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Archive for February, 2007
Countdown to Party-Town: Armory Art International and The Rest
Feb 20th
Great rundown of all the art fairs opening in NYC Friday from Gridskipper. See you there!:
The Armory: The Armory show is the big daddy of art shows and is the impetus for all of the others coming to New York. In the same way Art Basel brings all the shows to Miami, the Armory brings the art world to New York. The Armory is the world’s leading fair devoted to contemporary art and features over 178 international heavy hitting galleries. All serious collectors will be coming here before setting foot in the other fairs.
The Art Show: 70 of the country’s leading art galleries will take part in this year’s Art Show presented by the Art Dealers Association of America. All of the proceeds from the gala preview on the 21st will go to the Henry Street Settlement.
Scope: Founded in ’02 the Scope art fair focuses on emerging curators, dealers, and artists. They show a lot of video art and exhibitions along with the usual prints and paintings. With over one hundred exhibitors, it’s one of the bigger shows in city showing work by newbies.
The Fountain: The Brooklyn based art fair is made up of five Williamsburg art galleries showing their most avant garde works. They will be showing bold installations, floor to ceiling paintings, and the occasional performance piece.
Diva Fair: The Diva Fair, or the Digital & Video Art Fair, offers the most cutting edge array of video art out there. With only 17 exhibitors it is one of the smaller fairs going on in the city this week, but it has more new media and videos than any of the others.
Pulse: Though this is only Pulse’s second year, it has already garnered a lot of buzz from the art world. Their Miami show attracted over 12,000 visitors and the fair is seen as the one to watch. At the NYC show they will host 61 galleries from 15 countries.
Art New York: The Art New York show presented by Thomas Blackman Associates will have over 150 international and domestic galleries with both established and emerging artists.
LA Art in New York:: The LA Art Fair features artists from 23 prominent Los Angeles galleries.Though the work will mostly come out of LA, this fair is also hosting six international galleries to convey the aesthetic diversity of the West Coast art scene.
Red Dot Fair The Red Dot Fair will be held on two floors of the Park South Hotel, and each of the 40 exhibitors will have a room as their gallery space. Known as one of the more alternative art fairs, Red Dot claims it attracts artists and collectors who aren’t interested in the mainstream or what is popular right now. Expect riskier works.
Where To Stay:
The Hudson Hotel: Though the thousands of people coming to town for the fair are wealthy, don’t expect them to sell out the Waldorf or any other bastion of old monied elegance. They mostly stay at new boutique hotels designed by the world’s top starchitects. Philippe Starck’s Hudson Hotel is popular with the art folk for its beauty, proximity to many of the fairs, and the cool scene. Expect similar crowds at 60 Thompson and Hotel Gansevoort.
[Photo: T. Wallace/Flickr]
Ménage à Trois And Machine Gun Attack: The Lives of Poets
Feb 20th
Thanks Wit for this update on one of my favorite projects soon to be coming out of one of my favorite towns:
"Another film due to start shooting in Laugharne, Newquay and Swansea this year, has the working title The Best Years of our Lives.
It will star Welsh actor Matthew Rhys as Dylan Thomas and Keira Knightly as his childhood sweetheart, Vera Phillips, in a movie based on a screenplay written by Knightley’s mother, award-winning playwright Sharman Macdonald. Lindsay Lohan will play Dylan’s wife, Caitlin.
The movie will feature Dylan carrying on with both women, a three-in-a-bed romp and a supposed lesbian fling.
According to Sharman Macdonald, the film "charts the complex emotional bond" shared by Dylan, Caitlin, Vera and her eventual husband William Killick.
It features an alleged attack on the poet’s temporary home in New Quay, West Wales, by Killick, involving a machine gun and the detonation of a hand grenade, said to have taken place when commando Killick returned from World War II action, only to hear neighbourhood gossip about his wife’s behaviour. He was cleared of any criminal behaviour by magistrates.
Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy, whose famous father died when she was just 10, says the menage a trois tale is ‘pure speculation’."
Link: icWales – Latest Dylan film based on Milk Wood.
via WIT
The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying
Feb 20th
What if the eyes were not windows to the soul, but portals to the abyss? The Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek said it best when he suggested that the profundity of feeling inspired by the close eye contact of lovers was not cosy and emotionally comforting, but in fact fundamentally terrifying, as it offered a glimpse into the hollow unblinking emptiness of human existence. Zizek was talking about Hitchcock’s Psycho at the time, but he could have been describing the fascinating and strangely disturbing ONE Life: The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying (BBC One).
Sorrow
Feb 20th
Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent. –Danish Proverb
Les petites peines sont bruyantes et les grandes, muettes.
Scope New York 2007 @ Lincoln Center
Feb 20th
It’s that time again. The Armory Show and all her hangers-on, except that often, the hangers-on turn out to be the stars.
Take for example, Scope New York, that hot shot over at the Lincoln Center this year. from their press release:
"Continuing its mandate to redefine what an art fair is, this year’s Scope New York will take advantage of its unique location with special projects by Scope exhibiting artists. Visitors to the fair will be embraced and initiated by roving performers, sound and video pieces interspersed throughout the fair. Nestled atop a snow blown "mountain," viewers can seek sanctuary in a veritable hunting lodge, where art stars, icons and iconoclasts interview each other and warm to a crackling fire.
For more information about Scope’s special projects and daily programming, please download the picture schedule at http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/picturesched1.pdf .
Meet you at the lodge for a drink!
SCOPE NEW YORK TO SHOW THE BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART AT LINCOLN CENTER
Sneak Preview Thursday, February 22nd, 3pm-8pm
Daily Entry: 10am-8pm, Friday, February 23 – Monday, February 26, 2007
The Scope Pavilion
Lincoln Center
Damrosch Park,
Corner of 62 Street and 10th Avenue
Desolation Row Redux
Feb 19th
From Paleo-Future: CanikPhotos has a great collection of photos from Taiwan of a housing development that was never completed. The set is called Desolation Row and has a companion set called Desolation Row Redux.
Someone posted it to Digg back in July. I contacted the photographer and he didn’t know the backstory to the development but "ahfoo" on Digg claims to have lived within walking distance of these buildings. Their theory, which seems most credible, was that a falling out between the business partners led to the development never being finalized.
You can see the development from above via Google Maps.
via those guys over at boing boing
Gung Hay Fat Choy! ????!
Feb 18th
Gung Hay Fat Choy! ????! Today is the Lunar New Year’s Day, {wiki} ushering in the Year of the Pig.
Sharon Lockhart’s Teatro Amazonas @ The Whitney, Feb. 24/25, 2007
Feb 18th
In between schmoozing at the Armory Show and others this week, be sure to stop by the Whitney. As part of the LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION series of screenings at the Whitney Museum, Sharon Lockhart will screen her film, Teatros Amazonas, 1999. 35mm film, color, sound; 40 min.
I’ve been trying to see this one ever since I missed it in Telluride/01 where I had a film screening as well at the International Experimental Cinema Expo.
See you there!
via The Whitney
Grand Canyon Skywalk Set to Open in March
Feb 18th
It looks like the skywalk is finally set to open, and while I don’t normally have a problem with heights (done a little rock climbing, and looked over the edge of many dangerous cliffs) I still don’t think I will be taking a stroll on this thing…
From the LAT:
"An engineering marvel or a colossal eyesore, depending on who is describing it, the horseshoe-shaped glass walkway will jut out 70 feet beyond the canyon’s edge on the Hualapai Indian Reservation just west of Grand Canyon Village. Buttressed by 1 million pounds of steel and supporting 90 tons of tempered glass, the see-through deck will give visitors a breathtaking view of the canyon."
Link LAT
via archidose
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