upcoming events at hallwalls contemporary arts center, buffalo, ny;
other local listings; sundry filler material
Friday, October 26, 2007
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. — Paul Tillich
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. — H. L. Mencken
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. — Groucho Marx
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. — Sigmund Freud
They're Baaaack...Kitchen Distribution resurrects Itself tomorrow night with a benefit event for Steve Kurtz MYSpace
Robert Dick/Ursel Schlicht Duo @ HW TOMORROW Sat Oct 27 • 8pm Robert Dick (flutes) • Ursel Schlicht (piano) Ursel Schlict Website
would like to introduce artists to MARK on Monday October 29th at 7pm at Hallwalls What is MARK?MARK is the New York Foundation for the Arts’ new six month professional growth program for 80-100 visual artists throughout NY State. The MARK program focuses on providing artists the opportunity to expand their visibility through learning and then applying concrete professional practice skills. Through MARK, artists can expect the opportunity to strengthen their skills in presenting and packaging their art as well as create concrete goals and a personalized plan of action. • MARK is a program for visual artists who want a unique opportunity for individualized focus on the business side of their practice. • MARK runs from January to June 2008. • Four monthly seminars at partnering regional arts organizations across NY State. • MARK culminates in a weekend retreat for all artists in New York City. • Curriculum emphasizes goal setting and includes portfolio presentation, grant and project applications and public speaking. • Individual feedback given to all participants. Applications to the program are due at 5pm December 1st. Regional seminar dates currently available on the NYFA mark website. Cost to participate in the program is $150 which covers all seminars and as well as housing for the weekend in New York City. Join us for a MARK info session at Hallwalls, MARK’s Buffalo area partner. The MARK info session will outline the program, go over the application and provide additional information about the NYFA’s other programs for artists. NYFA
Ted Lyman in person @ HW Thurs Nov. 1 • 8 pm
Vermont based filmmaker Ted Lyman visits Hallwalls with a retrospective screening. Lyman, who has been engaged with experimental film making since the early seventies, creates films inspired by the American avant-garde—poetic works that explore the natural environment and our sense of place. Curated and organized by Caroline Koebel and Carolyn Tennant and co-sponsored by the UB Department of Media Study and the College of Arts and Sciences. Hallwalls Media Program
Opening Elsewhere • Jill Johnston Price TONIGHT at Squeaky Wheel 8pm • Adele Cohen at Buffalo Big Print opening Fri Oct 26 6-9pm (thru Nov 26) • Altars Day of the Dead at El Museo opening Sat Oct 27 8pm (thru Nov 10) • Hell's Commissary at Cosmopolitan Gallery opening Sat Oct 27 8pm (thru Nov 10) • Rumsey Winner Exhibition at UB opening Thurs Nov 8, 5-7pm (thru Dec 7) • Jackie Felix at CG Jung Center (408 Franklin) opening Fri Jan 18/09, 7-9 pm
Images of Horror at Hardware Images of Horror and Imagination by Don Keller @ Allen Street Hardware Opening reception: Sat, Oct 27, exhibition continuing through Thanksgiving
Vanishing Point: Fifty Years of Photography Artist’s Talk and Private Reception featuring David Plowden Sat, Oct 27 • 5 - 7 pm Central Library
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (thru Oct 28) TWO MORE DAYS LOIS ANDISON • JEREMY BAILEY • CHRIS BARR • AMANDA BESL • LYN CARTER • SHAYNE DARK • ARTEMIS HERBER • ANI HOOVER • KRISTAN HORTON • SIMONE MANTELLASI • NATHAN NAETZKER • KATHRYN RUPERT-DAZAI • MICHAEL SNOW • ALFONSO VOLO Big Orbit Gallery (thru Nov. 3) ONE MORE WEEK SYLVIE BELANGER • DEIRDRE LOGUE Buffalo Arts Studio (thru Nov 3) ONE MORE WEEK SHAYNE DARK • KARA DAVING • LAURA GAROFALO & OMAR KAHN • BRYAN HOPKINS • OSVALDO RAMIREZ CASTILLO Burchfield-Penney Art Center (thru Dec 2) CHRIS BARR • JAX DELUCA • JOHN DRUMMER • CARIANNE HENDRICKSON • PAUL NICHOLSON Carnegie Art Center (thru Oct 27) ONE MORE DAY KATIE SEHR • JACQUELINE WELCH Castellani Art Museum (thru Feb 24) JAY CARRIER • AJ FRIES • KURT VON VOETSCH CEPA Gallery (thru Dec 21) TAMMY RENEE BRACKETT • HANS GINDLESBERGER • WILKA ROIG
Squeaky Wheel (thru Nov. 3) ONE MORE WEEK YVONNE BUCHANAN • JILL jOHNSTON-PRICE • DEIRDRE LOGUE • JULIE PERINI • RM VAUGHN UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus (thru Nov 10) TWO MORE WEEKS DOROTHEA BRAEMER • ALLYSON MITCHELL • SARAH PAUL • RICHARD PRICE • DIANE SCHAEFER • KATE WILSON UB Anderson Gallery (thru Nov 11) TWO MORE WEEKS BRENDAN FERNANDES • JASON LEE • PAUL WALDE
Continuing Elsewhere (winding down/see em now) • Buffalo Society of Artists 111th Annual Juried Exhibition at Premier Annex Gallery (Clarence) thru Nov 3 • Abigappleprevieworksbypeterfowler at Kepa3 thru Oct 28 • Rob Lynch at Wellsville Creative Arts Center thru Oct 28 • Amanda Wojick at Nina Freudenheim thru Nov 28 Buffalo Rising • Buffalo's Trees: In Memorium at Impact Artists Gallery thru Oct 27 • Val Dunne at Betty's thru Jan 6 • Leah Rico at NCCC thru Nov 21 • Bodgan J. Fundalinski at Artsphere thru Nov 17 • 3rd Annual National Small Works Exhibition at Art Dialogue thru Nov 16 • Joan Linder: The Pink at Mixed Greens (NY) thru Nov 10 • Gilda Oliver and Bob Ratterman at Olean Public Library thru Nov 3 • second annual One Piece Wonder show at Cosmopolitan Gallery thru Oct 13 • Bob Schulman at Globe Market, Chateau Buffalo, Brodo Buffalo Rising • Peter Stephens at Nina Freudenheim thru Nov 2 • Craig La Rotonda and Kim Maria at Nichols School thru Nov 1 • Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
"Though Warhol rarely appears on camera, the films feel profoundly autobiographical; they’re individualistic records of the world in which he played, made art and helped construct his own slippery, elusive identity. They are part ethnography, part memento mori and wholly personal." Unblinking Eye
"Art, in his view...is so important to human life that it shouldn’t be boiled down simply to the shifting tastes of one man; it should exist in an almost Platonic state, helping people to understand their relationship to the objects in their world." Language As Sculpture artnet Charlie Finch
"But, young artists, don’t despair. I’ve created a handy program for attaining Art Stardom—no student loans, art bins or social skills needed! Just read on and follow the steps closely." Diary of An Art Star
"In "Devil’s Pie," Ofili is asking us to understand that an artist’s work is not only about a slice but about the whole pie—about a long journey and the big picture. He wants you to see the arc of a career, the experimental parts, not just chart-toppers." artnet Jerry Saltz
There ain't no moonlight after midnight / I see you silly people out looking for delight / Well I'm so happy I'm feeling so fine / I'm watching all the rubbish, you're wasting my time... Gary Nickard of the Vores (who moonlights as an art professor) forwarded this story about the impending Sex Pistols reunion tour and I'm glad he did. Though the Pistols did a summer reunion tour and live album in 1996 (Filthy Lucre), why shouldn't they do it again a decade later? If they did it once a decade til they all passed away, they would manage to make as much of a farce of aging rock stars as they once did of bloated rock stars, all the while earning plnety of that dirty, dirty money the poor bastards never made when they were in their brief, halcyon prime. Though it's unlikely anything will ever match the final Pistols concert January 14, 1978 at Winterland in San Francisco. Fed up with each other, disgusted with Malcolm McClaren and the media, sick of America, and having had enough of gob and every sort of debris hurled at them non-stop on stage, the music whimpers to an end that is sucked dry of all enthusiasm and filled instead with self-loathing as in the concert's final, final moment, John Lydon mutters into the microphone, "A-ha-ha, ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" He was talking about himself. Reuters RB Kitaj 1933—2007 NY Times
Carnegie Art Center Members' Exhibition Drop-off dates this week! Bruce Adams • Picture of Man and Woman with Painting - Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, 2003, 30" x 24" Featuring art works by members of Carnegie Art Center On View: November 10—December 8, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 7 - 9 pm Juried by Joanna Angie, Executive Director, Buffalo Arts Studio All members in good standing may exhibit one art work. For more information about memberships please visit our website. • Awards for best works • All members in good standing may submit one piece to be exhibited • Work must have been completed in the last three years - 2005 or later • Video and digital work submissions are encouraged • Student members must be at least 18 years to enter • Existing members may renew at time of art work drop off • CAC reserves the right to exclude works with problematic content and to return works not properly prepared for presentation DROP OFF DATES: Sat, Oct 27, noon—4pm • Tues, Oct 30, 10am—4pm • Wed, Oct 31, 10am—4pm SIZE LIMITATIONS: 2D works: 3' x 4' overall maximum (with wire, ready to hang) • 3D work: 6'h x 3'w x 3'd
BPAC Outdoor Art Competition • Deadline Nov 2/07 Outdoor Art Competition BPAC First Ever Members Exhibition The Artists Among Us: The Burchfield-Penney's Members Exhibition December 14, 2007 - March 2, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, December 14 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m In celebration and thanks to the artists of Western New York for their support of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and for their contribution to our community, the museum is very pleased that the final exhibition in its Rockwell Hall location will be a Members Exhibition. All artists who are members of the Burchfield-Penney are encouraged to submit work for this very special event. To request an application form, email Scott Propeack at propeasf@buffalostate.eduor call 878-6011.
art & intuition & ron ehmke...you hit the trifecta! "This workshop combines theory (discussion + readings) and hands-on experiments (in class and at home) to explore the creative process in new ways. Intended for practitioners of all kinds and backgrounds (writers, media & visual artists, designers, performers, activists, organizers, psychologists and social workers, teachers, spiritualists, etc.) who are eager to discover new ways of engaging the mind, body, and spirit, and willing to share their own favorite techniques with others. Hint: if you have a gut feeling that you should take this class, then you’re halfway there!" Instructor: Ron Ehmke (WNY-based writer/performer/mediamaker/teacher; see everythingron for details) 4 Wednesdays, November 7 – December 5, 2007 from 7-10 pm (no workshop on Nov. 21) at Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources, 712 Main Street / Buffalo, NY $70 Squeaky Wheel members/$80 non-members + reader (approx $10)
Something I listened to this week... Country stylings, sweet voices, and twins. It's all good.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. — Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Friday, October 19, 2007
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. — Margaret Millar
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. — Leo Tolstoy
First Things First If anyone else out there uses Blogger and has figured out how to turn off the heinous Autosave feature, don't keep it a secret, let me know...you will be my new best friend...
Finally! It really seems as though it's been eons waiting for some rock band to be smart enough to know what exactly to do about music downloading and leave it to Radiohead, the smartest kids on the block, to figure it out. In Rainbows is available as a pay-what-you-want download on their website and if you're suspicious of that methodology, it's worthwhile reading the editorialRadiohead's Warm Glow. While about a third of folks paid nothing, many paid more than $20 and the average paid was $8. Seems as though these last several years of demonizing music fans as nothing but thieves is, whattaya know, a completely erroneous assumption.
In my life, I've bought hundreds of albums and cd's and paid way too much for most of them. Twenty-five years after the cd first appeared, they're still stunningly overpriced, which indicates that our hard-earned money is going to an endless cadre of useless middle management, research and development people, and other industry numbnuts. It's an obvious and brilliant stroke of genius for Radiohead to offer their new album in this manner. (Why it wasn't U2, self-styled musical moralists that they are, is a good question.)
It's worth noting that by going the pay-what-you-can route, Radiohead still racked up in excess of $9 million. Mucho dinero for the band + optional pricing for fans + street cred intact/enhanced = Win! Win! Win! If this is the 21st century, I say Welcome to the Future, baby!
An Emmy, An Oscar, A Nobel Prize, Invented the Internet, Gave Us Fire...if he can make it to the finals of Project Runway, he might just get his career path back on track... NY Times Editorial NY Times Letters NY Times/Bob Herbert
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (thru Oct 28) ONE MORE WEEK! LOIS ANDISON • JEREMY BAILEY • CHRIS BARR • AMANDA BESL • LYN CARTER • SHAYNE DARK • ARTEMIS HERBER • ANI HOOVER • KRISTAN HORTON • SIMONE MANTELLASI • NATHAN NAETZKER • KATHRYN RUPERT-DAZAI • MICHAEL SNOW • ALFONSO VOLO Kristan Horton at the Albright-Knox. Big Orbit Gallery (thru Nov. 3) SYLVIE BELANGER • DEIRDRE LOGUE Sylvie Belanger at Big Orbit Gallery. Buffalo Arts Studio (thru Nov 3) TWO MORE WEEKS! SHAYNE DARK • KARA DAVING • LAURA GAROFALO & OMAR KAHN • BRYAN HOPKINS • OSVALDO RAMIREZ CASTILLO Bryan Hopkins at Buffalo Arts Studio.
Burchfield-Penney Art Center (thru Dec 2) CHRIS BARR • JAX DELUCA • JOHN DRUMMER • CARIANNE HENDRICKSON • PAUL NICHOLSON Jax Deluca at the Burchfield. Carnegie Art Center (thru Oct 27) ONE MORE WEEK! KATIE SEHR • JACQUELINE WELCH Jacqueline Welch at the Carnegie. Castellani Art Museum (thru Feb 24) JAY CARRIER • AJ FRIES • KURT VON VOETSCH Kurt Von Voetsch at the Castellani. CEPA Gallery (thru Dec 21) TAMMY RENEE BRACKETT • HANS GINDLESBERGER • WILKA ROIG Hans Gindlesberger at CEPA.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (thru Oct. 20) CLOSES TOMORROW 4PM! ROBERLEY BELL • DAVID CLAYTON • ADAM WEEKLEY Roberley Bell at Hallwalls.
David Clayton at Hallwalls.
Adam Weekley at Hallwalls. STEPHANIE ROTHERNBERG (installation in Hallwalls' cinema) Squeaky Wheel (thru Nov. 3) YVONNE BUCHANAN • JILL jOHNSTON-PRICE • DEIRDRE LOGUE • JULIE PERINI • RM VAUGHN RM Vaughn at Squeaky Wheel.
El Museo Oller y Diego Rivera (thru Oct. 20) CLOSES TOMORROW 5PM! XIAOWEN CHEN Xiaowen Chen at El Museo.
UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus (thru Nov 10) DOROTHEA BRAEMER • ALLYSON MITCHELL • SARAH PAUL • RICHARD PRICE • DIANE SCHAEFER • KATE WILSON Allyson Mitchell at UB Art Gallery. UB Anderson Gallery (thru Nov 11) BRENDAN FERNANDES • JASON LEE • PAUL WALDE Jason Lee at UB Anderson. photo by Bob Scalise.
Jeremy Bailey Video Paint Performance TOMORROW @ HW @ 8PM "The multifaceted practice of Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey not only utilizes a variety of media, but also takes inspiration from seemingly disparate influences. One perceives in both Bailey's single channel works and installations (on view at the Albright Knox Art Gallery), an understanding of the complex histories of video art. From the inclusion of humorous characters to body-based endurance performances, his videos incorporate a variety of strategies, no doubt inspired by his studies with the late Canadian performance video artist Colin Campbell. Perhaps a lesser-known tradition in video art that Bailey explores in his practice is the role of video artist as toolmaker. Early artists and engineers were forced, because of a lack of access to commercial image making tools, to create their own devices. By hacking and modifying preexisting tools, and eventually customizing and inventing their own machines, video artists were able to experiment with real-time image making long before the availability of personal computers. Three decades later, Bailey is among a new generation of generative artists who have continued building tools, and who insist that the process of researching and developing these systems is as crucial to their practice as any final product. By customizing computer-based video tools, by performing their capabilities in a variety of humorous "demos," and by sharing them with other artists, Bailey follows in the footsteps of such makers as Dan Sandin, the Vasulkas, and many others. During his screening and performance at Hallwalls, Bailey will show a series of videos as well as deliver a demonstration of his invention VideoPaint, a tool which allows users to paint anywhere at anytime by translating movements into virtual brushstrokes. Although Bailey is adept at cheekily performing the role of the dry inventor, audiences can expect this action packed demonstration to be both humorous and engaging, and to incorporate pop culture, music and an expressive range of movements." — Carolyn Tennant, HW Media Arts Curator Jeremy Bailey Homepage
Opening Elsewhere • Amanda Wojick at Nina Freudenheim opening Sat Oct 20 6-8pm (thru Nov 28) Buffalo Rising • Buffalo's Trees: In Memorium at Impact Artists Gallery opening Sat Oct 20 1-4pm (thru Oct 27) • Leah Rico at NCCC opening Thurs Oct 25 5:30-8:00pm (thru Nov 21) • Rumsey Winner Exhibition at UB opening Thurs Nov 8, 5-7pm (thru Dec 7) • Jackie Felix at CG Jung Center (408 Franklin) opening Fri Jan 18/09, 7-9 pm
Tomorrow at Nietzsche's
Kerouac Panel, Franks and Beans, Pelton Reading...all FREE at Medaille College Tues Oct 30 On the Road at Medaille
Images of Horror at Hardware Images of Horror and Imagination by Don Keller @ Allen Street Hardware Opening reception: Sat, Oct 27, exhibition continuing through Thanksgiving
Continuing Elsewhere (winding down/see em now) • Buffalo Society of Artists 111th Annual Juried Exhibition at Premier Annex Gallery (Clarence) thru Nov 3 • Abigappleprevieworksbypeterfowler at Kepa3 thru Oct 28 • Rob Lynch at Wellsville Creative Arts Center thru Oct 28 • Val Dunne at Betty's thru Jan 6 • Bodgan J. Fundalinski at Artsphere thru Nov 17 • 3rd Annual National Small Works Exhibition at Art Dialogue thru Nov 16 • Michael Doig at Villa Maria College thru Oct 26 • Joan Linder: The Pink at Mixed Greens (NY) thru Nov 10 • Gilda Oliver and Bob Ratterman at Olean Public Library thru Nov 3 • second annual One Piece Wonder show at Cosmopolitan Gallery thru Oct 13 • Bob Schulman at Globe Market, Chateau Buffalo, Brodo Buffalo Rising • Peter Stephens at Nina Freudenheim thru Nov 2 • Craig La Rotonda and Kim Maria at Nichols School thru Nov 1 • Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)
Why do The Terrorists Want To Hurt You? This is a smart bit of children's animation by Archibald Campbell, a former student of artist Bob Paris, who exhibited at Hallwalls earlier this year and maintains the site Surfing the Spectacle, where there's always some good thinking cooking... Why Do the Terrorists Want To Hurt Me?
Why Does Anyone Want To Hurt Art? So a friend chided me a bit for picking on the Europeans last week, in terms of my posting about actual literal attacks on artwork, which sprung from the recent incident in Sweden where masked vandals destroyed half of an Andres Serrano exhibition. I wasn't intending any critique on Europe, but it was startling that such a violent, intolerant act toward contemporary art happened on the continent where art of all kinds—including that bastard stepchild, contemporary art—is more fully woven into the overall fabric of the culture than it is in North America. Of course, what it might also point to is that radical, right-wing extremists are far more, uh, enthusiastic in Europe than they are here, and perhaps far more willing to act on their extreme views.
I was hard-pressed to think of a North American example to counter the European cases I cited, and I still can't think of one. The closest I can recall is Toronto artist Jubal Brown, who contrived a method of colored Jello and a vomit-inducing substance in order to realize a performance of direct criticism on paintings at both the Art Gallery of Ontario and MOMA. Adolescent, puerile, and much more of a petulant art-school fart (the "damage" caused was readily fixable) than any act of bona fide violence toward art. Physical dissent toward and about art—while abhorrent to those of us who work in the field—is not exactly a new thing. Here are a few more examples...
Yeah, well, Picasso smacked his women around so it serves him right...The Guernica Attack, 1974 NY Times
It's Hammer Time! The Pieta Attack, 1972 The Guardian
Now come on, Jesus has just as much right to be gay as anyone else.... Ecco Homo
To Expand or Not It's a good question, with a link forwarded to me by Diane Baker. Written by former Toronto arts writer Blake Gopnik, the piece has a few related links at the bottom, including a nice piece by Yve-Alain Bois. I'm not sure we're in snake-eating-tail territory, but decreased government funding in the past two decades has forced museum and non-profits to pay much more attention to revenue-generating streams, which can be at odds with one's core mission or raison d'etre. Bodies through the door means $$$ means core mission is supported. Bodies through the door also means...well. too many friggin' people, which can emphatically intrude on any reasonable experience of art.
When I saw the Gerhard Richter retrospective at MOMA, it was a joke, an utterly farcical experience completely antithetical to the whole point of making art in the first place. Squirming along with thousands of other art-viewing worms through a certain designated route defined—I think—by whoever happened to be at the front of the conga line, you would end up with maybe 5 seconds of personal viewing space in front of a painting. If you were lucky.
Then again, expansion is also about supporting one's core mission. The impending new building for the Burchfield-Penney Art Center is a long overdue expansion for WNY's regional museum. Despite the hecklers who ridiculously chided the BPAC for the design and the fact that its entrance is not face-front on Elmwood Avenue (a decision, from what I understand, that is all about providing visiting school children with a safe, off-street place to disembark from buses), the new Burchfield is quite obviously an elegant, fantastic building.
And all-green right down to the recycled steel. Word has it that Scott Propeack's office will be constructed entirely from compressed garbage and tofu. And a special outdoor pen is being constructed to develop free-range interns.
"I confess to resisting attending the various skull shows because, having in late middle age experienced my share of deaths and nearly expiring myself four years ago, I hardly need to turn "memento mori" into an esthetic obsession." artnet/Charlie Finch
“If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.” NY Times
"...if by artist we mean someone who paints or draws, it’s no stretch at all to say that Charles Schulz was the most popular and most successful American artist who ever lived. He was also...one of the loneliest and most unhappy..." NY Times
Also, a piece by John Updike on the Schulz biography inThe New Yorker
Stephen Colbert picks up the Op-Ed Gauntlet NY Times
Add North Tonawanda to Your CV: Carnegie Art Center Members' Exhibition Bruce Adams • Picture of Man and Woman with Painting - Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, 2003, 30" x 24" Featuring art works by members of Carnegie Art Center On View: November 10—December 8, 2007 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 7 - 9 pm Juried by Joanna Angie, Executive Director, Buffalo Arts Studio All members in good standing may exhibit one art work. For more information about memberships please visit our website. • Awards for best works • All members in good standing may submit one piece to be exhibited • Work must have been completed in the last three years - 2005 or later • Video and digital work submissions are encouraged • Student members must be at least 18 years to enter • Existing members may renew at time of art work drop off • CAC reserves the right to exclude works with problematic content and to return works not properly prepared for presentation DROP OFF DATES: Sat, Oct 27, noon—4pm • Tues, Oct 30, 10am—4pm • Wed, Oct 31, 10am—4pm SIZE LIMITATIONS: 2D works: 3' x 4' overall maximum (with wire, ready to hang) • 3D work: 6'h x 3'w x 3'd
BPAC Outdoor Art Competition • Deadline Nov 2/07 Outdoor Art Competition BPAC First Ever Members Exhibition The Artists Among Us: The Burchfield-Penney's Members Exhibition December 14, 2007 - March 2, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, December 14 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m In celebration and thanks to the artists of Western New York for their support of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and for their contribution to our community, the museum is very pleased that the final exhibition in its Rockwell Hall location will be a Members Exhibition. All artists who are members of the Burchfield-Penney are encouraged to submit work for this very special event. To request an application form, email Scott Propeack at propeasf@buffalostate.eduor call 878-6011.
Something I listened to this week... When the cd format stormed the music industry gates in the early 1980s, purists decried the anticipated decline of album cover art. It's true enough that size matters in this regard and there is a peculiar personal thrill culled from flipping through piles of record albums and, if you're of a certain age, you've surely spent plenty of time staring at album covers while listening to music. They do contain within them multitudes and universes and magic powers. It was the title and album cover art that prompted me—with no other knowledge—to buy The Pixies' Surfer Rosa and, of course, I never looked back.
So, props to Kanye West for being smart enough to know that we don't need to see another hip hop artist posing and preening on another album cover. Kanye saves his egocentric histrionics for more appropriate situations, like the Grammys and other public appearances. Had I never heard of Kanye, I would have wanted to listen to Late Registration just because of the cover art. One of the best album covers of the last decade. This week, I listened to his latest, Graduation, which I thought was pretty damn terrific. Funny, great lyrics, awesome samples, it was pure aural pleasure from the first note.
Kanye has a pretty interesting website calledKanye Universe City on which he has a blog, where he recently posted installation images of Vanessa Beecroft at Vuitton, Paris and this video by Chilean hip hop group Los Mono...
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. — John Donne
