NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter
Wednesday, March 12
Artists Announced for Prospect 1. Biennial in New Orleans; Design Museum Award Short List Announced; Jasper de Beijer; Paulette Phillips
International Top News
Artists Announced for Prospect 1. Biennial in New Orleans
Prospect 1., the New Orleans–based biennial set to open November 1, has announced the 81 artists selected to participate in the unorthodox exhibition, which will be spread throughout a variety of sites in the city, including homes wrecked by Hurricane Katrina. The show is billed as the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, and selected artists hail from all over the world—from Los Angeles to Cairo, Egypt. Ghada Amer, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Fred Tomaselli are among the better-known names. (Artinfo, March 11)
Design Museum Award Short List Announced
Beijing’s hundred-thousand-seat National Stadium and the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition are in competition for an award at London’s Design Museum, writes Farah Nayeri for Bloomberg. The seven short-listed projects announced today also include the Airborne autumn/winter 2007 fashion collection by Hussein Chalayan, Martino Gamper’s chair designs, an interactive display for London Fashion Week by Haque Design, the One Laptop Per Child program by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Mex-X folding wheelchair by Meyra-Ortopedia. (Bloomberg, March 11)
Openings and Art Events on Wednesday, March 12
New York:
— The Housemaid (1960) @ Walter Reade Theater, New York
— Kristen Schiele: “My Dream is Yours” @ Sloan Fine Art, New York
— Coup de Grâce @ Simon Preston Gallery, New York
National:
— Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg @ Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco
— The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947) @ The Castro Theatre, San Francisco
— "Tales from the Birding Life: Poisonous Birds, the Horned Guan and the Bristle-thighed Curlew" @ Electric Works, San Francisco
International:
— Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Various Locations, London
— Tobias Till: As the Crow Flies @ gallery12, London
— Cao Fei @ Le Plateau, Paris
Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International
— Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London, Thur 13 Mar – Sun 16 Mar
— Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org
— Armory, March 27-30, New York, New York, thearmoryshow.com
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