The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, and Fontainebleau Miami Beach have commissioned British artist Tracey Emin to create new limited-edition works to commemorate Emin's first U.S. museum exhibition. Tracey Emin: Angel Without You will premiere at MOCA, North Miami on Dec. 4, 2013 as part of its Knight Exhibition Series and be on view through March 9, 2014. The items, which include a limited-edition beach towel, flip-flop sandals and T-shirt, will be available for purchase at the MOCA Shop and at Fontainebleau Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami Beach week in December. The products will also be available online at www.mocanomi.org and www.fontainebleaushop.com.
Galerie Lelong will be participating in Expo Chicago, the second year of the international exposition of contemporary and modern art from September 19-22, 2013, at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (Booth 513).
Following sold-out performances at Feinstein's, singer CRISTINA FONTANELLI will make her Metropolitan Room debut on Friday, September 20 at 9pm, with her highly acclaimed show With A Song in My Heart. Hosted by PBS (WNET Thirteen/WLIW 21), NJTV, CPTV, ABC WTNH-TV & 'Close-Up TV' news personality, Jim Masters, Cristina will be accompanied by Dennis Buck on piano, Ray Kilday on bass & Ray Grappone on drums.
Northrop at the University of Minnesota presents Hubbard Dance Street Chicago on Sat, Sep 21 at 8:00 pm at the State Theatre as the opening performance in the 2013-14 Northrop dance season.
In Repertory Dance Theatre's fall show LEGACY, a significant piece of history is being commemorated: the rise of a near-devastated people from the ashes of World War II. "Missa Brevis" is more than a dance, it calls to mind how humans navigate faith, art and war.
Lehmann Maupin is honored to open its fall season in Hong Kong with the first solo show in China of acclaimed American artist Teresita Fernández, whose conceptual, experiential works are often characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. The exhibition will be on view from today, 12 September through 9 November 2013. An opening reception for the artist will be held tonight, 12 September from 6 to 8 PM.
On Friday October 11, Japan Society Gallery unveils an ambitious solo exhibition of works produced by the internationally acclaimed artist Mariko Mori over the course of the last decade, including an important light installation never before exhibited in the U.S. and a new video work.
?Four concerts from October to November will showcase the work of artists hailing from the United States, Germany and Japan, including: improvisational German trumpeter Birgit Ulher with Eric Leonardson (Oct. 8 at 8 p.m.); electro-acoustic chamber music outfit Gene Coleman and Ensemble N_JP (Oct. 23 at 8 p.m.); Chicago-based flutist Lisa Goethe-McGinn (Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.); and Japenese shamisen performers Yoko Reikano Kimura and Yumiko Tanaka (Nov. 13 at 8 p.m.). The musicians' work oscillates between the traditional and the contemporary, probing noise and silence equally, shifting between reactive improvisation and studied composition.
Jacob's Pillow Dance and MASS MoCA co-present inventive, contemporary ensemble Shen Wei Dance Arts on October 26 and 27 at MASS MoCA's Hunter Center for the Performing Arts.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Youth Dance Program, for children ages 18 months to 16 years and focused on the choreographic process, will offer an Open House today, September 7, 2013, from 9 am to 3 pm at the Hubbard Street Dance Center, 1147 West Jackson Boulevard. Scroll down for photos from last year's open house and more!
Award-winning photographer and conceptual artist Laurie Simmons and her daughter, Lena Dunham, best known for writing, directing, producing, and acting in the HBO program Girls, will be honored at the eleventh annual Women in the Arts luncheon on Thursday, November 14, 2013. This is the first time the benefit will jointly honor two recipients--a mother-daughter pair. Proceeds from the event will benefit the many educational and artistic programs offered by the Brooklyn Museum and its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
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 December 5 to December 8, 2013.
Bang on a Can's 2013-2014 season takes the new music collective's house bands - the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Asphalt Orchestra - on multiple tours throughout the world, for performances as far-flung geographically as Lawrence, Kansas; New York, NY; Krakow, Poland; Paris, France; Istanbul, Turkey; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Essen, Germany; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Moscow, Russia; Macau, China; Seoul, South Korea; Washington, DC; North Adams, MA; and many other places around the globe.
Nalini Malani's immersive video/shadow play, In Search of Vanished Blood, will premiere in New York today, September 6, 2013. This large-scale multi-media work was a highlight of dOCUMENTA 13 held in Kassel, Germany during the summer of 2012. Malani, widely considered the pioneer of video art in India, continues themes explored throughout her illustrious career: violence, the feminine, and the politics of national identity. The artist will be present for the opening which will be held tonight, September 6 from 6-8pm.
DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Barbara Takenaga's most recent paintings, which are her boldest and most diverse yet. Takenaga has recently introduced evocative horizon lines in her abstract explorations of pattern and movement, and this group suggests natural phenomena like never before. At the same time, Takenaga remains a committed abstractionist, pushing her radiating dots across these canvases in newly bright, saturated, and varied hues.Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalogue with a conversation between Takenaga and Robert Kushner.
Yellow Peril Gallery is pleased to present 'Glittering Machines,' an installation of interactive illuminating sculptures that respond to the presence of viewers, by Chepachet-based sculptor Paul Myoda. 'Glittering Machines' opens Thursday, October 17, 2013, during Gallery Night Providence.
Since 2008, Myoda has been working on cybernetic sculptures, which are dynamic, interactive works of art that investigate and borrow from various biological systems (i.e., communicational, behavioral, and environmental). In an age where the screen mediates every single one of our computing experiences, the field of cybernetic sculpture is in a break-out moment. Myoda states the basis for this claim: 'The graphic user interfaces that allow us to interact with our computers and other electronic devices are beginning to feel too narrow, too constricting, too separating, too disembodied. Sculpture demands an awareness of the material qualities and symbolic potential of objects and spaces.'
The design of 'Glittering Machines' is informed by bioluminescent fauna, crystal morphology and computational geometry. An example of hybrid arts practice and cybernetic sculpture, the series bridges the disconnections and eases the anxieties of the post-industrial world through affect, presence and responsive gesture.
'In addition to having different structures, motions, lights and lenses, all of the Glittering Machines have different circuits and coding, giving each sculpture a different interactive potential or behavioral attitude,' explains Myoda. 'These attitudes range from predictability to spontaneity, the propensity to attract or repulse a viewer, and that to camouflage or reveal.'
Behind Myoda's multi-faceted sculptural project is the passionate conviction that exploring different ways for computation to exist and interact physically in our world will combat this century's version of alienation. His work does this beautifully and with an engineer's attention to intricate detail and functional potential.
The opening reception for 'Glittering Machines' is Thursday, October 17, from 5PM - 9PM during Gallery Night Providence. The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, November 17, 2013. Myoda's works are part of the collections of the Queens Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Library of Congress. He has recently had solo exhibitions at the Dorsch Gallery in Miami and the Project 4 Gallery in Washington, DC. This is his first exhibition at Yellow Peril Gallery.
About Paul Myoda
PAUL MYODA is a sculptor based in the woods of Chepachet, Rhode Island. Myoda is inspired by the underlying logic and mathematical principles of the natural world and applies them to his work with new media, technology and industrial materials. The result is compositions of light, motion, and form that find a balance and a beauty between the organic and the built. Regularly exhibited both nationally and internationally, his sculptures and installations are known for their elegance and their expression of organic forces through artificial materials and systems.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University, Myoda is recognized as an artist, designer, critic and educator. Based in NYC from 1990-2006, Myoda was represented by the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, and was co-founder of Big Room, an art production and design collective in New York City. He was also a contributor to Art in America, Flash Art and Frieze. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Warhol Foundation and Howard Foundation, among others. In 2001 he participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Views Program and had a studio on the 91st floor of WTC I. In March of 2002 he co-created the Tribute in Light in memory of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, which has since become an annual installation. He was an adjunct professor at The City College of New York and has been an assistant professor in Brown University's Visual Art Department since 2006.
Myoda's most recent work, Glittering Machines, is a series of interactive illuminating sculptures that respond to the presence of viewers. Their design is informed by bioluminescent fauna, crystal morphology and computational geometry. An example of hybrid arts practice and cybernetic sculpture, the series bridges the disconnections and eases the anxieties of the post-industrial world through affect, presence and responsive gesture. His works are part of the collections of the Queens Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Library of Congress. He has recently had solo exhibitions at the Dorsch Gallery in Miami and the Project 4 Gallery in Washington, DC. He will have a solo exhibition in the fall of 2013 at the Yellow Peril Gallery in Providence, RI.
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Ashley Bickerton's fourth solo show at the gallery, on view at 201 Chrystie Street from 11 September – 26 October 2013. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Wednesday, 11 September from 6 to 8 PM.
Detroit-based physical theatre company The Hinterlands will present The Circuit, an ecstatic variety show for the outcasts of the Internet age, at Play House (preview) Thurs-Fri Sept 26-27 at 8PM and at Trinosophes, Thur-Fri October 3-4 at 8:00 PM. Tickets at both venues are $15. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.
Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Angel Otero on view at 540 West 26th Street from 12 September – 2 November 2013. Otero's second solo show at the gallery features a new group of sculptures made from steel and porcelain, two materials the artist began experimenting with in 2012. A selection of new abstract paintings will also be exhibited in tandem with the sculptures. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Thursday, 12 September from 6 to 8 PM.
