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2011 GABRIEL KURI The Armory Show has commissioned Mexican-born, Belgium-based artist Gabriel Kuri to create the visual identity for the 2011 fair. Kuri’s artwork, which often combines everyday detritus and commonplace materials in unexpectedly poetic juxtapositions, will set the aesthetic for the fair’s look, will be featured in all its advertising and marketing materials and will be showcased in the catalogue. This will be the tenth year The Armory Show has commissioned an artist to define the image of the fair. Gabriel Kuri is renowned for sculptures and collages made from the remains of everyday purchases and found objects. Kuri reconfigures meaning from tickets and receipts, retail supplies and slabs of marble, stones and other incongruous materials. “We are very happy to have Gabriel Kuri contribute his unique sensibility to The Armory Show’s image,” said Executive Director Katelijne De Backer. “We look forward to sharing his gift for allusion and his lyrical combinations with th...

ABOUT RENZO PIANO Renzo Piano was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1937, into a family of builders. In his home city he has strong roots, sentimental and cultural, with its historic center, the port, the sea, and with his father’s trade. During his time at university, the Milan Polytechnic, he worked in the studio of Franco Albini. He graduated in 1964 and then began to work with experimental lightweight structures and basic shelters. Between 1965 and 1970 he traveled extensively in America and Britain. In 1971, he founded the studio Piano & Rogers with Richard Rogers, and together they won the competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the city where he now lives. From the early 70s until the 90s, he collaborated with the engineer Peter Rice, forming Atelier Piano & Rice, between 1977 and 1981. Finally, in 1981, he established Renzo Piano Building Workshop, with a hundred people working in Paris, Genoa, and New York. A propos de l'architecte choisi par le Whitney pour la constr...

Sometimes you do not need to go very far to be amazed: READ about this show “The Chemistry of Color: The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art” is at the Hudson River Museum , 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, through May 8. Information: hrm.org or (914) 963-4550. check it online: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/nyregion/27artwe.html?_r=1&nl=nyregion&emc=urb3

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In Life and Death Kienholz makes us participate: Nancy's first work done without her collaborator/husband is permanently installed in Hope -- Ed Kienholz's mournful performance/tableau burial. "His corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe," said Hughes. "There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him, and the ashes of his dog Smash in the trunk. He was set for the Afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole: the most Egyptian funeral ever held in the American West, a fitting [exit] for this profuse, energetic, sometimes brilliant, and sometimes hopelessly vulgar artist." Source: http://www.beatmuseum.org/kienholz/edkienholz.html

The Whitney Museum of American Art is developing plans to build a 195,000-square-foot building in downtown Manhattan. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line, the new building, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, will provide the Whitney with essential new space for its collection, exhibitions, and education and performing arts programs in one of New York’s most vibrant neighborhoods. The downtown building will include more than 50,000 square feet of indoor galleries and 13,000 square feet of rooftop exhibition space, providing long-awaited opportunities to show more of the Whitney’s unsurpassed collection of 20th- and 21st-century American art in tandem with cutting-edge temporary exhibitions. (The galleries in the Whitney’s Madison Avenue building, designed by Marcel Breuer , total 32,000 square feet. The collection has grown from about 2,000 works at the time of the building’s opening, in 1966, to more...

What is Swab? Swab: small piece of absorbent material attached to the end of a stick or wire. Swab will absorb 44 galleries around the World in 26-29 May 2011 in Barcelona. The aim of the organizers is to present emergent contemporary ar t from around the world art scene being a plataform for a young generation of national and international galleries. In 2007, Swab took place for its first time, bringing to Barcelona the Art Fair always wanted for the city. Be a Swabber ! more info http://www.swab.es

Read the article in the NEW YORK TIMES... London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art ............The great success story of the day was Martial Raysse. The French artist, born in 1936, was painting in his youth portraits that are as ultrasimplified as New York school Pop Art images but differ markedly in feeling with their expressionistic handling in abruptly contrasted colors. “L’année dernière à Capri (titre exotique)” (Last Year in Capri (exotic title), portraying a young woman, could have been done as a poster. A discreet touch of Surrealism sets the portrait further apart from Pop Art. Its owner, who acquired the Raysse in 1975, was selling it for the benefit of a charitable foundation. Perhaps stirred by such prolonged faithfulness to the artist on the vendor’s part, bidders went berserk. They sent the Raysse shooting to £4.07 million. This set a world auction record not just for Raysse, but for any living French artist......... READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE :htt...

“Zanzidae, From the Peacock Series” (1979), a wall piece that incorpo- rates glass and plastic in various forms, at the New Museum exhibition read in the NY TIMES: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18benglis.html?_r=1&nl=nyregion&emc=urb3 The New Museum has become a busy place this year, and it is not yet even March. In January it opened a popular tribute to the market-hardy paintings of George Condo. Now it is offering a startlingly excellent resurrection of the prescient Post-Minimalist renegade Lynda Benglis and her gaudy, multidexterous and often gender-bending segues among Process, Performance and Body Art.

Thanks Olivier for sharing with us your recommendations after your visit in Chelsea: - Tara Donovan/ Pace gallery/ 25th Street Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins) Feb 12, 2011 - Mar 19, 2011 - Sze Tsung Leong/ Yossi Milo Gallery/ 25th street - Shinichi Maruyama/ Bruce Sikverstein/ 24th street - Annie Attridge/ Asya Geisberg gallery/ 23rd street

LET'S START WITH THE ARMORY SHOW WEBSITE: http://www.thearmoryshow.com/cgi-local/content.cgi

PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY TO ANNOUNCE A SELLING EXHIBITION OF SELECTED WORKS BY RYAN McGINNESS RYAN McGINNESS: BLACK HOLES VIEWING: DECEMBER 23, 2010 – MARCH 8, 2011 LOCATION: Phillips de Pury & Company 450 WEST 15 STREET NEW YORK, NY 10011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York - Phillips de Pury & Company announces Black Holes, a selling exhibition of 24 selected works from the Black Holes series by the contemporary art star, Ryan McGinness. In true McGinness style, the show will include a spectacular, site-specific black light installation showcasing ten unique works at our 450 West 15 th Street location overlooking the High Line. The exhibition will also include edition works sparkled throughout our Chelsea gallery. The 24 works present a psychedelic quality and possess visual manifestations of inner and outer space combined with lace-like über fanciness. The Black Holes series was executed from 2004 to 2010; McGinness has completed the series. Phillips de Pury & Compan...

WESTCHESTER ACCUEIL CHARITY PHOTO CONTEST FOR YOUNG REPORTERS 7 TO 18 be creative… express your feelings about America $800 prizes. exhibition. deadline april 23, 2011 to benefit www.bgcnr.org just let us know that you are ready to participate: niclochard@yahoo.com rules and terms : see attachment or www.westaccueil.org

Chers Amis Lyonnais de Paris,.... Vous trouverez, en pièce jointe, une invitation à nous rejoindre le mercredi 23 mars 2011, de 17 heures à 21 heures à l'occasion du vernissage de l'exposition: "SPECTACULAIRE! DÉCORS D'OPÉRAS ET D'OPÉRETTES A LYON AU 19E" à la Délégation parisienne du Grand Lyon, 2 rue de Villersexel, Paris 7e Cette exposition se tiendra jusqu'au 19 mai 2011. Nous vous remercions par avance de nous faire part de votre participation -accompagné(e) ou non- par retour de ce mail ou par téléphone au 01 44 39 45 62 Dans l'attende du plaisir de vous retrouver bientôt, nous vous adressons nos amicales salutations. La Délégation parisienne du Grand Lyon 2 Rue de Villersexel, Paris 7e (métro Solférino) Tél. : 01 44 39 45 67 http://www.lyonnaisdailleurs.com/

21 - 24 Feb, 10am - 8pm Free Entry What does it take to be truly yourself? In an increasingly material society which we live in, our appearance and the things we use are easily picked up and abandoned; old streets, lost places and familiar faces quickly fade into memory; even the markings of our own actions are swept away in the inexorable advance of Modernity. In such times, what constitutes of the architecture of I? Four artists embark on a journey through inner space, the vast cavern that lies within ourselves, in hopes of understanding what does it mean to be I: Kanako Furukawa examines the ever-changing surface of our being: how the nuances of our skin and dressing can often mis-represent who we are. Calvin Pang delves into the forgotten relationship between ourselves and the things we abandon- which often retains the negative of its previous owner's identity. Tiffany Tay explores the murky depths of memory, trying to find out how its hazy depths affect and change us. Yang Jie...

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Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Receives Al Hirschfeld 'Barber Chair' NEW YORK, NY - Show-biz caricaturist Al Hirschfeld immortalized the world of theater with his fluid ink-and-pen portraits while seated in a barbershop chair behind a worn century-old drafting desk in the fourth-floor studio of his Manhattan town house. Now, eight years after the celebrated artist's death, his widow is donating the sturdy tools of his trade to the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Hirschfeld, who captured the appearance and personality of theater people for more than half a century with a distinct linear calligraphic style, died in 2003 at the age of 99. "It took eight men to get the chair down" the four flights of stairs, Louise Hirschfeld Cullman, a theater historian who married Hirschfeld in 1996, said in an interview Tuesday. "I thought this library was the right place for his work," she said. "He lived most of his life in New...

NEW YORK, NY.- Since first bursting onto the scene in the early 1980s with his unique adaptation of the language of Old Master painting, George Condo has created one of the most adventurous, imaginative, and provocative bodies of work in contemporary art. Condo’s work has been deeply influential to two generations of American and European painters, who have felt the impact of the artist’s astonishing technical ability, stylistic versatility, and inventive subject matter. This January, the New Museum presents “George Condo: Mental States,” the first major US survey of over eighty paintings and sculptures from the past twenty-eight years of the artist’s career. Condo is famously prolific, and this tightly edited selection of works from 1982 to the present responds to his prodigious output with a unique conceptual approach. The exhibition is organized thematically and stylistically in “chapters” developed in close collaboration with the artist. Highlighting the breadth of Condo’s artistic...

PRESS RELEASE The Tibor de Nagy Gallery marks its 60th anniversary with “Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters and Poets,” an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s pivotal role in launching the New York School of Poets and fostering a new collaborative ethos among poets and painters in post-War New York. .......read more http://www.tibordenagy.com/exhibitions/tibor-de-nagy-gallery-painters-and-poets/ ALSO this is a link to the Times article on Recent Tibor de Nagy (tibor de najh http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/arts/design/21tibor.html?_r=3&ref=arts

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