the art. There was no more boundaries.  No more judgment, no need to like, dislike, react or understand. No reference needed. Just being in the moment. Right there, right now.

Voila! Can’t beat that!