Spotted: New Art on Gossip Girl

Although having Georgina back on the show (in her own words, "You can tell Jesus that the bitch is back") is quite exciting, so are Lilly Bass's new art purchases each week. A few weeks ago she was buying a Cecily Brown for her bedroom. This week a new piece by Doug and Mike Starn appeared on the wall that separates the kitchen from the rest of the apartment. It is one of their snowflake pieces, with three snowflakes vertically. I wonder how Rufus feels that she uses an art consultant, when he is in the art business himself, owning a gallery in Brooklyn...

You Know You Love Me

Several of us are serious Gossip Girl fans. On tonight's episode of Gossip Girl (11/17), I noticed a Marilyn Minter painting (a close up of an eye with glittery make up) hanging on Serena's bedroom wall. At first I thought it might have been the painting that sold at Sotheby's Day Sale on 11/12 for $122,500- but that painting was of a closed eye. After doing some research, I think it is the same image as the Marilyn Minter limited edition beach towel by Works on Whatever from 2006- which sold out. It also turns out that the Art Production Fund, which is responsible for the towels, has been curating the art on the Gossip Girl set this season! Some of the towels from 2007 are still available, but the new 2008 towels have been released. This year, there are limited editions by Ruscha, Kilimnik, Pettibon, and Schnabel for $50 each at Target (http://www.target.com/gp/search/187-3817741-8900650?field-keywords=artist+beach+towels&url=index%3Dtarget&ref=sr_bx_1_1). Compared to works on paper by these artists, the towels are not only much, much cheaper- they are also much, much bigger and are machine washable. XOXO.