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This fall, Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam will explore the urban realm from the perspective of the best contemporary photography. Spectacular photographs, ranging from one to nine meters wide, will portray the beauty and potential of urban landscapes, iconic buildings and deserted streets. It is the first international survey exhibition of this work. Through these photographs, we will see how the images of our cities are changing. This photography tells us about that process and in so doing makes a specific contribution to the aesthetics of our time. These photographers do not just record their subject matter but manipulate, construct or reconstruct it. In so doing they give us a glimpse of things that may well have escaped our gaze, but are latently present in our rapidly changing world. Each of these photographers is engaged in his or her own way in photographing the future.
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White Cube Gallery is presenting 'Now is the discount of our winter tents', an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Neal Tait. For this exhibition, Tait has made a total environment, an installation with painted walls and a bench where visitors can sit and contemplate the works (a re-make of a distinctive 1980s design). The bench echoes the strange conjunctions of craft and technology that is a key concern in Tait’s paintings and the installation as a whole can be seen as a reaction to the inert nature of the ‘white cube’ or gallery space.
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Paris Muse offers high-quality private tours in front of the world's greatest art collections. Their instructors are trained and experienced art historians. They are native English speakers, with teaching experience at top American universities, including Harvard University, New York University and University of California at Berkeley. They live in Paris because they are preparing publications and/or writing their Ph.D. dissertations in art history. After taking a look at their website you will see their impressive list of gallery and walking tours throughout Paris. You can even book your tours online.
Dashwood Books at 33 Bond Street (between Lafayette and Bowery) is New York City's only independent bookstore devoted entirely to photography. Dashwood Books is owned and operated by David Strettell formerly the Cultural Director of Magnum Photos where for the last twelve years he produced numerous books and exhibitions advised on countless photographic projects and developed extensive relationships in publishing and media, as well as with museums, galleries and with photographers all over the world.
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Le Plateau
After the French Production Society moved out in 1993, the only contender for this space, Stim Bâtir, envisioned a housing or dormitory complex. The locals rallied against the project, forming a resident association with artist Eric Corne at the forefront, and eventually negotiated an agreement that set aside 600 square meters for a contemporary art space. In addition to monographic and thematic exhibits, Le Plateau offers opportunities to young designers, experimental film series, dance and music performances, and classes.
The permanant collection includes pieces by Etienne Bossut, Jurgen Netzger and Tatiana Trouve
Status Foe is here not to dictate what a person should think, but to provoke thought. They are a collection of a few, with the desire of painting a fashion story through the eyes of art. Status Foe is sometimes quirky, often wry and always has an underlying serious observation of life and culture.
The Status Foe summer/fall 06 collections were conceived from a journey through lands across the world. It was a time spent touching new landscapes, feasting on art and the unfamiliar.
Their new collections feature inspired patterns, accents, and colours to honor the artist within each of us.
All their shirts are made of Pima Cotton and can be purchased on their website.
Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) is a multidisciplinary company that operates internationally in the field of contemporary art, design and architecture. AVL was founded in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout. The name Atelier Van Lieshout emphasises the fact that the works of art do not stem solely from the creative brain of Joep van Lieshout, but are produced by a creative team.
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Hotel Biron is not an official hotel per se, but after perusing its wine list and sinking into one of the comfy sofas, folks might not want to check out. A handful of copper tables, wrought-iron bistro chairs and zinc-green walls decked with a revolving exhibition of local art further the Left Bank mood. The low lighting and high spirits form the perfect setting for an after-work get-together or romantic rendezvous.
Hotel Biron is located in Hayes Valley, at 45 Rose Street, behind the Zuni Cafe, between Market and Gough.
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The Renaissance Society will present a solo exhibit by Mai-Thu Perret from April 30 to June 11,2006. There will be a reception on April 30 from 4 to 7 pm, with a discussion with the artist from 5 to 6 pm.
Perret's exhibition will continue her project "The Crystal Frontier." The exhibition will consist of two components - an aluminum-clad, room-sized teapot in which viewers will be able to enter and view a suite of drawings; and five life-sized sculptures of female dancers holding neon hoops. Perret is a concise but radical art historical scavenger whose sources range from Busby Berkeley, to Russian Constructivism, to Alice and Wonderland. A reflection on utopias and dystopias, Perret's work is enigmatic, poetic, and strangely beautiful.
A graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Perret has exhibited in the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2005), Art Basel 35 (2004), and Artist Space, New York (2005).
Moris Gontard, present on the French art scene for many years, his work was included in the French selection for the biennial exhibition in Venice in 1978. His art starts off in meticulous observation of reality (the leaf, the blade of grass, the door) then evolves toward a conception of landscape that is further and further from realism. Strengthened by the freedom gained from increasing mastery of his technique, he conserves only the essential essence which inscribes his work in the French tradition of aquatic landscapes, the subject matter he has shown preference for in the last few years. Well represented in the cultural patrimony of our banks, BNT, BP, Caisse d’Epargne and other private firms, including the RATP and the famous restaurant Taillevent.
I viewed his work at the Galerie Protee on the Rue de la Seine in Paris
Erin Parish Float is a new exhibit which is unfortunately coming to close next thursday. If you were lucky enough to catch it at Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art you would have seen Parish continuing her exploration of medium, texture, color, and surface to create abstract paintings that have a universal resonance. Her new work, still very much inspired by the natural world, transcends simple representation to capture the evocative mood of a misty autumn dawn or a heavy tropical evening.
This exhibit will be continuing until May 28th
Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art c/o Hotel Nikko San Francisco 222 Mason St. San Francisco, CA 94102
Featuring work by such noted designers as Isamu Noguchi, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck, among many others, Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling brings together over 150 objects, as well as films and more than 500 illustrations, from the realm of architecture and design to address flexibility and mobility in contemporary domestic life. Organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Living in Motion will have its only U.S. showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Furniture, houses, and objects that incorporate flexibility and multi-functionalism have long been associated with the modern and the contemporary. Living in Motion explores these phenomena in design and architecture while also locating them ethnographically and anthropologically. The exhibition traces flexible modes of living back through centuries of design and across a variety of cultures, with objects ranging from early European stair-ladders to northern African tents to South American hammocks.
ICA 955 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02115 Tel: 617-266-5152 February 1 – May 7 , 2007
Inka Essenhigh has aptly described her paintings as “about America : Fake, fun, pop, violent, but also quite attractive.” He work has a beguilingly alien appeal: antiseptic yet expertly rendered, flirting with both abstraction and representation but committing to nothing more than visual intrigue. Slickly designed and intricately painted, Essenhigh’s pieces whimsically marry seductive visuals from cartoons, mythology, suburbia, the World Wrestling Federation, nature, product design, and basically anything elses that appeals to the eye. Her latest show in New York convincingly asserts that shallow is the new deep and cuts the very latest edge in one of the most traditional of Media
303 Gallery 525 W. 22nd St. New York City March 4 – April 13
A Practice For Everyday Life (APFEL) is a graphic design practice formed by Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas, graduates of the Royal College of Art. APFEL creates design, publications, exhibitions, editorial, installations and art.
APFEL’s work is born out of a mixture of commercial and personal work where they allow each to constantly inform the other, thus motivating an energy and creativity in inventing solutions. They are a graphic design partnership with a conceptual bias, working both as designer and/ or author. Their work is deceptively simple and aims to evoke feelings, twisting what is often taken for granted. Their work does not look obviously designed, but in reality, it is of course wholly designed to the finest detail – sensitive to type and image to intrigue and be functional to users. They like to collaborate with a client to develop a thorough understanding of the requirements of the project, before creating something which is always multi-faceted, investigational and playful. Thoughtful, sensitive, problem solving, honest and charming; APFEL create work which is both appropriate and engaging to the situation and client.
APFEL were nominated as one of the Creative Futures 2003 (hosted by Creative Review Magazine.)
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Apollonia Morrill creates color site studies of places of transition and historic sites in flux. Morrill uses photography to explore the tension between representation and abstraction, creating intimate portraits of place that the artist likens to visual geography. On view will be works from her series of San Francisco's Castro Theatre that was recently exhibited in Bay Area Now 4 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. These beautifully resonant images focus on interior details of the building such as its plush velvet seats and elaborate light fixtures. Also presented will be a new series of Kalaupapa, a Hansen's disease (leprosy) settlement on the island Moloka'i in Hawai'i, where Morrill looks at the location's singular history through its domestic, government, and religious spaces. Morrill was born and raised in San Francisco, received her BA from UC Santa Cruz, and MA from Brown University. She lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
Frey Norris Gallery presents "Eat Me," an exploration of consumer culture. "Eat Me," will feature the work of five west coast-based artists: Susannah Bettag, Ema Harris-Sintamarian, Kenneth Hung, Kate Eric and Trek Thunder Kelly. Exhibition runs through Saturday, April 15.
Has consumer culture completely subsumed Americans' lives? Can this consumption sustain us in any lasting way, or is it the empty cycle of binge and purge that the rest of the world often assumes it to be? We really do love to binge eat, binge drink, binge on sex and pornography, binge on cars and vacations, shop for religion, shop for happiness and a sense of belonging.
Over thirty five new works will be unveiled including interactive digital media, "consumer" objects utilizing knives, condoms, and lunch bags, oil and acrylics on canvas and works on paper.
Gallery Reception Thursday, March 2 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Frey Norris Gallery 456 Geary Street, San Francisco 415-346-7812
Anj Smith, 27 is a fine art graduate from Slade Goldsmiths. She lives and works in Vyner Street, a non-descript road overlooking the Regent’s Canal near Victoria Park. The street forms the main artery of the East End art scene in London, which now has around 120 galleries and an estimated 10,000 artists. Smith paints small detailed pictures, often of women and clothes in hybrid landscapes, and she has had various solo shows solo shows, as well as being shortlisted for this years inagural MaxMara Art Prize for Women. Anj is currently represented by IBID Projects in London. She was in a group show in 2005, of emerging young talented British artists, at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Zurich. She was featured in “Art Review”, July 2004, as one of the 20 most promising graduates in England, as well as in Time Out London.
Lewis Baltz is an American photographer, Paris and Zagreb-based, who became influential as part of the "New Topography" movement of the late Seventies. Baltz realized a "counter aesthetics" by revealing with a dispassionate eye desolate landscapes and forgotten places. Baltz studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate Schoolin 1971. Currently Baltz works on information architecture day, exposing the crisis of technology. His works have been exhibited world-wide in museums such as The Museum of Modern Art Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, San Francisco MOMA, Los Angeles MOMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art New York.
His entire work is focused on the counter-aesthetic of photography, searching beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz images describe the architecture of the human landscape, offices, factories, and parking lots. His pictures are the reflection of control, power, and influenced by and over human beings. His minimalistic photographies in the trilogy Ronde de Nuit, Docile Bodies, and Politics of Bacteria, picture the void of the other, in 1974 he captured the anonymity and the relationships between inhabitation, settlement, and anonymity in The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California
For aspiring digital artists, Wacom’s latest entry-level tablet bundle means there’s no excuse not to get in the game. The graphire4 tablet has two programmable keys and a scroll wheel, the pen has 512 levels of pressure sensitivity, and the wireless three-button mouse has a rubberized grip. But the included software Adobe Photoshop Elements3, Corel Painter Essentials2, and nik Color Efex Pro 2 really makes the Graphire4 shine. The 4 x 5 inch USB model costs $84.99; the6 x 8 USB model $165
Jaq Chartier's paintings explore scientific methods through experimentation with paint and process. All of her works are "tests" to discover something about materials and what they do. Inspired in part by images of gel electrophoresis, Chartier investigates the migration of various stains through layers of paint and acrylic gels, like those employed in DNA mapping.
Paintings such as, Kilz vs. BIN (2001), 4 Reactions (2002), and Sun Test: 40 Whites (2004) — titles that attest to such experimentation — feature intimate views of materials as they react to each other, to light, and to the passage of time, including notes written directly on the paintings. Through experimentation, observation, and notation, Chartier creates sensuous paintings that provide commentary on both the visual culture and everyday practice of scientific investigation by highlighting similarities between artistic and scientific practice.
He currently has a solo exhibition at LIMN in San Francisco
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The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) will open a new waterfront museum in September 2006 with a full range of inaugural exhibitions and expanded public programming. Designed by celebrated architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the art museum is the first to be built in Boston in nearly 100 years and is destined to become one of the most recognized architectural landmarks in the city. The 65,000-square-foot building, featuring a dramatic folding ribbon form and a cantilever that extends to the water's edge, provides a bold presence for the ICA and symbolizes the museum's commitment to contemporary art and design.
The ICA will be located on the Boston Harbor waterfront, the city's largest undeveloped frontier and a burgeoning creative center. The ICA will join the new Rafael Viñoly-designed Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, the Children's Museum, and soon, a continuous 47-mile public walkway along the water’s edge that will connect cultural and historic attractions.
The new vortex-shaped, outdoor installation by architects Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues warps the flow of space with a featherweight rendition of a celestial black hole; “the deadliest force in the Universe.” Hovering over M&A's courtyard “Maximilian's Schell” is a spectacle the size of an apartment building that has been stopping traffic along Silver Lake Boulevard since its unveiling in June. Constructed with tinted Mylar resembling stained glass, the vortex functions as a shade structure, swirling above the outdoor gallery.
The interior of this immersive experimental installation creates an environment for enhanced social interaction and contemplation by changing the space, color, and sound of the M&A courtyard gallery. During the day as the sun passes overhead, the canopy casts colored fractal light patterns onto the ground while a tranquil subsonic drone from an integrated ambient sound installation by composer James Lumb (Electric Skychurch) entitled "Resonant Amplified Vortex Emitter," lightly rumbles below the feet of visitors.
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San Francisco International Art Exposition: Featuring more than 75 international galleries representing more than 2,000 artists, this year's show is an eclectic collection of modern and contemporary artwork in a variety of artistic styles and media that range from painting, drawing, photography and printmaking to sculpture, video, installation and mixed media.
From museum-quality masterworks by Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keeffe, David Hockney, Edward Weston, Richard Avedon and Willem de Kooning to works by young, cutting-edge artists, the San Francisco International Art Exposition provides private collectors, museum curators, corporate consultants and art enthusiasts with an opportunity to view and select work from a comprehensive exposition of 20th century art
Fort Mason, San Francisco
Thursday, September 29 – Sunday, October 2, 2005
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Thursday, September 29: 11am – 7pm
Friday, September 30: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, October 1: 11am - 7pm
Sunday, October 2: 11am - 6pm
This multimedia installation will present the definitive collection of a group of works Yutaka Sone has been developing in recent years in which he envisions snowflake patterns as blueprints for architectural spaces and psychological states, and transforms their crystallized forms into fields and structures. His work on this project began with a small number of drawings, sculptural studies, photographs, and paintings. The photographs--currently in development--include detailed images of individual snowflakes in mountain landscapes. The drawings and paintings feature monochromatic or two-toned images of individual snowflakes, sometimes transformed into architectural shapes, sometimes simplified to emphasize their elegant design. Glass, wood, and marble sculptures that expand the architectural elements of the drawings, a video, and a performance by Sone's band Snowflake are also planned. Once the artworks are installed, Sone plans to place up to 200 pine trees in the gallery, creating a real forest in the gallery.
January 29 – April 9, 2006 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Living with his painter/sculptor father, Parra grew up surrounded by colours, oil paint, wood, weird looking pictures & rubenesque paintings. A second influence was skateboarding “In the early nineties the skate scene was about sarcasm, post
rebel feelings & sampling existing design, like a strange post pop art”. A third was hip hop – “ I was a little petty DJ back then spinning for cabfare” – sparking an early interest in cover art, still informing his aesthetic today. Music is the crux of
Parra’s work, encompassing eclectic musical vibes from Donovan to Slayer. Almost entirely self taught - "A lot of looking & copying & changing & changing it again until it looked like something else & I forgot about the original", Parra is pure
- he believes that 'The Poster' is a design movement. The basic colour palettes (usually 2 or 3), beautiful hand-drawn typography & esoteric character creation are reminiscent of screen printed poster designs of the 1960s & 70s. If it wasn't for the subtle nudges towards hip hop & graffiti culture, you may think he was working in the wrong century. Some of Parra's characters would feel just as at home in the ' Cat in the Hat ' as they do promoting a scratching competition or on the cover of a Biz Markie record.
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Carolyn Mendoza, a fine artist from Venice California has established a long-term career in working with metal. Influenced by nature, she creates unique sculptural designs by welding natural forms onto steel. Using various patina techniques, vivid colors hidden beneath the surface are drawn out adding a dramatic element to the pieces. These one of a kind organic artworks can be enjoyed in both indoor and outdoors settings and can be custom designed to suit the clients individual needs. Carolyn's work unites the worlds of sculpture, painting, metal and nature forming elegant creations that breath life into any environment
The Figge Art Museum, a new museum by British firm David Chipperfield Architects, on the banks of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, not only envelopes its collections in a luminous and strictly orthogonal embrace, but it stands as a glowing emblem for the regeneration of Davenport's riverfront downtown.
The Figge Art Museum is Chipperfield's first civic commission in the United States. The firm — known for such projects as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom, and the BBC Scotland Headquarters in Glasgow, and as winners of over 20 national and international competitions and awards — conducts its practice at many scales: from custom furniture to urban masterplanning. For the Figge, David Chipperfield teamed with award-winning Des Moines, Iowa-based architects, Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck.
A metalic bowl that visualizes a person's heartbeat through according patterns in the water surface. The bowl is filled with water. By taking hold of it by the handles, it becomes literally moved by the rhythm of the user's heart. resistance sensors at the handles send signals to a hidden microcontroller that controls a shaking device underneath the bowl
Internationally renowned photographer Julius Shulman celebrates the official transfer of his historic archive to the Getty Institute with this landmark exhibition. Showing a huge collection of his work, including Koenig’s Case Study House 22, pictured, Shulman demonstrates how his iconic images have helped define modern architecture.
11 October-22 January, 2006
The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA tel: 1.310 440 7300
The saturated colors and candid nature of old snapshots vibrantly mirror our experience of memory; no other medium even comes close. A self-described "histo-tainer," Charles Phoenix weaves together fact and fiction, using the power of found slides to tell his triumphant and tragic holiday tales. From mixing Easter cocktails in a motel bathroom to a how-to session on making a Christmas tree out of toilet paper, each story uncovers the "true" feelings and attitudes behind the posed faces in the pictures. You'll laugh, cry, and cringe as the show brims with equal parts nostalgia and kitsch.
Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 323–466–FILM Fri 11–25 - Sun 1–1–06
2005 marks the centenary of the constitution of the group of artists called Brücke, founded in June 1905 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who at the time were architecture students in Dresden. Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller were among the most outstanding painters who later joined this association, which broke up definitively in 1913. The eight intensive years of activity of this group witnessed the greatest development of the first period of German expressionism, which went through various stylistic phases marked precisely by the artistic objectives shared by its most important members.
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The Double Helix Theatre Company presents the fifth annual One Festival featuring seven original solo shows. The one-week festival will be presented at the 45th Street Theater in New York City from the 16 - 20 Nov 2005. They believe that one-person shows continue and develop the tradition of story telling, which is the origin of powerful theatre. The One Festival enables Double Helix to preserve and champion this art form. In recognition of the challenges that performers face in producing their own one-person shows, the festival provides a structure for these solo artists to collaborate with our designers and technicians, as well as receive support from our administrative staff. In this environment the solo artists can focus on their highest artistic goals and provide audiences with an entertaining and thought-provoking experience. This years festival has seven solo shows including Accidental Pervert, a stand-up comic's story of sex, fantasy, and family life; Soul to Keep, a meditation on the African-American experience set against a musical backdrop; and Creation, a clown show in the style of Bill Irwin
As Ubiquity prepares to mark its 15th anniversary in December, the label shows no signs of slowing. The imprint, which releases albums spanning soul, funk, hip-hop, and jazz, is consistently recognized as one of the industry's strongest independents — having won the Gilles Peterson Label of the Year Award for 2004 and received nominations for 12 honors in the awards' 2005 iteration. Ubiquity has recently embraced downloading (through iTunes) with its Shape of Things to Come release, featuring exclusive, unreleased, and forthcoming tracks.
After visiting San Francisco on their honeymoon and falling in love with the city, DJs Jody and Michael McFadin went home to Southern California, sold most of their possessions, and moved to SF with a fuzzy dream of starting a record company. While continuing to dream about starting a label, they invested the last of their savings into a business that would combine their passion for music and provide an income to live on, and opened the Groove Merchant record store on Haight Street in early 1990.
Within a year the small shop had built a reputation the world over as a place to find rare records and learn about new sounds. A haven for collectors, DJs, and producers looking for soul jazz, musical obscurities, and break beats, the Groove Merchant even earned a toast on the Beastie Boys song "Professor Booty", "This one goes out to my man the Groove Merchant, comin' through with the beats that I've been searchin'," rapped Mike D. on 1992's "Check Your Head" album.
Right under the sun: Landscape in Provence from Classical to Modernism.
Provence was a cradle of modern art, inspiring Cezanne, van Gogh, and a horde of Post_impressionists, but this how reaches further back, to find the roots of the region’s aesthetic allure in 18th-century Arcadian and Italiante landscapes and the 19th-century fascination with Marseilles, gateway to the orient.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Sept 22–Jan 8
Update: Artblog has a great wrap up of the show complete with beautiful pictures
The fake prada store, entitled prada marfa by berlin artists michael elmgreen and ingar dragset is located on desolate land with no other visible trace of civilization.At first glance, it looks to be a luxury boutique with a display of fall 2005 prada shoes and bags. Yet, one cannot open the door - it's a new permanent public sculpture -'branding as art'. the 0,000 prada marfa is located in in Texas 26 miles northwest of marfa on highway 90 and was inaugurated on october 1st, 2005. Prada Marfa blends into the exciting historical structures of the area in which it will be placed. The building is white adobe, a regional material, and the design references prevalent architectural styles. Marfa, largely through the renowned Chinati Foundation, is identified as a centre for minimalist and land art. As we purposefully will not preserve Prada Marfa, it will eventually become a ruin so that even in a future decayed state it will remain relevant to the time in which it was made, Fall 2005, precisely because it has aged.
For more that 20 years photogrpaher David Maisel has shot aerial landscapes with an eye on documenting the environmental impact of human development. Last fall he completed The Lake Project, a series of photographs of Owens Lake, which was drianed and destroyed over the course of a 13 year period to bring water to Los Angeles. This oversized, 14"x14" book is comprised of surreal aerial images made in the vicinity of Owens Lake, California. With an introductory essay by Robert Sobieszek, curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Rineke Dijkstra brings together seventy photographs chosen from the most important series which the photographer has realised between 1992 and 2003, such as her beach portraits, new mothers immediately after giving birth, bullfighters, girls from the Buzzclub, photographs made in Berlin’s Tiergarten, the series of Almerisa, a Bosnian refugee, and those of Oliver, a French youth in the Foreign Legion, and the portraits of male and female Israeli soldiers. Further, two of her video works, “Buzzclub/Mystery World” and “Annemiek”, will be included in the exhibition. This will be the first time Rineke Dijkstra’s work will be seen in the context of her whole oeuvre.
“Rineke Dijkstra” opened on December 14, 2004 in Paris, in the new photography museum in the Jeu de Paume, and will be seen there through February 27, 2005. Next it travels to the Fotomuseum Winterthur (March 11 - May 22, 2005) and toLa Caixa in Barcelona (June 4 - August 21, 2005). From November 4, 2005 until February 6, 2006 the exhibition will be on view in Stedelijk Museum CS.
Im not exactly sure the what this all means but the blurb from the website is below
“This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine.
If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool.
One day, a Texan asked me a question when I lived in U.S..
The question was "How many hours does it take to go to Japan by car?". (true story)
He didn't know where Japan is, and even bofore that, he didn't know that Japan is an island.
And then, I thought. "What kind of world map is pictured in his mind?"
This was a beginning to think that it might be fun to gather those mixed up recognitions of countries and visualize it as a world map imagined by the fools in the world.
First, the countries are roughly allocated. From now on, countries will be added based on participants' comments. If you "don't know" or "don't even care" about the countries that are added, please submit a comment such as "Huh?" .
Morning Becomes Eclectic is committed to a music experience that celebrates innovation, creativity and diversity by combining progressive pop, world beat, jazz, African, reggae, classical and new music. Recognized nationally as a forum for promoting a wide range of music ahead of the curve, the show has become a very attractive whistle stop for both established and emerging artists from around the world. .
Now, live sessions from “Morning Becomes Eclectic” are the latetest addition to KCRW’s podcast lineup. Nic Harcourt, Music Director for the station and host of the show which airs weekdays from 9AM to 12PM says KCRW had several requests to make their music programming available for podcasting. In response, live sessions featuring performances and interviews with independent and unsigned artists will be available for podcasting for free
Responding to Los Angeles’ cultural climates, LAXART questions given contexts for the exhibition of contemporary art, architecture, and design.
With a renewed vision for the potential of independent art spaces, LAXART provides a center for interdisciplinary discussion and interaction and for the production and exhibition of new exploratory work
The space responds to an urgency and obligation to provide an accessible exhibition space for contemporary artists, designers and architects.
They are having a launch party with work from 100+ artist on Saturday November 5th from 8PM. More information at www.laxart.org
SXSW Interactive festival is now open for submission for their spring festival
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An incubator of new, cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival is ground zero for the world's most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs. Stay ahead of the curve by attending this annual gathering of the brightest minds in emerging technology.
If you are in New York this weekend don’t miss the AAF Contemporary Art Fair The contemporary art fair is the place for new and established collectors to discover and buy paintings, drawings, sculptures, video, photography and limited edition prints from distinguished galleries, all priced from $100 - $10,000. This year the Fair will host more than 140 galleries with approximately a quarter of the exhibitors from Europe, Canada and South America.
AAF will feature a variety of events during the four day Fair including a video and new media program, a weekend lecture series, a curated MFA candidate exhibition and children’s art workshops.
Thursday through Sunday October 27–30 2005 Pier 92, 52nd & 12 Ave. New York City
Exhibitor List
BEYOND THE POUR: Pairing Art and Wine Label Design
October 21, 2005 to January 29, 2006
San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design
If wine is a delight to the nose and palate, it is our eyes that are rewarded in the art of label design. For a label is like an invitation: a beckoning—offering visual clues to the personality of the wine even before the bottle is corked. For this unique exhibition, Bob Nugent, independent curator and curator for Imagery Winery, has chosen six Bay Area designers and eight artists for whom the art of labelmaking is celebrated.
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The T-shirt has long been a fashion staple amongst teenagers worldwide, functioning as the medium of choice for subcultural communication for nearly 40 years. While many corporate brands still treat the common T-shirt as a mere billboard to propel their oversized logos into posterity, the trend has been to adopt a more creative, artistic approach in the temple of the tee. These canvases carry the silk screened and ironed-on legacies of countless anonymous artists. When Yoshi Kawasaki recognized the possibility of harnessing this network of potential “wall space”, his current T-shirt line, 2K by Gingham, was born.
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The installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) reflects on the impact of building toys –– how they affect our perceptions of the world and what we do as adults. Inspired by the 1960s toy kit Super City, Coupland has devised for the CCA an imaginary “future city” densely layered with elements of his own mental universe.
The exhibition continues until 20 November
11 August-20 November
Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 rue Baile, Montreal Canada
Zenga is the name given by the Japanese to the collective paintings and calligraphy of Zen monks from 1600 to the present The eastern tradition of monochrome ink painting is known in Japanese as suiboku-ga or sumi-e. While as an art form sumi-e originally evolved out of the calligraphy and painting of ancient China, the unique life present in sumi-e is breathed in through its connection with Zen Buddhism. Zenga is used in many ways. During meditation paintings are created as a tool to enhance one's focus and as a reflection on the meditation. Objects of Zenga are also used as meditation subjects, such as a scroll on a temple wall or a painting supplied by a teacher for this purpose. Most paintings are accompanied by poems, koans, or other commentary which generally takes the form of either the artist's reflection on his work or a teacher's message to be meditated upon by others.
Laughing Squid turns 10 this year, so they are throwing a big party to celebrate our decade long experiment in underground art, culture and technology.
The party will be at Varnish Art Gallery & Wine bar 77 Natoma St San Francisco, California
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For the third year running, the Frieze Art Fair — London's contribution to the ever-expanding international art scene — takes place in Regent's Park. With more than 150 exhibitors from around the world, all focused solely on contemporary art, the fair can be a jamboree of the most manic dimensions. The scale of the event means exhibitors need to stand out, so alongside the traditional, you can see rather strange, shocking or gimmicky work. A speedy tour of what's going on globally, backed up with fascinating talks and on-site art projects, Frieze is no quiet stroll in the park.
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The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 9 May 2005, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. It is organized by the Tate art gallery, and since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised art award. The prize fund in 2004 was £40,000 with £25,000 being awarded to the winner and £5,000 each to the other shortlisted artists.
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005 are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. The Turner Prize 2005 is supported by the makers of Gordon's.
A working manuscript of one of Beethoven's final compositions has been rediscovered in a seminary library. It was found by a librarian clearing out old archives at the Palmer Theological Seminary and displayed briefly at the seminary Thursday in a glass case and under the eyes of several plainclothes guards.
The discovery was kept hidden since July while the bound manuscript, roughly the size of a magazine, was authenticated and appraised.
Tokion Magazine announces the Third Annual Creativity Now Conference, to be held at Cooper Union's historic Great Hall on October 15th and 16th, 2005. This unique symposium will bring together top figures in art, design, fashion, photography, film, new media, publishing and marketing. In the same room for the first time, the people shaping today's popular culture will spend two days exchanging their ideas, methods and inspirations before an audience of 2,000.
On the cinema side, there's an address from director Todd Haynes; a discussion of documentary filmmaking with Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation), Bruce Sinofsky (Paradise Lost) and Ondi Timoner (Dig!); plus, comedian David Cross "moderating" . In art, Glenn O'Brien interviews Richard Prince and riffs on photography with the legendary William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Execs from Geico, Absolut, and iPod give their ideas on advertising, and Napster's Glenn Kaino, xBox's Jonathan Hayes, and artist Doug Aitken discuss the lofty Future of Content. Angelic icon Antony Hegarty (sans Johnsons) closes the show
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Resonance FM, London's first not-for-profit, art-radio station, has recently begun podcasting selected shows — allowing listeners to get their cultural fixes on the go. There's the beats and breaks-oriented podcast Rhythm Incursions, which claims to be one of the first-ever shows to be aired with the complete consent and involvement of the record labels it supports. For an alternative (read: leftist) take on finance, check The Truth About Markets, with former stockbroker and current anti-capitalist Max Keiser, who runs an activist hedge fund. Perhaps the most fun, however, is just tuning in for a random sampling of the station's vivid and multi-faceted personality.
Google Will Eat Itself is a web project that aims to buy out Google with funds generated from Google Adsense:
“We generate money by serving Google text advertisements on our Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisement! Google eats itself - but in the end WE own it!”
The project organizers say that it is a critique of Google's growing monopoly of information.
There is a simple beauty in the paintings of this modern Zen "artist-monk." SongYoon. Almost child like, the embody they Buddha Nature.
From his website:
“As a contemporary seeker on the Path, I have chosen painting as my own special way of living amongst the people. My training as a monk -- sutra study, chanting, meditation -- prepared me well for this experience. Particularly the meditation. Zen meditation is much brighter than the gold and silver of the world, and its scent is more elegant than that of all the flowers in the marketplace. Diamonds are both beautiful and indestructible; yet following the laws of karma, they will inevitably return to dust. The crystallization of Zen, however, is as endless and infinite, as is the scent of a painting.”
Make sure you read his whole introduction.
Contemporary artists, gallery-owners and collectors flock to the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC) at the Porte de Versailles, one of the major dates on the worldwide calendar of modern art. This year's event offers 174 galleries representing 23 countries, with newcomers including Canada, Cuba and Japan.
FIAC has enjoyed something of a revival in recent years. Illustrious guests have included Micheline Szwajcer from Belgium, Waddington Galleries from the UK and Metro Pictures from the USA. The fair places an emphasis on the work of young, emerging artists, and stalls by newer galleries such as NW Projects London, Art & Public Geneva and Pepe Cobo Seville. Drawing, painting, printmaking, video art, sculpture, photography and installation are all available for perusal or purchase.
For those of you in the Providence area, on Saturday October 8, RISD with have their 17th Annual alumni sale.This outdoor event features over 160 artists, with thousands of items for sale, each one designed and created by RISD alumni and students. Items for sale range from greeting cards to fine art as well as home accessories, jewelry, ceramics, glass, furniture, rugs, clothing and photography. For more information, contact Alan Tracy or call 401 454-6618.
de Young Museum Grand Opening
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Saturday, October 15 - Sunday, October 16
Open around the clock • Free General Admission
The de Young celebrates its re-opening in Golden Gate Park with a 31-hour museum marathon, FREE to the public!
The museum will be open continuously from 10 a.m. on October 15 until 5 p.m. October 16. The opening weekend program includes music, dancing, food and a full schedule of performances by local groups throughout the museum grounds. To memorialize the occasion, a photo opportunity station will be located near the historic sphinx sculptures.
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Get ready for a day of shopping at a new kind of festival. Come have a cocktail and grab a full lunch in the Capsule lounge inside 111 Minna as you shop, socialize, and listen to great music all day long.
On Sunday, October 16th, CAPSULE will once again be closing the alley
of Minna Street, between 2nd St. and New Montgomery, filling it with
80+ designers offering all varieties of clothing and accessories.
This is still the largest independent design sale of the year.
Vendors will represent men's and women's clothing and accessories
including multi-use bags, purses, belts, hats, jewelry, glasses, as
well as photography, paintings, and other goods.
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I’ve got a great craigslist story and evidently so do a bunch of others. 24 Hours on Craigslist is a story about the stories behind one day of the site's postings. From this single post on craigslist they assembled 8 film crews to document a random day-in-the-life of what has evolved into the world's largest community board. Not just the "Best-Of" or the "Success Stories", but a real, down-to-earth look at the fastest-growing grassroots cyber-community in the city that started it: San Francisco.
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Born and raised in Connecticut, Lang was heavily influenced by the post-impressionist and maritime paintings of the region. At age nine, a storybook written and illustrated by Lang was featured at a group exhibition at the Museum of Discovery in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Lang studied drawing and painting at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut and at age sixteen began formal training in oil painting.
His paintings can be found at The Sutter Gallery in San Francisco
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