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Review
Anya Gallaccio: Whitworth Art Gallery Announces Exhibition of Artist's Wallpapers - A Review for artdaily.org - Nov 3 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 3:10pm. ReviewWhitworth Art Gallery Announces Exhibition of Artist's Wallpapers
Art Daily, November 3, 2009
"...The Whitworth Art Gallery will present the first ever major UK exhibition of artists’ wallpapers. Including work by Damien Hirst, Thomas Demand, UCSD visual arts professor Anya Gallaccio, David Shrigley, Michael Craig-Martin, Angus Fairhurst, Rosemarie Trockel, Martin Boyce, Robert Gober, Francesco Simeti, Niki de St. Phalle and Abigail Lane, this is a seminal show of rare works, allowing the viewer to re-evaluate the role of wallpaper in contemporary art. The Walls Are Talking, curated by Christine Woods and Gill Saunders, features more than 30 international artists and traces the development of their interest in wallpaper, demonstrating how they have played on wallpaper’s domestic and decorative associations to throw into sharp relief their shocking or subversive messages, appropriation of historic motifs, and political or cultural observations..."
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Complete story on the artdaily.org website at:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34282
Mexican Omar Pimienta wins tenth Emilio Prados Poetry Prize - El Mundo (Spain) - Oct 30 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 9:13am. Awards & Honors | ReviewMexican Omar Pimienta wins Tenth Emilio Prados Poetry Prize
(http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/10/30/andalucia_malaga/1256931414.html)
For El Mundo on October 30, 2009
Mexican Omar Pimienta has won the tenth International Poetry Prize Emilio Prados, endowed with 8,000 euros and the publication of his book "Escribo Desde Aqui" ('I write from here'), which was filed under the pseudonym "Benito Bonifacio." This award, sponsored by the Centro Cultural Generacion del 27 and aimed at young people of 35 years with an unpublished work in Castilian, allows young writers to break into the world of literature by publishing and distributing the winning work through publisher Pre-textos, as reported by the Province of Malaga. In this edition, we have received up to 60 works from all corners of Spain and Latin America, which makes this award one of the most consolidated in the Andalusian and nationalnational literature. One of the jurors, Josefa Parra, highlights that the winning work "is a different book from the usual in his generation, speaking of misfortune, poverty, disillusionment and hunger," and all "in a very natural manner, without any sentimentallity, starting from the narrative and catching flashes that disturb and shock." Omar Pimienta, a native of Tijuana, has to date two books of poetry, "Primera Persona: Ella" and "La Libertad: Ciudad de Paso"('The First Person: She' and 'The Freedom: Path City'), and an artist's book, "Libreria 2007" ('Library 2007').
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Original Story in Spanish on the El Mundo website at:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/10/30/andalucia_malaga/1256931414.html
'San Diego NOW: Eight UCSD Visual Artists' mentioned on The North County Voice - Nov 3 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 3:21pm. ReviewArt After Dark: The Zodiac Lounge
(http://www.thenorthcountyvoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2269:art-after-dark-the-zodiac-lounge&catid=13:happenings&Itemid=10112)
Provided by Danielle Susalla, Assistant Director on November 3, 2009n for The North County Voice
What is your astrological sign? Find out at The Zodiac Lounge, Oceanside Museum of Art’s Art After Dark on Friday, Nov. 20, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Teddy Cruz: Creative Time Revolutionizes the Sleepy Conference - A Review by Andrew Russeth for ARTINFO 10.26.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 2:16pm. ReviewCreative Time Revolutionizes the Sleepy Conference
(http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33063/creative-time-revolutionizes-the-sleepy-conference/)
By Andrew Russeth for ARTINFO, October 26, 2009
NEW YORK—“In this country, when you’re critical of the government from the right, you get a mainstream TV show,” artist and activist Dara Greenwald declared on Saturday at “Revolutions in Public Practice,” the first ever summit organized by New York arts nonprofit Creative Time. She didn’t finish the thought, but the multigenerational crowd of academics, activists, and artists that had gathered at the New York Public Library to hear many of their most distinguished colleagues speak could probably fill in the rest.
Undergraduate Jeffrey Hedgecock: Knights have their day at jousting tournament - By Scott LaFee for SD Union-Tribune, 10.26.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 8:26am. ReviewUndergraduate Jeffrey Hedgecock
Knights have their day at jousting tournament
(http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/26/knights-have-their-day-jousting-tournament/?northcounty&zIndex=189028)
By Scott LaFee for the San Diego Union-Tribune, October 26, 2009
POWAY — While the Chargers were banging heads with good results in Kansas City yesterday, men in helmets atop real chargers were doing much the same and more during the final day of the Tournament of the Phoenix yesterday at the Poway rodeo grounds.
Prof Emeritus M Farber and Prof Emeritus P. Patterson: 'All Together Now'-A Review by Alum Duncan Shepherd for The SD Reader
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 7:17am. Review
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber, Professor Emeritus P. Patterson, and Alum Duncan Shepherd
All Together Now
(http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/oct/21/movie-review-all-together-now/#)
By Duncan Shepherd for the San Diego Reader, October 21, 2009
If I had to read it cover to cover before reviewing it, there’s no telling when I would have leave to speak of Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. Issued on the first of this month by the Library of America at a list price of $40.00, the book runs to 824 pages including index, textual notes, and biographical chronology, but not including the thoroughgoing twenty-four-page Roman-numeralled introduction by the editor, Robert Polito.
Ricardo Dominguez: Port Huron Project Videos on View at LACE - A Review by Diane Haithman for the LA Times - 10.20.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 8:52am. ReviewPort Huron Project videos on view at LACE
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/10/port-huron-project-lace.html)
By Diane Haithman for the Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2009
In July 2008, artist Mark Tribe's Port Huron Project -- a multi-year effort involving staged re-creations of historic protest speeches of the Vietnam era at their original locations -- came to Los Angeles with a re-enactment of farm labor leader Cesar Chavez's 1971 speech decrying the war at a rally in Exposition Park sponsored by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. UC San Diego visual arts assistant professor Ricardo Dominguez portrayed Chavez. The L.A. event was co-sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border - UCSD News Room - 10.12.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 7:40am. ReviewFred Lonidier/PhD Candidate Eduardo Navas/MFA Alumni Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga/Undergraduate Alum Camilo Ontiveros
New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/10-09TijuanaSD.asp)
By Doug Ramsey for UC San Diego News Room, October 12, 2009
Seven artists from either side of the border dividing San Diego and Tijuana are represented in an exhibition this fall that deals head-on with politics, immigration, the environment and other hot-button issues – through the lens and sensibility of artists working in multiple media.
“Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface” opens officially on Oct. 15 in the gallery@calit2 on the first floor of Atkinson Hall on the University of California, San Diego campus. The gallery is part of the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
The Oct. 15 launch includes a panel discussion and Q&A with six of the seven presenting artists at 4pm in the Calit2 Theater, and an opening reception from 5pm to 7pm. Both events are open to the public and free of charge.
Two of those artists – Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier – are UC San Diego faculty members. Rudee is a professor of materials science, accomplished photographer and former trustee and president of San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts. Rudee was also the founding dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering. Lonidier is a professor in the Visual Arts department at UCSD, which he joined in 1972 (after earning his MFA from UCSD the same year). Other artists also have UC San Diego credentials: Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga (Class of ’08) earned MFA degrees in visual arts from the university; Camilo Ontiveros earned an undergraduate degree from UCSD, then an MFA from UCLA; and Spanish-born, Peruvian-raised José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón is a graduate student in computer music at UC San Diego. Finally, Giacomo Castagnola is a Peruvian architect from Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. Castagnola earned a degree in architecture and urbanism, and now lives and works in Tijuana; he has shown his architectural work on both sides of the border.
E Silva, R Guerrero, H Li: MCASD zeroes in on ‘Here’ (aka San Diego)-A review by Robert Pincus for the SD Union-Tribune - 10
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 2:13pm. ReviewRaul Guerrero, Huai Li, Ernest Silva, and Alum Brian Dick
MCASD zeroes in on ‘Here’ (aka San Diego)
(http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/18/mcasd-zeroes-8216here8217-aka-san/?features&zIndex=184030)
By Robert Pincus, Union-Tribune Staff Writer, for the San Diego Union-Tribune, October 18, 2009
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that it will do its largest exhibition of local artists in a quarter-century. The show, “Here Not There,” will be on view from June 6 through Sept. 9, 2010, in La Jolla.
Underpinning the desire to present a wide-ranging show, in terms of media and approaches to the making of art, is the notion that the art scene in San Diego has, as the museum's press release says, “developed a critical mass of local talent.” The ambition is not to try to pinpoint any single notion of a regional style or sensibility, but to emphasize “the variety, strength, and vitality of individual contemporary art practices in this region.”
Rubén Ortiz-Torres: 'Art: Five 'voices' in a song of diversity' - A Review by Edward Sozanski - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10.18.0
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 1:26pm. ReviewArt: Five 'voices' in a song of diversity
(http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20091018_Art__Five__voices__in_a_song_of_diversity.html)
Fabric Workshop brings together artists with a broad ethnic and geographic range.
By Edward Sozanski Contributing Art Critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2009
'New American Voices" is the kind of exhibition we have come to expect from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, in that it features a relatively few large, sometimes complex, works. Three of the five featured artists represent minorities - two are American Indian and one is Latino - and consequently offer a less-familiar cultural bias.
