Wachob will be moving from parlor to gallery this winter, working with the New Museum Store on a project called "Skin Data". She'll be inking 12 lucky fans inside the shop on a first-come, first-served basis (reservations can be made simply by emailing [email protected]).
A smiling Parker Posey also joined the two for several photo opportunities at the listening party, which took place at Sacred Gallery, a tattoo parlor and art gallery near Chinatown.
Not only that, but he is attempting to combine his new interest with his adoration of art at the Living Art Gallery in San Clemente, which is part tattoo parlor, part fine art gallery.
"I just think it's fun and cool to put a pizza parlor in an art gallery," he says, before gleefully nailing a slice to the wall, like a proud owner displaying his first dollar bill.
Benjamin and Elaine Antonetty recently opened an art gallery on the parlor floor of their Jefferson Avenue brownstone, which they bought two years ago.
In the opening gallery he does parlor tricks with his facial hair, shaping his mustache into a paint brush, bull's horns and a dollar sign.
I am the owner of the Parlor Room Tattoo and Art Gallery in the small town of Whitesburg, KY at the foot of the great Pine Mountain, along the North Fork of the Kentucky River.
"To some degree it's uncharted territory," Mr. Keaveney said, catching his breath in one of the gallery's old parlors during a break in last-minute preparations.
Though you could spend hours exploring the area's cultural attractions, there's inspiration, too, in the freshly renovated Victorian-style rooms, from the art gallery-esque Front Parlor to the sleeping quarters (two rooms, two suites), which reject fussy antique displays for simple, classic furnishings, resulting in plenty of space.
In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album whether functioning as family record, parlor entertainment, social register, national portrait gallery, or advertisement for photography itself helped transform the nature of self-presentation at the cusp of modernity.
