DARK FAIR
March 28 - 29, 2008
Presented by Milwaukee International
at SWISS INSTITUTE/CONTEMPORARY ART
495 Broadway, 3rd Floor

Considering those aspects of Armory Week in New York which might be remembered in days to come, I predict Dark Fair will resonate in the annals of art history, and not just for the central conceit of doing it off the grid — of using no plug-in electrical devices or overhead lights at its Swiss Institute venue, instead substituting candles, flashlights, battery powered laptops, kerosene lamps and other glow-in-the-dark initiatives — but for its subversive stance as an anti-fair, an event that emulated the form but not necessarily the mandate to sell. It opened on Friday, closed on Saturday, and in the interim attracted an audience that stretched around the block.

artists meeting t shirts
Artists Meeting will convene it's regular meeting at the SCOPE art fair (62nd street at Lincoln Center) this Sunday March 30th at 2pm. The location within the fair is at the [PAM] installation in the VIP lounge. You can get a free entry pass by saying that you are part of [PAM] Perpetual Art Machine at the door. You can also go to the [PAM] Website and print out an artists pass to get in for free.

http://www.perpetualartmachine.com
http://www.scopenewyork.com/general_info.php

A frequent critique of the Venice Biennale is its organization into national pavilions. As a legacy of the first Biennale of 1895, when nations were young, naive, and given to a prideful beating of their imperial wings, the idea of identifying particular art with a particular country and then competing for the best of show, a Golden Lion, might have once seemed appropriate. It now seems wholly anachronistic. In our current climate of globalization, of multi-national corporations and commissions funding large exhibitions in far flung territories, of curators and artists hopping from one project and one continent to another, segregation according to nationality appears somewhat fusty and quaint.

WAKE UP

HD_RANTS by Brian Caiazza & G.H.

A Public Reading
"Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. -"
Judson Memorial Church
New York City
Sunday, March 11, 2007, between 4 and 9 p.m.

A public reading of transcripts selected from the 558 Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and March 2005.

MP3
This is a conversation between G.H. Hovagimyan and Christina McPhee at Sara Tecchia Gallery on November 15th, 2006
There's also an ongoing text discussion on post.thing.net

Christina McPhee

INVENTED GOD

FALSE HOPE