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Strange Beauty July 30 - August 21, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
James Cohan Gallery
James Cohan Gallery
The Tell-Tale Heart -Part 2
Shanghai Gallery-Ghosts and men From
BADONG--YUN -FEI-JI:
The Tell-Tale Heart -Part 2
Shanghai Gallery-Ghosts and men From
BADONG--YUN -FEI-JI:
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
An Award in Honor of the Great Jane Jacobs | The High Line
WE All have good news to share,The Rockfeller foundation annoucned:
An Award in Honor of the Great Jane Jacobs The High Line
An Award in Honor of the Great Jane Jacobs The High Line
Jumping in Art Museums-Oldenburg
Jumping in Art Museums
Allison,so excited by what I see,Have to jump for JOY.
Oldenburg:Dropped cone,Inverted Collar and Tie
Sculpture JUMPING.........Keep Going & jumping
Allison,so excited by what I see,Have to jump for JOY.
Oldenburg:Dropped cone,Inverted Collar and Tie
Sculpture JUMPING.........Keep Going & jumping
Monday, July 19, 2010
Visual Art Source:Dennis Hopper
Double Standard: Running July 11th thur Sept.26th 2010.
MOCA Director Jeffery Deitch
Visual Art Source
MOCA Director Jeffery Deitch
Visual Art Source
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Bureaucracy Meets Art, Delighting Christo - NYTimes.com
FOR ART SAKE, PURELY ABOUT ART,
Frees the Artists to work on other levels.
Bureaucracy Meets Art, Delighting Christo - NYTimes.com
Frees the Artists to work on other levels.
Bureaucracy Meets Art, Delighting Christo - NYTimes.com
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Hamptons Online - The Arts-Success keeps Growing
TO FUSE ART and business of Art into a cohesive,enjoyable,
and comfortable setting......
Hamptons Online - The Arts
and comfortable setting......
Hamptons Online - The Arts
Hamptons.com - Calendar - Found Object Art - New Work By Jorge Silveira
Surprised by the positive response,Inspired to KEEP GOING....Found object Art
Hamptons.com - Calendar - Found Object Art - New Work By Jorge Silveira
Hamptons.com - Calendar - Found Object Art - New Work By Jorge Silveira
PaulaBarr chelsea cordially invites you
"Paul Fernandez-Carol
Line Dreaming
July 15-17, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 15th, 6-8 pm
PaulaBarr chelsea
west chelsea arts building
508/526 west 26th street · 9G
(between 10th & 11th ave)
New York NY 10001"
Line Dreaming
July 15-17, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 15th, 6-8 pm
PaulaBarr chelsea
west chelsea arts building
508/526 west 26th street · 9G
(between 10th & 11th ave)
New York NY 10001"
PaulaBarr chelsea cordially invites you
"Paul Fernandez-Carol
Line Dreaming
July 15-17, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 15th, 6-8 pm
PaulaBarr chelsea
west chelsea arts building
508/526 west 26th street · 9G
(between 10th & 11th ave)
New York NY 10001"
Line Dreaming
July 15-17, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 15th, 6-8 pm
PaulaBarr chelsea
west chelsea arts building
508/526 west 26th street · 9G
(between 10th & 11th ave)
New York NY 10001"
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Summer Fun for Kids/Adults on the Highline-NYC Simply the best!
Summer Fun for Kids on the High Line
All year, Friends of the High Line offers free kids programs that include engaging and innovative opportunities to learn about the High Line's unique design, history, and one-of-a-kind landscape. Now that summer vacation has arrived, it's the perfect time to plan a trip to the High Line. Nature scavenger hunts, arts and crafts workshops, and a pop-up playground for kids — there is something for visitors of all ages.
All programs are free and designed for kids ages 4 and up, unless otherwise noted. No RSVP is required.
JULY 28
Wild Wednesday #3
Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles: Bugs Rule the Line
Wednesday, July 28, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
14th Street Passage / Ages 4+
AUGUST 12
¡Arriba! Mambo & Salsa on the High Line
Thursday, August 12, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Chelsea Market Passage / All ages
AUGUST 14
Nature Printing: A Family Printmaking Workshop
with Ann deVere
Saturday, August 14, 10:00 AM - Noon
14th Street Passage / Ages 4+
AUGUST 25
Wild Wednesday #4
Weed Wars: Uninvited Guests on the High Line
Wednesday, August 25, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
14th Street Passage / Ages 4+
WEEKLY STARGAZING
Stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association
Every Tuesday at Dusk
On the High Line under The Standard Hotel / Ages 4 plus
Questions? Contact Friends of the High Line at (212) 206-9922.
For the latest calendar listings and updates, visit www.thehighline.org.
All year, Friends of the High Line offers free kids programs that include engaging and innovative opportunities to learn about the High Line's unique design, history, and one-of-a-kind landscape. Now that summer vacation has arrived, it's the perfect time to plan a trip to the High Line. Nature scavenger hunts, arts and crafts workshops, and a pop-up playground for kids — there is something for visitors of all ages.
All programs are free and designed for kids ages 4 and up, unless otherwise noted. No RSVP is required.
JULY 28
Wild Wednesday #3
Bees, Butterflies, and Beetles: Bugs Rule the Line
Wednesday, July 28, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
14th Street Passage / Ages 4+
AUGUST 12
¡Arriba! Mambo & Salsa on the High Line
Thursday, August 12, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Chelsea Market Passage / All ages
AUGUST 14
Nature Printing: A Family Printmaking Workshop
with Ann deVere
Saturday, August 14, 10:00 AM - Noon
14th Street Passage / Ages 4+
AUGUST 25
Wild Wednesday #4
Weed Wars: Uninvited Guests on the High Line
Wednesday, August 25, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
14th Street Passage / Ages 4+
WEEKLY STARGAZING
Stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association
Every Tuesday at Dusk
On the High Line under The Standard Hotel / Ages 4 plus
Questions? Contact Friends of the High Line at (212) 206-9922.
For the latest calendar listings and updates, visit www.thehighline.org.
artforum.com / museum previews
Is There after all any more priceless assets to Art & Business ?
A Unselfish service,fairplay and Absolute dependability.
artforum.com / museum previews
A Unselfish service,fairplay and Absolute dependability.
artforum.com / museum previews
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Guggenheim Summer Programs:Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Guggenheim Museum presents Summer programs in conjunction with
Haunted: Contemporary
Photography/Video/Performance
Sackler Center for Arts Education
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York City
guggenheim.org/education
Sackler Center for Arts Education
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York City
guggenheim.org/education
Monday, July 12, 2010
Streets of New York City « Creative Spark
Streets of New York City « Creative Spark
YOU KNOW IN ADVANCE,Requires no stamps,
ART FILLED Adventures:Special offers in The Making.
YOU KNOW IN ADVANCE,Requires no stamps,
ART FILLED Adventures:Special offers in The Making.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Training for Leading Roles/Davos & Theater
ART FILLED ADVENTURES THIS SUMMER
Davos Fellows Get Theater Arts Training at Columbia – NYTimes.com
Davos Fellows Get Theater Arts Training at Columbia – NYTimes.com
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Art & Education: Artists reality:Mark Rothko
The Artist’s Reality: Mark Rothko
Has art lost faith in itself? Can pictures be miraculous anymore? A revelation? Mark Rothko thought so. Rigidly uncompromising, deeply philosophic, and blessed with a gift for sustained concentration, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was one of the major figures of Abstract Expressionism. And yet, he argued that his pictures were not abstract at all, but instead, had a most important subject: human experience. Rothko’s aim was to make painting itself into an experience of tragedy and ecstasy. “My art is not abstract” he said, “it lives and breathes.” Appropriately, Andrew Forge once said, “When I first saw Rothko’s work, I felt I had fallen into a dream.”
Rothko thought pictures needed to be miraculous, and he didn’t think he needed stories to connect us to human tragedy. He thought it could be done with a completely new visual language. Rothko did not represent space. He created it. His colors are his performers: glowing, burning and floating. They don’t just absorb light, but rather, emit light. They feel like they’re moving off the wall, that they are somehow animated, and coming to get us. They are fetal in the sense that they are becoming, growing, and expanding, like germ cells.
Obsessed with the relationship between his pictures and his audience, Rothko saw the viewing experience as a marriage of minds. The viewer completes his pictures. There are incredibly funny stories of Rothko sneaking around Janis Gallery turning down the gallery lights whenever Sidney Janis wasn’t looking, who of course, when returning, would turn the lights back up again, wondering why it was so dark. Rothko thought his pictures already had their own illumination.
Rothko felt that modern society no longer recognized the urgency for the transcendent experience. For the archaic artist, however, this transcendental urgency was not only understood, but given official status. Like a modern day shaman, he felt it his duty to reconnect us to our primordial roots. Standing in front of an actual Rothko in person, the work has a strange, unseen presence. They invite your gaze to go beyond the canvas. They are an invitation, for us, the viewer, to share in a vision, to have one for ourselves. Divining instruments.
For Rothko, the artist’s most important tool was his faith. Faith in his ability to produce miracles when needed. Faith in the power of a work of art to express his most important feelings. Many of the religious functions of our culture may have been deinstitutionalized and marginalized today, but they have not vanished. We still need our gods and monsters.
Near to his death, Rothko would donate his famous Seagram’s murals to the Tate Gallery in London, in part because he was such an admirer of J.M.W. Turner’s work down the hall, and liked the idea of having the right company. His work is the logical conclusion to a long history and tradition of artists seeking to push the visual image to its absolute limits, in the quest to represent vision.
Has the art of today actually lost faith in itself? Perhaps it has. More importantly though, perhaps it has also lost the strength to dream. Like Sisyphus, some artists seem to have gotten tired of rolling that boulder up the hill all over again. In this new “barbarian age” as Anton Ehrenzweig called it, cool cynicism and unbelief are now the vogue. Maybe Donald Kuspit is right, and “The End of Art” is not when art is no longer any good, but rather, when the artist doesn’t even bother to try anymore. Carl Andre epitomized this hip indifference when he proclaimed he was trying to “unexpress” himself. As critic Robert Hughes brilliantly quipped: if someone puts a Rodin sculpture in a parking lot by accident, it’s still a Rodin, it’s just in a parking lot. But if someone takes Andre’s work out of the museum and puts it into the parking lot, it’s just a pile of bricks. As Richard Appignanesi writes of the limitations and disappointments of postmodern art - when we’ve finally run out of everything to believe in, “the only cure for Postmodernism is the incurable illness of Romanticism.”
The Romantic artist is startled at how enormous and beautiful the universe is. He is compelled to make others see it as he sees it. And the poet is a man or woman who expands the usual limits of vision. Visionary artists like Tiffany, Turner, Blake, Kandinsky and Rothko remind us that we are not merely able to see the world – but also able to alter our perception of it. Man has a Will to See. His perceptions can be adjusted like the range on a telescope. We can remember our dreams, and dream without sleeping. As The Serpent in Shaw’s Back to Methusaleh tells Eve in The Garden of Eden:
You and Adam see things and say, Why? But I dream things that never were, and I say ‘Why not?’
Eve realizes that for all the originative creative workers like herself: artists, musicians and the like: “When they come, there is always some new wonder, or some new hope; something to live for. They never want to die because they are always learning, and always creating.” Before Eve bites into The Apple, The Serpent reminds her:
“Every dream can be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.” •
Has art lost faith in itself? Can pictures be miraculous anymore? A revelation? Mark Rothko thought so. Rigidly uncompromising, deeply philosophic, and blessed with a gift for sustained concentration, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was one of the major figures of Abstract Expressionism. And yet, he argued that his pictures were not abstract at all, but instead, had a most important subject: human experience. Rothko’s aim was to make painting itself into an experience of tragedy and ecstasy. “My art is not abstract” he said, “it lives and breathes.” Appropriately, Andrew Forge once said, “When I first saw Rothko’s work, I felt I had fallen into a dream.”
Rothko thought pictures needed to be miraculous, and he didn’t think he needed stories to connect us to human tragedy. He thought it could be done with a completely new visual language. Rothko did not represent space. He created it. His colors are his performers: glowing, burning and floating. They don’t just absorb light, but rather, emit light. They feel like they’re moving off the wall, that they are somehow animated, and coming to get us. They are fetal in the sense that they are becoming, growing, and expanding, like germ cells.
Obsessed with the relationship between his pictures and his audience, Rothko saw the viewing experience as a marriage of minds. The viewer completes his pictures. There are incredibly funny stories of Rothko sneaking around Janis Gallery turning down the gallery lights whenever Sidney Janis wasn’t looking, who of course, when returning, would turn the lights back up again, wondering why it was so dark. Rothko thought his pictures already had their own illumination.
Rothko felt that modern society no longer recognized the urgency for the transcendent experience. For the archaic artist, however, this transcendental urgency was not only understood, but given official status. Like a modern day shaman, he felt it his duty to reconnect us to our primordial roots. Standing in front of an actual Rothko in person, the work has a strange, unseen presence. They invite your gaze to go beyond the canvas. They are an invitation, for us, the viewer, to share in a vision, to have one for ourselves. Divining instruments.
For Rothko, the artist’s most important tool was his faith. Faith in his ability to produce miracles when needed. Faith in the power of a work of art to express his most important feelings. Many of the religious functions of our culture may have been deinstitutionalized and marginalized today, but they have not vanished. We still need our gods and monsters.
Near to his death, Rothko would donate his famous Seagram’s murals to the Tate Gallery in London, in part because he was such an admirer of J.M.W. Turner’s work down the hall, and liked the idea of having the right company. His work is the logical conclusion to a long history and tradition of artists seeking to push the visual image to its absolute limits, in the quest to represent vision.
Has the art of today actually lost faith in itself? Perhaps it has. More importantly though, perhaps it has also lost the strength to dream. Like Sisyphus, some artists seem to have gotten tired of rolling that boulder up the hill all over again. In this new “barbarian age” as Anton Ehrenzweig called it, cool cynicism and unbelief are now the vogue. Maybe Donald Kuspit is right, and “The End of Art” is not when art is no longer any good, but rather, when the artist doesn’t even bother to try anymore. Carl Andre epitomized this hip indifference when he proclaimed he was trying to “unexpress” himself. As critic Robert Hughes brilliantly quipped: if someone puts a Rodin sculpture in a parking lot by accident, it’s still a Rodin, it’s just in a parking lot. But if someone takes Andre’s work out of the museum and puts it into the parking lot, it’s just a pile of bricks. As Richard Appignanesi writes of the limitations and disappointments of postmodern art - when we’ve finally run out of everything to believe in, “the only cure for Postmodernism is the incurable illness of Romanticism.”
The Romantic artist is startled at how enormous and beautiful the universe is. He is compelled to make others see it as he sees it. And the poet is a man or woman who expands the usual limits of vision. Visionary artists like Tiffany, Turner, Blake, Kandinsky and Rothko remind us that we are not merely able to see the world – but also able to alter our perception of it. Man has a Will to See. His perceptions can be adjusted like the range on a telescope. We can remember our dreams, and dream without sleeping. As The Serpent in Shaw’s Back to Methusaleh tells Eve in The Garden of Eden:
You and Adam see things and say, Why? But I dream things that never were, and I say ‘Why not?’
Eve realizes that for all the originative creative workers like herself: artists, musicians and the like: “When they come, there is always some new wonder, or some new hope; something to live for. They never want to die because they are always learning, and always creating.” Before Eve bites into The Apple, The Serpent reminds her:
“Every dream can be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.” •
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