January 8, 2008

The
Foundation for Contemporary Arts is pleased to  announce its 2008
Grants to Individuals. Twelve unrestricted grants of $25,000 each, a
total of  $300,000, are to be awarded to artists in the United States
and abroad. “The Foundation for Contemporary Arts is pleased to be able
increase the number of  Grants to Individuals awards from ten to twelve
this year as a result of increased support from artists  and others,”
said Stacy Stark, Executive Director. “As unqualified support for
individual artists is  increasingly rare, the Foundation, which has
long been sustained by artists itself, is working to grow  both the
number of grantees and the size of its awards.” (FCA, January 8, 2008)
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Henri
Chopin(1922–2008), the French avant-garde poet, musician, and
performer, died on January 3, reports the Poetry Foundation. The cause
of death was not reported. Known primarily as a concrete and sound
poet, Chopin created a large body of pioneering recordings using early
tape recorders, studio technologies, and the sounds of the manipulated
human voice. He also worked assiduously to disseminate avant-garde art,
designing and publishing the classic audiovisual magazines Cinquième
Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974. These publications brought
together writers and artists from the Lettrism and Fluxus movements, as
well as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, and
many others. (Art Forum, January 8, 2008)
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New York:

— "American Hallucination The" presented by Theater THE at  3LD Performance Space
— "The (Self)Promotion Show" at apexart
— "Winter Salon" at Gallery Sakiko
— Photography: Olaf Otto Becker "Broken Line" at Cohen Amador Gallery
— An evening of Iranian women’s voices, readings by Nahid Rachlin and
Porochista Khakpour @ McNally Robinson Books, January 9, Wednesday,
7:00 P.M., Info: (212) 274-1160, www.nahidrachlin.com
— Screening: Richard Prince "Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the
Short Story" at The Guggenheim Museum
— Grace Knowlton at Lesley Heller
— Mary Frank at DC Moore Gallery
— Al Taylor at Zwirner & Wirth

National:

— "Secret Sunshine Benefit Premiere" at Letterman Digital Arts Theater, San Francisco, www.sffs.org