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Art & Dine Series featuring Eric Firestone and Heather Buchanan at The Living Room

The Living Room Restaurant at c/o The Maidstone announces the start of the popular Art & Dine series at The Living Room.  The series features special dinners highlighting guest artists, writers, musicians and more.  The first dinner in the 2011-2012 series will be held on Tuesday, December 6th and will feature gallerist and curator Eric Firestone being interviewed by Heather Buchanan.  The evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a meet and greet with the special guests followed by a prix fixe dinner of two courses prepared by Executive Chef James Carpenter with a cookie plate for dessert and a glass of wine.  After dinner, Heather Buchanan will lead a lively discussion with Eric Firestone.  The cost of the evening is $36 per person, plus tax and gratuity.

 

On Eric Firestone

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Gallerist and curator Eric Firestone has cultivated a unique aesthetic and keen eye through broad

exposure to art and antiques. One part historian and one part visionary, Firestone’s interests include

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mid-century design, street culture, post-war American modernism, and American regionalism. He is

particularly noted for his ability to identify and create contemporary markets for historically

significant, long lost secondary market material.

Firestone opened his first gallery in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 22 and for nearly two decades he

has staged exhibitions on a variety of Post War American art subjects including Modernism, the

American Southwest and various aspects of contemporary painting, sculpture and design. In 2010,

Firestone opened a gallery location in East Hampton, NY. Recent shows have included: Down by

Law, an encyclopedic survey of historic New York street culture that was praised by The New York

Times and GQ, and Warhol: Dylan to Duchamp, a collection of portraits and snapshots depicting New

York’s art world circa 1970-85. The show, acclaimed by New York magazine and the Village Voice,

was accompanied by a 120-page catalog.

In 2011 Firestone mounted the expansive gallery exhibition Nose Job, co-organized with

writer/curator, Carlo McCormick. Artists including Richard Prince, Dan Colen, Shepard Fairey, Kenny

Scharf, Raymond Pettibon, Ryan McGinness, Lee Quinones and others were invited to repurpose

actual nose cones from military aircraft, turning them into works of art. The show garnered rave

reviews in The New York Times, Newsday, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post.

In 2012 Eric Firestone will launch The Boneyard Project, his most ambitious undertaking to date.

Arizona’s airplane graveyards will serve as the backdrop for this unprecedented, large-scale

venture. Launching in the January of 2012, The Boneyard Project will invite contemporary artists to

appropriate entire aircrafts, fuselages, and cockpits, transforming them to spectacularly sized art

works.

 

Future Art & Dine Dinners will be: December 20th, January 10th, January 24th, February 7th and February 21st.  For reservations contact The Living Room Restaurant at c/o The Maidstone at (631) 324-5006.  

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