News
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09/09/2010
SFAI symposium program "Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay" Sept. 10 and 11.
Addressing the artists whose work was shown in the exhibition, "Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area: Late 1950s through 1970s," curated by Carlos Villa at Luggage Store Gallery in July 2010, this symposium will compare the experiences of the artists in the exhibition with those of artists working in today's purported "post race" world. Participants will contextualize the era in which these artists worked and how their work has helped inform the environment for artists of color and female artists today by exploring parallels or connections.
For more information visit: http://rehistoricizing.org/
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09/05/2010
BART art brings personality and visual surprises to train riders.
From Mercury News: Ellingson is the artist commissioned to create posters for BART station walls under a fledgling program aimed at providing art to the masses and injecting color and personality into the transit system's stations. Ellingson isn't the first visual artist to find inspiration in BART. Before he made the famous "Star Wars" movies, director George Lucas filmed part of his first feature-length film "THX 1138" in the interior of BART's Transbay Tube before it went into operation.
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09/01/2010
California lawmakers approve bill to extend the time period on stolen art claims.
From New York Times: California lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would extend the time period in which people can sue museums to try to recover what they believe are stolen works of art. Under the new legislation, which governs claims against museums, galleries and auction houses, plaintiffs are freed from any reasonable diligence provision and the clock does not start until plaintiffs have gathered enough information to evaluate whether they have valid claims.
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08/31/2010
New Public Artwork by Artist Bob Zoell at San Francisco International Airport.
San Francisco Arts Commission announced the installation of “BFILRYD," a new public artwork by acclaimed abstract painter Bob Zoell at San Francisco International Airport. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, Zoell has created seven iconic covers and has lectured and participated in exhibitions at prestigious contemporary art institutions around the world.
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08/30/2010
Check out: U.N. Plaza's new San Francisco Arts Market (Market and Seventh streets).
From SFGate: The open-air event is happening every Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. through the fall and features locally created music, paintings, carvings, ceramics, fashion, literature, photography, jewelry and more.
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08/28/2010
Southern Exposure 2010 information session--San Francisco. Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 6:30 pm.
Sign up to attend at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 415.863.2141. RSVP’s are optional. Attendance at an information session is NOT required to apply for the Alternative Exposure grant. Information sessions are optional and FREE to all who attend and provide more detailed information on the application process, questions of eligibility, appropriate uses of the grant funds, and to answer any other questions.
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08/26/2010
Tickets on sale now: Pop-Up Magazine, Issue 4, September 9th, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
Pop-Up Magazine is the world’s first live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Issue 4 includes bestselling author Mary Roach, acclaimed photographer Jim Goldberg, public radio stars The Kitchen Sisters, filmmaker Amanda Micheli, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Mooallem, photographer Dwight Eschliman, artist Jason Polan, New America Media's Sandip Roy, and many more.
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08/24/2010
SPE West regional conference New Sites: Call for Scholarship Applications.
2010 Society for Photographic Education regional conference New Sites, takes place in San Diego on November 12–14. The keynote speaker is the arts critic Lucy Lippard. Image-makers, theoreticians and historians are invited to propose papers or workshops that consider the notion of site as a place of contestation, collaboration or mediation today.
All Submissions Due: 19th September, 2010
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08/23/2010
VIP Art Fair: The First Art Fair to Launch in January Exclusively Online.
VIP is the first art fair to mobilize the collective force of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries with the unlimited reach of the Internet. So far several major galleries have signed up, including Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco). Anyone can browse, but to interact with dealers, you will have to be invited by one of the exhibiting galleries or pay a fee of $20 or $100.
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08/22/2010
Artist in Residence Program “Recology” at the SF Dump – Deadline: August 31, 2010
Recology San Francisco's Artist In Residence Program is seeking applications from local artists for residencies in 2011. Only artists living in the San Francisco Bay Area may apply. For more information visit:
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08/21/2010
In Apps, the new palette for digital art gives artists wider reach and a chance to make money.
From Bay Citizen: Digital art curator at the U.C. Berkeley Art Museum has shown mobile applications in his NetArt series and will do so again this fall. He said artist-made apps were “the perfect marriage of mass distribution with collaboration potential and ability to have a local bodily experience.” Artists can get their work seen widely, and get paid for it by charging per download.
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08/19/2010
Check Out: The printed version of Talking Cure Summer 2010 now available online at MagCloud.
Once the criteria for working in the art world was having distinctive if not discerning Taste. Discussion about this have all but disappeared from our the contemporary dialog, but Taste in a practical and philosophical sense is alive and well and desperate for examination. This issue explores its various implication through artist's writing and interviews.
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08/19/2010
LevelFive Project seeks 75 participants live role-playing event as a part of the ZERO1 Biennial September 16 - 18.
LevelFive is an intensive 3-day experiment and live game performance. This open-ended live role-playing environment with up to 50 players will provide a space in which players are free to explore self-actualization issues with varying degrees of personal intensity, but via an alibi or fabricated character. Players from the LARP, experimental theater, academic, and performance art communities are expected to participate.
Sign up to participate in LevelFive here:
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08/15/2010
Check out: interview with Abdi Farah, the winner of Bravo's art-themed competition Work of Art.
From ArtInfo: "I feel supergreat to be having a show go up. I’ve been a fan of the Brooklyn Museum for a long time. I saw an amazing show there when I was in the eleventh grade. I saw the Basquiat retrospective when I was in twelfth grade. I’ve just been a big fan of the museum for a long time, so the fact that I’m going to have a show there is so awesome."
For full interview: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35467/the-work-of-art-exit-interview-winner-abdi-farah/
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08/15/2010
Check out: "Art that prompts a smile," which highlights Mika Rottenberg's work currently at SFMOMA.
From the Los Angeles Times: Her video installation "Squeeze," currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, imagines the production of the ungainly art object as a somewhat magical process. The show is one of several current exhibitions that use humor to raise questions about the relationship — whether estranged or entangled — between art and everyday life.
http://www.latimes.com/la-ca-art-humor-20100815,0,5037767.story
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08/12/2010
Intersection: World Culture in the East Bay open call for submissions for 510 arts’ online exhibition.
Intersection: World Culture in the East Bay is an online arts exhibition reflecting the diversity of people, art and culture in the East Bay. The exhibition is open to individual artists and arts organizations within the 510 area code. Works selected will be displayed on the website 510Arts.com.
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08/11/2010
Bill to halt deaccessioning of works of art from museums' collections has all but died in NY State Senate.
From NY Times: A bill to prohibit cultural institutions from selling pieces from their collections to cover operating costs has all but died in the New York State Legislature, in the face of opposition from major cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the withdrawal of support from the bill’s Senate sponsor. Some museums are already precluded from such sales by the state Board of Regents, but the bill would have made the practice illegal and expanded the prohibition to all museums.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/arts/design/11selloff.html
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08/10/2010
Southern Exposure Now Accepting Applications for Round IV of the Alternative Exposure Grant Program.
Southern Exposure will host three information sessions in August and September to provide more detailed information on the application process, questions of eligibility, appropriate uses of the grant funds, and to answer any other questions. Two will be held at Southern Exposure on August 2, 2010 and Sept. 1, 2010, and a third at Pueblo Nuevo Gallery in Berkeley on August 9, 2010. Deadline to apply is Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Learn more at www.soex.org/alternativeexposure
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08/10/2010
Web Plan From Google and Verizon is criticized by groups that favor keeping the Internet as open as possible.
From New York Times: According to the proposal, Internet service providers would not be able to block producers of online content or offer them a paid “fast lane.” It says the Federal Communications Commission should have the authority to stop or fine any rule-breakers.
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08/07/2010
Check out: Secrets of the Silent Mountain, by Matthew Rana, an audio book and short story written by corporate employees.
Part of the CAPITALISM IS OVER If You Want It series, Secrets of the Silent Mountain is an audio book and short story written by corporate employees. Over 20 days, starting August 1, artist and AP contributor Matthew Rana will make a series of phone calls to bankers, technical support staff and customer service representatives, interrupting their workday with idle conversation. Drawn from narratives used in corporate team-building exercises to enhance productivity, these phone calls will form the basis for a short story and audio book. Hear new chapters daily by calling 510-283-1375.
For more details: http://www.CapitalismIsOver.com
