This issue is almost entirely devoted to a single photographic project with Marti Friedlander. For PRIX-CHOC, Marti worked for the first time with a digital camera, and for the first time with agency models. Over 50 models from a single agency turned up to an open-call weekend photo shoot, and were photographed without styling, wardrobe or makeup, and with only limited direction. The resulting 252 photographs fill the pages of PRIX-CHOC. PRIX-CHOC APR 08 features texts by Julian Dashper, Pansy Duncan, and David Levinson.
PRIX-CHOC is published on an irregular basis. PRIX-CHOC APR 08 is available from Thursday next week for the retail price of NZ$2.80, and is available by online mail-order.
Beverly Naidus just launched a new website. Her work is also currently being shown at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in the show WEATHER REPORT: Art and Climate Change curated by Lucy R. Lippard. See this link to learn more:
http://www.bmoca.org/artist.php?id=74
Beverly is currently on leave to write her book, Outside the Frame: Teaching Art for Social Change that will be published by New Village Press in 2008.
"Edward Albee was friends with my grandmother Louise Nevelson."
-Maria Nevelson
Louise Nevelson Foundation & Excursions From The Square are back from their June trip to see EDWARD ALBEE'S play, Occupant, starring Academy Award winning actress, MERCEDES RUEHL.
Read the rave New York Times review here.
Here's the latest news from featured artist, Tamar Hirschl:
Look for Tamar’s work in the group exhibit, Tradition and Transformation: Art by Jewish Women, curated by Beth Shadur, opens at the Woman Made Gallery in ChicagoMay 23 to June 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 25th, 4-7pm
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-738-0400
Click here for details
In addition, artSumer Gallery in Switzerland will be featuring several of Tamar’s recent sculptures at SCOPE Basel:
artSumer BOOTH # 303
June 3-8, 2008
Uferstrasse 80, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Here is an update from Judith Margolis:
"I will be an artist-in-residence for two and a half months starting January 15th at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, and living in the international artist's studios called the 18th Street Complex in Santa Monica during February and March 2008."
Judy Chicago
is participating in a group exhibition February-May 2008. WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution will be on view at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave (at the intersection of 46th Ave) Long Island city, NY (on the web at: www.ps1.org)
Judy Chicago's art organization, Through the Flower, is presenting a public lecture by Charlene Teter to honor her work on May 17, 2008 at 2pm.
For more information on these programs please contact Through the Flowerat 505-864-4080 or info@throughtheflower.org.
Siona Benjamin is participating in a traveling exhibit by the Indo American Arts Council.
"Erasing Borders: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora"
The exhibit will travel to theHammond Museum, North Salem, NY 10560 (June TBA-September 5, 2008) and the Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, NY (October 2008 - TBA)
Siona is participating in the show "Open to Interpretation". Works will be on view from July 8-14 at A.I.R Gallery, 511 W25th street #303 in the Chelsea district of New York City. Gallery hours are 11am to 6pm. There will be two receptions, an opening on July 8th 6-9 and a gallery reception on July 10th 6-9.
Siona's work is also being featured in the Inaugural Exhibition of The Arts Council of Princeton’s New Paul Robeson Center for the Arts. The exhibit is called, RETURN: HOME
(June 5, 2008 – September 6, 2008)
For more information contact E. Carmen Ramos, Curator of Exhibitions, at
609-924-8777 or ecramos@artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Here's some news from Hope Sandrow:
Please join us to watch life unfold, before cameras you can operate: streaming live video and audio online at http://hopes.viewnetcam.com:5001.
You have been invited to play the role of "observer" in an artwork documenting the life and times of Shinnecock. This series utilizes global technology to make visible the invisible through streaming images transmitted online from cameras (http://hopes.viewnetcam.com:5001). In real time watch Cleo warm the maturing eggs; pipping begins today; chicks hatching and days later flying off a "world" presided over by Shinnecock.
Chickens that live, fly and breed "freely" as before Manhattan and Long Island were fully colonized, until the Industrial Revolution bound them into commercial farm production dependent on fossil fuel energy costing us more than the $130 a barrel as it contributes to the effects of global warming.
More info and pics posted at www.hopesandrow.com/happeninglive or http://www.myspace.com/paduans
