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ShenWei

08 Dec

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ShenWei

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Shen Wei Dance Arts is internationally recognized for its interdisciplinary cross-cultural performances, which have been described as “breathtaking, powerful, and riveting” (The Boston Globe) and celebrated for their “gorgeous visual imagery” (The London Times). Each work unveils an original movement vocabulary combined with elements of film, theater, new media, and visual art.

The company has toured extensively on five continents, performing at such premier festivals and venues as the Venice Biennale, Het Muziektheater, and the Hong Kong New Vision Festival. In the U.S., the company has been presented five times by the Lincoln Center Festival; enjoyed a unique five-year performance residency at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC; and given the first dance performances on the concert stage at Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

Shen Wei’s acclaimed touring repertory includes Folding (2000), Connect Transfer (2004) and the company’s most recent program-length touring work, Limited States (2011). In addition to his touring repertory, Shen Wei is known for his site-specific creations, including his choreographic response to Ernesto Neto’s serpentine art installation, built in the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall (2007) and Connect Transfer II, installed at New York’s historic Judson Memorial Church, using paint-strewn bodies to create traditional ink paintings on a vast canvas used as the dancing floor (2008).

Recently, SWDA was featured at the Edinburgh International Festival, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in London. Shen Wei has also been commissioned to create a site-specific work within the Maramotti Gallery in Reggio Emilia, Italy, for performances on October 21 and 23, during the company’s fall tour to Italy and Slovenia. Shen Wei is currently the first choreographer to be honored as a Park Avenue Armory Artist in Residence (2010–11). This residency will culminate in the creation of a new work, generously commissioned by the Armory, and the restaging of two of the choreographer’s most renowned pieces, Folding (2000) and Rite of Spring (2003), which will be performed in the Armory’s vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall, capping the company’s 2011 New York Home Season (November 29–December 4).

For its 2012 season, Shen Wei Dance Arts has been selected for New York City Center’s inaugural Choreography Fellowship Program, a new initiative being launched in conjunction with the theater’s reopening season.

Quad Public Art Project – Film and Media Studies
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Image by Lafayette College
Seminar Class, Art 335: Studio Theory & Practice, created a public art project. on the quad. Working with archival images and texts, the students developed these stories into full fledged audio-visual presentations that were projected onto Pardee Hall. There was also a live music at the event, which took place on May 3, 2011.

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Art Inspires the Curious Minds / 100% Acrylic Art Guards by Agata Olek / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54792.P1.L1.CC / SML

07 Dec

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Art Inspires the Curious Minds / 100% Acrylic Art Guards by Agata Olek / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54792.P1.L1.CC / SML
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Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)

Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards

"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.

Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."

Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner’s work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.

Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.

Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek’s work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.

Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.

Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.

agataolek.com
agataolek.com/blog

13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art.

Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists’ studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.

The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.

www.dumboartscenter.org
www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org

Art + Artists: James Cospito talks about the Brooklyn Art Project / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 2009-09-26 / SML
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Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML
James Cospito, founder of the Brooklyn Art Project, talks about the art seen at the project’s headquarter in Dumbo during the Art Under the Bridge Festival held annually by Dumbo Arts Center in New York City.

Brooklyn Art Project (FriendFeed / Twitter) is a free online social network that connects 5500+ artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts from over 44 countries featuring over 44,000 artworks and 800+ short films and videos.

Members can participate in collaborative exhibits in Brooklyn and beyond while enjoying unlimited online gallery space, blogs, forums, chat, and tools to share / promote their artwork across the web.

BrooklynArtProject.com

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13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html

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www.dumboartfestival.org
www.video_dumbo.org

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ShenWei

07 Dec

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07 Dec

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Laneway Art – Artist – Newell Harry
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Image by Crouchy69
Circle/s in the Round for (Miles and Miles + 1)
Newell Harry

"I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Miles Davis

Contemplating Davis’s quote and the odd job of describing what I’m doing before it’s done, I’m stuck… so I’ll start with a memory. I grew up in a house of jazz, soul and R&B. As a kid I recall my mother amping up her weekend housework to Jim McLeod’s “Jazz Track”, or doing ‘the Bump’ with Aunt Vin to EWF or the Pointer Sisters in the kitchen. Like jazz, our home was entwined order and chaos.

Circle/s in the Round’ for (Miles and Miles + 1) takes its title from the breakthrough Miles Davis album, "Circle in the Round" (1967). The album marks the first studio recording in which Davis shifts from the ‘traditional’ acoustic structure of a jazz quintet, to that of electronic composition and ‘fusion’. The significance of the album heralds the beginning of Davis’s ‘electronic period’; an engagement that continued to his death, ending with the Hip Hop inspired, “Doo-Bop” album (1991). Incidentally, neon, as sculpture, also finds its inception around the same time as Davis’s shift – the heat of late sixties high modernism.

Back at Temperance Lane, the spatial rhythm of pulsating concentric circles is at once a visual homage to Davis, whilst containing an encoded word-pun to be kept ‘undisclosed’. The out-of-sync flashing circles and the textual word-play links, conceptually, to structures inherent to jazz composition, and spoken-word improvisation. Taoist philosophy fits in there, too, but without conjuring the hippy dippy it’s probably best to call it quits."

Taken with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod & 3 bracket shot. HDR conversion in Nik Software HDR Efex Pro, PP in CS5.

Laneway Art – Artist – Newell Harry
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Image by Crouchy69
Circle/s in the Round for (Miles and Miles + 1)
Newell Harry

"I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

Miles Davis

Taken with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod & 3 bracket shot. HDR conversion in Nik Software HDR Efex Pro, PP in CS5.

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Cool Visual Art images

07 Dec

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art-2010
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Image by dietmut
original: farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/4598562081_586c363690_m.jpg

Desdemona
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Image by Original Bliss
Soul Journal Entry
December 5, 2009
Soul Journal #13

There is a story behind every page.
Visit:

Original Bliss – Soul Deep

art – 2010
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Supreme Sunday : Charlotte Beaudry

06 Dec

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Supreme Sunday : Charlotte Beaudry
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Image by Marc Wathieu
Supreme Sunday : Charlotte Beaudry’s "Get drunk" last day and party.

3pm
"Angry young wo/men" and "Punk, sex, and violence in feminist art" : lectures by Petra Van Brabandt and Tom Viaene (full abstracts here : www.wiels.org/site2/event.php?event_id=511&lng=en)
Petra Van Brabandt is doctor in philosophy (University of Antwerp). She works on David Hume’s socio-moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. She also writes on pornographic art ("Why do porn movies suck?" with Jesse Prinz, in Maes & Levinson, Art and Pornography, OUP, 2011). She focuses on women artists (film, literature, visual arts) and their difficult relationship to the representation of the female body and sexuality.
Tom Viaene works for GYNAIKA (http://www.gynaika.be/) and writes for rekto:verso (www.rektoverso.be), mostly over music, art criticism and philosophy.

4.30pm
Discussion and guided visit of the exhibition of Charlotte Beaudry with the artist and Aline Bouvy, Claude, Delphine Deguislage, Virginie Devillez, Céline Gillain, Aurélie Gravas, Claudia Radulescu, Anne-Claire Schmitz with whom Charlotte Beaudry works on various projects and who have accompanied the artist in the process which led to Get Drunk.

6pm
Drink & DJ set with Celine Gillain + presentation of the lp recently published by the collective Solid Bank. Solid Bank is an artist collective composed of Charlotte Beaudry, Aline Bouvy, Claude, Delphine Deguislage, Virginie Devillez, Céline Gillain, Aurélie Gravas and Claudia Radulescu. Recorded at short notice, this album is only available in vinyl and presents the results of a session of improvised sound experimentation. Described by the group as "figurative music", the content of this album consists of 10 tracks ranging from noisy performance to post-punk songs. (Solid Bank: "Solid Bank", 300 copies, After Lucy, 2011).

More info :
www.wiels.org/site2/event.php?event_id=508
www.charlottebeaudry.net/

cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels & High School # 9, Los Angeles, CA
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Image by Xavier de Jauréguiberry
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11/10/2009 : Los Angeles, CA, Grand Ave: cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Rafael Moneo, 2002) & High School # 9 for the Visual and Performing Arts (Coop Himmelb(l)au, 2008)

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06 Dec

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Graffiti at The First Center for the Visual Arts

Image by Dewayne Neeley
Oh, the irony!

Here, Christine Reynolds ’11, front, and William Karr 11, watch the window projections from the quad lawn Tuesday evening.

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GrowRVA Food Truck Court at the Visual Arts Center Spherical Shots

06 Dec

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GrowRVA Food Truck Court at the Visual Arts Center Spherical Shots

Image by Gamma Man
110mm Sphere

Boka Tako Truck

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Kumu art museum reval
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Image by SIRHENRYB.is ****the dreamer****
About the Museum

For 75 years there have been tentative efforts to build a purpose-built museum for the Art Museum of Estonia (AME). There have been several architectural competitions; in 1933 one of the competitors was Alvar Aalto, who took 3rd prize with his historical project, which was later built in Denmark. Due to World War II the museum was never built and AME had to wait another 50 years for the next opportunity.

In 1993–1994, an open international architectural competition was held, in which architects from ten countries (Estonia, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Germany and the USA) took part. The competition was organised by the government of the Republic of Estonia, the Art Museum of Estonia and the Estonian Union of Architects. The winner of the international architectural competition to design the building (1993–1994) was the Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori. In February 1999 a contract between the AME and Vapaavuori was signed, which launched practical activities for the building of the museum. Construction started in 2002. The Kumu Art Museum was opened to the visitors in February 2006.

The new museum site is located on four hectares in Tallinn, on the limestone bank of Lasnamägi next to Kadriorg Park. The office of the President of the Republic of Estonia and Kadriorg Palace, which is a part of the Art Museum, lie in the vicinity of the art museum. The building has seven floors, including technical floors, and the total area is 23 900 m². In 2004 the new museum got its name – Kumu – in an open competition.

The Kumu (KUnstiMUuseum) Art Museum is a modern multifunctional art building, which contains exhibition halls, a lecture hall offering diverse facilities, and an educational centre for young visitors and for art lovers.

Kumu is meant for different people – for those who are already well-versed in art and for those who simply wish to spend their time in a congenial environment. Kumu welcomes children and families and, most importantly, Kumu serves as a laboratory where diverse ideas emerge and develop. These ideas examine contemporary visual culture and its function in society.