THURSDAY MAY 24
Chelsea [6-8] P-P-O-W. 555 W 25: Jill Levine
Chelsea [6-8] DJT FINE ART 231 10th Ave: “CoBrA” w/ Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Eugene Brands, Corneille + Asger Jorn
Chelsea [6-8] KRAVETS WEHBY 521 W 21: Macha Suzuki
Chelsea [6-8] KATHRYN MARKEL 529 W 20: Peter Hoffer
Chelsea [6-8] MURRAY GUY 453 W 17: "Street Scene" curated by Lee Plested w/ Luis Jacob, Andrew Dadson, Lucy Pullen, Kika Thorne, Colter Jacobsen, Gareth Moore + Leslie Shows
is pleased to announce its first release, a 7" vinyl EP by Junior Makhno, entitled "The theatre of the macabre"
a precarious concept album for the tragic era of the working poor, done and over with in 6 tracks under 10 minutes.
crying bones and bludgeoned hopes
in the vein of necro/goretex and revenge/xasthur
Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones, edited by Sandra Q. Firmin and Julie Joyce (MIT): The book has received national praise.The book "Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones" (MIT University Press, 2007), a monograph edited by Sandra Q. Firmin, curator with the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, and Julie Joyce, director of Luckman Art Gallery, California State University at Los Angeles, is receiving national praise. The book was written to accompany Jones's first retrospective exhibition, "Kim Jones: A Retrospective," which originated at the UB Art Gallery last October and is now on view at the Luckman Gallery through May 19.
I arrive at the Zwirner Gallery’s double show of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Gordon Matta-Clark, rolling my bicycle up to the front of the kitchen and locking it before the window-like openings. I enter the dumpster with the maze built inside it. With its back panel open, the dumpster is the major opening of the double installation to the street.
cute art chique design tag piracy. Who sez China's the only bad guy?
Lodged in a spacious apartment in an unassuming 19th-century building on Rome’s busy Piazza Vittoria, the new Sound Art Museum is both a public venue and the realized dream of Dora Stiefelmeier and Mario Pieroni, the founders of Zerynthia, a not-for-profit organization created in 1991 to promote exhibitions and performances in Italy and abroad. Inaugurated Feb. 26, the Sound Art Museum is a project of Zerynthia and its subsidiary, RadioArteMobile (RAM), an internet radio station launched in 2002 to explore–and expand–the territory shared by the visual arts and sound research. The Sound Art Museum’s premiere exhibition is “Inaudita” (meaning both “unheard” and “unprecedented”) and features installations by the Vito Acconci studio, Markus Huemer, Donatella Landi, Stephen Vitiello and Achim Wollscheid. The organizers are Lorenzo Benedetti, an independent curator, Riccardo Giagni, a composer and musicologist, and the artist Cesare Pietroiusti.
Oppenheim Sunburn Remix -1993
I’m looking at the works I did fourteen years ago to understand what I was trying to get at. The works were done as I was beginning to work with the internet. One of the web sites I created was called Faux Conceptual Art. I was thinking about the burgeoning business of counterfeit products such as watches and designer label products coming from China. Since I live a few blocks from Canal Street in New York, I am aware of all the counterfeit products being sold on the street. I thought that the fakes were a very interesting by product of globalism. They also functioned as a linguistic game. The game is about a shift in the idea of creativity. It also extends the 1980’s discussion of appropriation into the 1990’s debate about intellectual property. The shift in creativity is subtle. This also has it’s basis in the famous essay by Walter Benjamin, Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction. What Benjamin says is that art loses its’ “aura” when it is reproduced. The discussion is about the qualities of an artwork. This presupposes that art is about a unique object, a masterwork. The copy supposedly has no “aura.” What conveys uniqueness or the quality of art to an artwork? This becomes a central question for every generation of artists.
Kim Jones in a 1983 work in Washington, D.C.: Kim Jones: A Retrospective is on view at Luckman Gallery through May 19, 2006. The exhibition originated in Buffalo, New York, at the UB Art Gallery. A publication edited by Sandra Q. Firmin and Julie Joyce is available through MIT Press ($20).Kim Jones: A Retrospective | The First Full Retrospective for the Artist. Exhibition originating at UB Art Gallery 10.19.06-12.17.06,
img_assist|nid=1501|title=Bingyi opening reception|desc=The artists and UB fauclty members Bingyi and Tyrone Georgiou at the opening reception of The Dawns Here Are Quiet at UB Art Galleries from 4/19/07-5/19/07. photo: D.Steckler|link=none|align=left|width=0|height=0]BINGYI: THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET
Buffalo, N.Y. -- The UB Art Gallery is pleased to present Haunted Screens, a group exhibition featuring national and international artists that are working to deconstruct cinematic technologies. Participating artists include Zoe Beloff, Michael Bosworth, Diane Landry, Ed Pien, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Simon Penny, Siebren Versteeg, and Kara Walker.
In the spirit of proto-cinematic devices like magic lanterns and zoetropes, Haunted Screens features artwork that employs a variety of techniques—from the hand-drawn to pixel disintegration—to present a delirium of actual and implied movement. The phantasmagorias, silhouettes, and projections in this exhibition borrow from mysticism and folklore, the legacy of the African slave trade, and urban specters to conjure historical and magical apparitions that inhabit the contemporary mind.
