Category: Visual Art

  • Five Questions with Bundith Phunsombatlert

    Check out Culturebot Contributor Timothy Braun’s Five Questions with visual artist Bundith Phunsombatlert.

  • Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery Seeks Curatorial Proposals

    BAC Gallery seeks proposals from emerging and mid-career independent curators for its 2011 spring and fall exhibitions.

  • Off The Wall at The Whitney

    The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Off the Wall, a two-part exhibition that brings together thirty performative actions by artists, in works made from 1946 to the present, and seven iconic works by Trisha Brown. (Image Credit: Jimmy DeSana (1949-1990), Marker Cones, 1982. Silver dye bleach print. Courtesy the Jimmy DeSana Trust)

  • Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival June 5 and 6

    Arts in Bushwick is pleased to announce that Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival is back and bigger than ever. Now in its fourth year, BOS ’10 includes over 275 individual studios, shows and events involving more than 500 artists in over 140 locations. This free annual festival invites visual artists, performers, musicians, designers and…

  • Fusebox Talks: Luke Savisky

    In conjunction with the 7th annual Fusebox Festival, a contemporary art and performance festival that takes place in Austin, TX each April, culturebot.org presents Fusebox Talks, a series of interviews and podcasts with the select artists from the festival. This podcast is with Luke Savisky at the Austin Museum of Art; interviewed by Timothy Braun,…

  • Counting Cards at Grandma’s: Nan Swid and Donald Kaufman Recent Work at Gallery 9E

    I leaned down to speak to a charming young girl in a maroon dress staring candidly up at Nan Swid’s Combination Wall 2 (2009) at Gallery 9E 508 West 26th St. in Chelsea, Thursday evening. “What do you see?”  I asked confidentially, hoping for a pithy, surprising, funny or illuminating quote. The light of the…

  • Three places in the Art world – “Denim” at 80WSE

    Context is king.

  • Howdy from Los Angeles

    Sorry for the paucity of posts. Have been in L.A. for work. Just a few quick notes – saw the incredible Nick Cave (not the rock musician but the visual artist) exhibit at The Fowler, which is really something to behold. Here’s a video about his work: Then we went to the Frederick R. Weisman…

  • "Revolving Twilight" and Abby Man-Yee Chan at The Chocolate Factory

    Last night, video installation artists Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons bid farewell to their multi-channel video and sound installation at The Chocolate Factory with a live performance by NYC/HK dance artist, Abby Man-Yee Chan .  “Revolving Twilight” has been in the basement of the LIC theater since early December and was extended until last night. …

  • Tobaron Waxman Wins Audience Award

    My friend Tobaron is the first transgendered artist to be exhibited in a major Jewish museum exhibition – Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life at the Jewish Musuem – and he has won the Audience Award for the favorite work in the exhibition! Tobaron Waxman is the winner of The Jewish Museum’s first-ever Audience Award, selected from…

  • Five Questions With Jason Eskenazi

    Name: JASON ESKENAZI Title/Occupation: DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER Organization/Company: SELF-ORGANIZED URL: jasoneskenazi.com/wonderland.html Note: When I received Eskenazi’s answers to the five questions, they were in all caps. As opposed to editing his response I felt this aspect added a sense of his infectious enthusiasm. Try listing to his Studio 360 interview before reading these replies. The photos…

  • Fusebox Festival 2010 Line-Up (So Far)

    WHEN: April 21- May 1, 2010 WHERE: 10+ venues throughout Austin, TX COST: $130 Passes WEB: www.fuseboxfestival.com “There will probably be a few more additions of note, but this is about 80%.” -Ron Berry, Founder and Artistic Director of Fusebox Festival At the end of the announcement party at east Austin’s Okay Mountain art gallery…