Rubell Family Collection

Will Old Fashioned top last years Rubell Basel breakfast scandale de success? Details post-jump

Wonder what the "art related items" in the bag might be!

You can still nab John Armleder's Puma Reality Bag at the Rubell Family Collection and make all those other art groupies throb with envy. At $2, 400 its not cheap but its a new kind of status symbol methinks. Details from the Rubell Family Collection after the jump.

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Just in time for the V/S Miami moment

An essential Miami Basel warm-up, no?

The Films Of Derek Jarman: Rubell Family Collection

Talk about a man at the right place at the right time. Derek Jarman (1942-1994) flew fast and furious in his career lensing 11 feature films and over 36 shorts. When punk exploded, changing the English cultural scene forever, Jarman was there with "Jubilee". When the New Queer Cinema bandwagon started to roll, he was right there with "Caravaggio". He continued to take his idiosyncratic point-of-view on historical subjects in the 90's wih "Edward II" "Wittgenstein". Nobody ever spoke more eloquently about the films of Derek Jarman than his close friend and frequent lead actress than Tilda Swinton. She said ina 2002 talk at the Edinburgh Film Festival:

"This is what I miss, there being no more Derek Jarman films: the mess, the vulgarity, the cant, the poetry, the edge, the pictures, Simon Fisher Turner’s music, the real faces, the intellectualism, the science, the bad temperedness, the good temperedness, the cheek, the standards, the anarchy, the gauchness, the romanticism, the classicism, the optimism, the activism, the challenge, the longeurs, the glee, the playfulness, the bumptiousness, the resistance, the wit, the fight, the colours, the grace, the passion, the goodness, the beauty...."

The Rubell Family Collection is staging the for films mentioned above over the next four Saturdays, starting Jan 18th. If in Miami please make the pilgrimage.

The Book Launch

What a boom time this week will prove to be for The Rubell Family and their collection. With almost the entire art world in their backyard, what's an art dynasty to do but play the part of gracious hosts. Here are a few must do events for the upcoming week. The barbecue you already have sussed out, no?

The Exhibition Launch

The Breakfast

This Piece Has No Title Yet: Cady Noland: Rubell Family Collection

It is Miami Basel time again which means heading for the unofficial epicenter, the Rubell Family's astonishing art warehouse. It is very encouraging to know this art empire started with a $25.00 purchase. (Or is that just the myth). Here's the new season programme:

Rubell Family Collection 2007/2008 Exhibitions

Press and Art Basel Week Previews:
Wednesday - Tuesday, December 5 - 11, 2007, 9 AM - 6 PM.

Opening Reception:
Domino Magazine Breakfast, Thursday, December 6, 2007, 9 AM – Noon.

Exhibitions on view:
December 12, 2007 - November 28, 2008.

The Rubell Family Collection (RFC) is pleased to announce three new exhibitions:

Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection
(December 5, 2007 – November 28, 2008)

John Stezaker: Works from the Rubell Family Collection
(December 5, 2007 – November 28, 2008)

Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection
(December 5, 2007 – November 28, 2008)

Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection