The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) is proud to announce the premiere and opening of Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia (October 31, 2014 to April 12, 2015). Organized by MCA Denver, this retrospective exhibition brings together the first comprehensive presentation of Mothersbaugh's art and music to date, from the beginning of his career in the early 1970s through the present. This nationally touring exhibition coincides with the publication Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, under the artistic direction of Glenn Edgerton, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, performs in the Edlis Neeson Theater for a third consecutive year, December 4-14, 2014.
Folded and riveted powder coated steel, stitched fleece blanket, wadding, protective plastic mesh, food packaging, powder coated steel. Image courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London. Andrea Rosen Gallery is pleased to present a three-person exhibition of Magali Reus, Bill Bollinger and John Divola. Shifting away from the supremacy of a single object, each artist here acknowledges a more phenomenological experience of material and form. Through strengthening material vernaculars, there is a distinct presence of the body indicated within each of the artists' works that describes both a presence of artist and viewer, as well as the encounter of material as vessel for meaning. This juxtaposition of unique trajectories is a way to not only contextualize work being made now within the established field of contemporary art, but also a way of showing how artists like Divola and Bollinger remain a vital part of the discourse.
Houseago is most widely identified with monumental sculptures of the human body. His figures are admired for their brute physicality and a potent tactility redolent of their making. Drawing upon and deftly subverting classical sources, Houseago creates forms that hover between power and vulnerability, old and new worlds. But with 'Moun Room', the artist reverses his standard subject-object relationship and, for the first time, places the viewer in the role of primary figure and active participant. 'Moun Room' invites us to move through space and among complex screens of the artist's carefully layered and pierced materials, rather than to circle an opaque form. It calls upon us to explore its softly glowing channels and unravel the processes by which Houseago has assembled and reassembled physical space in an effort to chart fresh emotional territory.
The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) presents the 25th Anniversary Fall Festival, featuring 112 events which will explore the theme of Journeys, today, Oct. 25-Nov. 9, 2014.
Theater artist Taylor Mac makes his New York Live Arts debut with A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1900-1950s, presented by New York Live Arts as part of The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, January 13-25, 2015.
Sundance Institute today announced the projects and artists that will participate in its two Fall artist development programs: the inaugural Playwrights Studio at Flying Point in Water Mill, NY (October 19-26), as well as the two-week Theatre Lab (November 30 - December 14) for musical theatre, ensemble-generated projects and solo work at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Under the supervision of Artistic Director Philip Himberg and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the initiatives are among the Theatre Program's five annual Labs and Residencies for theatre artists and part of the 24 artist residency labs across many creative disciplines Sundance Institute offers annually.
Coming to the end of 2014, Bangarra Dance Theatre is excited and proud to announce two thrilling events concluding the celebrations of its 25th anniversary and honouring Australian Indigenous stories, dances and songs.
Coming to the end of 2014, Bangarra is excited and proud to announce two thrilling events concluding the celebrations of its 25th anniversary and honouring Australian Indigenous stories, dances and songs.
Award-winning singer and PBS/WNET and NY affiliates Host for Andrea Bocelli 'Live From Central Park' and 'Il Volo Takes Flight' CRISTINA FONTANELLI brings her program of Italy's best-loved songs, arias, Neapolitan and Christmas classics during her 11th-Annual 'Christmas In Italy' show at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, December 6 at 3:00.
On the heels of their critically acclaimed hit ALL OUR TRAGIC, The Hypocrites are pleased to continue their 2014-15 Season with another world premiere: a playful re-imaging of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. PINAFORE, adapted and directed by Founding Artistic Director Sean Graney, co-directed by Thrisa Hodits with new arrangements by Matt Kahler* and Andra Velis Simon.
Hubbard Street Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton; Andrew Alexander, CEO/Executive Producer of The Second City, Inc.; and Kelly Leonard, Executive Vice President of The Second City are excited to present the world premiere of The Art of Falling, an unprecedented and collaboratively devised production first announced in February 2014 at The Second City.
Pacific Arts Movement celebrates its 15th Festival (SDAFF), the largest exhibition of Asian Cinema on the West Coast and San Diego's largest film festival, November 6-15 with expanded programming and a record number of venues.
Next Wave is recruiting. Applications for the 2015 Kickstart artist development program open today Thursday 9 October and close Monday 17 November, 2014. The celebrated program gives artists money, time and space to realise their wildest and most ambitious ideas, and the opportunity to showcase the fruits of their labour as part of the 2016 Next Wave Festival.
Pittsburgh Dance Council, a division of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, brings award-winning British dance troupe Michael Clark Company on Saturday, November 1, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. to the Byham Theater, 101 Sixth Street, downtown Pittsburgh. The evening's program features Clark's choreographic work come, been and gone. Michael Clark is considered one of Britain's leading choreographers and this performance will mark the company's Pittsburgh debut.
CHICAGO, IL (October 7, 2014)—Chicago nonprofit 3Arts has increased the amount of its annual unrestricted awards for women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities to$25,000, effective with the 7th annual 3Arts Awards tonight, Oct. 6, 2014. Ten Chicago-area artists working in the performing, teaching, and visual arts will receive a total of $250,000 in a celebratory gathering at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Previously, 3Arts presented annual awards of $15,000.
Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda's film test pattern will be reimagined for the Times Square billboards this October. From 11:57pm to midnight each night, digital screens will be taken over by tightly synchronized, flickering black-and-white imagery mining data for mathematical beauty as part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts.
THE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERY
Hunter College, West Building, SW corner of 68th St. & Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Curated by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães
Organized by Sarah Watson and Annie Wischmeyer
THE EXHIBITION
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt, Venezuelan, born Germany, 1912–1994) and Gerd Leufert (Venezuelan, born Lithuania, 1914–1998) are among the most significant artists that worked with the language of abstraction during the second half of the twentieth century in Venezuela. The exhibition “Gego and Gerd Leufert: a dialogue” highlights the artists' development and reciprocal influence through a selection of core works produced from 1964 to 1990. The show explores shared motifs in the production of each of these artists, most notably their use of the line as a means of enhancing the visual potentiality of empty spaces in two- or three-dimensional form. The partnership between Gego and Leufert resulted in lifelong mutual support that concurrently nurtured their personal relationship and their independent careers as artists. “Gego and Gerd Leufert: a dialogue” provides a long-overdue, tandem examination of the artists' works; the exhibition unveils an underlying, parallel dialogue of nonobjective language within their organic forms, linear structures, and systematic, spatial investigations. Both ultimately became pioneers in their field, having a long-lasting impact on future generations of artists at national and international levels.
