When you think of NIKE the first thing that pops to mind is most likely a pair of sporty sneakers, maybe with a neon yellow sole and black laces; however this is not the case for artist and sculptor Tom Sachs. In conjunction with the highly anticipated Park Avenue Armory Show, artist Tom Sachs has(...) Read More about Tom Sachs x Nike (84 words)

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Last night at the Park Avenue Armory, American sculptor Tom Sachs unveiled Phase Two of his ongoing Space Program, titled Space Program: Mars.  The artist and his team of 13 astro-artists spent three years imagining and creating the components necessary for (...) Read More about Tom Sachs Space Program: Mars (274 words)

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May 16-June 17
Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065

Artist Tom Sachs takes his SPACE PROGRAM to the next level with a four week mission to Mars that recasts the 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall as an immersive space odyssey with an installation of dynamic and meticulously crafted sculptures. Using his signature bricolage technique and simple materials that comprise the daily surrounds of his New York studio, Sachs engineers the component parts of the mission—exploratory vehicles, mission control, launch platforms, suiting stations, special effects, recreational amenities, and Mars landscape—exposing as much the process of their making as the complexities of the culture they reference.

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Tom Sachs Cameras Exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is offering a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras, opened on June 21st and ending on September 16th [London] – The exhibition includes the earliest existing work by the artist, a clay replica of a Nikon SLR camera that Sachs made when he was eight years old as a gift to his father.(...) Read More about Tom Sachs DYT Cameras (106 words)

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Tomorrow (June 12th) marks the opening of the Sotheby’s “Important 20th Century Design” auction in New York. Bids will start between $30.000 to $50.000 with an  amazing selection of furniture design (especially chairs & seats ) including these expensive chairs by artists like Tom Sachs, Shiro Kuramata, Gaetano Pesce and Robert Wilson. According to Sotheby’s these are “some of the most acclaimed designs of the decade ! ” Go here to see the full catalog…

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Tom Sachs re-update his website and present some new Installations :

Like the ” Bronze Collection “: Large scale bronzes of foamcore Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Miffy models debut at Lever House in New York City. Other bronze casts, including stacks of car batteries and skateboarding ramps, accompany these bronzes. Editions follow at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado and at the Trocadero in Paris, France.(...) Read More about Tom Sachs (8 words)

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