Contents for October 17, 2022

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1. Jessica Fertonani Cooke & Supermrin, FF Alumns, at Lower Cavity, Holyoke, MA, opening November 17

2. Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Sydney Blum, Gylbert Coker, Vira Colorado, Blondell Cummings, David Hammons, Janet Olivia Henry, Noah Jemison, Nina Kuo, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Alva Rogers, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Randy Williams, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at MoMA, Manhattan, thru Feb. 18, 2023

3. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, at Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, thru Mar. 26, 2023

4. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, at Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, thru Nov. 19

5. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Bronx Children’s Museum

6. Soojakim, FF Alumn, at Metz Cathedral, Metz, France, and more

7. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, Dec. 1-18

8. Suzy Lake, FF Alumn, at mfc-Michèle didier, Paris, France, thru Dec. 23

9. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, new publication

10. Modesto Jimenez, FF Alumn, in San Diego, CA, thru Nov. 6

11. Jane Dickson, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times’ T Magazine

12. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, Autumn news

13. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

14. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online

15. Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumn,at New Lot Cinema Theater, Newport Beach, RI, Oct. 17, and more

16. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Alumn, at Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania, opening Dec. 8

17. Debra Pearlman, Susan Bee, FF Alumns, at Satellite Print Fair, Manhattan, Oct. 27-30

18. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Hudson Mainstage Theatre, Santa Monica, CA, Oct. 25

19. EIDIA House, FF Alumn, receives Best In The Fest Award, Naked Mountain International Independent Film Festival

20. Sarah H. Paulson, FF Alumn, at The Big Barn Concert Hall, Putney, VT, Oct. 22

21. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at 15th Annual High Line Open Studios, Manhattan, Oct. 22

22. Laurie Anderson, Nicole Eisenman, Jean Shin, FF Alumns, elected as National Academicians, National Academy of Design

23. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, live online with I Am Books, Boston, MA, Nov. 3

24. Amos Eno Gallery, FF Member, Brooklyn, new exhibition thru Oct. 30, and more

25. 10×10 Photobooks, FF Alumn, at MmuseuMM, Manhattan

26. Lynne Tillman, FF Alumn, now online in Bookforum, Vol. 29

27. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, now online

28. Marina Abramovic, Gilbert & George, David Hammons, Kimsooja, Robert Longo, Claes Oldenburg, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium, thru Jan. 22, 2023

29. Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, FF Alumns, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 20

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1. Jessica Fertonani Cooke & Supermrin, FF Alumns, at Lower Cavity, Holyoke, MA, opening November 17

Please visit these links to FIELD’s exhibition in Massachusetts:

https://allevents.in/holyoke/field-dwelling-landscapes/10000440527408337?ref=quicksearch-event-results

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_uL-pIbSUp_OI7xjNcol8O4HYeGwKTBu6Gkgec8f3KI/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you.

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2. Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Sydney Blum, Gylbert Coker, Vira Colorado, Blondell Cummings, David Hammons, Janet Olivia Henry, Noah Jemison, Nina Kuo, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Alva Rogers, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Randy Williams, Martha Wilson, FF Alumns, at MoMA, Manhattan, thru Feb. 18, 2023

Please visit this link:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5078

Thank you.

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3. Nam June Paik, FF Alumn, at Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, thru Mar. 26, 2023

Curator: Kim Yoonseo

Nam June Paik left behind various documents in different languages, including letters, scores, essays, proposals, and reports. One of these, a 1974 report somewhat grandly titled “Media Planning For The Post Industrial Age: Only 26 years left until the 21st Century,” seems more like a policy research document than an artist’s note. Instead of simply sharing bold ambitions, the report contains detailed and concrete plans for implementation. The text shares a vision akin to what has been realized today with the internet, stressing the urgency of being able to transmit ideas in real time through “electronic super highway,” just as the building of highways in the 1930s had enabled the movement of goods and the achievement of an economic revival. Emphasizing that “Mind pollution is as bad as air pollution,” Paik also urges caution in ensuring that media communications are not monopolized by technology experts or some “mysterious power complex.”

Paik actually did carry the title of “consultant.” While he was based in New York, he carried out his work with Rockefeller Foundation Art Grants in “Television/Video/Film” and for a roughly 20-year period beginning in the mid-1960s, he served in official and unofficial advisory roles, playing a leading part in emphasizing the importance of supporting medial field and proposing directions for its development. During this time, his video art and the video community were broadcast on television channels, discussed in scholarly contexts, and exhibited, collected, and proliferated by art institutions. His proposal expressed his bold ambitions of solving social problems through the medium of art, with immediate implementation plans laid out in considerable detail: digitalization to record and preserve human cultural history, video exchanges as a tool for learning and resolving our lack of understanding toward different cultures, the creation of electronic superhighways as communication systems connecting the world, and the continued pursuit of diverse representation in public broadcasting content.

As its title suggests, The Consultant: Paik’s Papers 1968–1979, a special exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of Paik’s birth, takes the artist’s reports as its starting point. Rather than emphasizing his individual achievements and the aesthetic context for his video art, it considers Paik as a “policymaker” based on reports that he wrote in English between 1968 and 1979: “Expanded Education For The Paperless Society” (1968), “Media Planning For The Post Industrial Age” (1974), and “How To Keep Experimental Video On PBS National Programming” (1979). Compared with his achievements focusing for a lifetime on the medium of video art, relatively little is known of how Paik investigated the raisons d’e^tre for social infrastructure and art and suggested new avenues for them. As it examines his work through the lens of Paik’s papers, the exhibition urges the viewer to see Paik in a new light, while showing how the realization of his artistic vision was underpinned not only by institutional support from the government, but also by collaboration with and support from private foundations, patronage funds, public schools, laboratories, broadcasters and art institutions.

The exhibition’s aims lie in taking a detour from the historic highway of regarding Paik as the “father of video art” and seeing him in a different light on a different sort of path.leaving behind the crossroads of preexisting knowledge and experience to find new opportunities for liberation. Exploring Nam June Paik as an analyst, a media consultant, and an agent of change for social infrastructure and technology during the social transitional period of the 1960s is a way of uncovering new tasks that have heretofore received little attention in studies of the artist, while also creating new points of contact with his works of electronic art. As we stand amid a different kind of digital shift and social change today, Paik’s media consulting is a work that is still in progress.

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4. Alice Wu, FF Alumn, at Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, thru Nov. 19

All red, all the time! My sculpture HMP is in the group show Crimson Tide at SF’s Soft Times Gallery now through 11/19.

Online catalog available on Artsy.net – to purchase pls email info@softtimesgallery.com 

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5. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Bronx Children’s Museum

Just finished installing a new hanging metal and glass sculpture and mural @bronxchildrensmuseum. Cannot wait until it opens to the public later this year. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in making this project possible! 

The installation consists of a mural and hanging glass sculpture made specifically for the museum.  The mural incorporates various mythological spirits that are associated with water from around the world, abstractions of water, and the sculpture incorporates water molecules, moon phases (as they are what give us the cycle of tides) and an abstraction of the sun.

Thanks to curator @natalie_collette_wood for inviting me to do this project, and the staff at Bronx Children’s Museum for all of their support.

Saya Woolfalk

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6. Soojakim, FF Alumn, at Metz Cathedral, Metz, France, and more

To celebrate its 800th anniversary, the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Metz unveiled new stained-glass windows, created by Kimsooja. The artist is not only the first non-European and the first 21st century artist, but also the very first woman to be commissioned such a project. Her stained-glass windows are installed in the bays of the triforium in the south arm of the transept. Kimsooja offers an abstract work designed to be a gentle experience, centred on colour and the changing light throughout the day and the seasons. The stained-glass panes were created in collaboration with the French master glass maker, Pierre-Alain Parot, using a combination of blown glass and dichroic glass.

This public art commission of a permanent piece was initiated by the Ministry of Culture. The project, overseen by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Grand Est region, in close liaison and with constant collaboration with the clergy responsible for the cathedral, was designed as a highlight of the celebrations of the eighth centenary of this Gothic structure.

Through his actions and performances, Yves Klein used colors such as blue, which he considered to be the most immaterial and spiritual, fire, water, and air, so that art could be experienced through sensibility, rather than being perceived just as a material object. As a young man, Klein came to Japan and earned a black belt in judo, and is known for his exploration of the relationship between the spirit and the body.

This exhibition displays artworks by contemporary and modern artists that resonate with Yves Klein’s spirituality and sensibility, based on the keywords of color, fire, air, sound, and other immaterial elements that are at the core of his artistic practice. 

More information here: https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=81&d=211

Artists: Yves Klein, Haroon Mirza, Kimsooja, Rintaro Fuse, Tomás Saraceno

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7. John Kelly, FF Alumn, at La Mama, Manhattan, Dec. 1-18

John Kelly Performs at La Mama Dec 1-18

Dear Friends,

I am thrilled to announce that Underneath the Skin will have a 3-week run this December 1st – 18th at La MaMa (https://www.lamama.org/shows/underneath-the-skin-2022) . We are re-staging this group work that was initially commissioned and premiered at NYU Skirball Center for The Performing Arts (https://nyuskirball.org/events/john-kelly-underneath-skin/) in the fall of 2019.

Underneath the Skin

(http://johnkellyperformance.org/wp2/projects-2/underneath-the-skin/)  is based on the life of gay novelist and tattoo artist Samuel Steward (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Steward)  (1909–1993). The pandemic delayed our plans, but during the hiatus, I was able to begin both conceptual and actual adjustments to the production.

In order to bring this production to life we need your support and hope you will consider making a donation to help us reach our fundraising goal of $15,000. These vital funds will help us cover performer salaries (4), stage management, public relations, and costs for set, costume, and lighting design. Donations of any size are appreciated, and go directly toward helping us reach our goal.

The overhead for this 3-week run is significant, and the purpose of this production is to reach as large an audience as possible, as we share this unique story of a 20th century creative spirit and trailblazer. As we move forward, we look forward to sharing this work with you.

Samuel Steward struggled during The Great Depression, outlived the McCarthy era and The Lavender Scare, took part in the strides that resulted in the Stonewall uprising, and witnessed the AIDS epidemic.  While the lives of pre-Stonewall LGBT+ people have largely been undocumented, erased, or forgotten, what makes Steward unique is that he was an obsessive documenter, and his papers and ephemera survive, providing a unique window into a gay man who lived his life authentically. UNDERNEATH THE SKIN celebrates the brave life of a creative spirit and reaffirms the persistence and mettle of social outsiders.

“I envision this work as a sort of time capsule of points in history where social and cultural outsiders like Samuel Steward found ways of functioning and even flourishing in spite of a hostile environment. I pride myself on my ability to convey story and situation through unconventional means, and I’ve constructed this work as a combination of movement, music, text, video projections, and visual design working together in the service of creating a compelling theatrical experience for a contemporary audience. Though this is a ‘period’ work–moving from the 1920’s through the early 1990’s–I aim for the effect of the work to be timeless, and to speak to our times by reminding the viewers that certain assumptions and freedoms were hard won, and noting is permanent.” – John Kelly

Some of the source materials from which I’ve culled Steward’s actual words that will be utilized in the performance, both spoken, recorded, and on video – I am currently in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (https://www.vcca.com/) – re-editing the original video projection component, and also working on the Set Design. These are portable cloth wardrobe closets that I have painted to look like bookcases –

In this production photo you can see how the reverse sides of the “bookcases” are painted to look like the exterior and interior of a tattoo shop.

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8. Suzy Lake, FF Alumn, at mfc-Michèle didier, Paris, France, thru Dec. 23

For Suzy Lake’s first extensive solo show in Europe, the gallery will exhibit major works of the american-canadian artist. 

A decisive figure in the American art scene of the late 1970s, particularly for Cindy Sherman, her work has been the subject of increasing interest from prestigious Museums in recent years. We will also present historical works in our booth at Paris + by ArtBasel at the Grand Palais Éphémère from October 20 to 23, 2022.

More information here: https://www.micheledidier.com/en/expositions/presentation/142/on-stage 

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9. Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, new publication

Barbara Rosenthal, FF Alumn, is the subject of new publication about her archives by Patricia Reguyal, an archives assistant at the Special Collections and Archives at Queens College CUNY when she worked on Barbara Rosenthal’s collection, housed in the Pine Tree Foundation Special Collections and Archives Wing. Rosenthal’s huge, extensive archives is being assembled by CUNY one monthly pick-up at a time from her West Village studio. So far, there have been ten shipments, comprising over 80 cartons and one of the two trunks her grandmother came to America (Lower East Side) with in 1904, and over 50,000 documents. This article is from the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, and is entitled, “Manifestations That Compress as Coal into Diamonds,” because its focus is the way Rosenthal turns Life into Art, and how her projects often are generated by the 87 volumes of Journals she has kept since 1959, age 11. 

https://www.laacollective.org/work/on-barbara-rosenthals-archives

A 2013 article about Rosenthal’s work, “Barbara Rosenthal: Hoarder of Life to Produce Art” by Australian reviewer Cassandra Rijs in the UK publication “a-n Artists Information,” addresses a similar theme, and might be worth comparing: https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/barbara-rosenthal-hoarder-of-life-to-yield-art/ 

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10. Modesto Jimenez, FF Alumn, in San Diego, CA, thru Nov. 6

Welcome to Taxilandia: San Diego.

With Sal as your host, this show is an intimate, multimedia experience- a car ride that immerses you in the sounds, sights and dynamic history of local neighborhoods in Sal’s dear South Bay San Diego.

Experience National City, Chula Vista, and San Ysidro from Sal’s backseat as he wrestles with the layers and questions that come when a neighborhood changes, confronting social stigmas and the realities of gentrification. Watch him testify to what is here now, how it came to be, and what can be here tomorrow.

Weaving a dramatic tapestry that interconnects generations, social classes, races and cultures, Sal’s Taxilandia: San Diego explores our notion of what it means to be a local, an immigrant, or a resident of a place; challenging us to answer: “What is my personal roadmap of home, and what are the footprints around us?”

This is the first time Taxilandia will be experienced in San Diego. Originally developed in Flako Jimenez’s own neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, Taxilandia was inspired and drawn from his nine years driving a taxicab and his documentation of conversations with passengers, residents, locals, and immigrants to the neighborhood.

Taxilandia: San Diego is an intimate car-ride experience, with up to three audience members per performance. The audience will meet Sal for their ride at the 8th Street Trolley Stop. The expected duration is approximately 90 minutes, and includes a ride on the trolley, with fare included in the ticket price. Masks will be required for all passengers, and can be provided upon arrival, if needed.

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11. Jane Dickson, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times’ T Magazine

Please visit this link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/t-magazine/eating-early-new-york-restaurants.html?searchResultPosition=1

Thank you.

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12. Warren Neidich, FF Alumn, Autumn news

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am excited to share with you some documentation from exhibitions from 2022 as well as press. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about the work.

Warren Neidich: Selected Exhibitions and Press

Exhibition

https://www.warrenneidich.com/

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13. Andy Warhol, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times

Please visit this link:

Prince Photo or Just Formerly Known as One? Supreme Court Weighs Warhol’s Art.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/supreme-court-prince-warhol.html?referringSource=articleShare

Thank you.

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14. George Peck, FF Alumn, now online

Please visit this link:

https://mcusercontent.com/f343937c6f260ff725fa72ef6/files/8199181d-dc0f-fb33-6a29-afa08b1c1798/Studio_Update_12.pdf

Thank you.

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15. Krzysztof Wodiczko, FF Alumn,at New Lot Cinema Theater, Newport Beach, RI, Oct. 17, and more

Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War

Directed by Maria Niro

The Art of  Un-War is an in-depth investigation into Wodiczko’s life and art, and focuses on the recurring theme of war in his oeuvre which spans over five decades. It explores Wodiczko’s life and the art interventions he creates as powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war and injustice. The film delves into timely works such as Abraham Lincoln War Veteran Projection in Union Square, NYC, where Wodiczko projects the voices and images of soldiers from 20th and 21st-century wars onto the statue of Lincoln. Throughout the film, the artist’s powerful interventions become examples of how art can be used to disrupt public complacency.

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16. Zlatko Kopljar, FF Alumn, at Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania, opening Dec. 8

Luc Tuymans and Zlatko Kopljar | 8 December 2022 – 9 February 2023 | Galerija Vartai

https://www.galerijavartai.com/exhibitions/106-luc-tuymans-and-zlatko-kopljar-exhibition-mercy-curated-by-ory-dessau/

Thank you.

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17. Debra Pearlman, Susan Bee, FF Alumns, at Satellite Print Fair, Manhattan, Oct. 27-30

New textured monotype prints from 2022 are featured with VanDeb editions at The Cleveland Fine Print Fair and The Satellite Print Fair in New York October 27-30 at 528 W. 39th St, close to the Javits Center. Layers of textured plates- with and without fragmented photographic images are etched in a series of unique works. Suggesting blankets, ambiguous geometric forms and the rich, saturated, translucent color are some of the ingredients in this new work.

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18. Galinsky, FF Alumn, at Hudson Mainstage Theatre, Santa Monica, CA, Oct. 25

Galinsky, FF Alumn, debuts new solo show in Los Angeles: “Everything in New York Goes BANG!”

Hollywood, CA: Following the successful launch of the national college tour kickoff of the acclaimed solo show “The Bench, A Homeless Love Story” at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, Galinsky travels next to Hollywood to premiere his newest solo show “Everything in New York Goes BANG!” The one-night-only debut engagement will take place at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre (6539 Santa Monica Blvd) on Tuesday October 25, 8pm 2022. Everything in New York Goes BANG! is executive produced by TONY Award winning producer Terry Schnuck. 

Tickets are now on sale at http://www.onstage411.com/nybang 

In this much-anticipated-one-person show, Galinsky recounts his journey from childhood in the suburbs of Connecticut, through his interactions with hipsters in the Lower East Side of New York City, to his work with young people incarcerated on Rikers Island Jail. Expertly embodying multiple characters through storytelling and rock-star level poetry, he explores the harmony and turmoil of living in New York City from his arrival in the late 1980’s to his exile and banishment from the notorious Rikers Island Jail in 2022. 

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19. EIDIA House, FF Alumn, receives Best In The Fest Award, Naked Mountain International Independent Film Festival

This film is about keeping Bob’s artistic legacy alive. He is missed. We Would Have Loved For ‘good ole’ Bob To See This Film.  

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20. Sarah H. Paulson, FF Alumn, at The Big Barn Concert Hall, Putney, VT, Oct. 22

“Burn Line” is a performance of passion.  For 5 hours, individuals for whom performance is a sacred language, join one another in a dialogue that transcends the English language.  Through movement, mark-making, and music, the relationship between the performers, the intimate concert hall, and the audience members deepens with time.  

Audience members are invited to arrive and depart as they wish throughout the 5 hours.  Some may be witness to thousands of rose petals cascading upon a duet between two dancers.  Others may catch a spontaneous improvisational groove between percussionist Eduardo Leandro and saxophonist Travis Laplante.  All will see the 1000 lb. heaping pile of glistening white salt around which the performance revolves.

The uniting thread of “Burn Line” is the completion of Paulson’s many year relationship with the pages of a 100+ year old ledger.  In her 2016 performance, The Reed Bed, all 700+ pages of the ledger were burned with 3 holes using a moxa stick.  Six years later, Paulson uses indigo ink to draw a single vertical line on each page, connecting the 3 holes. As though together in a confined room, Laura Stelmok sits across from her, guiding her in drawing such a line*.

“Burn Line” stretches the performers for the purpose of being touched by—and touching back toward—the unknown world that performance holds. 

Some messages can only arrive through harmony.  “Burn Line” aspires to such harmony. Though the message may be unknown, we still listen.  “Burn Line” is about the unification of what was, what is now, and what might come.  “Burn Line” guarantees nothing but lives through promise and passion.  “Burn Line” is the performer calling to Performance.  “Burn Line” is the performer listening through Performance.  “Burn Line” is the performer laying down her most precious instrument so that something might be completed. 

Performance might one day call.  Perhaps even just one of us will be reduced enough that we can hear and be marked by such a call.

“I will never forget learning in elementary school that a line is infinite. By stating this, the teacher opened a door in me that was both shocking and made perfect sense. The notion of an infinite line has remained at the center of my life since that moment. The line is a holy mark.  The vertical line in this performance, though drawn hundreds of times, and transforming in shape, is a symbol for the same line.  At times, the line becomes the musical score, a universal language that has the capacity to reach all.” – Sarah H. Paulson

For more information: 

732.407.7240 / sarah.swordhands@gmail.com  / www.sarahhpaulson.com 

This performance was developed during the artist residency program of  The School of 3 Lights, a school for the training of the muse.

Big Barn Concert Hall Location:

The Big Barn is located at 49 Main Street in Putney, VT, which is at Exit 4 off of I-91, in between the Putney Co-op and the Putney Public Library. Park in the fenced in gravel area, and walk on the lighted pathway to the concert hall.

Directions by car: Take I-91 to Exit 4 in Vermont. Go north on Route 5 (Main Street) less than ½ mile. The Big Barn is just north of the Putney Co-op, on the left. Parking is available off Main Street. Park in the fenced in gravel area, and walk on the lighted pathway to the concert hall.

Directions by air and train: The closest major airport to Putney is Bradley International Airport in Hartford, CT. Amtrak provides train service to Brattleboro, VT.

Please note: Masks must be worn in the Big Barn Concert Hall. No food or drink, please.

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21. Arlene Rush, FF Alumn, at 15th Annual High Line Open Studios, Manhattan, Oct. 22

I’m – Back By Popular Demand

Hi Everyone

I am excited to be participating in the 15th Chelsea Highline Open Studios along with my studio mates Dianne Athey, Charlotte Gould and Jos Stumpe. It’s been a number of years since I’ve participated in this event and many have asked me to open up my space, so here I go!.  

Kindly consider wearing a mask (although it is not mandatory) and please spread the word!.  

Arlene

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22. Laurie Anderson, Nicole Eisenman, Jean Shin, FF Alumns, elected as National Academicians, National Academy of Design

The National Academy of Design is delighted to announce that 17 artists and architects from across the United States have been elected as National Academicians. Recognized for their contributions to contemporary American art and architecture, this year’s class of newly elected Academicians includes:

Laurie Anderson, Edgar Arceneaux, Radcliffe Bailey, Deborah Berke, Huma Bhabha, Tania Bruguera, J. Yolande Daniels, Leonardo Drew, Nicole Eisenman, Julie Eizenberg, Hank Koning, Rick Lowe, Jean Shin, Arthur Simms, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Dan Walsh, Nari Ward

The annual nomination and election of National Academicians dates back to the National Academy’s founding as America’s first artist-led arts organization in 1825. New Academicians are nominated and elected by the current members of the National Academy, a community of 450 artists and architects across the country.

“The election of new Academicians each year captures the breadth and diversity of cultural practice in America,” noted Gregory Wessner, Executive Director, National Academy of Design. “Spanning both art and architecture, it is a particularly meaningful honor for newly-elected Academicians because it represents recognition by a broad community of working artists and architects.”

Upon election, Academicians are invited to donate a representative work – called a Diploma Work – to the National Academy’s collection. With more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, architectural drawings and models, and more, the National Academy’s collection has been assembled almost entirely through the donations of its artists and architect members. It is one of the most significant collections of American art and architecture in the world.

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23. Annie Lanzillotto, FF Alumn, live online with I Am Books, Boston, MA, Nov. 3

Annie Lanzillotto will read from her new book “Whaddyacall the Wind?” a hybrid book of memoir and poetry. Walk, tremble and fall in the Matriamia with a New Yorker who learns to walk on Sanpietrini, connects with gay community in the Matriamia, finds living cousins by hanging out in the village cemetery, talks to a Saint who sees ecstasy in stirring fava beans, learns of the Duchess who bit off the saint’s finger, argues with Pulcinella, envisions the epic journey of a painting of La Madonna through four seas to get from Constantinople to Acquaviva delle Fonti, sells wind to sailors, avoids draughts, tangos Sciroccazzo, builds a bridge of hearts and asks the question from Pompeii to COVID 19: “What position do you want to be in for l’eternità?” A poetic tarantella of the heart. Marianne Leone will read from her yet unpublished “Christina” stories and a short piece from “Ma Speaks Up”.

Register for this November 3rd Zoom at 7 pm here:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O0lZVl6ASUK7kcr3bFlvhw

Grazie.

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24. Amos Eno Gallery, FF Member, Brooklyn, new exhibition thru Oct. 30, and more

Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present No Innocent Eye, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Philip Swan. The exhibit will run at Amos Eno Gallery from October 6 – October 30, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, October 7, 2022.

On Friday, October 28, from 7-9 PM, there will be a performance by Matt Mottel and a panel discussion with Phil Swan and Matt Mottel, moderated by Amos Eno Gallery Director Emireth Herrera.

The phrase “No Innocent Eye” was coined by art historian E.H. Gombrich in his book Art and Illusion: “There is no reality without interpretation: just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.” Gombrich argued that, like someone listening to music, a viewer of art cannot look at a work without trying to classify what they are seeing in the context of what they have previously seen on gallery walls or in their day to day life. Even when looking at an abstract work of art, there is no way to disengage the mind’s need for patterns of association even when an artwork does not represent anything recognizable that can be easily categorized and understood. More recently, neuroscientists like Eric R. Kandel and Anil Seth have used Gombrich’s insights to discuss the way our brains take visual information from our eyes and use Gestalt rules of organization and top-down processing to construct an internal representation of the outside world, or what Gombrich called the “beholder’s share.” Inspired by these ideas, Swan is exploring the way viewers unconsciously interpret abstraction through free association, engaging with shapes, colors, lines and textures in ways that draw on memories and emotions inspired by, but in no way determined by, the memories and emotions of the artist who created the work. By encouraging an element of introspective daydreaming, or what psychologists term “preconscious mental processes,” Swan wants to share the sense of transcendence he has in creating his paintings, a process he feels is analogous to instrumental music, with those taking advantage of the ambiguity of the works to generate emotional associations colored by their own personal experiences. This show consists of thirteen oil paintings on canvas.

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25. 10×10 Photobooks, FF Alumn, at MmuseuMM, Manhattan

Please visit the 10×10 Photobooks pop up library at Mmuseumm in TriBeCa on Cortlandt Alley.  https://10x10photobooks.org/event/tiny-xx-library/ 

Thank you.

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26. Lynne Tillman, FF Alumn, now online in Bookforum, Vol. 29

Please visit this link:

https://www.bookforum.com/print

Thank you.

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27. Jeanette Andrews, FF Alumn, now online

Please visit this link:

https://www.jeanetteandrewsstudio.com/taken-by-artificial-surprise

Thank you.

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28. Marina Abramovic, Gilbert & George, David Hammons, Kimsooja, Robert Longo, Claes Oldenburg, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, FF Alumns, at Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium, thru Jan. 22, 2023

With Flags, the Boghossian Foundation explores the question of territory, multiple identities and intercultural dialogue. Flags hold a constant place in art, from classical historical painting to contemporary installations.

To Breathe: The Flags (2018/2022) presents the flags as indistinguishable cross-pollinating visual symbols, their purported intent—as symbols of state sovereignty and nationhood—emptied and reconfigured by the artist’s technique of layering and cross-fading. Since the images are semi-transparent, the colors and designs of multiple flags are intermixed—a visual and symbolic breakdown of hierarchies, transcendence of boundaries, and blurring of the distinctions between different countries. In merging the flags without restriction, To Breathe: The Flags provides representation to the new nations or non-nations within its compressed layers, briefly dissolving their discrepancies. 

More information here: https://www.villaempain.com/en/expo/flags/

Artists: Marina Abramovic, Saâdane Afif, Gordana Andjelic-Galic, Diane Arbus, Micha Bar-Am, Bruno Barbey, Nú Barreto, Pierre Bismuth, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Daniel Buren, René Burri, Mircea Cantor, Léon Cogniet, Roger de La Fresnaye, Wim Delvoye, Edith Dekyndt, Gustave de Smet, Raoul Dufy, Mounir Fatmi, Michel François, Stuart Franklin, Gérard Fromanger, John Gerrard, Gilbert & George, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Childe Hassam, Thomas Hoepker, Jonathan Horowitz, Jasper Johns, Nikita Kadan, Evgueni Khaldeï, Kimsooja, Robert Longo, George Maciunias, Peter Marlow, Susan Meiselas, Jonathan Monk, Adolphe Mouilleron, Claes Oldenburg, Martin Parr, Peybak, Pablo Picasso, Sara Rahbar, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Marc Riboud, Faith Ringgold, Joe Rosenthal, Yara Said, Franck Scurti, Thomas Schütte, Andres Serrano, Sturtevant, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Larry Towell, Danh Vo, Gustave Wappers, Andy Warhol.

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29. Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, FF Alumns, at Microscope Gallery, Manhattan, Oct. 20

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