Boston's Arts and Culture Calendar

Violence Transformed 2012

2011-11-29T15:05:00.002-05:00

Call For Artists

Violence Transformed 2012 seeks entries in any medium for exhibition and digital projection at the Massachusetts State House and other curated venues in April, May and June. We welcome artworks addressing issues of protest, refuge, healing and commemoration and are particularly interested in works that give expression to the transformative power of art by imagining alternatives to violence. Submit disk containing up to 6 jpeg images, printed image list (title, medium, dimensions), c.v., artist’s statement and $15 submission fee by February 18 to: Violence Transformed, c/o Gail Bos, 48 Sheridan Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. For downloadable prospectus and submission form visit www.violencetransformed.com

PHOTO NIGHTS BOSTON

2011-11-29T15:02:00.002-05:00

New UrbanArts public art call to photographers and final invitation to participate in riverscaping competition

Deadline: Friday, February 3, 2012

Boston, MA - PHOTO NIGHTS BOSTON public art call to photographers

Boston is one of the few urban centers in the United States whose historic buildings share equal space and prominence with more modern constructions within the city. Photo Nights Boston seeks to draw attention to these landmark buildings with large-scale outdoor projections. As part of Photo Nights Boston’s October 2012 public art event, an artist will be selected to design and produce a photography-based work of public art as a focal point for the program.

Eligibility: Open to artists 18 years of age or older with no geographic restriction.

Budget: Finalists will receive a $1,000 proposal development fee. The project budget is $10,000.

Consultant: Urban Arts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Contact: Ricardo D. Barreto, Director, UrbanArts

ricardo.barreto@massart.edu

617.879.7970

For general inquiries regarding Photo Nights Boston, please contact:

KatieNoble, Executive Director

PhotoNights Boston photonightsboston@gmail.com

Download the call at www.urbanartsinstitute.org - click on Opportunities

Boston University Symposium Revival in Art and Culture after World War II

2011-11-09T11:17:00.002-05:00

When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 (6:00–9:00pm)

Where: The Rubin-Frankel Gallery 213 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215

Free and open to the public

The panel of guest speakers includes:

Alison Hilton, Ph. D. – the Wright Family Professor of Art History and director of M.A. Program in Art and Museum Studies at Georgetown University. Professor Hilton’s major area of research and publication is Russian and Soviet art with focus on nonconformist art, Impressionism, Russian folk art and women and gender issues.

Irina Karasik, Ph. D. – Art historian and senior research curator at the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Karasik published extensively on Russian and Soviet art.

David Shneer, Ph. D. – Professor of History at University of Colorado. His work concentrates on modern Jewish society and culture, modern Russian and Jewish history, and the history of Jews and sexuality.

Joe Troncale, Ph. D. – Associate professor of Russian Literature and Visual Culture. Dr. Troncale curated two exhibitions of contemporary Russian painting and non-conformist art University of Richmond. He published on literature, film, and painting.

Lembersky’s art touches on universal themes of survival, resilience, memory, and spirituality—themes that are especially relevant today when our country is facing multiple military engagements, international upheaval, and the confrontation of totalitarian regimes by their people. Lembersky was a witness to such events two generations ago. His is a story of courage and the unrelenting pursuit of freedom, told through paintings and drawings that offer a vision of vitality and hope prevailing over violence and despair. His panorama of people and places is communicated in a visual language that evolves from realistic description to symbolic evocation, achieving a heightened expression that reveals unspoken truths. Lembersky was an artist, a teacher, and a champion of creative freedom at a time when non-conformism was persecuted.

Materials Mania at Somerville's Artistan's Asylum

2011-10-18T14:13:00.002-04:00

New England Foundation for the Arts - Public Art Discussion
Get ready for some demos! We've invited experts from local fabrication shops to share their expertise about a variety of innovative materials perfect for public artists to have on their radar. Join us at the Artisan's Asylum for a great evening of networking, maker-talk, and discovering new materials and/or techniques for all your public art projects!

Presenters include:

Ted Acworth, Artaic
Andrew Edman, Reynolds Advanced Materials
Linda Ross, Ross Art Studio

WHEN: November 14, 2011 | 6:00PM-9:00PM

WHERE: Artisan's Asylum | 10 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA 02143

Contact: Elysian McNiff emcniff@nefa.org

Parking: Off-street parking lots are available
Public transportation: The Artisan's Asylum is a 10-minute walk from the Red Line (Porter Square)

Exposed: Getting Seen and Getting Sold

2011-10-14T08:49:00.002-04:00

Sunday, October 23rd 1-2:30pm

A Free Presentation by Boston Artist Representative Suzanne Schultz

Learn all about what artist's reps can do for your career, what you can do for yourselves and lots more about the current world of art and art makers.

There will be a Q&A following Suzanne's presentation

Refreshments will be served

Pop-Up Salon at: Gallery 206 206 Ames St. Amesbury, MA 01913

guerrilla art venue

Six Artists, Six Hours, Two Days

Saturday and Sunday Only October 22 & 23, 2011 12-6pm

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EXPOSED: GETTING YOUR ART NOTICED AND SOLD

Learn how to build a resume and make sales from Boston's premier Artist Rep, Suzanne Schultz, CEO of Canvas Fine Arts. This one session course will help you develop a strategy to transform your talented hobby into a successful career.

November 19th 11:00am-1:00pm

BCAE

$46/members $40

“Regeneration” 1st Annual Members Show, Arlington Center for the Arts

2011-10-13T13:18:00.002-04:00

Call for Artists

**Note: Artists may become members to participate in this exhibition opportunity.

Submission dates: NOV 7-12, 2011

Exhibit dates: NOV 21, 2011 – JAN 27, 2012

Reception: DEC 2, 2011- 7:30pm-9pm

Theme: “Regeneration”
We invite you to submit artwork with a theme addressing issues of spiritual, moral, or physical revival or rebirth.

Juror: Sand T Kalloch is an award winning visual artist, based out of Malden, Ma. She is the founder and director of artSPACE@16 ONLINE, a web-based visual arts community and virtual gallery serving the greater Boston area. Sand specializes in mixed media paintings. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in a great number of publications as well as in private and public collections worldwide.

Questions?
Please do not contact the juror. Please contact the Arlington Center for the Arts with any questions. Thank you.
(781) 648-6220 or info@acarts.org

Complete details and submission forms: www.acarts.org/calls.php

International Art Residencies and Symposia

2011-09-26T11:52:00.002-04:00

A Panel Discussion

Saturday October 15th, 2011, 2-4pm

The Derryfield School’s Lyceum

2108 River Road

Manchester NH 03304 USA

Individual artists with international experiences will share images of their work and discuss the experience of living in a unique environment and creating work in situ in a foreign country. Directors of International programs will introduce their programs and philosophic goals.

Open to the public.

For more information contact: andymoerlein@gmail.com

Topics for discussion:

How does global exchange impact art?

How does the experience change the artist and/or art studio practice?

What is the goal of a curator in the residency experience?

Does peer dialogue contribute to the creative process?

How can the roles - of the curator, creative community, arts and education outreach - be enhanced?

What is the goal of a residency? (Personal growth/creative leap? Arts community building across cultures? Product value for the host community -- tourism/sales/building an education and a collector base?)

Target audience for the panel discussion: artists, art students, art educators and administrators, people who promote, organize and fund international exchange, people who love art and are interested in the creative path.

EVENT SPONSORS:

The Derryfield School & Swissnex Consulate of Switzerland

In conjunction with this Panel Discussion will be an exhibit: HIGH ALTITUDE SCULPTURE - A RESIDENCY in the Lyceum Gallery. Artists will present photographs, drawings, prints, paintings, writings and maquettes from the 1st Annual Verbier 3D Foundation Residency in the Swiss Alps.

High Altitude Sculpture

Donna Dodson's wood "White Stork", a photo of Baby Bringer in Verbier Switzerland and a grouping of watercolors and drawing studies from the 2011 Verbier 3D Foundation Sculpture Residency.

High Altitude Sculpture

Andy Moerlein's wire and foam model for "Upended" as well as prints and drawing studied for sculptures created for the 2011 Verbier 3D Foundation Residency. Photographs of Uprooted and Upended - a Ghost Print hang on the wall.

Moderator:

Mary Sherman is the Director of TransCultural Exchange, an organization dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures. Besides her work as an advocate of international creative dialogue, Mary Sherman is an artist and critic. She has participated in residencies in Romania, China, Korea, Chicago and was recently a guest artist at PROGR in Bern, Switzerland. Ms Sherman was an Artist in Residence of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, Cambridge MA.

Panelists:

Laura Baring-Gould, sculptor/installation artist. With extensive travel and work experience in various international settings (Mexico, Ireland, Southeast Asia), Baring-Gould received a 2008 Fulbright grant for artistic investigations in bronze and bamboo in Thailand. From 2006 - 2010 Baring-Gould lived and worked in Thailand creating public art commissions. Her presentation will focus on observations of how art and art-making are differently practiced and culturally valued, and the opportunities present in meaningful global interaction.

Sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll just completed a summer artist's residency at Space, a program supported by Dartington Hall Trust, in Devon, UK. Her sculptures explore the sense of touch and the experience of the body. Driscoll’s engagement with touch and perception has led to her participating worldwide at conferences for neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, engineers, philosophers, designers, art historians, artists, and people working with disabilities. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Japan. Ms. Driscoll has received awards from the New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.

Robert Markey is a painter, sculptor and multimedia artist. He has been traveling to Brazil and Cambodia for a number of years to work with disadvantaged kids creating mosaic murals. He is committed to purposeful community arts investment.

Batu Siharulidze, Associate Professor at BU and Director of the Graduate Sculpture program. He has a long resume of international residencies in China, India, Turkey, Great Britain, USA, the Netherlands and Georgia.

John Weidman is the Director of the Andres Institute of Art (the site of an annual International Stone Symposia) as well as Director of the Nashua NH Sculpture Symposium. Besides his responsibilities as a Symposia Director, John is an internationally known sculptor who has participated in two or more international residencies/symposia annually for over a decade.

Event Hosts:

Donna Dodson graduated cum laude from Wellesley College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts. Since 2000, Dodson has been honored with solo shows nationwide for her wood sculptures. Dodson enjoys public speaking, and has been a guest speaker in conferences, panels and forums at museums and universities in North America . She is a member of the Wellesley College Friends of Art and She won a George Sugarman Foundation Grant in 2007. In 2011 she participated in the Verbier 3D Foundation's Artist Residency and Sculpture Park in the Swiss Alps where she created monumental outdoor sculpture.

Andy Moerlein has an extensive resume of public art works. His work has been shown in museums, sculpture gardens, and galleries from Alaska to New York. In 2011 he participated in the Verbier 3D foundation's Artist Residency and Sculpture Park in the Swiss Alps.

Mr. Moerlein has been an arts advocate, educator, and professional juror for over 30 years. He has been a teacher and gallery director at the Derryfield School in Manchester NH for 15 years. Moerlein holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA from Cornell University. He lives in Bow, NH.

AIR QUALITY + THE QUALITIES OF AIR

2011-09-21T20:18:00.002-04:00

Invitation

Join us as we explore a nutrient we can
barely see + without which we could only survive mere minutes: air. It contains
hundreds of thousands of organisms in every cubic meter, making it as alive as
any soil or water + every breath an intimate xSpecies moment. Such microbes
help form the delicate patterns of snowflakes + provide surface area for the
condensation of water vapour +, thereby, the creation of clouds.

At the workshop, we will uncover the complex science + ecology of ice cream, at
once an emulsion + foam composed of ice crystals, [milk]fat +, vitally, air.
Then, we will make + compare ice cream three ways for taste, texture +
composition: through a traditional slow churn, a liquid nitrogen-aided ‘flash
freeze’ + an ultra-modern molecule-thin pacojet shear. As NASA + 20th.c
engineering offered freeze-dried ice cream to our collective menu, what will
our 21st.c ice-cream futures be?

At the ensuing dinner, in each of 5+ courses, we will encounter vapours, smokes
+ stabilized bubbles, we will ingest air trapped in solids + suspend solids in
air. With the paired potables, we will look deeply into the foamy heads of
craft beers which encapsulate liquid in air + uncover the role of airborne
yeasts + microorganisms which lend unique, local flavour. We will explore the
stratified boundary layers of urban air quality through smoky mead slurped from
filter flasks + uncover how sensory experiences beyond taste affect flavour,
all in the hope that we might collectively begin to recontextualise our
fantastical food experiences into the larger food system.

Our events seek to develop shared knowledge + to reincorporate, reimagine +
recontextualise our shared future through the course of a tasty communal
adventure.

SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2011
CAMBRIDGE-BOSTON

EXPLORE emerging food systems that augment
biodiversity + improve environmental health.
INVEST in a biodiverse future.
4PM Workshop on the science of ice cream, $35/pp.
7PM Dinner including five+ paired courses, $110/pp.
LOCATION in the Cambridge-Boston area will be provided to confirmed
guests.
RSVP to reserve your seat here. Seats are allocated on a first
come, first served basis + are only confirmed upon completion of payment. Tickets
are nonrefundable but fully exchangeable.
CONTACT Louisa McCall louisa@artistsincontext.org, Artists in Context
Co-Director, with any questions +|or dietary restrictions.
DRESS CODE: Adventurous!

The xSpecies Adventure Club is a
collaboration between Natalie Jeremijenko + Mihir Desai + is affiliated with
the Environmental Health Clinic. The Boston field office of the EHC is operated by
Artists in Context + is a platform for creatively engaging citizens in the critical environmental issues of our time.

Wear Is Your Art? Shirt Graphic Design Competition

2011-08-10T16:29:00.005-04:00

The simple truth is that people ought to have the opportunity to enjoy a little zaniness - a little free spiritedness - a little super creative wahoooooo in their lives. So why not help them do just that by submitting your artwork for our review. We're just getting things off the ground, and we're looking for three incredible artists' work to feature on our website and on shirts.

No Entry Fee.

WHAT'CHOO GOTTA DO!
We're gonna make this really simple:

1. Send a single paragraph artist statement, a link to your work online, and your contact information in an e-mail to: TheCrazies@Spoonstuff.com

2. Please make sure to clearly state which design/artwork you are actually submitting for our review!

3. In the subject line of your e-mail insert the following text: "FOUNDING ARTISTS SUBMISSION".

DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS.

AWARDS
The first three artists whose work we select will get:
* $100!
* A special feature spot on our website at www.spoonstuff.com !
* A nifty little piece of paper for you to sign that says you're giving us the right to print (and reprint, and enjoy, and sell) shirts with your design plastered on them!
* Undying gratitude from the folks who wouldn't otherwise necessarily have seen or enjoyed your work!
Ok, so - - - show us your stuff! Visit us at http://www.spoonstuff.com
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Karen Aqua (1954-2011): Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

2011-07-08T00:32:00.001-04:00

Closing Reception

Sunday, July 10, 6–8PM

Brickbottom Gallery

1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville

Additional information:

www.brickbottom.com

brickbottomartist@rcn.com

Boston: Don't Dump

2011-06-27T22:51:00.003-04:00

Open Studios Sessions
June 30, July 1–2, July 5–8
Distillery Gallery, 516 East Second Street
South Boston

Boston: Don’t Dump is an environmental art project by international artist Jane Ingram Allen. Originally from the USA, but living and working in Taiwan since going there in 2004 as a Fulbright Scholar artist in residence, Jane will return to the US in late June to begin work on the project. Over the course of a two-week residency at The Distillery Gallery, the artist will create a new series of handmade paper artworks focused on the environmental issue of clean water and urban runoff and pollution of Boston’s waterways. During the residency, Jane will create the artworks and involve the public in open studio sessions. The public is invited to join the artist in making handmade paper and putting the wet newly formed sheets to dry on the metal sidewalk signs found on many Boston corners that say “Don’t Dump – Drains to Boston Harbor” or other Boston waterways.

Open Studio Sessions will be held in the lobby gallery space at the Distillery Building from 10 AM - 12 Noon and from 2PM - 4PM on: June 30, July 1, July 2, July 5, July 6, July 7 and July 8.

An exhibition of the works created during the Distillery Gallery residency, along with related works made in Taipei, Taiwan, on city manhole covers, will open on July 14 and continue through August 13, 2011.

An opening reception and gallery talk by the artist will be Thursday, July 14, 7-9 PM. Additional information:
http://www.gallery.distilleryboston.com/

Ethnic Food Market Tour

2011-06-19T22:22:00.004-04:00

Wednesday, June 22, 6-7:30 PM
Union Square, Somerville

Additional information:
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/blog

CHAT & CHOWDA Author Series: The Whistleblower

2011-06-12T22:50:00.000-04:00

The Whistleblower
Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors,
and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Tuesday, June 14, 5:30pm
WorldBoston Offices at Boston Fish Pier
212 Northern Avenue, East Building 1
Suite 300, Boston 02210

Due for release this summer as a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, The Whistleblower is the riveting account of Kathryn Bolkovac, a former Nebraska police officer who served as a human rights investigator supporting the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. She cooperated with Human Rights Watch to expose the misconduct and human rights abuses committed against young girls who'd been forced into prostitution and used as sex slaves by U.S. military contractors such as DynCorp and other UN-related police and international organizations. At great personal risk, Bolkovac brought evidence against DynCorp and won justice for the women she met in Sarajevo.

Cost: $10 WorldBoston members / $20 Non-members
(includes No Name Restaurant's famous seafood chowder!)
RSVP: wb@worldboston.org or 617.542.8995 x104

Free Screening: Perpetuum Mobile

2011-05-08T22:41:00.001-04:00

Perpetuum Mobile
Directed by Nicolás Pereda
Monday / May 9 / 7 PM
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Additional information:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2011aprjun/pereda.html#perpetuum

Francisco Lopez: Artist Talk & Concert

2011-04-25T00:00:00.002-04:00

Francisco Lopez: Artist Talk & Concert

Monday / April 25 / 8–10 PM

ACT Cube, Wiesner Building, Lower Level

20 Ames Street, Cambridge

http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/events.html

Francisco Lopez is a sound artist whose work crosses the boundaries of experimental and industrial sounds.
Organized and co-sponsored by Non-Event, ACT, The Sensory Ethnography Lab, and the Film Study Center at Harvard University. Funded in part by a grant from the Council of the Arts at MIT.

Free and open to the public.

Curatorial Walkthrough of Seductive Subversion

2011-03-15T10:12:00.002-04:00

Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968
Wednesday, March 16, 12:15pm
Tufts University Art Gallery at the Aidekman Arts Center
40R Talbot Avenue, Medford

Additional information:
http://artgallery.tufts.edu/shows/seductive.html

Collision 2 Lecture Series

2011-03-13T22:08:00.000-04:00

Jae Rhim Lee
Parallel/Peripheral: Working at the Intersection of Art and Other
Monday, March 14, 7 PM
MIT Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Bldg (E-15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Jae Rhim Lee’s current work, the Infinity Burial Project, proposes alternatives for the post-mortem body and features the training of a unique strain of edible mushroom to decompose and remediate toxins in human tissue. Jae Rhim Lee’s work challenges the boundaries prescribed by society and culture between self and other by proposing unorthodox relationships for the mind/body/self, and the built and natural environment. Lee has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is a recipient of a Creative Capital Foundation Grant (2009), Institut für Raumexperimente/Universität der Künste Berlin Grant (2010), and the renowned MAK Schindler Center Scholarship, Los Angeles. Lee is currently an ACT fellow.

Free and open to the public.
For more information:
act.mit.edu
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

Collision 2 Lecture Series | Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: A Guide to Campo del Cielo

2011-02-28T08:44:00.001-05:00

Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg
A Guide to Campo del Cielo
Monday, February 28, 7 PM
MIT Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Bldg (E-15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Respondent:
Richard P. Binzel,
MIT Professor of Planetary Science

In 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg began working on A Guide to Campo del Cielo, a project that revolves around researching the cultural impact of the Campo del Cielo meteorites by studying, reconstructing, and reinterpreting their visual, oral, and written history, aiming to identify their historical and contemporary impact. In 2010, their exhibition Meteorit El Taco, held at Portikus, Frankfurt, brought together the two halves of the El Taco meteorite after almost 45 years of being apart. Their project is documented in The Campo del Cielo Meteorites – Vol 1: El Taco published by dOCUMENTA (13) and will also be featured at the 2012 dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition.Their artistic research methods involve bibliographical inquiry, archival research, oral history and scientific investigations.

For more information:
act.mit.edu
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

U.S. ART CRITICS ASSOCIATION (AICA-USA) ANNOUNCES AWARD CEREMONY

2011-02-28T07:37:00.000-05:00

The annual AICA awards ceremony, a fixture of the American art world for more than 25 years, will take place this year at a new venue, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, on March 14 at 6 PM. For the first time, the awards will be presented by former AICA honorees, including Shirin Neshat, Martin Puryear, Christo and Linda Nochlin, and the ceremony will include video performances by Sooja Kim and William Kentridge. Many artists, including Marina Abramović and Cai Guo-Qiang, will accompany the curators of their shows as they accept their awards in person. Elizabeth C. Baker, the former editor of Art in America, will receive a special Lifetime Achievement award for her distinguished contribution to the field of criticism. A select number of seats will be available to the public. Please contact aicausaprogram@gmail.com for more information.

The 2010 AICA Awards winners are:

1/ BEST PROJECT IN A PUBLIC SPACE

First Place:
“Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms”
Organized by the Fabric Workshop and Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Marion Boulton Stroud, Carlos Basualdo, and Adelina Vlas

Second Places:
“Duke Riley: Those About to Die Salute You”
Organized by the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Curated by Hitomi Iwasaki

“Antony Gormley: Event Horizon”
Organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY
Curated by Debbie Landau

2/ BEST SHOW IN A NON-PROFIT GALLERY OR SPACE

First Place:
“Leon Golub: Live & Die like a Lion?”
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Curated by Brett Littman

Second Place:
“Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World”
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Curated by João Ribas

3/ BEST SHOW IN A UNIVERSITY GALLERY

First Place:
“Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield”
Organized by the Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Robert Gober

Second Place:
“Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary”
Organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New
York, Purchase, NY
Curated by Helaine Posner

4/ BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW

First Place:
“Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity”
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY in cooperation with the
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman

Second Places:
“Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art”
Organized by The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Curated by David Revere McFadden and Lowery Stokes Sims

“ ...OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project (by Krzysztof Wodiczko)”
Organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Curated by Randi Hopkins

5/ BEST SHOW INVOLVING DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, FILM OR PERFORMANCE

First Place:
“Tino Sehgal”
Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Curated by Nancy Spector

Second Place:
“William Kentridge, I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine”
Organized by Performa, as part of Performa 09, Cedar Lake, NY
Curated by RoseLee Goldberg

6/ BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY IN NEW YORK

First Place:
“Claude Monet”
Organized by Gagosian Gallery
Curated by Paul Hayes Tucker

Second Place:
“Primary Atmospheres: Works for California 1960-1970”
Organized by David Zwirner
Curated by Tim Nye and Kristine Bell

7/ BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY

First Place:
“Lines, Shapes and Shadows: Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle and Sol LeWitt”
Organized by Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Curated by Barbara Krakow and Andrew Witkin

Second Place:
“Noriko Ambe: キル - Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project”
Organized by Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX 
Curated by Glenn Fuhrman

8/ BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK

First Place:
“Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present”
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach

Second Place:
“Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention”
Organized by The Jewish Museum
Curated by Mason Klein 

9/ BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First Place:
“Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917”
Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and the Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
Curated by Stephanie D’Alessandro and John Elderfield

Second Place:
“Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective”
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA in association with Tate
Modern, London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Michael Taylor

10/ BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK

First Place:
“In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976”
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art
Curated by Christophe Cherix

Second Place:
“100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)”
Organized by MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY and Performa
Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg with additional curatorial advice from Jenny Schlenzka

11/ BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First Place:
“Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968”
Organized by Rosenwald-Wolf, Hamilton Hall & Borowsky Galleries, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Curated by Sid Sachs  

Second Place:
“Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-1950s”
Organized by Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Curated by Mary Kate O’Hare

12/ BEST HISTORICAL MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First Place:
“Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers”
Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and the
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Curated by Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne

Second Place:
“Otto Dix”
Organized by Neue Galerie, New York, NY
Curated by Olaf Peters

www.aicausa.org

This Thursday!

2011-02-23T17:30:00.001-05:00

Storytellers Opening Reception
@ Panopticon Gallery, 5:30 PM
www.panopticongallery.com

Gregory Sholette Talk
@ Carpenter Center, 6 PM
www.ves.fas.harvard.edu

The Legacy of Women Pop Artists Panel Discussion
@ Tufts University Art Gallery, 6 PM
artgallery.tufts.edu

Point of View – What's Yours? Story Slam
@ Haley House Bakery Cafe, 6:30 PM
massmouth.ning.com

Stephen Shore Lecture @ MassArt

2011-02-21T22:50:00.003-05:00

Stephen Shore
Wednesday, February 23 @ 6 PM
Pozen Center, MassArt
621 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Known for his pioneering work in color photography, Stephen Shore sold his first photographs at the age of 12 to Edward Steichen, the renown photographer and MoMA curator. Since then he has photographed Andy Warhol's Factory, deadpan scenes of American life, and still lifes while experimenting with various color photography methods.

The Lecture is free and open to the public. The Pozen Center is located in North Hall, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston 02115.

For current information, please log onto MassArt.edu, email
galleryinfo@massart.edu, or call 617-879-7333.

Collision 2: When Artistic and Scientific Research Meet

2011-02-14T09:59:00.001-05:00

Florian Dombois: Luginsland (On Art as Research)
With Ute Meta Bauer
Monday, February 14, 7 PM
MIT Bartos Theatre, Wiesner Bldg (E-15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Luginsland (Belvedere) is an installation and sound piece by Florian Dombois, winner of the 2010 German Sound Art Award. Dombois’ work focuses on landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, scientific and technical fictions, as well as their various representational and media formats. In his dissertation What is an Earthquake? Dombois undertook a comparison of historical, contemporary, artistic and scientific representations of earthquakes and developed the art-as-Research method. In his talk, Dombois will also introduce the international Journal for Artistic Research, (JAR), and give a short overview of activities and research projects going on at the Institute Y – Institute for Interdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts.

Florian Dombois founded the Y – Institute of Interdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland where he teaches and acts as the Head of Y-Research.

Free and open to the public.

For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

Opening Reception: The Learning Machine

2011-02-08T18:00:00.001-05:00

Urbonas Studio: The Learning Machine

Opening Reception

Wednesday, February 9 @ 5:30pm

Wolk Gallery

MIT School of Architecture and Planning

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

The Learning Machine is a performative archive of research materials from two projects that study the cinematic construction of the feminine 'victim' identity in a post-Soviet context, and its inscription onto the lives of individual women and entire nations. Through the installation, the mediated construction of women's voices emerges as a complex institutional architecture, confronted by polyphonic sound, visual forms, and participatory kinetic experience.

Additional information

www.mit.edu

MARINA ROSENFELD

2011-02-06T22:40:00.001-05:00

Monday, February 7 @ 6pm
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard University
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/rosenfeld.html

Legal Services For Artists

2011-01-23T23:07:00.001-05:00

Open to Cambridge residents
Monday, January 24 @ 5pm
Cambridge Arts Council, City Hall Annex
344 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Cambridge

This meeting will focus on legal issues as they pertain to Cambridge's resident artist population (primarily visual artists) including copyright, intellectual property, and estate planning. The meeting will be facilitated by Jason Weeks, CAC Executive Director, as well as volunteer lawyers from the firm Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP. For more information, call the Cambridge Arts Council at 617-349-4380.

http://www2.cambridgema.gov/cac/