New York at a Glance
Ray Johnson… Dali/Warhol/and others…
@Richard L. Feigen & Co.
Exhibitions | Today, 07/03
Ray Johnson… Dali/Warhol/and others… ‘Main Ray, Ducham, Openheim, Pikabia…’, will reveal the shared interests and iconography of Ray Johnson, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will feature an exciting selection of previously unexhibited collages by Johnson that will show his distinct and incessant layering of re-appropriated imagery from Surrealism, high culture, and Pop Art. The three artists all exploited celebrity – both their own and others’ – and constructed powerful personae that were an integral part of their work. While Dali and Warhol sought the limelight in order to promote their art, Johnson was more interested in dodging in and out of it and became famous for being ‘unknown.’
New York at a Glance
Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe: Black Acid COOP
@Deitch
Exhibitions | Thursday, 07/02
Deitch Projects is pleased to present Black Acid Co-op, the third collaborative project of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman. Their first installation Hello Meth Lab In The Sun (with Alexandre Singh), commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, consisted of a labyrinthine assemblage of rooms, hallways, closets and observation platforms. A variation entitled Hello Meth Lab With A View then traveled to The Station in Miami, FL, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman and produced by Eleanor Cayre, where it was installed in a duplex apartment. Their new piece continues the themes of previous versions specifically that of alchemy in a modern context and community, ritual and psychosis.
Connect Weekly - Independence Day
found by staff / 2 days ago / Source: artlog.com
Hey Artloggers, welcome to the Weekly Connect Newsletter. The 4th of July is upon us and the typical summer torpor is settling over the art world in New York City in spite of the uncommonly poor summer weather. So we are looking across the country and highlighting art shows near 11 of the most spectacular sites to view America’s most explosive fireworks displays (with some help from Travel + Leisure).
Despite the summer slowdown in openings, great events and interesting exhibitions are happening all summer. In this holiday week alone, there are NYC openings at D’Amelio Terras, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Greene Contemporary, Frederieke Taylor & Deitch and San Francisco openings at Andrea Schwartz , David Cunningham, room for painting room for paper and Needles and Pens
Don’t forget to check our multi-city event Picks, “in focus” blog and the event directory! With nearly 5,000 events, the directory continues to grow with your help. Remember, just register (it’s free), and start adding your openings, art fundraisers, and art events today!
Emerging - New York
Tables and Chairs
@D'Amelio Terras
Openings | Wednesday, 07/01
6-8pm
Originally this show was supposed to be about a moving truck going cross-country packed with art from Los Angeles. We’d invite a bunch of artists to contribute something and drive a truck around collecting pieces. When it was full, we’d drive eastward, show up in New York and put something together. This is basically what happened, minus the U-haul. Tables and Chairs brings together nine LA-based artists paired with selected works by Alice Hutchins. This show grew from associations in artworks that share an interest in abstraction, geometry, interaction, and dissolution.
Emerging - New York
Give Them What They Never Knew They Wanted
@Jeff Bailey Gallery
Openings | Wednesday, 07/01
6-8pm
Former Vogue editor and fashion icon, Diana Vreeland, once declared, “Give them what they never knew they wanted.” Referring to this expression, the title of the exhibition plays on the current condition of the art market, challenging criteria for collecting work while also acknowledging its commoditization. Celebrating creativity in its many forms, the exhibition embraces eclecticism.
Emerging - New York
Hannah Cole - Instant Sublime
@Greene Contemporary
Openings | Wednesday, 07/01
6-9pm
Hannah Cole’s work explores the distracted American state of mind. In Instant Sublime, she investigates the disconnect between an individual’s physical presence and emotional state during a single instant in time. In the chaos of urban life, driving is one of the few remaining acts of ritual and solitude. Drawing from personal experience, Cole uses different views from inside a car as a metaphor for the relationship between interior life and the world outside.
America's Next Top Artist - Seriously!
found by staff / 2 days ago / Source: www.bravotv.com
For the past year, art insiders have been talking (not so positively) about reality television coming to art and now Bravo, teaming up with Sarah Jessica Parker, has finally started casting of its untitled artist reality show. (image by Banksy)
The casting call: “How do you go from struggling, emerging or even semi-established artist to selling a complete show for $198 million? It’s a big art world out there, but maybe this is one place to start! If you’re an emerging or mid-career artist with a unique, powerful voice that demands a bigger stage – well. . . Here. It. Is.”
Casting Calls for The Untitled Art Project are as follows:
LOS ANGELES Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 12, 10 AM – 2 PM LAXART www.laxart.org
MIAMI Tuesday, July 14, 10 AM – 2 PM Fredric Snitzer Gallery www.Snitzer.com
CHICAGO Thursday, July 16, 10 AM – 2 PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sullivan Galleries, 33 State Street www.saic.edu
NEW YORK Saturday, July 18 & Sunday, July 19, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM White Columns www.whitecolumns.org
Affordable Art Weekly: Adopting a Homeless Puppy for your Wall
found by staff / 4 days ago / Source: artlog.com
The Fine Art Adoption Network (FAAN) exists with the genuine goal of connecting art not only to an audience, but to actual owners. The organization makes no profit from its sales, which, in fact, are not really even sales. Instead, artists give up their precious works to perfect strangers with the belief that, like the tiny Boston Terrier you adopted for your tiny East Village apartment, they will go to a deserving home.
How it works: Artists selected by FAAN can post up to six images on the website, then members of the network simply make their case for wanting to own that artist’s work. The free membership also allows “adopters” to contact artists from all over the country about their art.
THE ART MARKET | ART BAZAAR
Posted 4 days ago
The ART BAZAAR is an OPEN CALL to ALL ARTISTS on Saturdays and Sundays, beginning July 4th thru August 16th, who wish to display and sell their artwork at Lyons Wier Gallery. The gallery doors will open at 8AM for artists to install their work and the ART BAZAAR will open to the public at 10AM. There is no price structure, no visual filter for inclusion and no politics for entrance other than a…
Iran Inside Out @Chelsea Art Museum
found by staff / 6 days ago / Source: artlog.com
The groundbreaking and timely exhibition features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 21 others living in the Diaspora. Iran Inside Out is an examination of the means through which a young generation of artists is reconciling the daily implications of cultural and geographical distances with the search for individual artistic expression. The exhibition offers an unexpected insight into the artistic energy of a culture that is constantly evolving as Iranians living both in and out of the country, come of age living and working in contentious societies. While half of these artists such as Vahid Sharifian, Barbad Golshiri, Farideh Lashai and Jinoos Taghizadeh reside in Iran, the other half including artists such as Shirin Neshat, Shahram Entekhabi, Mitra Tabrizian and Shoja Azari has been interspersed in the Diaspora.
