He would host vernissages of his favorites on his own dime.
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During their vernissages, or preview nights, art fairs look as polished as their V.I.P.s — but it takes months of planning and several construction days to erect the necessary infrastructure.
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Because New York, Copenhagen, Paris — that was the world of gallery owners, art collectors, journalists and artists; that was where vernissages, exhibitions, reviews, auctions, interviews and performances were the order of the day, a world where everyone played their role, not least the artists themselves.
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"Albert Bitran, Récit d'une Vie" by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Vernissages, periodical, 2008. "Peindre la peinture" by Frédérique le Graverend, AREA, N°21 Spring 2010.
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The early focus was on architectural research and other early exhibitors included Gruppe X, Paul Schuitema and Aldo van den Nieuwelaar.Cf. Dippel, page 29. Initially the gallery was open only during evening hours and weekends; later also in the afternoon. No invitations were sent; there were no vernissages. Also in 1968, the first issue of Art & Project Bulletin appeared, a magazine through which the gallery built an artistic network and enabled artists to have "exhibitions by mail".
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In the second half of the 80s, due to the gradually dissolving Eastern Bloc, Havadtoy travelled increasingly to Hungary. In 1992, he founded Gallery 56, which became significant in the Hungarian contemporary art scene, among others, by exposing important artists who were considered rarities at the time. The gallery focused mainly on displaying American artists, for example Haring, Warhol, Agnes Martin, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ross Bleckner, Donald Sultan, Donald Baechler. Some of the artists also participated personally on the vernissages.
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Today, the expression is sometimes used to refer to subgroups of Paris culture's elite (the "literary tout-Paris", the "political tout-Paris", and so on), somewhat losing its original meaning, now referring to a broader group of arts personalities, athletes, media figures, or politicians covered in the popular media. Their attendance is covered at events such as concerts, galas, premiers, art gallery vernissages and nightclubs in the capitol. With global travel and fashion, it is often used interchangeably with the global jet set of trendsetters. The rise of the tabloid press in the 20th century, and the blending of entertainment and current events news in publications such as Paris Match, has added to this public perception of Parisian celebrity.
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Barry in Kevin Sullivan's successful series Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Green Gables: the Sequel, and Anne of Green Gables, The Continuing Story. Radcliffe originated the role of the disillusioned wife and mother in Ken Finkleman's Married Life (nominated for an ensemble Genie award), and played the fragmented "Mom" in Bill Robertson's movie The Events Leading Up to My Death, a role Now Magazine pronounced "brilliantly played". Her most recent movie is called The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard, a Canadian independent film, produced by Anthony Grani, which will appear at film festivals in the autumn of 2010. Radcliffe has begun to work as a visual artist and has exhibited several vernissages of her painting.
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In 1976, during the construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou, he creates a Centre Pompidou-Cake, which he cuts and shares, on the forecourt of the museum, with his artist friends and passers-by unofficially invited to this performance. The same year at the invitation of Henri Jobbé- Duval (director of the FIAC), he transforms a scooter into Gallery Cerise, a traveling sculpture with which he rides the aisles of the FIAC in 1976 and 1977. He travels with the streets of Paris and parks in front of the art galleries during vernissages, selling passers-by and art lovers cherry tarts and monochromes covered with painted cherries. Jacques Halbert defines himself this Fluxus and neo-Dadaist and often parodic posture of the figure of the artist as "a manifesto of good taste".
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