Category: Visual Art

  • Wanna Run The Tate?

    Tate Britain, the home of British art from 1500 to the present, is seeking to appoint a Director to lead the Gallery. The new Director will succeed Stephen Deuchar, who has been appointed Director of The Art Fund, joining Tate Britain at a time when a major programme of capital development is under way and…

  • New Museum Summer Exhibitions

    Looks like there is some really interesting work at New Museum: Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt 7/15/09 – 10/11/09 For South African photographer David Goldblatt’s first major New York exhibition in over a decade, the New Museum brings together 114 images taken over the past fifty years. The exhibition features a selection of photographs…

  • University of Trash

    this looks intriguing: FOUCAULT LAB: SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGES Keynote Speaker: Paul Butler Saturday, July 25, 2009, 12-2PM Sculpture Center, University of Trash 44-19 Purves Street, Queens, NY The University of Trash at the Sculpture Center is an experiment in alternative architecture, urbanism, and pedagogy.An art exhibit made completely out of recycled and reused trash, it also…

  • Los Grumildos at HERE

    We hear good things about this: (video NSFW!) From the HERE website: Grotesque. Charming. Sordid. Tiny. Los Grumildos are automated puppets, miniature beings that skulk about a world somewhere between Victorian dollhouse and red light district. The brainchildren of Peruvian artist Ety Fefer finally land in North America at HERE Arts Center, after four years…

  • Defining Sustainability

    Interesting article in the Sundance blog on the University of Arizona’s upcoming Defining Sustainability Exhibit. Sounds cool: The fall 2009 season, Defining Sustainability, is a series of dynamic and interactive projects that will come together at the ASU Art Museum and its Ceramics Research Center to illustrate sustainability ideas. Each exhibition or project tells a simple…

  • Goings on in Los Angeles

    First you might wanna check out REDCAT’s NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2009 REDCAT’s sixth annual NOW Festival launches eight new works by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists who are bending traditions and investigating new visions of work for the stage. “REDCAT’s New Original Works (NOW) series has become one of the city’s more…

  • A Brief History of Curating

    “It is rare that we have the opportunity to celebrate our own eco-system.” = Richard Armstrong, Museum Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Join the discussion between Richard Armstrong and Serpentine Gallery Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Guggenheim Museum about Walter Hopps and the eleven ground-breaking curators gathered together in Obrist’s most recent…

  • A Black And White World Group Show

    A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD short summer group show July 16 – August Opening Reception & Live Art Performance Thursday, July 16, 2009, 6-9pm Elia Alba Michael Van den Besselaar Jason Clay Lewis Fernando Mora Pesu Alicia Ross Konstantinos Stamatiou Eric White BLACK & WHITE GALLERY is pleased to present A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD…

  • Five Questions for Kambui Olujimi

    Name: Kambui Olujimi Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: self-employed URL: http://www.kambuiolujimi.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I moved around a lot, but kept coming back to Quincy Street where I was born. I feel like I never really get homesick,…

  • Anti-Panel: BALKANIZATION at Chez Bushwick's CAKE

    On June 13 at 7:30PM the CHEZ BUSHWICK series CAKE will feature an “anti-panel” on “interdisciplinarity” called BALKANIZATION. Organized by “theory monster” Andrea Liu the anti-panelists include: Chase Granoff:
Dancer/Curator at Chocolate Factory and DTW Lobby Talks Matthew Lyons:
Curator at the Kitchen Bosko Blagojevic: Artist/Writer, Founder of Platform for Pedagogy Peter Dobill:Actionist, Franklin Furnace performance artist…

  • Talking with Carrie Mae Weems

    A week or so ago I was invited to interview artist Carrie Mae Weems on the set of her new art/film project, Refractions, a collaboration with jazz artist Geri Allen. I could try and write it up for you – these are two wonderful, warm, dynamic, creative women – but fortunately Ermanno De Biagi was shooting film…

  • ©oPirates by Richard Siegal & Multinatural by Arto Lindsay

    We’ve been talking about interdisciplinary collaborations – this looks like a good one: Richard Siegal / The Bakery will premiere ©oPirates in the context of Multinatural (blackout) by Arto Lindsay ©oPirates is a mutating march for 16 dancers organized internally as characterized by Siegal’s evolving If/Then Methodology. The title takes its inspiration from the duality of…