“I Believe”

I saw this show at the Guggenheim &  it was amazing – now I know I
intern there, but this  one by
Cai Guo Qiang  called “I believe” is amazing.  I want you all to go -
it’ll blow your mind! [Also for those of you with the babies - it's a
kid friendly show - no naked biker chicks on the backs of the
boyfriends bike a.k.a the previous show ]

Highlights
1. 9 cars suspended from the ceiling in a free fall with lights coming
out simulating a car bomb
2. Manmade river with a raft boat that adults can get into and push
themselves down the stream [seriously!!!!]
3. A pack of wolves running along the rotunda that eventually take off
(you can walk with the pack)
4.  Live artists sculpting life size sculptures from an earlier
imperialist period – sculptures only meant to last for duration of
show
5.  Fireworks & gun powder

Check out the video of the installation
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai.html

Go & be inspired!

Position at High 5 Tickets to the Arts

Cultural Development Program Associate

High 5 is currently seeking an experienced, motivated, and outgoing Program Associate for Cultural Development to join our staff. This new position will be responsible for overseeing event donations from arts organizations, managing ongoing relationships with our cultural partners, and cultivating new relationships with organizations throughout New York City.

Responsibilities will include:

• • Work with the Director of Programs and other program associates to create and implement strategies that increase cultural partner participation.
  • Manage weekly, monthly, and seasonal requests for ticket and event donations.
  • Manage High 5′s online cultural event listings.
  • Providing ongoing support and services to existing and new cultural partners.
  • Liaison between High 5 and cultural institutions for performances, educational programming, and special events.

Requirements:

• • Computer literate with Microsoft Office experience. Basic HTML and Photoshop knowledge preferred, but not required.
  • Extensive knowledge of the performing arts and cultural communities in New York.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated work experience within New York’s cultural community, prior arts administrative experience and superior oral and written communication skills. Resumes, including salary history, and a cover letter that specifically highlights your familiarity with cultural institutions may be sent to Chris Kam, General Manager at hr@high5tix.org. NO Phone Calls.

Salary-30-35K. Full benefits package, including health insurance, vacation, and retirement plan.

Pratt’s Foundry

Here are some photos from the bronze casting session at Pratt last week. The first is a photo of Professor Isolani, the second shows the pot(?) where the bronze is being melted – pieces of bronze are being added slowly to build up temperature – the green you see is copper being burned off. The last image is of the bronze being poured by students in the senior level 3D class.

It was a great way to spend the day, art historians, chemists, studio artists all coming together to watch one of the nexuses of where art and function meet. Learn more about lost wax process here

Lecture: Design for the Other 90%

Tonight Cynthia Smith, curator at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum will be speaking at Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus.

Thursday, November 15 2007

6:30 PM

Main Building (Brooklyn) Room 230

Art 20 – International Art Fair

This weekend is the international fair: 1900 -contemporary at the Park Avenue Armory (at 67th street). Get more info at the Sanford Smith & Assoc. website

November 9 -12, 2007 – Should be good if you’re not too busy writing a paper or hibernating in a library.

Kara Walker Breaking My Heart at the Whitney

Want to be amazed, emotionally scarred and heart broken – check out the Kara Walker Show at the Whitney

Kara Walker Exhibit at Whitney – now until February 3, 2008

Here’s a quote from the gallery guide:

…they’re satisfied with triumph over evil, but then triumph is a dead end. Triumph never sits still. People forget and make mistakes. Heroes are not completely pure, and villains aren’t purely evil. I’m interested in the continuity of conflict, the creation of racist narratives, or nationalist narratives, or whatever narratives people use to construct a group identity and to keep themselves whole.

Don’t take a date to this exhibition – take someone whose mind rocks your world – or go alone

Ghiberti at the Met

I haven’t seen this show yet. Immediately I wonder about viewing Florentine objects out of context. Granted these original gates no longer hang in the entryways of the Baptistry – so maybe they’re out of context anyway in the Duomo Museum – but in Florence you can see the reproductions and then walk a short distance to see the originals.

NY Times Review

Most of the historic sculptures, frescoes and edifices of early-15th-century Florence are not the least bit portable. It’s simple: You want to see them, you go to Florence. But right now nearly a third of one of the city’s greatest glories can be seen without leaving town, by visiting “The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wow – Let the Photo Geeks Rejoice!

Closing this week

Konrad Cramer (1888-1963) Photographs

September 11, 2007 – November 03, 2007

Zabriskie Gallery -41 East 57th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10022

See some images & get more info

Also there’s a cool Artist Book Fair this weekend too! http://www.eabfair.com/

BH Friedman at Pratt

Earlier this month BH Friedman, a close friend of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and our professor Janet Kardon, spoke to our class. He read from his 1972 biography Pollock: Energy Made Visible, the journals he kept of his experiences with many of the artists of the New York School, and shared a part of art history that he had and continues to live first hand.

Friedman has written catalogues and monographs for artist friends like Lee Krasner, Alfonso Ossorio, and Robert Goodnough. His other works include biographies on Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and – of course- Jackson Pollock. In his alternate life as realtor, construction company owner and trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, he oversaw the construction of the Madison Avenue building designed by Marcel Beauer in 1966.

The world wide web describes him as a novelist, biographer, playwright, and art critic.

The things that came up in our lecture:

For Art’s Sake

Pollock Foundation

For fantastic kicks

Helene Wasserman

Could be a Pollock, Must be a Yarn

Tom Otterness and Steven Charles to Inaugurate New Gallery

This looks interesting – it’s closing this week.

Mr. Pierre Levai, President of Marlborough Gallery, is pleased to announce that Marlborough Chelsea will open at the new Chelsea Arts Tower, 545 West 25th Street, on October 4th with exhibitions by sculptor Tom Otterness and painter Steven Charles. The exhibitions will continue through November 3, 2007.

Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea