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For the past fifteen years, I have performed intermittently with the San Francisco Bay Area-based choral ensemble, the Cornelius Cardew Choir. I was drawn to the group after having performed in many classical choral groups, jazz ensembles, and as a singer-songwriter. The Cardew Choir appealed to me because it was experimental, using the voice as [...]
photo by Michael Zelner, June 21, 2011 Laura Inserra Garden of Memory — a Columbarium Walk-Through Performance Event at the Chapel of the Chimes The Garden of Memory walk-through performance event is held every June 21st, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. PDT, to celebrate the Solstice, at The Chapel of the Chimes, in Oakland, [...]
This is just a quick blog post to mention an upcoming performance at the wonderful new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), in the Full: Voice series curated by Sarah Cahill! (There has been quite a bit of other publicity, so you may have heard about it already). Here are the details: Full: Voice @ [...]
Every year, I look for alternatives for buying holiday gifts that have personal meaning, help support local artists and small businesses, and do more good for my local community and the world. Making gifts is always a wonderful option, as well as buying hand-made gifts from artists and craftspeople. Here are a few favorite sources [...]
The 3rd Annual Richard Waters New Music Festival celebrates invented instruments and extended techniques, and features composers, musicians, and instrument builders from the greater Bay Area. The festival is inspired by the late Richard Waters and his invention, the Waterphone (pictured above). This year’s festival includes a Waterphone Orchestra and a guest appearance by Rayme [...]
A musical ensemble I often perform with, the Cornelius Cardew Choir, will be performing this Saturday, on December 19th, as well as another vocal group, the Long Tone Choir, on Sunday, December 20th, with several additional musicians. Members of both of these vocal ensembles compose original contemporary music pieces, which are often performed by each [...]
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It is with great sadness that we just learned of Jon Naar's passing. Jon took the photographs for Faith Of Graffiti, the seminal book on subway art in 1972. His eye for design brought a new perspecitve to "vandalism" and facilitated Norman Mailer's essay where he calls graffiti, art. We became friends with Jon just over the past decade. We were happy to collaborate with him to create a limited edition book + print package when the soft cover of Faith Of Graffiti was released and adding a limited edition print of "Red Bird" to accompany the book.
We were entertained by his stories of his time in British Intelligence and of the day he stepped out of the subway station at 125th street and met his young "writers". Jon was always active and up for a new project. His passion never waned and his energy contagious.
One of our favorite moments was when we collaborated with Jon at Knoll for a panel discussion including Massimo Vignelli (creator of the subway graphic design) and Mike 171 and Butler, graffiti artists from Faith of Graffiti. Massimo had never met a graffiti writer and of course, the writers had not met the designer. When Massimo learned why Mike 171 and Butler were writing on the walls, signage and trains, he had a new perspective and new respect for what he had previously considered vandalism. We are thankful to Jon for being the catalyst of this converstaion.
Our thougths are with Jon's family.
Sara + Marc
We are thrilled to have limited edition collectors books for 11 Spring: A Celebration of Street Art available. Signed by Shepard Fairy, JR, Swoon and Faile these are special collectors editions of an iconic time in NYC's street art story.
If you follow Wooster Collective, you know we believe in the added value of art in our everyday world, and the important intersection of urbanization, decay, and art.
We would like to invite you to the opening of An Art that Nature Makes, the newest film acquired by sister company BOND/360 opening August 10th at Film Forum (209 West Houston Street). Filmmaker Molly Bernstein and subject Rosamund Purcell will be present for Q&As Wednesday and Friday screenings.
The film celebrates photographer Rosamund Purcell whose works are unbound by normality. "A collector of objects who is also deeply curious about the universal human urge to collect, Purcell and her obsessive eye are themselves difficult to classify. This blurry boundary is well captured by writer Jonathan Safran Foer when he asks: 'Is she an artist? A scholar? A documentarian? A living cabinet of wonders? Her originality defies category.'" (Yahoo! News)
Tickets here.
From Rosamond Purcell’s studio. Photograph: Rosamond Purcell. Courtesy of BOND/360.
Skeleton against “Metaposition” penmanship sheet. Photograph: Rosamond Purcell. Courtesy of BOND/360.
About the Film
An Art that Nature Makes details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world – from a mastodon tooth to a hydrocephalic skull – offering insight into her unique way of recontextualizing objects both ordinary and strange into sometimes disturbing but always breathtaking imagery.
Finding unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed an oeuvre of work that has garnered international acclaim, graced the pages of National Geographic and over 20 published books, and has enlisted admirers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Errol Morris and Stephen Jay Gould.
Purchase tickets here.
We hope to see you there!
Check out these pictures from Edjinn's last wall at Poliniza Dos Festival in Valencia.
More from Edjinn here.
Stinkfish collabs with Mazatl and Kill Joy in Honduras on the Cuma Project, an independent initiative in several rural communities in the western part of the country that borders El Salvador.
The goal of the project was to visit a variety of communities that have been affected by hydroelectricity. The artists completed a series of interventions on school facades and communal houses.
They worked with COPINH (The Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), an organization devoted to the defense of the environment, the land, and the local indigenous culture, the Lenca.
Stinkfish on the Cuma Project:
"We met up in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. From there we took buses to La Esperanza, the Capital for the state of Intibucá and where the headquarters of COPINH are. Once we got settled in La Esperanza, we planned our work route for the following three weeks, so that we could visit certain communities as safely as possible and work on our interventions despite the heated environment, the constant harassment and threats after several confrontations with legitimate and illegitimate representatives of the hydroelectric corporations, and the assassination of Berta Cáceres (co-founder and leader of COPINH).
The following three weeks we had the opportunity to visit the communities of Llano Grande, La Ceibita, Las Delicias, Las Mesitas and Rio Blanco. In their majority communities that can only be accessed by foot, that ironically don't have electricity and limited means of communication.
The images that accompany these words are a brief summary of the experiences that we had in those days on the road, in communities that are committed to a struggle for their land, their rivers and their way of life, that shared with us a plate of food, a swim in the river, a soccer match, their experiences, history, knowledge, problems and victories.
The struggle and work of the likes of Berta Cáceres and organizations like COPINH lives on in Latin America and many other regions of the world."
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jusqu'au 4 février 2010 - James Ensor est au musée d'Orsay. C'est une nouvelle qui doit se transmettre car l'occasion est belle de voir un artiste si vivant de son art que le monde lui est apparu grâce à lui.
Le plus bel ensemble autour de la vie et de l'œuvre de Blaise Cendrars, et préservé jusqu'à aujourd'hui par ses descendants, sera mis en vente par Christie's le 27 novembre 2009. Des pièces exceptionnelles et Blaise à nouveau dispersé.
Parmi les nombreuses manifestations prévues pour l'anniversaire des 20 ans de la chute du Mur de Berlin, « Berlin : l'effacement des traces, 1989 – 2009 », proposée par le BDIC de Paris, revient sur les empreintes laissées par vingt-huit années d'une séparation contrainte et forcée.
A l'heure où l'Allemagne fête l'anniversaire de la chute du mur de Berlin, L'Insensé Photo rend un vibrant hommage à la photographie allemande avec son nouveau numéro « Berlin & Co. » Les deux co-fondatrices de la revue, Elizabeth Nora — la directrice artistique — et Vanessa van Zuylen — la directrice de la publication —, racontent leur itinéraire de recherche et d'élaboration de cette remarquable publication.
Contemporains, un temps collègues, Siné et Gébé nous reviennent. Deux forces vives du dessin (de presse) contemporain. Utopie et enragement d´engagés.
Jusqu'au 13 décembre 2009 - Le plasticien Xavier Veilhan succède à l'Américain Jeff Koons au Château de Versailles. A l'inverse de son prédécesseur qui avait pris d´assaut les salles d'apparat avec ses jouets géants violemment acidulés, l'artiste français ne joue pas l'affrontement.
Jusqu'au 31 décembre 2009 - Le virtuose du fusain Robert Longo se voit à nouveau consacré, cette fois par le Mamac. L'artiste s'inscrit ainsi dans l'écurie des artistes internationaux les plus célèbres exposés à Nice.
Jusqu'au 3 janvier 2010 - Les Arts Décoratifs présente un hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec, confrontant ses affiches à une relecture contemporaine de son oeuvre. L'occasion de retracer ici la vie édifiante de ce personnage étrange, délibérément incongru pour pallier une destinée amoindrie par les mauvais sorts de la maladie.
Jusqu'au 9 janvier 2010 - En façade, sur le trottoir (impair) de la rue des Filles du calvaire, les vitrines alternent entre boutiques de design à la mode et stocks ingrats de costumes masculins. Derrière, dans les fonds de cour, au cœur des immeubles, ce sont les galeries d'art contemporain dont l'accès se fait sous l'œil vigilent de la concierge. D'excitantes programmations sont poursuivies un peu plus loin, dans les rues Saintonge et Charlot. Confirmations et découvertes.
Jusqu'au 10 janvier 2010 - Le Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris a rassemblé, sous le commissariat d´Odile Burluraux et Fabrice Hergott, les travaux de sommités de l´art, face à leur mort imminente.