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Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: Through the Eyes of Others at Fenimore Art Museum

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:51:29 -0700

Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art

August 23, 2008 - December 31, 2008

Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326

The images of African Americans at the Fenimore Art Museum offer insights into the ways that Americans in the past viewed one another; how artistic representations of black people created and reinforced popular attitudes; and how these attitudes continue to affect us today. This is not simply a story for African Americans, but for all of us, because the issues represented in this exhibition—identity, self-portrayal, survival, resistance, and stereotyping—are issues that relate to each individual who has ever wondered about their own identity and to every group that has entered this country.

Associate Professor Phel Steinmetz: FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:01:19 -0700

Phel Steinmetz

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA
(http://www.safotofestival.com/galleries/index.html)

September 1-30, 2008

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA-SAFOTO / Gallery 6, 333 West Olmos Drive #103, San Antonio, TX 78212

The FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA International Photography Festival is a unique and eclectic forum for the exhibition and celebration of photography and photography-based art forms.

Professor Emeritus Harold Cohen: Colour Rules

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:29:23 -0700

Professor Emeritus Harold Cohen

Colour Rules

9 July - 15 August 2008

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 6 Cork Street, London W1S 3NX

'Art is one of the ways the individual has of bringing beliefs under scrutiny and under the authority of this or her intelligence'
Harold Cohen, 'Off the Shelf', 1986

Harold Cohen’s original and illustrious career spans half a century and has been the subject of major exhibitions across the world. Aside from his 1983 Tate exhibition, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery show, timed to coincide with the artist’s 80th birthday, will be his first gallery showing in the UK since his departure to California in 1968.

Lev Manovich: Watson Conference - The New Work of Composing - October 2008

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:34:51 -0700

Lev Manovich

The Seventh Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference

The New Work of Composing

October 16-18, 2008

University of Louisville,

Multiplicity of modes and media; myriad new sites and genres; morphing definitions of what counts as text or author or audience; seismic shifts in means of production and delivery. These changes are all around us, and they are coming fast.

What is the new work of composing in the midst of the cultural and linguistic diversity, increasing globalization, and rapidly changing technologies that characterize contemporary life? These are compelling questions for us—as students, teachers, writers, composers, activists, citizens. The 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference will explore the complex and semiotically rich challenges we face, in the university and beyond, as we move toward new modes of composing, new forms of rhetoric, new concepts of texts and textuality, and new ways of making meaning.

For more information and a listing of featured speakers and conference schedule, please visit:
http://louisville.edu/conference/watson

Haim Steinbach at Nicole Klagsbrun

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:54:44 -0700

Haim Steinbach

John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Haim Steinbach

Exhibition runs June 12 through August 15, 2008

Nicole Klagsbrun, 526 West 26th Street, Chelsea, NY 10001

To launch the debut of a dynamic new exhibition series, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present a focused show that includes three distinctly related artists, John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, and Haim Steinbach. By employing an aesthetic scheme of trilogies, the exhibition permits three single works of art to create an immediate, reactive dialogue among the artists’ concerns. For the inaugural show, Armleder, Mosset and Steinbach’s reductive manipulation of space and painting will transform the project space. Mosset’s six monochrome panels appear as cool commitments to abstraction against Armleder’s animated work and Steinbach’s precise arrangements. Together, however, the works position us to consider shape and the spatial status and relationships of the art object.

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:42:56 -0700

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection

June 28 - September 21, 2008

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection represents an unusual opportunity to see a large portion of a corporate collection in one place. Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a fruitful collaboration with Bank of America’s Art Exhibition Program, this exhibition presents over 80 highlights from one of the finest corporate collections in the world.

Installed in two large galleries of the Academy’s Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, the exhibition features major works by artists such as Milton Avery, Jennifer Bartlett, Roger Brown, John Chamberlain, Janet Fish, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Donald Judd, John Marin, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Jules Olitski, Faith Ringgold, Ed Ruscha, Miriam Shapiro, Lorna Simpson, and Frank Stella.

Ruben Ortiz Torres: Che! Myth and Revolution

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:37:35 -0700

Rubén Ortiz Torres

Che! Myth and Revolution / Che! Mito e Revolução

Exhibition runs June 28 through September 07, 2008

Fórum Municipal Romeu Correia, Praça da Liberdade, Almada, Portugal

A collection of artwork by Vik Muniz, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Martin Parr and Marcos Lopez are featured in this exhibition curated by Trisha Ziff.

Teddy Cruz at MoMA - Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:42:34 -0700

Teddy Cruz

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Exhibition runs July 20 through October 20, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York, NY 10019-5497

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling comprises a survey of the history of the prefabricated home and a building project of five contemporary prefabricated houses in the Museum's Fifty-Fourth Street lot. Overall, the exhibition attests to the diveristy of procedural, formal, and technological innovation in prefabricated architecture, and illustrates that the prefabricated house is a critical agent in architectural invention, material and formal research, and sustainability.

Ricardo Dominguez: The Last Hope - 'The Intersection of Culture Jamming, Hacking, and Hacktivism'

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:46:35 -0700

Ricardo Dominguez

The Last HOPE
The Intersection of Culture Jamming, Hacking, and Hacktivism

July 18th to 20th, 2008

Hotel Pennsylvania, on 33rd Street and 7th Avenue (across the street from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden), New York City

Hotel Pennsylvania - Sunday July 19th at 1100 a.m. (Panel Room=Hopper)

Featuring: Pan, Phineas Narco, Tim Maloney, %20, Fred Church, Steev Hise, Ricardo Dominguez, Bernardo Attias, Mark Hosler

Over the past nearly 20 years, the Internet has proved to be fertile ground for projects that raise awareness, question authority, and inspire social cohesion. Culture jamming, hacking, and hacktivism have helped provoke changes in the technical, cultural, and political aspects of our society. This panel aims to provide an overview of these techniques through examples of some of the more memorable projects. Starting with the manipulation of voicemail services and leading up to denial of service attacks on government web servers, the panel will cover how these projects were organized and executed as well as the reaction that they inspired. This 90 minute panel will also include a discussion section (with audience participation encouraged) where they will contemplate what use these techniques have in light of the quickly changing Internet and digital media landscapes.

http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.php

Jean Lowe: 'Love for Sale' at Quint Contemporary Art

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:26:51 -0700

Jean Lowe

Love for Sale

Exhibition opens on July 25th, 2008 with a public reception from 6-8 p.m. and continues through September 6th.

Quint Contemporary Art, 7739 Fay Avenue (Alley entrance only between Kline and Silverado), La Jolla, California

Jean Lowe is well known for her lush, colorful paintings that juxtapose humor, environmental concerns and historical references. This exhibition will include several new large-scale works that depict a hybrid of architectural interiors from Las Vegas with all it’s glitz, conflated with the context of “big box” stores which range from the 99 Cent store to discount furniture stores.

The new enamel on panel paintings are void of the expected human presence, with reference to the pitfalls of the physical expansion of consumerism that addresses the issue of creating something desirable on one level, while in fact creating a level of great material excess on another. Lowe explores “consuming your way to rapture” in these works along with the loss of community, service and connection to place.

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: 'She's So Articulate'

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:47:14 -0700

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

She's So Articulate

June 10th – July 19th, 2008

Arlington Arts Center, 3550 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia 22201

'She's So Articulate' sets out to expand how gallery-goers think about the relation of narrative to contemporary art by African-American women. The show includes selected works and room-filling installations by 11 artists: Maya Asante, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Djakarta, Nekisha Durrett, Torkwase Dyson, Faith Ringgold, Erika Ranee, Nadine Robinson, Renee Stout, and Lauren Woods.

Ricardo Dominguez: A Public Reenactment Based on a 1971 Speech by César Chávez -'We Are Also Responsible'- Exposition Park in

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:49:58 -0700

Democracy in America: The National Campaign
Presented by CREATIVE TIME with LACE

Cesar Chavez
WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE
Based on a 1971 speech by César Chávez
a public reenactment starring Ricardo Dominguez

Saturday, July 19, 2008 | 6:00 PM

Exposition Park / South Lawn, Exposition Blvd. and Vermont Avenue, South Los Angeles

The fourth event of the Port Huron Project, a series of reenactments organized by artist Mark Tribe and is part of Creative Time's 2008 public art initiative

For a complete listing of reenactments please visit the The Port Huron Project web page at: http://www.nothing.org/porthuronproject/
To view poster, please click on image.

Professor Emeritus Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes at the San Diego Museum of Art

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:48:38 -0700

Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes
( http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-eleanor-antin-historical-takes.html )

July 19–November 2, 2008

San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, California, 92112

Organized by SDMA, this solo exhibition features the work of celebrated conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin’s recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based on Greek and Roman history and mythology, which are presented together for the first time.

Associate Professor Amy Alexander: Get away from your laptop and dance, Performance in Scotland

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:07:52 -0700

Amy Alexander

Get away from your laptop and dance!

Friday 20 June, 5 - 9pm

Aberdeen, Scotland

Where does work stop and leisure start?

American artist Amy Alexander observes that people seem to always be working, even when we're playing, because the tools of work have become the tools of leisure, thereby making leisure virtually indiscernible from work. She describes coffeehouse culture as consisting of lattes and laptops and club performances looking clerical, with laptops replacing guitars, drums, and other "thrashables".

For No Time to Lose, she brings the humorous, public space art performance CyberSpaceLand into the streets of Aberdeen for an outdoor intervention that may just inspire a revolution ...

Locations
The Green, 5pm
Schoolhill, 6pm
Beach Boulevard, 7pm

Professor Ruben Ortiz Torres and Alumnus Tristan Shone at the O1SJ1 Global Festival of Art on the Edge

Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:14:11 -0700

Professor Ruben Ortiz Torres and Alumnus Tristan Shone

O1SJ1
A Global Festival of Art on the Edge
http://01sj.org/

Opening on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 7:30pm

Festival runs June 4-8, 2008

FREE

Circle of Palms | (Outside the San Jose Museum of Art--110 S Market St., San Jose, CA 95113), San Jose, California

The 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge is North America’s newest and largest festival of digital arts, and a great deal more. From a hip hop, multi-media meditation on Antarctica to robot art, from conversations with artificial intelligence to operatic performances of Google headlines about the environment, from avant-garde cinema to new musical forms - well over 100 artworks, performances, screenings, talks, and workshops will be featured at 01SJ. Festival organizers expect it to be a perspective-altering experience that entertains, enlightens, educates and involves attendees in a new understanding of our changing world.