A roundtable with three of the most notable and accomplished figures in their respective fields is set for the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City on December 3, with musical theatre master Stephen Sondheim, pop/rock icon Paul Simon and acclaimed novelist Michael Chabon all set to participate in the discussion.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) presents War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono, the first major survey in Australia of legendary artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono, curated by MCA Chief Curator Rachel Kent. The title comes from a text work by Ono and her husband John Lennon that first appeared in 1969 across public billboards in twelve cities worldwide, including New York and London. The exhibition encompasses five decades of practice in diverse media including eight participatory works. Themes include loss, conflict, humanity and the desire for world peace.
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, 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.
CHICAGO (November 13, 2013) – 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 Córdova Hernández, 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, 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.
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”).
Entries to the Eight Arte Laguna Prize have been extended to 26 November 2013. It is still possible to enter one or more of the contest sections: painting, sculpture and installation, video art and performance, photography, virtual and digital art.
Beginning today, 8 November 2013, Hauser & Wirth and Gavin Brown's enterprise are proud to announce a major solo exhibition by noted Scottish artist and musician Martin Creed.
Evermore! - Raven Theatre's quarterly showcase of performers from a variety of disciplines - will present its fall programs on two weekends in November. On Sunday, November 17, at 7:30 pm, the program will be Songwriters with Switchback - with the headlining duo Switchback joined by the singer-songwriters Anna Fermin and Al Rose. The following weekend, poet Marc Kelly Smith will perform his trio of original one act plays called Flea Market Friday, November 22 and Saturday November 23 at 8 pm and Sunday, November 24 at 3:30 pm.
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong of acclaimed Korean artist Do Ho Suh, who is best known for his fabric sculptures that recreate the spaces of his homes and the domestic objects found within. The exhibition will be on view from 14 November 2013 to 25 January 2014 at 407 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong and coincides with the opening of Suh's installation Home within Home within Home within Home within Home at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in his native Seoul. Lehmann Maupin Gallery has represented Do Ho Suh worldwide since the beginning of his career and gave the artist his first gallery show in 2000.
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 on Nov. 30.
Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 Composer Portraits series with electronic music innovator RAND STEIGER, featuring: PETER EVANS, trumpet; MILLER PUCKETTE and RAND STEIGER, electronics; INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE; and STEVEN SCHICK, conductor.
Skarstedt presents David Salle: Ghost Paintings, featuring 13 works made in 1992, but never exhibited before this year. The exhibition travels from the Arts Club of Chicago, where it was seen in summer 2013. It will be on view at Skarstedt (20 East 79th Street) from November 8 through December 21, 2013.
Beginning 8 November 2013, Hauser & Wirth and Gavin Brown's enterprise are proud to announce a major solo exhibition by noted Scottish artist and musician Martin Creed.
Five towering stone sculptures set in a suggested fog-shrouded Chinese landscape are now on view on the Art Institute of Chicago's Bluhm Family Terrace. The installation, titled we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted., was created exclusively for the Art Institute by Swiss-born, New York–based artist Ugo Rondinone. The installation is on view through April 20, 2014.
A lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist/illustrator Art Spiegelman on Nov. 18 and a gallery exhibit of comic art will highlight Lakeland College's celebration of comics and sequential art.
Beginning 8 November 2013, Hauser & Wirth and Gavin Brown's enterprise are proud to announce a major solo exhibition by noted Scottish artist and musician Martin Creed.