I picked up some of my favourite
works at flea markets for less than what I spent on snacks.
Not exact matches
A friend from
work asked me to go with her to look for something
at the
flea market.
Robinson, 77,
works at the shelter three days a week, does the food and supply shopping for 150 cats and sets up tables
at the Umatilla
Flea Market to sell donated items she has sorted and cleaned.
As it is, I have spent days
at a
flea market selling a portion my old
work at a fraction of what my newer
work is listed online having few alternatives.
In this case, Cave is
working directly with a collection of racially charged historical artifacts that he came across
at flea markets.
Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new
works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found
at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the
work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the
work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her
work since 2001.
Some archival ephemera is on view
at MoMA in a gallery that leads into the screening room, but some 680
works make the Bard show encyclopedic in comparison, if an encyclopedia can be assembled from
flea markets and junk shops.
Here, in a pair of grandly appointed tents in Regent's Park, art is for sale as in a deluxe
flea market — contemporary
work on display
at Frieze art fair itself; and Old Masters, ancient objects and art of the 20th century
at its companion, Frieze Masters.
In an exemplary
work first presented
at his 1987 solo show
at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Kelley laid down tattered blankets upon which he arranged disconcerting tableaux of stuffed animals, the type that are ubiquitous
at thrift - stores and
flea -
markets.
The real curator and her colleagues watched the imaginary curator emerge as Dion requisitioned objects from collections, archives, and
work spaces, purchasing others
at flea markets and design stores over the course of a year and a half.
I think you, Layla, should let me hang out with you
at a
flea market or garage sales so I can watch how you see things and make them
work in your home or someone else's.
At a
flea market this summer, I passed up a piece that would have
worked very well.
As I have read your posts the over the last couple of days and saw all the pictures, I keep looking around here
at camp and see all the
work we did, remember all the dump runs made, all the
flea market finds found and fixed.
The next day, while my Mom was
at work, we got to
work making over a couple of our
flea market finds.
Two kids in love found an old embossing stamp
at a
flea market, dreamed up a design empire, and then set to
work trying to create it.
Wire racks, whether new or found
at a
flea market, become
works of art when outfitted with pretty patterned coffee mugs and teacups.
I promise you will be cleaned up Friday night when I get home from
work,
at which time, any unfinished projects will have to be thrown in a bag and will wait until 72 hours prior to the next Paris
Flea Market sale.
Michael, who lives and
works in Malmö and Berlin, explains: «I am fascinated walking around
flea markets finding doubles of seemingly unique, though often useless objects I have already purchased
at another
flea market.»