Anya Gallaccio: Whitworth Art Gallery Announces Exhibition of Artist's Wallpapers - A Review for artdaily.org - Nov 3 '09

Review

Anya Gallaccio

Whitworth 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

Alum Derek Lomas: PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century - A Review by Bobbie Johnson for the guardian.co.uk

Alumni_Review

Alum Derek Lomas

PlayPower: 1980s computing for the 21st century
8-bit computers shaped the west – now one firm is taking the same spirit of exploration to children in India and China
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century)

A Review by Bobbie Johnson for the guardian.co.uk on November 4, 2009

It is nearly two years since Derek Lomas, then a graduate student on an internship with the communications giant Qualcomm, stumbled across a unexpected find while browsing a Bangalore market stall. Perusing the vast spread of goods, he was drawn to an array of strangely familiar computers.

Mexican Omar Pimienta wins tenth Emilio Prados Poetry Prize - El Mundo (Spain) - Oct 30 '09

Awards & Honors | Review

Mexican 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

The Emilio Prados Falls on the Mexican Poet Omar Pimienta - Malaga Hoy (Spain) - Oct 31 '09

Awards & Honors

The Emilio Prados Falls on the Mexican Poet Omar Pimienta
The award, aimed for those under 35 years, is endowed with 8,000 euros and publication of Work

For Malaga Hoy on October 31, 2009

"...Mexican Omar Pimienta was raised yesterday with the International Poetry Prize Emilio Prados, organized by Centro Cultural Generación del 27, de la Diputación de Málaga, endowed with a cash prize of 8,000 euros and the publication of the work by the publisher Pre -Textos. The piece was presented under the motto "Benedicto Bonifacio" and bears the title "Escribo desde aquí" (I write from here). The winner has two poetry books, "Primera Persona: Ella y La Libertad: ciudad de paso," (First person: She and the Freedom: path city), and with an artist book, "Libreria 2007" (Library 2007). He holds a degree in Latin American studies, and is working towards a Masters degree in visual arts at the University of California at San Diego and lives in Tijuana. He ensures that is (and always will be) a blacksmith by trade and basketball player in decline."..."

Complete story in Spanish on the Malaga Hoy website at:
http://www.malagahoy.es/article/ocio/552088/emilio/prados/recae/poeta/mexicano/omar/pimienta.html

'San Diego NOW: Eight UCSD Visual Artists' mentioned on The North County Voice - Nov 3 '09

Review

Art 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.

Sheryl Oring at The New Children's Museum - Oct 11 '09-Jan 5 '10


Sheryl Oring

Creative Fix

Reception on Thursday, December 3, 2009, 5-7pm

Workshop on Saturday, November 7, 11am-3pm

Exhibition runs October 11, 2009 through January 5, 2010

The New Children's Museum, 200 West Island Avenue, San Diego, California 92101

As part of her Creative Fix installation in the Teen Studio at The New Children’s Museum, artist Sheryl Oring is inviting San Diego teenagers to imagine ways to improve the world, be it their neighborhood, their city, their state or their country. Any teens interested in participating are invited to a workshop on November 7 at which they’ll share their ideas on video. Videos created during the workshop will be voted on by museum visitors, and one will be selected to receive $250 to make that fix really happen!

Teddy Cruz: Creative Time Revolutionizes the Sleepy Conference - A Review by Andrew Russeth for ARTINFO 10.26.09

Review

Teddy Cruz

Creative 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.

Rob Duarte/Stephanie Lie/Elle Mehrmand and Alum/Lecturer Micha Cárdenas: Prospectives.09 - Nov 12-Dec 16 '09

Alumni_Event | Announcement | Student Project | Faculty Show


Rob Duarte, Stephanie Lie, Elle Mehrmand, and Alum/Lecturer Micha Cárdenas

Prospectives.09
International Digital Arts Festival

November 12th – December 16th, 2009

University of Nevada, Reno, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV 89557-0208

The Digital Media Studio of the Department of Art of the University of Nevada, Reno presents Prospectives.09 (previously RIFNM) We invite interdisciplinary graduate and phd students working in digital media to the UNR campus and Reno community for a series of events focused on emerging interdisciplinary practice in the digital arts. A juried exhibition in the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, along with three days events featuring performances, symposia, game art and full-dome projections in venues in and around the UNR campus and Downtown Reno.

For details please click on "read more" below of visit event's website at:
http://www.unr.edu/art/prospectives09.html

John Welchman co-authors the John Baldessari: Pure Beauty Catalogue

Announcement | Faculty Project

JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY

The JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY Catalogue is Co-Authored by, UC San Diego Visual Arts Professor, John Welchman.

Welchman was also co-author of the catalogs for John Baldessari:
BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT,
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, March 1 to July 19, 2009;
and John Baldessari: Music, ed. Stefan Gronert and Christina Végh, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Bonner Kunstverein (Walter König, 2007).

This is a travelling show, for details please click on "read more" below.

Prof Emeritus M Farber and Prof Emeritus P. Patterson: 'All Together Now'-A Review by Alum Duncan Shepherd for The SD Reader

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.