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Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold Featured on artfixx.com - 10.08.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 2:42pm.
Faith Ringgold: Painting
(http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2009/10/08/faith-ringgold-painting/)
Daily Art Fixx Feature for October 8, 2009
Born on October 8, 1930, in Harlem, New York, Faith Ringgold is considered to be one of the most important living African American artists. Working in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance, Ringgold is best known for her “story quilts” that combine narrative paintings with quilted borders and text.
Ringgold’s mother, a fashion designer and seamstress, nurtured her creative abilities from a young age. Ringgold attended City College of New York where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and Education in 1955. She taught art in New York’s public schools from 1955–1973 and earned her Master’s degree in art in 1959. During this time, Ringgold also married and divorced jazz pianist Robert Earl Wallace with whom she had two daughters. In 1962, she was remarried to Burdette Ringgold.
Ringgold’s oil paintings and posters of the mid-to-late 1960s carried strong political messages and were supportive of the civil-rights movement. In 1970 she participated in a demonstration against the exclusion of black and women artists by New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. This resulted in the inclusion of Betye Saar and Barbara Chase-Riboud in the Whitney Sculpture Biennial, making them the first black women ever to exhibit at the Museum.
Art review: Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison at Cardwell Jimmerson - By Leah Ollman - 10.09.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:50pm. Review
Professor Emeritus Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison
Art review: Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison at Cardwell Jimmerson
By Leah Ollman for Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2009
"... The work of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison falls somewhere between prophecy, poetry and proposition. For nearly 40 years, the Harrisons have identified places where we’ve torn the life-web and devised strategies for its repair. They are healers (in the spirit of the Jewish mandate tikkun olam, repairing the world) as much as they are artists, but in their practice the two impulses are inseparable..."
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Complete story on the Los Angeles Times website at:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/10/art-review-newton-and-helen-mayer-harrison-at-cardwell-jimmerson.html
New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border - calit2 - 10.9.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:25pm. 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://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1606)
Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface
San Diego, October 9, 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 earned MFA degrees in visual arts (both Class of ’08) 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.
Arquitect Kyong Park Exhibits at the Musac his Project 'The New Silk Routes' - A Review on Leonoticias.com - 10.10.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:45am. Review
Kyong Park and Teddy Cruz
Arquitect Kyong Park Exhibits at the Musac his Project 'The New Silk Routes' / El arquitecto Kyong Park expone en el Musac su proyecto ‘Las nuevas rutas de la seda’
The urbanist noted the existing different trend between Asian and African countries, where there is "an authentic explosion" and what is happening in the West
For Leonoticias.com on October 10, 2009
''...The Japanese architect Kyong Park was one of the protagonists in the symposium 'New routes, new urban conditions' which was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and León (MUSAC) and also participated as speakers Teddy Cruz and Santiago Cirugeda. Park outlined some of the key clues of the project "New Silk Road ', in which he has worked for the past two years and some of these initiatives can be seen as a selection at the Leon Museum..."
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Complete story in Spanish on the Leonoticias.com website at:
http://leonoticias.com/frontend/leonoticias/El-Arquitecto-Kyong-Park-Expone-En-El-Musac-Su-Proyecto-%91Las-vn37326-vst240
JP Gorin featured on The Criterion Collection Top Ten
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 9:52am. Review
JP Gorin featured on The Criterion Collection Top Ten
Jean-Pierre Gorin’s Top 10
(http://www.criterion.com/explore/35)
Writer and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin collaborated for many years with Jean-Luc Godard, on the Dziga Vertov Group films as well as Tout va bien. He also made three popular films, Poto and Cabengo, Routine Pleasures, and My Crasy Life.
The Criterion Collection
Online Cinematheque
Teddy Cruz to address Friends of San Diego Architecture - San Diego Source - Oct 7 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 8:19am. ReviewTeddy Cruz to address Friends of San Diego Architecture
(http://www.sddt.com/news/article.cfm?SourceCode=20091007cya)
For the San Diego Source On October 7, 2009
Teddy Cruz will present on the politics of architectural styles at an upcoming Friends of San Diego Architecture meeting.
A professor of public culture at UCSD and owner of Estudio Teddy Cruz, his presentation is titled, “Radicalizing the Local: Beyond the Politics of Style!”
Cruz’s designs for mixed-use developments have attracted national attention. He has won award for such projects, including Casa Familiar, residential church community in San Ysidro; La Maesta Family Clinic in City Heights, a nonprofit health center serving a variety of immigrant communities; and Housing Corridors, a mixed-use plan for addressing urban sprawl.
In 1991 Cruz won the Rome Prize for Architecture and in 2005 received the James Stirling prize for “Border Postcard: chronicles from the edge,” a project that explored urban strategies spanning the border in the San Diego-Tijuana region.
Cruz’s lecture will take place at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 17. The group meets at the NewSchool of Architecture & Design, located at 1249 F Street in downtown San Diego.
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: Loving and Loathing-A Review by Benjamin Ivry for The Jewish Daily
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 7:36am. Review
Loving and Loathing
Jewish Painter and Critic Manny Farber Rediscovered
(http://www.forward.com/articles/116225/)
By Benjamin Ivry for The Jewish Daily, October 07, 2009
A longtime secret treasure of American film criticism, Manny Farber is finally in the limelight, a year after his death of bone cancer at age 91. Farber is being honored with the publication of “Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber,” an 824-page tome from the Library of America, collecting many long-overlooked reviews originally written for The Nation, The New Leader, Artforum and others. One previous such collection, “Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies” (Da Capo Press, 1998) is only 424 pages long, but unlike most movie critics, Farber’s writings benefit from being read in bulk. September’s Telluride Film Festival included a panel discussion, “The Celebration of Manny Farber,” as well as special screenings of the critic’s favorite films.
A Review of a re-imagining of Professor Emeritus Allan Kaprow's ''Yard'' for the New York Times by Holland Cotter Oct 1 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 1:10pm. Review
Professor Emeritus Allan Kaprow
Art in Review
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/arts/design/02galleries.html?ref=design)
By Holland Cotter for THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 1, 2009
In 1961, the artist Allan Kaprow, who coined the term happenings, created an installation in a small open-air courtyard behind the Martha Jackson Gallery at 32 East 69th Street. He wrapped several sculptures already there — a Giacometti and a Barbara Hepworth — in protective tar paper, then filled the space with hundreds of old automobile tires, tossing them around to make piles that visitors were invited to climb.
The tossing was a homage to Jackson Pollock, whom Kaprow considered a Dada performance artist. The climbing was a form of child’s play, which Kaprow basically believed art to be. The tires, grungy and odiferous, embodied the merging of art and everyday life that was Kaprow’s goal.
He called the piece “Yard,” and it was a hit. In the decades between 1961 and his death in 2006, he recreated it often, changing it each time. The distinction he made between a re-creation and reconstitution was a wise one. A meticulously researched and restaged version of his famous 1959 piece “18 Happenings in 6 Parts” two years ago was a dud, lifeless. At a time when so much earlier performance and installation art is being revisited, it was a cautionary example of the hazards risked when the approach to the ephemeral is by the letter rather than by the spirit.
All such hazards are resolved in the latest iteration of “Yard,” at Hauser & Wirth New York, a European gallery that has just moved into the old Martha Jackson space. The artist responsible, William Pope.L, has done something brilliant with it, faithful but new.
Univ Art Gallery Presents 'Off The Beaten Path' - Oct 23-Dec '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 10:24am. Announcement | Events
Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art
Exhibition runs October 23 through December 12, 2009
University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
Artists Talk: Violence and Politics
November 21, 2009, 1pm
Pepper Canyon Hall, room 106
For the new exhibition season the University Art Gallery, UC San Diego presents an international exhibition entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. The exhibition brings together artists from around the world to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. The exhibition, curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg executive director of Art Works For Change, features twenty-one artists from nineteen countries. “Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb,” explains Randy Jayne Rosenberg. “The stories that underlie these artworks return us imaginatively to the event of violation and allow it to affect us.” Premised on the visionary potential in art, the exhibition avoids tabloid and sensational imagery. The invited artists were asked, “To help us create new representations through their artworks and, in doing so, help us feel and understand the essence of the problem of violence against women,” says Rosenberg.
Artists: Amnesty International, Laylah Ali, Maimuna Feroze-Nana, Mona Hatoum, Icelandic Love Corporation, Yoko Inoue, International Rescue Committee, Jung Jungyeob, Amal Kenawy, Lisa Bjørne Linert, Hung Liu, Gabriela Morawetz, Miri Nishri, Yoko Ono, Cecilia Paredes, Susan Plum, Cima Rahmankhah, Joyce J. Scott, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Masami Teroka, Hank Willis Thomas
For more information please visit the University Art Gallery website at: http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/2009/09_offthebeatenpath.shtml#
Contact: Isabelle Lutterodt, UAG Coordinator | 858.534.0419 | uag@ucsd.edu
Kyong Park and Teddy Cruz mentioned on the Europa Press on Oct 6, 2009
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 7:37am. ReviewKyong Park and Teddy Cruz
The Musac de Leon will host on the upcoming 10th day the symposium 'New routes, new urban conditions' from artist Kyong Park /
El Musac de León acogerá el próximo día 10 el simposio 'Nuevas rutas, nuevas condiciones urbanas' del artista Kyong Park
It will highlight the transformation of urban and social dynamics through new theoretical lenses
"... The seminar, directed by Octavio Zaya, with the participation of architects Santiago Cirugeda and Teddy Cruz, and Park himself and its objective aims to create a space for reflection on the transformation of urban and social dynamics in new social contexts, of economic and political globalization..."
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Complete story in Spanish on the Europa Press website at:
http://www.europapress.es/castilla-y-leon/noticia-musac-leon-acogera-proximo-dia-10-simposio-nuevas-rutas-nuevas-condiciones-urbanas-artista-kyong-park-20091006120005.html
Similar story at:
http://www.europapress.es/castilla-y-leon/noticia-musac-inaugurara-hoy-nueva-temporada-expositiva-muestras-autores-ugo-rondinone-kyong-park-20090711080149.html?rel (July 11, 2009)