Post by Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz A few weeks ago I had the privilege of installing the works of Leroy Johnson in the galleries of Isaiah Zagar’s sprawling South Street creation, Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (I have worked here as a guide and preparator). You wouldn’t think that in this particular setting—where mosaicked materials creep over each [...]

Post by Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz A few weeks ago I had the privilege of installing the works of Leroy Johnson in the galleries of Isaiah Zagar’s sprawling South Street creation, Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (I have worked here as a guide and preparator). You wouldn’t think that in this particular setting—where mosaicked materials creep over each [...]

Philadelphia is a city of smells – some pleasant, others a lot less so. There’s Olde City, cloaked in an aroma redolent of history – graveyard grass and ghosts and used books. South Street, with its savory scent of cheese steaks stretching across the storefronts like the lure of a cartoon finger pointing the way [...]

Stanza Work from Sonicity “Sonicity is a responsive installation, a sonification of the real space and environment. The sounds you hear are the sounds of the changing environment, ie the changes of noise, light, temperature of the space is turned into a real time sound stream using dozens of wireless sensors presented as an installation [...]

We are very happy to be finalists for the Knight Arts Challenge for Philadelphia, sponsored by the Miami-based Knight Foundation.  The list of the 63 finalists (out of 1.752 applicants) includes local big fish and small fry like us, with about a third of the finalists from the visual arts realm.  Here’s the list below. [...]

We are looking forartists:Viareggio Art Projectthird edition will be in Villa Paolina Bonaparte Museum at Viareggio,from the June 25 th until the 10 th July 2010, realized with thesupport of the Municipality of Viareggio by Nicola Domenici andMaurizi…

We are looking forartists:Viareggio Art Projectthird edition will be in Villa Paolina Bonaparte Museum at Viareggio,from the June 25 th until the 10 th July 2010, realized with thesupport of the Municipality of Viareggio by Nicola Domenici andMaurizi…

“…We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgment may be used as a tool to make later judgment more sensitive. This is a way of learning from everything.” — Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge: [...]

Breadboard and The Virtual Public Art Project seek artists and designers interested in submitting digital work to be considered for a virtual public art exhibit in collaboration with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). Breadboar…

Breadboard and The Virtual Public Art Project seek artists and designers interested in submitting digital work to be considered for a virtual public art exhibit in collaboration with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). Breadboard and the Virtual Public Art Project (VPAP) will launch a series of site-specific virtual artworks throughout the city of Philadelphia to be viewed via VPAP’s free Layar App for most iPhone and Android smartphone devices. Several selected artist designs will be used for a special pre-launch virtual walking art tour that will be used to promote PIFA’s month-long festival of arts programming. Artists and designers interested in submitting work for this project should refer to the guidelines listed below.<br />
Deadline for submissions is Saturday, Feb 12, 2011<br />
Preliminary Guidelines for submitting work:<br />
•Artist name<br />
•Artwork title<br />
•Artwork subtitles (for inside Layar, if applicable)<br />
•Artwork image or illustration (jpeg @ 200dpi for printed promotion)<br />
•Artist statement or short description of work<br />
•Link to artist’s website (if available)<br />
•Artwork should be submitted in a 3D file (.l3d (Layar) format or .obj format)<br />
◦include size information (how big the artwork shall appear inside Layar)<br />
Questions and submissions can be directed to: breadboard@siencecente.com Subject: PIFA<br />
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Please see link attached<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/mZfwfIkdGjc" height="1" width="1"/>

Breadboard and The Virtual Public Art Project seek artists and designers interested in submitting digital work to be considered for a virtual public art exhibit in collaboration with the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). Breadboard and the Virtual Public Art Project (VPAP) will launch a series of site-specific virtual artworks throughout the city of Philadelphia to be viewed via VPAP’s free Layar App for most iPhone and Android smartphone devices. Several selected artist designs will be used for a special pre-launch virtual walking art tour that will be used to promote PIFA’s month-long festival of arts programming. Artists and designers interested in submitting work for this project should refer to the guidelines listed below.<br />
Deadline for submissions is Saturday, Feb 12, 2011<br />
Preliminary Guidelines for submitting work:<br />
•Artist name<br />
•Artwork title<br />
•Artwork subtitles (for inside Layar, if applicable)<br />
•Artwork image or illustration (jpeg @ 200dpi for printed promotion)<br />
•Artist statement or short description of work<br />
•Link to artist’s website (if available)<br />
•Artwork should be submitted in a 3D file (.l3d (Layar) format or .obj format)<br />
◦include size information (how big the artwork shall appear inside Layar)<br />
Questions and submissions can be directed to: breadboard@siencecente.com Subject: PIFA<br />
<br />
Please see link attached<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/mZfwfIkdGjc" height="1" width="1"/>

Art21 is pleased to announce our newest column on the blog — the first of several new endeavors for 2011. Turkish and Other Delights is a column devoted to exploring contemporary art practice in Turkey. Rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive or definitive account of the contemporary Turkish art community, this column will serve [...]

Ten memorable art-related moments of 2010, in no particular order: 10. Best animal weirdness: William Pope.L, Small Cup, 2008, Video, 12:52 minutes, included in the 2010 DeCordova Biennial Filmed in one of the old textile mills that dominate the central Maine city of Lewiston, where the artist teaches in Bates College’s Department of Theater and [...]

RITA CASDIA (Ita)
MONOGRAPHY
23 December – 18 January 2011
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VisualcontainerTV is glad to present a special monography of italian artist Rita Casdia.
Her videoartworks are focused on the relationship between man and woman and …

This season’s 3rd Ward Open Call Officially Ends in LESS THAN 14 HOURS

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Let New York City be the home of the solo show that garners you the attention of the international art world.

You are invited to join the 3rd Ward Open Call’>, offering you yo…

Urban Transcripts 2010
Athens, urban (r)evolution through individual spontaneity in the absence of planning

Combing film, photography, design text and interactive installation, the Urban Transcripts 2010 exhibition composes an alternative contemporary…

Let New York City be the home of the solo show that garners you the attention of the international art world.

You are invited to join the ‘>, offering you your own exhibition in New York City, complete with a massive opening reception. The opportunit…

With ‘Large Red Square’ in the Türkentor the artist has gained a place of considerable prominence in the very city in which he produced a key installation in keeping with his ‘one room – one work’ principle back in 1968 – his ‘Earth Room’ in Heiner Friedrich’s gallery.

New Delhi: Gallery Espace presents Ravi Agarwal’s new photographs in a show titled “Flux” at Gallery Espace, 16, Community Centre, New Friends Colony, New Delhi from December 8, 2010 till January 8, 2011. The show will comprise of more than 50 photographic works, some as large as 52×42 inches, that have been taken over a period of two years and also a video. <br />
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The works in the upcoming show belong to Agarwal’s long-standing art practice of examining his ecological relationship with what is happening around him, this time with a city in transition, literally and metaphorically through machines, flyovers, sewage ponds, forest spaces and more. It is an engagement with a “moment” in changing times. <br />
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Says Agarwal, who was invited to the largest and most prestigious art show in the world, Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany in 2002, a rare distinction shared only by few artists from India: “There is no breathing space left around me anymore. Everything is fluid and in flux. The city is in transition and I seek spaces for keeping myself intact, which is what the work is about. At one time, for instance, one could see a coin thrown into the Yamuna, now that is impossible.”<br />
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The River Yamuna has, in fact, surfaced time and again in Agarwal’s work – whether as part of a book titled Immersion Emergence or as an installation on the river bed for “Have you seen the flowers on the River?” project. Even in the current show, there are six photographs, titled ‘After the Flood’, that ironically show a dried up river bed.<br />
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“There is an aesthetic relationship with a photograph which occurs, at the moment of its making. The image is a moment, which does not re-occur. It is not an image of something outside, but reflective of a relationship. Nothing is ever the same, and can never be revisited,” says Agarwal.<br />
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Ravi also exhibits a series of 16 photographs, sized 15×10 inch each, titled ‘Tar Machines’ that reflect his fascination with issues of labour and industrial machines. Also on show will be a series of four photographs titled ‘Sewage Pond’ (“this looks like a beautiful forest swamp but is actually collected sewage that comes from Vasant Kunj”) and a set of two photographs titled ‘Forest Morning’ that Agarwal says is a comment on his ideas of desire and despair. “For the Forest work, I made certain minimalist interventions in the forest to reflect my sense of things. I used mannequins, child’s toys or a mere doodle on the ground,” he explains, adding that he wants to suggest through these random objects an insignificant human existence amidst a larger outer world.<br />
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There is also an installation of a series of 52 photographs, albeit in multiple sizes, ranging from 10×15 inch to 3×4 inch, titled ‘Flyover’; where he charts the rapidly changing landscape of Delhi. “These forms show to me that stability is just a notion, and capitalism portrayed through these mushrooming flyovers everywhere, only provide a false sense of stability.”<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/UDofom4RGh0" height="1" width="1"/>

Ivan Mikhailov is quite upset by
this turn of events. It is something incomprehensible to him that his factory,
which had always fulfilled its production quotas for mineral wool, must now for
some reason be turned into a museum, when it could just as w…