New'ish & Noteworthy

Mike Billington - Free Money $ 5.00

Soner Ön - Richie Rich $ 20.00

Soner Ön - The Light In The Dark, With The Neon Arms
- $ 10.00

Ryan Dodgson - Paper Bag/Canvas Bag - $ 15.00

Ryan Dodgson & Matthew King - Libary Bag - $ 20.00

 
VSVSVA - Accidental Ashtrays - $ 20.00

Welcome to the Club!

Join the Metropolitans, Art Metropole's Membership Club open to all who want to show their support of our activities and programming. 

The Metropolitans is a new initiative designed by Art Metropole as an invitation to enter more fully into the fold of Art Metropole's programming, activities and projects. It also doubles as an incentive club that includes a host of enticing privileges. 

 

THE OFFER

Your privileges as a Metropolitans affiliate include: 

• Notice of all upcoming Art Metropole projects and events
• 15% discount off all shop items, and 25% off of more than 150
  Art Metropole-published titles
• Free delivery of Art Metropole's printed shop + distribution catalogue
• Advance invitations to artist talks, conversations, workshops, performances, reading groups, artist-directed tours and calls for submission or participation
• Invitations to special Metropolitans events
• Invitation to submit artist proposals for the annually commissioned
  Metropolitans Edition
• A $65 charitable tax receipt for $100 membership
• Plus, a Metropolitans Membership Card to make everything official

THE FEE

$35 gets you in with a basic Metropolitans membership.
Make me a Metropolitan! (Basic Membership)

$100 awards you all the benefits of the basic Metropolitans
membership, plus a $65 charitable tax receipt.
Make me a Metropolitan! (Charitable Membership)

THE BONUS

The inaugural 2012 Metropolitans Edition marks your permanent presence at Art Metropole in the form of a glass tumbler bearing an ambigram conceived by the Art Metropole Board of Directors Membership Committee. We invite you to invert your 'Absence' and make your 'Presence' known by using your glass whenever you visit Art Metropole. At the end of the year, the tumbler relocates to your home. 

Psst! GIFTS BY ARTISTS is coming soon. Watch out for upcoming event announcements and our preview page...

Christy Langer, Untitled,2011

 

Peanut Brittle

Katie Bethune Leamen, Robert Dayton, Sarah Nasby, Miyo Takeda, Pascal Paquette, Colette Urban, Kika Thorne, Heather Goodchild, Kerri Reid, Laurie Kang, Anitra Hamilton, Hanna Hur, Lyndsey Cope, Chrysanne Stathacos, Liz Knox, Paul Kneale, Janice Gurney, Christy Langer, Matt King and Ryan Dodgson, Maryse Larivière, Petrina Ng, Emily Smit-Dicks, Jennie Suddick and Cole Swanson, Anitra Hamilton, Sarah Nasby, Derek Sullivan and Christy Thompson, Charlie Murray, Annie Dunning, Christine Baigent, Julius P. Manapul, Cary Leibowitz, XXXX collective, David Horvitz, Lex Vaughn, Alicia Nauta, Garry Neill Kennedy, VSVSVS collective, Bill Burns, Ron Benner, Tonik Wojtyra, Sandy Plotnikoff and Swintak. Performance by Peanut Brittle.

Anitra Hamilton, Blue Balls: The Multiple, 2011

Jeremy Laing - Funnel Jabot, 2010

Neckpiece made of silk organza with hand-sewn leather sequins. From Fall/Winter 2010 collection

Edition of 12

$ 1,095.00

Lyndsey Cope - Leather & Lace, 2010

Cope's leather and a lace necklaces are is inspired by the Stevie Nicks song 'Leather and Lace':

Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather…
Take from me…my lace. 

$ 45.00 each

Sebastian Butt - "Call Me Flexible" Special Edition tote, 2011

Reverse side

The latest in Art Metropole's "Shopping Bag by Artists" series. Silver screen printed soft-touch non-woven tote bags.

Reverse side text lists ART METROPOLE and the 2011 dates of Art Basel 42 and Art Basel Miami Beach.

Edition of 50
$10

Stephen Wicks - Ten Foot Towel, 2010

For those who like to share not only their summer days but also their summer towels at the lakeside or poolside.

Signed and numbered edition of 5

$75

planet GIANT - Shadescapes, 2010

Sunshades that come with their own view. Mini vistas created with model figurines attached to a pair of sunglasses. Shades and figurines vary.

$25

Derek Sullivan & Christy Thompson - Untitled Pendants, Fall 2010

These suspended constructions by artists Derek Sullivan and Christy Thompson incorporate Flea Market wares into unique celebrations of novelty, invention and consumerism.

Fall Edition of 6. Signed and dated

$100