Urban Art Association

This sounds pretty much like my perfect night out. Looking forward to seeing some pics =]

The dinner, which honors the leaving director and if history is correct will feature terrible food and likely be boring is sold out. The Ball is not sold out.

Still no luck on my end w/ anyone picking up a pair of sunglasses for me - anyone going that can help me out? Will love you forever.

But only if he Promises to post a selfie wearing them 

And interesting to see who the art market thinks is real, or hot...or maybe both...beautiful Parla with multiple bids.

Museum Gala Goers Go Home With the Art

Lavish table installations created by local artists have become a tradition at the Brooklyn Museum’s Brooklyn Artists Ball.

But a mix-up at this year’s gala resulted in about two dozen textile pieces by the Korean artist Hyon Gyon walking out the door on Wednesday night, after some guests apparently mistook them for party favors.

Hyon Gyon, a painter and multimedia artist who lives in Brooklyn and has a studio at the Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation in Red Hook, was one of a number of artists who devised tables for the party. The ball honored the museum’s outgoing director, Arnold Lehman, and the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Takashi Murakami and Kiki Smith.
For her installation, the artist, whose professional name is Hyon Gyon, swathed a 40-person table in Korean fabrics. She topped it with fake-flower centerpieces and art objects fashioned from traditional Korean shoes wrapped in cloth and toy chains. Also part of the design: five pig heads, their mouths stuffed with money.

On each chair, she placed a 12-by 12-inch pillow, decorated with fabric that she had melted with a soldering iron and then sewn onto the plump cushion.

“I make small pieces, like faces,” the artist said on Thursday. Some resembled eagles, she said, while others looked like masks, creating the effect of 40 silent guests around the table.

The plan was to display the pieces—each valued at about $4,000—next month at an art fair. But by night’s end, more than half the pillows were gone—although some were retrieved from guests before they left.

“The museum does warn artists in advance that it is best to leave signs for guests to indicate what is a takeaway item and what is not,” museum spokeswoman Fatima Kafele said in an email. “Unfortunately, there was not a sign indicating otherwise at this particular table.”

She said attendees had been encouraged to take some items from other installations, including party poppers from artist Duke Riley’s table, and sunglasses from the table devised by FAILE, a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. Some guests also left toting cutouts of Mr. Lehman that had been placed around the room.

At first she was upset, Hyon Gyon said, though it isn’t the money she is worried about.

The problem: She was so busy putting the table together that she didn’t have time to sign or photograph the pieces.

“I just want to give them my signature and document them,” she said. “If they are really interested and like my work, it’s fine.”

I'd wager they're in Manhattan though.

What about the people who tried to walk out with the tables?

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By the looks of it there was less than 50 pairs