Category: Visual Art
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Why Visual Art Is So Lucrative
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Tainted Love at La Mama La Galleria
Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon. Featuring: Luis Camnitzer, Jose Luis Cortes, fierce pussy, General Idea, Gran Fury, Matt Lipps, Catherine Lord, Charles Lum, Ivan Monforte, Wu Ingrid Tsang La MaMa La Galleria 6 East 1st Street, NYC Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1-6PM June 4 – June 28, 2009 Events Friday,…
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weekend wrap-up
It was another busy weekend here at Culturebot. We kicked things off Friday afternoon by moderating a panel on “Writing about Site Specific Performance” at The Segal Center
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art-tastic evening
Last night we paid a studio visit to R. Justin Stewart to check out his current work, which was really fun. It is interesting work, loosely based on emergence theory, more focused on the mathematics of structure. The sculptures are playful and thoughtful at the same time and we’re interested to see where he takes…
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5 preguntas para Carolina del Bono
Nombre: carolina del bono Profesion/Ocupacion: fotógrafa Compañia o Indpendiente u otra cosa? independiente Website:http://www.carodelbono.blogspot.com 1. Donde naciste/te criaste y donde vivis ahora y como/por que llegaste al lugar donde estas viviendo ahora? nací y me crié en chascomús, a orillas de la laguna ahora vivo en la ciudad de buenos aires hace 20 años, llegué…
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video of the day: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia
A 2005 work commissioned by Valencia’s IVAM (Institut Valencia d’Art Modern), curated by David Rodriguez. From the artist’s website: Cai Guo-Qiang conceived Black Rainbow: Explosion Project for Valencia as part of a series of salutes that will take place in cities across the world (Black Rainbows are also scheduled for Edinburgh and Beijing). Other than…
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Wooster Collective’s new database
The latest entry in some interesting branded culture offerings we’ve been looking at recently comes from Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective – the sprawling online catalog the Schillers have run since 2001 that captures ephemeral street art around the globe. (And yes, Wooster Group lovers, they live on the same street.) Heads…
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Museum as Content Aggregator and More
From a fascinating article in the Washington Post on Ralph Applebaum and his influence on museum design and practice: In the course of a five-hour conversation in his office on the 29th floor of a downtown New York high-rise, Appelbaum, 66, throws out perhaps a dozen different definitions of what museums should do. “Museums are…
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Group Blog as Art Practice Exhibition
τRξΔSVRΞ RθθM Presented by Loshadka Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 7:30pm 220 36th Street, 5th Floor Brooklyn, New York “Then they disinterred the chieftain and gave him new clothes. In his grave, he received intoxicating drinks, fruits and a stringed instrument. The chieftain was put into his bed with all his weapons and grave offerings around him. Then…
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Corpus Extremus (LIFE+)
Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) February 28 April 18, 2009 Opening: Saturday February 28, 7-10pm @ Exit Art 475 Tenth Ave NYC EXHIBITION // Corpus Extremus (LIFE+), the second exhibition of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program, will present work by artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life and death. Representative of…
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new Chinatown art space – opening Feb 26
SICK LOVE: INAUGURAL EXHIBITION AT CATHERINE SLIP ART SPACE Catherine Slip Art Space, a new art space in Chinatown, is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition, SICK LOVE, a group exhibition curated by Gillian Sneed. SICK LOVE combines fine art with ephemera, found material, and text in its exploration of themes including sex, love, identity,…