Weekly Update – February First Friday roundup
This week’s Weekly has my First Friday picks . Little Berlin ’s “ Works on Paper Rejects ”—with drawings, prints, photos and sculpture by artists rejected from the recent Works on Paper exhibit at Arcadia University —is the hot opening this Friday.
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Weekly Update – February First Friday roundup
Explicit views of women’s pudenda have never been in short supply in New York City but one found them on 42nd St.
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Reclaiming Women’s Anatomy: The Visible Vagina at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art and David Nolan Gallery
I just received a notice that brightened up my day: After almost a decade of sitting vacant, Artscape has been given the go-ahead to convert the old Shaw Street School — formerly known as the Shaw-Givins School — into a huge arts complex. The plan, like with other Artscape properties, will see the old school's 70,000 square feet of space repurposed for community arts groups and artists' studios
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Artscape gets go-ahead to repurpose Shaw Street School
Living legends are rare birds indeed — most legends forged at least partially, alas, by death, untimely or otherwise — but Takao Tanabe can make a pretty good case for himself. Now in his 80s, Tanabe, the son of a Japanese immigrant and commercial fisherman in Prince Rupert, B.C., measures up as one of this country's most important Modern painters
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Takao Tanabe’s early years
Finally, museum-exhibition catalogues are going digital. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will announce a new online catalogue-publishing initiative today. LACMA will kick off the program by publishing 10 out-of-print catalogues online.
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LACMA to publish exhibition catalogues online
Tonight, the always-provocative (but equally hard-to-get-to) Art Gallery of York University's winter opens its winter show, Oliver Husain's “Hovering Proxies ,” where, the gallery tells us, “a new installation forms the backdrop for a new film filmed inside the exhibition for the exhibition.” Yes, I read it four times over, just like you did, and trying to untie the verbal knot (and knowing a little about Husain's work), I'm pretty sure it's a wry doubling of venue-as-subject, leaving the viewer dislocated from the space they inhabit and the artifice they see onscreen. But drop that for a moment and consider the setting Husain conjures, of an internal garden in tropical Jakarta, in the hot season; if nothing else, it'll help take the edge off the gathering January chill
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Micah Lexier at BMO’s Project Room, Oliver Husain at AGYU
I wanted to tell you about a great idea initiated by Malcolm Rains and followed though on by his dealer, Nicholas Metivier , but I'm happy to report that it's too late. That's a rare circumstance, but the thing is, yesterday I received a note from the Metivier Gallery that they were holdign a fundraising raffle of work by gallery artists for Haitian earthquake relief
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Artists for Haitian relief at the Metivier gallery
The other night, I went to a much-hyped performance by Vancouver-based artist Gareth Moore at the Power Plant. Moore's part of that priveleged cabal of next-generation Vancouver conceptualists represented almost exclusively, it seems, by Catriona Jeffries , whose stable includes international art stars like Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer , among others
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Travels with a stranger: Gareth Moore at the Power Plant
“Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.” “We never pay a cent until we see the final product.” “Do this for us and you’ll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!” On looking at sketches or concepts: “Well, we aren’t sure if we want to use you yet, but leave your material here so I can talk to my partner/investor/wife/clergy.” “Well, the job isn’t CANCELLED, just delayed. Keep the account open and we’ll continue in a month or two.” “Contract
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Top Ten Lies Told To Beginning Artists, Designers, & Illustrators
This is the first published interview with incoming MOCA director and current Deitch Projects gallery-owner Jeffrey Deitch. It was conducted via phone with Deitch in Los Angeles earlier tonight. (MOCA communications director Lyn Winter was on the call with Deitch, but did not participate in the Q&A.) [ Image
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Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part one
This is the third post of MAN’s three-part Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch: Plans for the future. Part one, in which Deitch and I discuss his move from commercial dealer to non-profit executive, is here. Part two, in which Deitch and I discuss some of the ethical questions created by his new position, is here.
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Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part three
In a Friday post about Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present), I noted the work’s intellectual roots in America’s 1980s and 1990s debates about multiculturalism. The United States wasn’t the only country to have a national conversation about multiculturalism in those years and it wasn’t just Kim who used tried-and-true art strategies to engage with that discourse: Great Britain had its own debate about multiculturalism and what it meant for the British
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Art and the multi-cultural 1990s: From Kim to Shonibare
Well, it's about that time, when everything non-retail discount related rolls up its front steps, bars the door, and waits for the inevitable necessity of a new year to re-engage with the world. Over the next couple of weeks, very little will be happening in the art scene, for this very reason; most galleries will shut down until at least the first week of January
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Silent nights: Fernand Leduc at Olga Korper
Orange County's own Backhausdance is raising funds to fly 11 dancers and a small staff to New York City to perform two full nights of repertory at Joyce SoHo. They've been invited to perform as part of an amazing dance series. I've (Chris) have seen them perform locally several times and they are group OC should be proud of and should support
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Help OC’s Backhausdance Get To New York
A couple weekend events of note, namely Art Metropole's annual Gifts by Artists extravaganza , which continues up 'til Xmas eve. You can buy a grab-bag (or box, actually) of multiples by Stephen Andrews, James Carl, Andy Fabo, Derek Sullivan and Seth Scriver, among others, for $100. Today at AM is one of the associated events where Cecilia Berkovic will be holding a special artists' gift-wrapping station alongside local dematerialization troupe the CN Tower Liquidation Crew.
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Attention Xmas shoppers: Gifts by Artists at Art Metropole; Bargain hunting at Hunter + Cook
First of all, please let me introduce myself: I'm the blogger who dropped off the face of the earth for a couple of weeks there (again). Busy times in the pages of ye olde dinosaur, the newspaper, where I finally finished a two-part series on China and reviews of winter shows at the Oakville Galleries and the Power Plant (the first part, anyway, on “Nothing to Declare,” the fun and engaging Canadian sculpture show; part two, on Michael Snow, will be this weekend.) Keeping ever busy, I endured a white-knuckle drive up to Owen Sound yesterday to the Tom Thomson Gallery, where I saw Steven White's very good sculpture show, The Combine Project.
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Illustration: Mariska Undi Hunting for the Wonderdeer Mariska Undi is perhaps better known as a Hungarian artist and one of the key members of the Godollo Arts & Crafts community. However, she was also a campaigner and champion of the applied arts medium and was personally involved in a number of projects that had textiles at their heart. Throughout her career she had a particular and constant interest in the folk art traditions of her native Hungary.
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The Textile Work of Mariska Undi
I can imagine that few experiences could be as simultaneously flattering and unnerving as having your portrait done. For one thing, it's a complete surrender of agency as to how you're represented to the artist, but at the same time, it's ego-stroking to be considered important, interesting or visually compelling enough to have it done in the first place.
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Shot through the heart: Viktor Mitic’s "Dealers" opens tonight
at the Cisneros Foundation brunch This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB ( Art Basel Miami Beach ) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel , Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as well as meeting up with Artblog’s Roberta and Libby for a day. The following are random snapshots rather than any attempt at a synthesis
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Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
This last last Saturday the Social Justice Collaborative of Pepperdine University presented a panel in conjunction with the Hidden Wounds/Paper Bullets exhibition at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, Ca. Part of the the panel was a one act performance piece by artists Soraya Fallah & Cklara Moradian.It's a powerful 9 minute piece:
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Performance Piece: Soraya Fallah & Cklara Moradian @ GCAC