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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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| Friday, January 8 |
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Group Show in Spotlight
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Participating artists: Alexander Gelman, Paul Davis, Toast Girl, Yuichi Yokoyama
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International Top News
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Getting Sticky: Mark Jenkins x Aakash Nihalani
Things are getting a bit sticky. Two of the world’s best tape artists, Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani, have been busy fashioning new abstract installation work. The results are splendid. (Juxtapoz, January 8, 2010)
Opening tonight in San Francisco is an exhibition of new works by artist Adam Friedman entitled With a Generous Allowance of Time. The exhibition, which is on view at Eleanor Hardwood Gallery, features several collage works on panel that explore both time and the geological physicality of the world around us. (Daily Serving, January 8, 2010)
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NY Arts Winter 2010 Editorial Preview
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In 1979 I painted about 40 hummingbirds on exterior locations in lower Manhattan. An experience I’ve never recovered from. Every year I do another street project but I don’t think I’ll ever get to the bottom of the possibilities I stumbled upon with those birds. For years I engaged in a pretty standard street art message-in-a-bottle type of dialogue. Lately though, with the new spirit on the public commons, I’ve been amping it up.
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Composed with the intent to create a sort of survival guide for humanity, Federico Diaz’s collection of work for his exhibition Adhesion at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, explores relationships between the natural world and our ever-evolving manufactured world, through a range of different mediums, all asserting a heavy inference of one side outweighing the other.
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Leah Oates: When did you know you would be a photographer?
Will Steacy: There was a single experience in my life which had the most profound effect on me and from that night on, I vowed to devote my life to this thing inside me. In 2003 I was almost murdered in a robbery.
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A Subversionary’s Monologue
I’m Nigel Tomm—the most famous artist in the world. Some blah had already blah the blah by blah blah, and blah its blah by the blah that blah, blah blah, and all my blah, save blah who blah to tell the blah, had been blah to blah at the blah of the blah by a whole blah of wild blah.
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In the past few years, the majority of my work and research has been dealing with the domestic sphere and how it can act as a microcosm for the nation-state and society. I am interested in how the family, especially under circumstances of war, can learn to re-enact the trauma of political violence within the walls of the house.
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Recommended Web Site of the Week
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Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog – The IMA blog is a space to discuss everything related to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. www.imamuseum.org/blog
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Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International
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— London Art Fair, January 13-17, London, U.K.
— FADA Los Angeles Art Show, January 20-24, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
— Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 28-31, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
— Arte Fiera, January 29-30, Bologna, Italy
— CIRCA Puerto Rico, January 29-February 1, Puerto Rico
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