• April 19, 2008

    Date posted: April 18, 2008 Author: jolanta


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    DAILY NEWSLETTER
    		 
    Saturday, April 19-Monday, April 21  
    NY Arts Beijing Newsletter in Chinese click here
    		 

    International Top News

    Art Revealed as Fiction at Yale

    A Yale art student who claimed that she had repeatedly inseminated herself and then induced miscarriages as a performance-art project, igniting a firestorm of criticism on the campus and on the Web, told university officials on Thursday that she had lied about the claims and that the story itself was the art project. (New York Times, April 18, 2008)

    Photographs of Gay Paris at War Paint an Uneasy Portrait of City Collaboration

    An unusual warning has been added to a Paris exhibition that has shocked some visitors and media, despite the absence of sex, violence or religion. The photographic show has caused offence by depicting the French capital in the Second World War as a sunny place, where people enjoyed life alongside their Nazi occupiers. (London Times, April 18, 2008)
    NY Arts May-June 2008 Editorial Preview

    Revisualizations of Feminism

    I like to think that I come from two patriarchal cultures (Indian and American), but patriarchal in different ways. To immigrants, Bollywood films become a lifeline to India—what we remember or never knew existed. I think every culture has its own product of romance that socializes young girls, and I definitely saw my share of American romantic comedies and teenage angst films. In my experience, the thread in Bollywood films is falling in love and getting married, whereas in American movies, it is falling in love, going to the dance, and losing one’s virginity. In either scenario, a young woman defines herself through her relationship to the man in her life and some rite of passage. The difference is fundamentally about scale. The essence remains the same.

    Sylvia Ji at Corey Helford Gallery

    Sylvia Ji’s paintings mesmerize the viewer. At first glance one is taken with the drop dead sexy allure of the women she paints, but upon closer inspection you realize that many of her subjects are on the verge of death at the hands of deadly spiders, venomous snakes or poisonous flowers. In contrast to the subtle hints of inevitable decay, Sylvia’s color palette is candy sweet.

    Reviewed

    Check out this Review: Takashi Murakami’s Smog of Luxury by R.C. Baker

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    Openings and Art Events Saturday, April 19-Monday April 21

    Saturday, April 19

    New York:

    — Bryan Savitz, 6-8pm @ RARE Gallery
    — “The Colors of the Brain” @ Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, 10am-5pm, and MoMA, 6-8pm
    — Eric Zener, 6-8pm @ Gallery Henoch
    — Jason Gringler, 6-8pm @ The Proposition
    — Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer @ New Museum

    National:

    — Felise Stella @ L2kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA
    — Gary Edward Blum @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

    International:

    — "Accrochage," continues until May 9 @ Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
    — Nathalie Djurberg @ Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
    — “I AM A MAN” @ Portikus, Milan, Italy
    — François Curlet @ Air de Paris, Paris, France
    — Hannah Maybank, 2-5pm @ ArtSway, London, UK

    Sunday, April 20

    International:

    — Heimo Zobernig @ Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy

    Monday, April 21

    New York:

    — Linda Nochlin (7pm) @ La Maison Francaise, NYU
    — “New York Cool” @ Grey Art Gallery, NYU

    International:

    — Olu Oguibe, 5pm @ Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning


    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    — Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org
    — Istanbul International Film Festival, April 5-20, www.iksv.org
    — Berlin Biennale, April 5-June 15, www.berlinbiennale.info
    — Art Cologne, April 16-20 , www.artcologne.de
    — China International Gallery Exposition, April 24-28, www.cige-bj.com
    — Chicago Merchandise Mart, April 25 – 28, Chicago, IL, www.merchandisemart.com

     

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