Peter Peri, 2 Lakeside Figures, 2009, Graphite on unbleached paper, 14.37 x 17.52 inches Bortolami Gallery at The Independent
SPECIAL EVENTS AND SCREENINGS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010
The Armory Show Opening Preview Benefit at MoMA
Tickets begin at $5,000 for the Armory Show morning preview and after party at the MoMA, and $100 for the vernissage at the fair and after party at the museum (expensive!). For more information, please contact specialevents@moma.org. To purchase tickets on-line, please visit www.moma.org/armoryshow2010.
WHERE: MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street
WHEN: Preview: 11:30am-9pm; After Party: 8:30-11:30pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010
ArtBus Tours
Tour 1: The group will meet at 6pm at the entrance of the Armory Show and board the black Hummer-limo to head to SoHo to check out spaces such as Art in General and/or Apexart. The next stop, Lilibeth Cuenca’s performance, is two blocks away at Location 1. The tour will end at Artists Space to visit “Rip It Up and Start Again” after 8pm. To book e-mail info@art-bus.com
WHERE: Armory Show entrance, Pier 92, 55th Street and 12th Avenue
WHEN: Thursday, March 4th, 6pm
SoHo Night
SoHo galleries extend hours and feature special programs.
Apexart (291 Church Street) will hold extended hours. Art in General (79 Walker St.) will present a film screening in conjunction with Redmond Entwistle’s exhibition, Double-bill. Artists Space (38 Greene St.) presents Rip It Up and Start Again, co-produced with Kunstverein München. CITYarts (525 Broadway, Suite 700) will hold extended hours. The Drawing Center (35 & 40 Wooster St) presents Iannis Xenakis:
Composer, Architect, Visionary and Spring Selections 2010. Harvestworks (596 Broadway) presents No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics by artist Saya Woolfalk. Location One (26 Greene Street) presents Yes, but… featuring Vik Muniz and work by artists-in-residence Alexandra Mota de Aguiar, Wojtek Doroszuk, Mattias Ericsson. The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation (526 LaGuardia Place) presents an open house of Chaim Gross’s sculpture studio. Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, 3rd Fl) will hold extended hours.
WHERE: SoHo, various
WHEN: Thursday, March 4th, 6-9pm; Apexart, Art in General, and the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, 6-8pm
Recess Activities, Inc. Presents An Evening with The Bruce High Quality University
In conjunction with SoHo Night, BHQFU invites resident artists to use storefront as a studio, exhibition venue, and grounds for experimentation.
WHERE: Recess Activities 41 Grand Street
WHEN: Thursday, March 4th, 6pm
VOLTA
Stuffed, the interactive performance work by artist Tara Strickstein, features transgender taxi dancers and a pie-eating contest while exploring behavioral theory as it relates to gluttony and lust.
WHERE: VOLTA NY 7 West 34th Street
WHEN: Thursday, March 4th, 11-2pm and 5-8pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010
ArtBus Tours
Tour 2: The group will meet at the entrance of VOLTA opposite the Empire State Building at 3:30pm. At 4pm, the tour will begin with a walk through the Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, “Leopards in the Temple”. Later stops include Josh Smith’s exhibition, “On The Water” at Deitch Studios, the Fisher Landau Center, where artist Jon Kessler will host an informal discussion about his work, and performance by Hwang Eunhye at PS I.
WHERE: VOLTA entrance, 7 West 34th Street
WHEN: Friday, March 5th, 3:30pm
Artprojx and VOLTA
Screening of David Blandy’s My Philosophy, a selection of his work from the past 8 years exploring how to live in the modern world.
WHERE: Anthology Film Archives Deren Theatre 32 2nd Avenue
WHEN: Friday, March 5th, 11pm
Screening: Dust on the Bible
(John T. Davis, 16mm, 1989, 50 mins)
Introduced by Duncan Campbell
“The Davis film that had the greatest effect on me…was Dust on The Bible (1989), a documentary about street-corner preachers in Belfast. Dust on The Bible resonates with Davis’ earlier encounter with evangelical Christianity in America’s ‘Bible Belt’ as seen in his film Route 66 (1985) . . . The result is a bleak and tender portrait of the place, a journey through the cultural and economic void that was Northern Ireland at the time.”-Duncan Campbell
Part of an ongoing film series curated by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter for Artists Space
WHERE: The Independent 548 West 22nd Street
WHEN: Friday, March 5th, 7pm
TALK: The World is Not Enough: The Future of Biennials
Curators of major biennial events discuss the future role of expansive, international surveys of contemporary art in today’s fluctuating political and economic landscape. With Dan Cameron (Curator, Prospect New Orleans), Gary Carrion-Murayari (Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art; Co-curator, 2010 Whitney Biennial), Elizabeth Sussman (Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Co-curator, 1993 Whitney Biennial), Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Artistic Director, Third Quadrilateral Biennial 2009, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka), and Trevor Smith (Curator of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum; Co-curator, Singapore Biennale 2011). Moderated by Katy
Siegel (Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism, Hunter College; contributing editor, Artforum).
WHERE: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
WHEN: Friday, March 5th, 2pm
TALK: Online, Offline, Flatline: Art Publishing Now
Art writers and publishers discuss producing their work in a fluctuating economic and digital landscape, confronting the unsettling question as to whether paper is indeed a dying medium. With Paul Laster (Editor, Artkrush), Peter Nesbett and Shelly Bancroft (former co-publishers, Art on Paper), Mark Rappolt (Editor, ArtReview) Moderated by David Shapiro (Editor-in-Chief, Museo Magazine).
WHERE: VOLTA NY, 7 West 34th Street, 7th Floor
WHEN: Friday, March 5th, 3pm
TALK: From Outside In: The Socioeconomics of Contemporary Art
Critics, journalists and art market analysts discuss their individual approaches to decoding the exceptional social and economic landscape of the art world. What are the challenges involved in reporting on an unregulated market? What kinds of economic indices work – and which don’t – in analyzing this market? What forms of study or reporting – anthropology? Sociology? The “New New” journalism? – are most effective in covering the art world and making sense of its byways? With Marion Maneker (Art Market Monitor), Sergey Skaterschikov (Skate’s Art Market Research), Sarah Thornton (author, Seven Days in the Art World, (W.W. Norton, 2008), Judd Tully (Editor at Large, Art + Auction), and Edward Winkleman (Winkleman Gallery, NY). Moderated by Sarah Douglas (Senior Correspondent, Art+Auction and Modern Painters magazines).
WHERE: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
WHEN: Friday, March 5th, 4pm
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010
EFA Open House
Visit open studios, the EFA Project Space, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Guests are invited to interact with member artists as they explore their studios.
WHERE: The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 323 West 39th Street
WHEN: Saturday, March 6th, 1-5pm
Battlefields Opening
For a break from the art fair circuit, the Dumbo Arts Center will be hosting the opening event for Battlefields, the new exhibition by artist NebojÅ¡a Å erić-Shoba. The featured photographs, taken over a 10-year span, document actual battle sites and attempt to reconcile a place with its history.
WHERE: Dumbo Arts Center 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn
WHEN: Saturday, March 6th, 6-9pm
Background, Identity and the Straight White Male
A panel discussion proposed by artist An Xiao on the influence of artists’ identities and backgrounds on the perception, reception, and display of their work. Moderated by writer Joanne McNeil.
WHERE: Winkleman Gallery 637 West 27th Street
WHEN: Saturday, March 6th, 4-5pm
KREEMART SALON presents: ON GLUTTONY
A panel discussion seeking to answer provocative questions on the pleasures and sins associated with art and food, as well as on the art world’s gluttonous appetite for novelty.
Moderated by Jovana Stokic, art historian
Introduced by Elizabeth Dee, gallery owner
Participants:
Raphael Castoriano, art advisor
Will Cotton, artist
Anthony Haden Guest, journalist and writer
Rachel Lehmann, gallery owner
Jennifer Rubell, food artist
Linda Yablonsky, journalist and writer
WHERE: The Independent 548 West 22nd Street
WHEN: Saturday, March 6th, 11am
TALK: Post-what?
Post-modern, post-conceptual, post-ironic, post-black, post-9-11, post-post…? Is contemporary art an endless cycle of post-isms? Moderators Sarah Douglas (Senior Correspondent, Art+Auction and Modern Painters) and Joao Ribas (Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center) gather a group of artists, critics, and curators to discuss the current post-what? state of contemporary art. With Svetlana Boym, Kate Fowle (Executive Director, iCI), Dushko Petrovich, Ingrid Schaffner (Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania), and Alexandre Singh.
WHERE: The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92
WHEN: Saturday, March 6th. 4pm
Williamsburg Gallery Association Extended Hours
All Williamsburg Gallery Association galleries will be open until 11pm, with special events and a re-release of Raw Magazine, the WGA’s guide to galleries and culture in North Brooklyn, followed by an Armory Show after party. Visit www.wgabrooklyn.org for more information.
WHERE: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, various
WHEN: Saturday, March 6th, 6-11pm
SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2010
VOLTA
Stuffed, the interactive performance work by artist Tara Strickstein, features transgender taxi dancers and a pie-eating contest while exploring behavioral theory as it relates to gluttony and lust.
WHERE: VOLTA NY 7 West 34th Street
ONGOING EVENTS
Battlefields
A non-art fair related exhibit, Battlefields, is a new exhibition by artist NebojÅ¡a Å erić-Shoba. The featured photographs, taken over a 10-year span, document actual battle sites and attempt to reconcile a place with its history.
WHERE: Dumbo Arts Center 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn
WHEN: March 6th through April 25th, 12-6pm
The Whitney
Exhibition: The Whitney Biennial,
General Admission: $18, Ages 19—25: $12, Ages 62 and over: $12, Full-time students: $12
WHERE: 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
WHEN: February 25 – May 30th, 2010, Monday, Closed, Tuesday, Closed, Wednesday, 11 am – 6 pm, Thursday, 11 am – 6 pm, Friday, 1 pm-9pm, Saturday 11 am – 6 pm, Sunday 11 am – 6pm.
New Museum
Exhibition: The Imaginary Museum: Dakis Joannou Collection, Curated by Jeff Koons March 3-June 6, 2010
General Admission: $12 , Seniors: $10, Students: $8, 18 and under: free, Members: free
WHERE: New Museum 235 Bowery
WHEN: Wednesday, 12-6pm, Thursday and Friday, 12-9pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-6pm, Monday and Tuesday closed
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