Our friends Fred and Denny have posted some footage of the show opening on youtube!
This is a 10 min version excerpt, more videos are available in the side bar…

Hope to see you in the next year, check back here for details or sign up to our newsletter…

For the closing party of the festival, The Drop is teaming up with Pecha Kucha NY to host a night of 5 mini lectures:

The word “environment” has rapidly become an all encompassing term to reflect the world we live in and the world we create. Our speakers will give us their view and reflection of that environment from the perspectives of Art, Music, Architecture, and Fashion.

The idea of Pecha Kucha is simple: Invite creative professionals working across a variety of fields to present 20 slides for 20 seconds each on whatever topic the speaker pleases. This format keeps presentations concise, interest levels up, and gives more people the chance to show their work and speak about their interests.

Transition with us into celebrating the take off of The Drop and the end of it’s first manifestation.
DJ Cerock provides the tunes, and our favorite brewers Beerlao got us another load of their finest.
 
Special Thanks for their support to Solar One and ArtWeLove.com

Art Education Program with Curator/Art Advisor Sharon Reaves, Reaves Collection
The Educated Collector, Setting Goals and Understanding the Value of Your Personal Collection.
 

Saturday, October 17:

12:00-1:00 pm, West Chelsea Building, 508 West 26th Street, NY.
1:30-2:30 PM, 511 West 25th Street, 4th Floor
 

RSVP to info@highlineopenstudios09.org

Please pardon the short notice:
Due to new building management we won’t be able to open the gallery on Sunday, October 11.
Regular opening times stay in place for the coming week.

Thank You

thanks so much again for you generous donations — they really helped us to make that party fly!
Here are the lucky winners:
 

A rare Ryuichi Sakamoto CD “Out Of Noise” goes to:

Rachel Lovett
Joel Tompkins
Zeynep Korur
James Healy

A print by Barnstormer Chris Mendoza will be signed by the artist for:

Richard Chang

Get ready for a 60 minute private yoga session with karuna NYC:

Myca Young

And yes, we are REALLY giving away a flight from NYC to Japan to the lucky:

Ann Hughes

 
 
(winners will also be notified via email shortly)

Gallery hours:
Thu + Fri: 3pm – 8pm
Sat, Sun, Tue, Wed: 3pm – 6pm

Through Oct. 17, 2009
531 West 25th Street

The exhibit 2012+, the party under the High Line, the entire event would never have been possible and such a huge success without you — Thanks so much for all your time and sweat!

If you took photos of the event and would like to contribute to our Flickr group, please post them here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/thedrop/

Thank you for everyone who came out and supported THE DROP and Exhibition 2012+. It was a fantastic Chelsea opening – perhaps one of the best ever. Hundreds of people filled W25th street on Saturday despite early afternoon rain. The sun came out as the Party Under The High Line went underway with Truth and Soul’s Jeff Dynamite and Halcyon taking the stage. From the siting of Chuck Close to an impromptu set by DJ Spooky in the VIP Lounge, the event was a perfect way to celebrate the beginning of fall and the new season for the Chelsea art galleries.

For the next two weeks, Exhibition 2012+ will be open Tuesday through Sunday. The exhibition closes on October 17, and we will be hosting a closing ceremony with Pecha Kucha on October 17. For tickets to the event, please stay tuned for more details.

We are truly grateful for your support and would love your feedback – please contact us at info@thedropnyc.org with any suggestions so that we can make the event even better in the future.

On Saturday Tuesday, October 6th, 6-9 pm High Line Open Studios is holding a preview of their event:

High Line Open Studios Chelsea 09 Preview
The Works of 50 Artists on Exhibit

6-7:00 pm Art Education Program with Curator/Gallery Owner Sharon Reaves
Collectors’ Education: The Educated Collector, Setting Goals and Understanding the Value of Your Personal Collection.

7-9:00 pm Preview Exhibition
Location:
Rogue Space | Chelsea 9E-9F, 526 West 26th Street .
Curated by Rogue Space’s resident curator Kelly Worman & Sharon Reaves, Sharon Reaves Collection

The following food truck vendors are confirmed for THE DROP.
UPDATE: the crepe escape is on too!

Calexico

The Bistro Truck

Jiannetto’s Pizza

Kyotofu

Rickshaw Dumplings

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Truck

Thanks to our good friend Stacy Han for organizing!

Big up! to Truth and Soul’s Jeff Dynamite and El Michels, and Halcyon, who will be providing the soundtrack to THE DROP.

Truth and Soul, a Brooklyn-based DJ and music collective, recently released “Enter the 37th Chamber” – full instrumental reinterpretations of classic tracks by the Wu-Tang Clan.

Halcyon, a music collective and record store based in DUMBO, is now celebrating their 10th anniversary. They are currently rolling out their Pop Up store in commemoration of the landmark year.

Kudos to our friends at artwelove.com and Flavorpill for spreading the word about our event!

ADDITION: artlog loves us too…

WEATHER: Please be advised that the event will go on rain or shine! 

on installation Day 2: one of the artworks already started destroying itself, as intended.

while a third of the art work was being installed, the remainder was still named tagged on floors, walls and columns.

experimenting with lighting initially yielded more album cover like results than otherwise

not sure what is going on here?  that’s exactly why you need to see it in person.

what happened to this installers head?  and what are the others doing?  are they working or hanging out?  or is it the same thing?

come find out where our fortunes are hidden…

Follow the space filling up with art day by day via veiling photos which will not give away the mystery until the opening day of October 3rd!

High Line Open Studios announces a call for participation with THE DROP:
WANTED: TWO OUTSIDERS

In our last update, we asked anyone with empty studios to consider sponsoring a visiting artist by donating some wall space.

We are happy to announce The Drop: Urban Art Infill has kindly offered to house 2 artists’ work (5×5 ft. each) as part of their show. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a jpeg of your work to info@highlineopenstudios09.org. You may be next to the coat check…but you will be part of the show.

Pick up the last Village Voice issue’s insert Fall Arts Guide — The Drop is featured with a half page add donated by the paper. Kudos to our media sponsor!

The DROP NYC, 2012+ art exhibition layout and themes are now online. Designer and Co-organizer Ceren Bingol collaborated with curators Alexandra Chang and Mie Iwatsuki to create a Noguchi garden-esque environment inside the 4,000 sf raw warehouse space. Use of sensuous fabrics and delicate plants play into the theme of the exhibition, providing a minimal backdrop of sensuousness, delicacy and hopefulness to the art work on display.

The four themes of the exhibit intertwine in a series of experiences which carry the visitors from start to finish. The exhibition culminates in a participatory instructional piece by Yoko Ono.

Thanks to the amazing support of our backers, we have reached half of our goal to cover the cost of the basic material for the live art performance event under the High Line! Kudos to all of you!

If you haven’t dropped by at our fundraiser raffle yet, you should — right now you’re only competing with 10 people to win a flight to Japan, signed CD’s by Ryuchi Sakamoto CD’s, original prints by the participating artists, a private yoga session, and more.

MySpace Japan Magazine did an entire double spread about The Drop’s very own Mie Iwatsuki in their recent September issue. A photographer followed Mie around for a day documenting her busy buzzing NYC life… amongst others meeting up with the The Drop crew at the SUPERMETRIC office in the fashion district.

You can now support The Drop: Urban Art Infill by making a donation — help us raise $ 2,222 and take part in our sweepstakes and win a ticket to Japan, two signed CD’s by Ryuchi Sakamoto, a private Yoga lesson with Karuna NYC, and much much more…

just click on the image on the left.

You can now make a donation and win two signed CD’s by Ryuchi Sakamoto  “out of noise.” The CD will be available in the U.S. in 2010.  Ryuichi Sakamoto will be part of the show, “2012+” creating Sound Installation, “Glacier” for this exhibition.

With the theme of environment and city,  (See the 2012+ press release) the show 2012+ features the way he conducts his tour, leaving 0 carbon footprint with his environmental activity, “moreTrees“.
It introduces a new possibility, the way, the form of art can be for the future, beyond 2012+.