The University of the Arts has appointed Joanna Settle as the new director of the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts. Settle, a freelance theater director and educator, will begin her tenure at the university on January 13, 2014.
Pittsburgh -- The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the opening of Structures of Time and Space, large-scale light installations by internationally exhibited Austrian-born artist Erwin Redl. The exhibition is on view January 24–April 6, 2014, at Wood Street Galleries, and it opens in conjunction with Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District 5:30 to 10 p.m., January 24, 2014.
Join us at Andrea Meislin Gallery for a Gallery Talk with noted Czech artist Jan Tichy in conjunction with our current show, Musrara - Beyond No-Man's Land (100% of all proceeds from Beyond No-Man's Land are donated to the Naggar School of photography). Tichy will speak about his work Bab El Musrara, 2002 (included in this show), in addition to his work Cage, 2002. The talk is set for today, December 14 at 1 p.m., the Andrea Meislin Gallery, located at 534 W 24th St, New York, NY.
This December, Chicago's acclaimed Spectacle company Redmoon presents the 15th Annual Winter Pageant featuring collaborators The Happiness Club of Chicago, Kalapriya Dance, Indonesian Dance of Illinois, Pineapple Dance Studio, Mexican clown artist Fernando Cordova Hernandez, aerialist Helena Reynolds and surf-rock band The San Andreas Fault. The approximately 50-minute-long production is directed by John Musial and Will Bishop with Redmoon Producing Artistic Director Frank Maugeri and choreographed by Pranita Jain. Redmoon's Winter Pageant takes place at the company's Pilsen home at 2120 S. Jefferson Street, tonight, December 13-15 and 20-22 (Fridays at 7 pm, Saturdays at 4 pm & 7 pm, Sundays at 1:30 pm & 4 pm). Press night will be opening night, Friday, December 13.
Join us at Andrea Meislin Gallery for a Gallery Talk with noted Czech artist Jan Tichy in conjunction with our current show, Musrara - Beyond No-Man's Land (100% of all proceeds from Beyond No-Man's Land are donated to the Naggar School of photography). Tichy will speak about his work Bab El Musrara, 2002 (included in this show), in addition to his work Cage, 2002. The talk is set for Saturday, December 14 at 1 p.m., the Andrea Meislin Gallery, located at 534 W 24th St, New York, NY.
The Kitchen has announced programming for its winter 2014 season, which begins January 8 with performances from both Jay Scheib and Heather Kravas.
On Saturday, December 7, 2013, Sagamore, The Art Hotel, along with its owners Martin and Cricket Taplin and six local museums-the Bass Museum of Art, Lowe Art Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Museum of Art at FIU, and the Wolfsonian-FIU-hosted one of the most sought-after events of the season, the annual Art Basel Brunch.
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 10th-Annual 'Christmas In Italy' concert at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center today, December 7 at 3:00 PM the culmination of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States which was designated by the Italian government.
The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), has organized the first retrospective ever mounted of Christopher Williams—one of the most influential artists working in photography today. The Production Line of Happiness—which premieres at the Art Institute of Chicago on January 25 and runs through May 18, 2014—charts Williams's 35-year career in a multipart installation, fronted by hundreds of feet of brightly colored vinyl, that spans three sets of galleries across the museum: the Allerton Building Photography Galleries (lower level, 1–4); the Bucksbaum Galleries for Photography in the Modern Wing (ground floor, G188–189); and the Architecture and Design Galleries in the Modern Wing (second floor, G283–285). This exhibition marks a homecoming for Williams, who had his first-ever museum showing in 1982 at the Art Institute. Following its premiere in Chicago, Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness will travel to MoMA (August 2–November 2, 2014), and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (April–June 2015).
In 2013 the Art Basel show in Miami Beach will feature 258 leading international galleries, drawn from 31 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The show presents artwork ranging from Modern masters to the latest contemporary works and includes, for the first time in Miami Beach, a sector dedicated to editioned works. Art Basel in Miami Beach, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from today, December 5 to December 8, 2013.
The Stores at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) invite customers to kick off their holiday shopping in style at the Small Business Saturday Artists Market today, Nov. 30. Featuring works by more than 15 Arizona artists, the afternoon event will take place in the Center's Dayton Fowler Grafman Atrium, noon to 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present The Capitol Steps on Thanksgiving weekend, tonight and Saturday, Nov. 29-30.
Galerie Lelong New York and Paris will feature program highlights for Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 including work by new gallery artist Zilia Sánchez, a selection of pastels by Sean Scully in Art Kabinett, and a new outdoor sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard as part of Art Public. Having been one of the early supporters of Latin American art, Galerie Lelong will exhibit work of some of the region's most vital figures including Alfredo Jaar, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, and Hélio Oiticica. Also on view will be artists spanning generations and continents including Petah Coyne, Günther Förg, Lin Tianmiao, David Nash, Emilio Perez, Jaume Plensa, Kate Shepherd, and Kiki Smith.
Rachel Rosenthal Company's Instant Fairy Tales, the latest offering in Rachel Rosenthal's remarkable career, is a brand new quarterly series of original fairy tales for the 21st century. Instant Fairy Tales: The Longest Winter, the series' inaugural offering on January 25th and 26th at Espace DbD in Los Angeles, features an allegorical tale about learning to care for the environment. This first quarterly installment features costumes and sets in a visual style based on the 'ukiyo-e' woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige, which depict the Japanese 'floating world' of the theatre, restaurants, teahouses, geisha, and the natural world.?
Lehmann Maupin (Booth K15) has announced its participation in Art Basel Miami Beach featuring works by Billy Childish, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Liu Wei, OSGEMEOS, Alex Prager, Robin Rhode, Do Ho Suh, and Mickalene Thomas.
Dominique Lévy is pleased to announce the second exhibition at her gallery's new home at 909 Madison Avenue. Opening to the public today, November 23, 2013, Boris Mikhailov: Four Decades will explore the full career of one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union.
The Museum of Modern Art presents Isa Genzken: Retrospective, from today, November 23, 2013, to March 10, 2014. This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist's diverse body of work in an American museum, and the largest to date, encompassing Genzken's work in all mediums created over the past 40 years. Although Isa Genzken (German, b. 1948) might be best known in America for her more recent outrageous and humorous sculptural assemblages made of materials like plastic beach umbrellas, baby dolls, and wheelchairs, the breadth of her achievement-which includes not only sculptures, but paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, artist's books, films, monumental public sculptures, and large-scale installations-is still largely unknown in the United States.
Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating renegade presses -- N.Y.C./L.I. Small Presses Night -- tonight. Nov. 21, 6:30 p.M. Sharp, free at the Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Ave. A (@ E. 6th St.), NYC with Epiphany Magazine, Marsh Hawk Press, Nor By Press, Tea Party Republicans Press and music from Mixed Doubles.
Last year's Art Basel Week kicked off with a much talked-about tribute to Miami's arts pioneers - alongside the city's new cultural visionaries - with the retrospective of visionary artist Martin Kreloff's 1976 “Miami Says Art” (which 36 years ago brought together the city's then up-and-coming arts luminaries to look into his camera and exclaim “ART”).
New York University's Fales Library and Special Collections presents an afternoon symposium, “Keith Haring: Languages' on December 12, 2013 from 3:00pm to 6:30pm, Fales Library, third floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, (at LaGuardia Place). [Subways A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street; 6 line to Astor Place; R train to 8th Street]. At the conclusion of the symposium, the exhibition, “Keith Haring: Languages,” curated by Andrew Blackley, which focuses on archival objects and rarely-screened video artworks made by Keith Haring (1979-81) will open to the public. Please refer to the Fales website for a more detailed schedule of events. (http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/eventstest.html)
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