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Review
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood By Howard Hampton for the Los Angeles Times
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 9:22am. ReviewCRITICISM IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood
A compilation of his reviews reveals a writer who relished going against the grain.
By Howard Hampton for the Los Angeles Times on October 4, 2009
Farber on Film
"The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber"
Edited by Robert Polito
Library of America: 824 pp., $40
At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased was "Manny Farber, Film Critic." Outside of Martin Scorsese and a few other relative old-timers, I wonder how many members of the academy recognized the name, let alone remembered Farber's 1957 assessment of the complicity between the typical good-housekeeping movie reviewer and Hollywood's distribution of those 13 1/2 -inch statuettes: "His choice of best salami is a picture backed by studio build-up, agreement amongst his colleagues . . . and a list of ingredients that anyone's unsophisticated aunt in Oakland can spot as comprising a distinguished film."
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Complete story on the Los Angeles Times website at:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-manny-farber4-2009oct04,0,3603497.story
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: News, etc. by David Elliott on movies for The SD News Network
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 8:42am. Review
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber
News, etc.
By David Elliott for the San Diego News Network on October 1, 2009
For Manny: Long-time San Diego resident, UCSD teacher and esteemed painter Manny Farber died last year at 91. Although never so famous as James Agee, Pauline Kael or Roger Ebert, Farber was a tough, maverick film critic for New York publications from the ‘40 to ’70s, often a vociferous and witty champion of what he called “termite-tapeworm-fungus-moth” art. Fans will want the new Library of America volume, “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber,” subject of a talk at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, by the book’s editor Robert Polito and Patricia Patterson (Mrs. Farber and long his collaborator). At D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave., La Jolla (858) 456-1800; www.dgwillsbooks.com
Grant Kester: Social Art (Don't Call it Relational Aesthetics) - A Review by Kathryn Born for Chicago Now on 9.28.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 2:37pm. ReviewSocial Art (Don't Call it Relational Aesthetics)
By Kathryn Born for Chicago Now on September 28, 2009
"...Nørgaard recommended a book for me, "Conversation Pieces" by Grant Kester. I've started reading it, and so far it's not only a really good book, but to use "conversation pieces" as the name for Nørgaard's residency artwork would be applicable, because her artwork is the dialogue that's created..."
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Complete story on the Chicago Now website at:
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/art-talk-chicago/2009/09/social-art-dont-call-it-relational-aesthetics.html
Kim MacConnel, Alum Iana Quesnell, and Alida Cervantes: Beyond the Borders International Art - A Review by Patricia Frischer
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 1:52pm. ReviewKim MacConnel, Alum Iana Quesnell, and Alida Cervantes
Beyond the Borders International Art (BTBIAF)
(http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/Aplus.php)
By Patricia Frischer for the San Diego Visual Arts Network
In my youth, I was an art dealer on the international scene attending art fairs representing a gallery I ran in London. Memories of those days flooded back as I entered the Beyond the Borders International Art Fair. When you go to this sort of fair you are able to walk up and down the isles covering thousands of miles with just a few steps. We held court in our booth for the SD Art Prize and SDVAN, made valuable introductions, advised collectors on purchases and spotted talent. There was a buzz in the air that this was the place to be on the opening night. Our wish is that our county can support an international fair on a regular basis and there was a tangible optimism Sept 2-4, 2009 that that might be possible.
Alum Nina Katchadourian: Animals' place in nature at UC Riverside's Sweeney Art Gallery-A Review by Scarlet Cheng for latimes.co
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 10:56am. ReviewAlum Nina Katchadourian
Animals' place in nature at UC Riverside's Sweeney Art Gallery
The show, an homage of sorts to the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth, examines spiders, primates and creatures in between.
By Scarlet Cheng for latimes.com on September 27, 2009
"...Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian finds most human interactions with nature "meddlesome." As part of a series she's called "Uninvited collaborations with nature," she has made "GIFT / GIFT," a video in which she carefully inserts the letters G, I, F and T, made of thread, into a spider web. The spider then methodically expels the letters, one by one. The additional irony is that in Finnish, Katchadourian's native tongue, "gift" means poison..."
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Complete story on the Los Angeles Times website at: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-animals27-2009sep27,0,495726.story
Kyong Park and Teddy Cruz: MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon presents New Roads, New Urban Conditions
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 8:51am. Review
Kyong Park and Teddy Cruz
MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon presents New Roads, New Urban Conditions
(http://artipedia.org/artsnews/exhibitions/2009/09/28/musac-museo-de-arte-contemporaneo-de-castilla-y-leon-presents-new-roads-new-urban-conditions/)
On September 28th, 2009 for Artipedia.org
MUSAC TO HOST NEW ROADS, NEW URBAN CONDITIONS SYMPOSIUM TO COINCIDE WITH THE SHOW KYONG PARK. THE NEW SILK ROADS
ACTIVITIES SCHDULED AROUND THE EXHIBITION KYONG PARK. THE NEW SILK ROADS
- Symposium New Roads, New Urban Conditions. 10 October. Directed by Octavio Zaya with the participation of Santiago Cirugeda, Teddy Cruz and Kyong Park
- Documentary Film Season: Moving Cities. Between Istanbul and Tokyo. 17 September to 29 October.
- Workshop with Lara Almarcegui: Descampados, Demoliciones y Ruinas (Brownfields, Demolitions and Ruins), 3 to 7 November
The exhibition project curated by Octavio Zaya: Kyong Park. The New Silk Roads is the first display of an ambitious ongoing programme of urban research by town planning expert, academic and activist Kyong Park, who, in a number of journeys, is covering the intricate route from Istanbul to Tokyo. Through the exhibition, an architecture seminar to be held on Saturday 10 October, a workshop with artist Lara Almarcegui from 3 to 7 November, and screenings from 17 September of a selection of documentaries related to the region, MUSAC highlights and scrutinises the complex conditions and relationships defining the cultural, social and political spaces to be found between Central Asia and the Far East. The 10 September event will wrap up with a performance of Egyptian artist Hassan Khan’s piece Incidence.
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: 'The Farber MIstery - A Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum for the Moving Image Source
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 8:12am. Review
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber
The Farber Mystery
Canonizing the work of American film criticism's most remarkable figure
(http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-farber-mystery-20090922)
by Jonathan Rosenbaum for the Moving Image Sourceon September 22, 2009
Following James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism (2005), and American Movie Critics (2006), Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber is the Library of America's third and so far most ambitious effort to canonize American film criticism—a daunting task that's been lined at every stage with booby traps, at least if one considers the degree to which film criticism might be regarded as one of the most ephemeral of literary genres. And this is certainly the volume that adds the most to what has previously been available; by rough estimate, it easily triples the amount of film criticism by Manny Farber that we have between book covers.
Patricia Patterson, Ernest Silva, Undergraduate Alum Viviana Lombrozo: She conjures ‘Ghosts’ from a monotype echo - SD Union
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 12:59pm. ReviewProfessor Emeritus Patricia Patterson, Ernest Silva, Undergraduate Alum Viviana Lombrozo
Into View
She conjures ‘Ghosts’ from a monotype echo
Adventurous printmaker exhibits commitment to learning, passion for the arts
By Robert Pincus, Union-Tribune Staff Writer, September 6, 2009
“All My Ghosts” is the name that Viviana Lombrozo has chosen for her upcoming solo exhibition and the term has multiple meanings in her art.
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Complete story on the San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/06/conjures-8216ghosts8217-monotype-echo/
Professor Emeritus Allan Kaprow: Changing Un-Art's Tires - A Review by Ken Johnson for the New York Times Sept 9 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 9:32am. Review
Professor Emeritus Allan Kaprow
Changing Un-Art’s Tires
By KEN JOHNSON for the New York Times on September 9, 2009
IN 1961 Allan Kaprow, a pioneer of the Happening and forefather of today’s installations and performance artists, filled the walled-in backyard of the Martha Jackson Gallery with car tires and objects wrapped in black tarpaper. Visitors were invited to climb on the tires and move them around. He called it “Yard.”
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Complete story on the New York Times website at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/arts/design/13johnson.html?_r=1&ref=design
The MUSAC will host a symposium on Kyong Park's new silk route - A Review for ABC.es on Sept 15 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 7:44am. ReviewThe MUSAC will host a symposium on Kyong Park's new silk roads
A Review for ABC.es on September 15, 2009
León, 14 sep (EFE).- The Project, "The New Silk Roads", from urbanist Kyong Park, which deepens on the transformation of urban cities in more than twenty countries, from Turkey to Japan, will host a symposium next October 10 at The Castilla and León Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC) in the leoness capital.
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Complete story in Spanish on the ABC.es website at:
http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=108481
