Contents for November 18th, 2024
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: 34th Day Without Art, International Day of Action and Mourning in Response to the Aids Crisis: www.FranklinFurnace.org features documentation from Anthroprogramming, FF Alumn Dan Perjovschi’s 1995 installation/performance, Nov. 31-Dec. 1
1. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Dashwood Projects, Manhattan, opening Nov. 21
2. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jesus Benavente, FF Alumns, at 125 Maiden Lane, Manhattan, Nov. 18
3. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, ongoing from Nov. 15
4. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, opening Nov. 23
5. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, live online with Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, November 20
7. Bernard Tschumi, FF Alumn, new publication
8. Nyugen Smith, FF Alumn, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan, thru Aug. 10, 2025
9. Clifford Owens, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Dec. 20
10. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, live at the Kite Club, Nov. 21
11. Dick Higgins, FF Alumn, new publication
12. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, new publication
13. Alyson Pou, FF Alumn, at Window on Hudson, Hudson, NY, thru Dec. 26The Coleus
14. Steven Watson & Artifacts, FF Alumns, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, Nov. 25
15. Melinda Klayperson, Marina Abramović, FF Alumns, now online at The Detangler
16. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at De Ark & De Thomas church, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 24
17. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at <aom Drag, Brooklyn, December 4
18. Alec Finlay, FF Alumn, now online at AlecFinlay.com
19. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, at Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, WA
20. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, extended thru Jan. 12, 2025
21. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, receives 2024 Nam June Paik Prize
22. Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Nov. 21
23. Les Levine, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
24. Fred Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
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34th Day Without Art, International Day of Action and Mourning in Response to the Aids Crisis: www.FranklinFurnace.org features documentation from Anthroprogramming, FF Alumn Dan Perjovschi’s 1995 installation/performance, Nov. 31-Dec. 1
Please visit this link between November 31 and December 1, 2024
https://franklinfurnace.org/dan-perjovschi-day-without-art/
Thank you.
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1. Pamela Sneed, FF Alumn, at Dashwood Projects, Manhattan, opening Nov. 21
Please visit this link:
https://dashwoodprojects.com/pamela-sneed
Thank you.
Pamela Sneed, Dashwood Projects, 63 East 4th Street, Manhattan, opening November 21, 6-8 pm
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2. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jesus Benavente, FF Alumns, at 125 Maiden Lane, Manhattan, Nov. 18
Monday, November 18th at 6:00 PM
Art in Buildings @artinbuildings presents a performance at 125 Maiden Lane
Organized by Cecile Chong for her exhibition Chicken Little – Lost in Transmission
In collaboration with Kates Ferri Projects @katesferriprojects
With the amazing Jesus Benavente @testotesto3 and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart
IG: Art in Buildings_Performances in Cecile Chong’s “Chicken Little – Lost in Transmission” In collaboration with Kates Ferri Projects @katesferriprojects Lyn-Kee-Chow, Benavente 11.18.24, 6pm
Thank you,
Jodie
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3. Ana Mendieta, FF Alumn, at MoMA, Manhattan, ongoing from Nov. 15
Three Films by Ana Mendieta
MoMA, New York
Collection Gallery, Room 411
Ongoing from November 15, 2024
Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to share that a selection of filmworks by Ana Mendieta will be on view in a dedicated collection gallery at MoMA, New York, beginning on November 15, 2024. The presentation, Three Films by Ana Mendieta, will be on view in Room 411.
“When Ana Mendieta began making films, she was drawn like many artists to the Super 8 format for its ease and affordability. Mendieta turned to the camera to record her long-running Silueta Series, in which she inscribed the outline of her body into nature. Film, as a medium, aligned with the artist’s interest in process and her wish to convey the immediacy of her chosen sites.
These three films revolve around themes of metamorphosis and identity. In each, a transformation is enacted or implied: white gunpowder turns to dark ash, a sand sculpture seems to beckon the flow of water, and the artist herself appears covered in feathers carried ashore by ocean waves. She made these works in places of personal significance: Cuba, the birthplace she left in exile at age twelve, and didn’t return to for two decades; Iowa, where she was resettled and later pursued her art studies; and Mexico, a site of her meaningful immersion into Latin American culture. While exploring her experience of displacement, Mendieta was most compelled by universal questions of existence and belonging, which she considered through enduring connections between body and land.” —MoMA
Works on View at MoMA
Untitled (Facial Cosmetic Variations) (1972) and Untitled, Amategram Series (c. 1982)
Vital Signs: Artists and the Body
MoMA, Floor 3, 3 East
The Robert B. Menschel Galleries
Through February 22, 2025
Nile Born (1984)
Body on the Line collection galleryMoMA, Floor 4, 420
The David Geffen Galleries
Ongoing
About the Artist
In a brief yet prolific career, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta® created groundbreaking work in photography, film, video, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Amongst the major themes in her work are exile, displacement, and a return to the landscape, which remain profoundly relevant today. Her unique hybrid of form and documentation, works that she titled “siluetas,” are fugitive and potent traces of the artist’s inscription of her body in the landscape, often transformed by natural elements such as fire and water.
The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, in collaboration with Galerie Lelong & Co., catalogued and digitized the entirety of Mendieta’s moving image works, discovering that the artist remarkably made more than 100 in the ten-year period in which she worked in the medium. The groundbreaking exhibition of her moving image works, Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, was organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota in 2014, and has since travelled to several institutions worldwide, including NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. In 2023, the major solo exhibition Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin was held at MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain, France and travelled to MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain and Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Mendieta’s work has been the subject of fifty-six solo museum exhibitions. Ana Mendieta: Traces was organized by the Hayward Gallery, England, in 2013, and travelled to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, and the Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic. Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985 was organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., in 2005 and travelled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; and Miami Art Museum, Florida.
Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948, and died in New York City in 1985.
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4. Javier Téllez, FF Alumn, at Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, opening Nov. 23
Opening Nov. 23
Looking Back Moving Forward
Curated by Rina Carvajal C
Alexander Apóstol, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, Mariana Bunimov, Luis Molina-Pantin, Javier Tellez, and Christian Tano Vinck Henriquez
“Looking Back Moving Forward is premised on the underlying idea that artworks can serve as ‘dialectical images’ that capture the complexities of a historical moment, thus allowing us to experience history as something living and the present as a space of potentiality…..The artworks presented here provide unique reflections on the socio-political and cultural situation of Venezuela, fostering a reflective engagement with the past that resonates deeply with the present. With their distinctive ability to grasp paradoxes and intersections, these artists not only create singular aesthetic experiences, but they also serve as interpreters whose images give us a lens to challenge fixed narratives and provide new meanings for the present.” Rina Carvajal.
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5. Carmelita Tropicana, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you
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6. Saul Ostrow, FF Alumn, live online with Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, November 20
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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7. Bernard Tschumi, FF Alumn, new publication
November 2024: Event-Cities 5: Poetics (MIT Press, 2024) is the fifth and final volume in the series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by Bernard Tschumi. The 640-page book, which expands on preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi’s theory and practice, will be available online and in bookstores on November 12th.
In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a “poetics,” addressing both the rational elaboration of work and the irrational eruption of inexplicable elements in his architectural projects. How do chance, intuition, and analogy intersect with the logical play of concept, context, and program to generate innovative and informed design?
Highlights include circular buildings, superposed structures using surrealist tactics, an immense educational research complex in France that straddles building and urban design, a museum in China made of intersecting conic shapes, and a cultural center in Italy that is structured as an investigation into courtyards and facades. The book features nearly thirty projects developed over the last fifteen years and demonstrates Tschumi’s longstanding interest not only in producing conceptual clarity but also in questioning architecture itself.
The Event-Cities series, first started in 1994 under the legendary MIT Press editor, Roger Conover, collects drawings, diagrams, and other materials from the architectural design process. Well-known buildings and unpublished proposals are presented together in a rich visual narrative to construct a “project discourse.” Developed over the past thirty years, the series serves as an invaluable reference resource and offers a unique view into the working process of Bernard Tschumi and his office.
For more information, please contact Greg Barton at press@tschumi.com
To order: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549370/event-cities-5/
Event-Cities 5: Poetics
By Bernard Tschumi
Paperback / 6-1/2 x 9” / 640 pages / over 500 illus.
$39.95 U.S., £24.95 UK
MIT Press
ISBN 9780262549370
Release date: November 12, 2024
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8. Nyugen Smith, FF Alumn, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Manhattan, thru Aug. 10, 2025
I’m honored to have my work featured in/support “The Underground Library: An Archive of Our Truth,” a @badguild Lab initiative commissioned by @CooperHewitt, Smithsonian Design
Museum for their exhibition “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial,” opening November 2, 2024, through August 10, 2025.
“The Underground Library” is inspired by the Underground Railroad, the clandestine network established in the early 19th century, through which many enslaved African Americans traveled
in search of freedom. This library installation represents a 21st-century sanctuary surrounded by art, objects, artifacts, and books of Black legacy. In reimagining and repurposing the Andrew
Carnegie personal library, BADG invites visitors to examine the power of home libraries and the significance of literacy, remembering that African Americans were denied the right to read under
slavery.
#bundlehouse #nyugensmith #flag #conceptflag #aflagforthenewcaribbean #anewflagforthecaribbean #livety #interdisciplinary #interdisciplinaryart #textile #textileart #BuildwithBADG #TheUndergroundLibrary #BADGLab
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9. Clifford Owens, FF Alumn, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, Dec. 20
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I’m thrilled to be included in the encyclopedic group exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876 – Now, curated by Akili Tommasino, opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 17, 2024. I am contributing a performance, a new iteration of Terry Adkins’ “Luxor Solo (Mystical Score for the Ghost of Bud Powell),” which I commissioned for my Anthology project at MoMA PS1 in 2011.
I perform on December 20 at 3pm and 7pm:
https://engage.metmuseum.org/events/metlivearts/2024-25-season/flight-into-egypt-clifford-owens
I hope to see you at the Metropolitan Museum of Art next month!
Warmly,
Clifford
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10. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, live at the Kite Club, Nov. 21
Please visit this link to learn about “I Wish to Say” by Sheryl Oring at the Kite Club on November 21, 2024 –
https://www.franciskiteclub.com/calendar#/events/121415
Thank you.
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11. Dick Higgins, FF Alumn, new publication
Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Bonnie Marranca, brings together a broad selection of Higgins’s writings and theater-related work, much of it unpublished or long out-of-print. As Bonnie Marranca demonstrates in several essays in the volume, Dick Higgins deconstructed the drama long before it became a project of theater; he undercut the traditional roles of author and director and created what is now considered “devised” theater; he pioneered the use of media in theater, writing the first electronic opera, and was a precursor in deconstruction and post-dramatic avant-garde traditions.
Dick Higgins (1938-1998) was a visual artist, publisher, poet, composer, filmmaker, playwright. A founder of Fluxus, he wrote many books as well as the influential “Intermedia” manifesto.
Marc Robinson, Yale University: “A thrilling recovery, and now indispensable resource . . . forces us, happily, to rethink performance history and rewrite definitions of dramatic form.”
Philip Auslander, Georgia Institute of Technology: “With this collection Higgins’s plays, performance scores, and essays Bonnie Marranca reminds us of Higgins’s protean talents and makes a strong case that he should also be seen as a man of the theater.”
To purchase please visit: https://press.umich.edu/Books/A/Alchemies-of-Theater2
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12. Dona Ann McAdams, FF Alumn, new publication
Black Box: A Photographic Memoir
$50.00
PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE – SHIPPING MID-LATE NOVEMBER
Black Box : A Photographic Memoir
Dona Ann McAdams with an Afterward by Joanna Howard
Hardcover / 10 x 9 inches / 256 Pages
“I feel wonder, sadness, delight, awe, tenderness, envy, to name a few of the ways I am meeting up with Dona Ann McAdams’ astonishingly rich and utopian army of small moments alongside her elegant and swift kind of poem-notes that muse alongside these photographs. Speaking of eyes, I can’t over-state my gratitude for Dona Ann McAdams’. She’s really got a pair.” Eileen Myles
A black box is a darkroom, a theatre, a camera obscura, and the device that records accidents after they happen. For fifty years photographer Dona Ann McAdams has walked around with her own black box—an analog Leica M2—making unforgettable images of the happy, tragic, historic accidents of her times.
Black Box marries McAdams’ iconic images with her own short lyric texts. Together they form a tender poetic portrait of a young female working-class artist, as well as an unapologetic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, the Culture Wars, and the Performance Art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. From her encounters with artist intellectuals such as Angela Davis, David Wojnarowicz, Maurice Sendak, and Meredith Monk, to her humorous self portraits, Black Box is a book about photography itself as the keeper and framer of memory.
Dona Ann McAdams has been making photographs for over forty years, her work exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The International Center for Photography, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among other places.
Her books include Black Box: A Photographic Memoir (Saint Lucy Books, 2024) and Caught in the Act (Aperture, 1996). She is the recipient of a Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, an Obie and Bessie Award for her performance photography, and grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Arts Council.
She lives on a goat farm in Vermont.
To order, please visit this link: https://www.saintlucybooks.com/shop/p/black-box-a-photographic-memoir
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13. Alyson Pou, FF Alumn, at Window on Hudson, Hudson, NY, thru Dec. 26The Coleus
Project:
A Constellation Of Coleus Creatures
by Alyson Pou
Window on Hudson
43 South Third Street, Hudson NY
On view thru December 6, 2024
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14. Steven Watson & Artifacts, FF Alumns, at Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, Nov. 25
Artifacts, Online Platform Launch
Artifacts, a 501(c)(3) arts non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of avant-garde, LGBTQ+, and underground arts culture, is thrilled to announce the launch of its new online platform, www.artifacts.movie on November 25th.
The platform launches with three series: Gender Benders, Silver Factory, and Underground Press, with unlimited access to a debut collection of 22 long-form interviews featuring influential cultural figures such as John Cale, Marsha P. Johnson, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A series focusing on Downtown Performance, produced in collaboration with NYU Skirball, will begin in January 2025.
To celebrate, Artifacts will host an exclusive launch event on Monday, November 25, 2024, at Anthology Film Archives.
Exclusive Screening – Highlights from the debut collection of Artifacts’ films, followed by a Q&A between Artifacts Founder Steven Watson and renowned cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum.
16mm Film Screenings – A rare film program featuring works by avant-garde legends such as Jonas Mekas, Taylor Mead, and Ken Jacobs, who will present his 1950s films starring Jack Smith.
Immersive Installations – Explore displays of Quentin Crisp’s scarves, Betsey Johnson’s dress designs, and vintage underground publications from the Underground Press.
Those who wish to attend the event should contact will@artifacts.movie. Spaces are limited.
For more information and to explore Artifacts’ full offerings, visit www.artifacts.movie, launching November 25.
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15. Melinda Klayperson, Marina Abramović, FF Alumns, now online at The Detangler
Hair — we all grow it, And some of us do really interesting stuff with it!
Melinda Klayperson, FF Alumn, has created The Detangler to comb through hairy stories, art, rituals, and legends, to understand why hair is such a strong cultural signifier.
Check out the latest Detangler video on FF Alumn Marina Abramović, known as the “godmother of performance art”. As an artist whose medium is her body, it’s natural that Abramović would focus on hair in pieces like “Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful” and “Relation in Time”. Nowadays her signature braid is ubiquitous.
Hear the whole story on The Detangler. Like! Subscribe! Watch all the videos! Give feedback! Tell your friends! Hair! Hair! Hair!
The Detangler YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJC2chjOtF8x3UXcLs_eTw
Marina Abramovic episode: https://youtu.be/2udKaljSuhw
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16. Peter Baren, FF Alumn, at De Ark & De Thomas church, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 24
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF SILENCE. Amsterdam, 24th of November – city walk and performance in De Thomas church.
Artist Peter Baren [FF Alumn] invites you to experience the disarming power of silence in his performance THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF SILENCE. In a world full of bustle and noise, Baren, with multiple performers, focuses attention on the importance of silence.
This all in the framework of THE SPIRIT OF AMSTERDAM, 22 – 24 November 2024 [during 750 Years Amsterdam, the year long celebration].
https://thespirit.amsterdam/en/event/de-ondraaglijke-lichtheid-van-stilte
https://www.thespirit.amsterdam.nl/events
During this event, you will be taken on a city tour or meet the group passing by various places of worship in Amsterdam. The tour starts from De Ark (in North) to De Thomas (in South) and takes you past places of contemplation (including the He Hua Temple on the Zeedijk, the Old Church, the New Church, the Fatih Mosque and the Portuguese Synagogue), while text boards let you reflect on what silence can mean. The walk ends with a performance at De Thomas church.
At a time when harsh reactions and frenzy are prevalent, this performance offers a chance to pause and explore the value of silence. Discover how silence is not just the absence of sound, but a space for inner deepening and connection. Each program has a social purpose. The Spirit of Amsterdam has no religious objectives.
WHEN City walk: 12:00 – 16.00 h., start at De Ark in the North of Amsterdam.
Performance: 16:00 – 17:00 h. at De Thomas church. https://www.dethomas.nl
Best!
Peter
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17. Ken Butler, FF Alumn, at <aom Drag, Brooklyn, December 4
Ken Butler
Hybrid
12/4
Main Drag
50 South 1st
WBurg
doors 7:30
$15
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18. Alec Finlay, FF Alumn, now online at AlecFinlay.com
Studio Alec Finlay, November
Festive Gift Sale
We have a number of items at discount prices available as part of our Festive Studio Sale.
These include sets of woven poems sewn onto handkerchiefs.
For ease, you can order a random selection of ten different styles of handkerchief, each with a different poem, for £15.00.
Or you can order a specific single woven poem from this list, sewn onto a handkerchief, for £12.
a feather in weather
a poem is an irregular fold
alone inside an illness
and I am alone on all roads
are you lonely or only alone
by my reader
catch as catch can
do that thing you do
in his dream the keys grow roots
I accept you
I and you are we and we are you and I
I need the scar to show
I saw this
love made this
love means truth
making something far more like weather
night is a blue polka-dot dress
one thing as another
rain falling inside the rain
roll your tongue, spit the stone
soapsuds & whitewash
stitches hold where they’re hidden
the opposite isn’t hate it’s fear
the rose colours culture
the sun fathers shadows
the umbrella is tuned by the rain
thoughts are thorns
turning toward living
we are the debris of time
we could make it so
we don’t always know what we feel
what we carry we must also hold
your name here
As a special addition we are also including these white rose themed poem plant labels in bundles of four at £20 each. We also have number of black plant label poems available from the list below at £10 each
Waterlily
Sweetbriar
Elm
Pine
Whin
Pine
Oat seed
Rush
Beech
Vetch
Oak
These boxes of 100 book marks are also available at £12 each. The mesostic poems featured on the bookmarks are featured in the book Mesostic Interleaved, also currently priced at £1 via the studio.
Any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch. It’s first come first served as
we have too many to show photographs of every style.
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19. Richard H. Alpert, FF Alumn, at Price Sculpture Forest, Whidbey Island, WA
Giant Mic. by Richard H. Alpert is newly installed at Price Sculpture Forest in Whidbey Island, Washington. Price Sculpture Forest, a nonprofit community sculpture exhibition park and habitat preserve, is a popular destination for art and nature lovers. Its unique blend of outdoor sculptures and natural beauty attracts thousands of visitors annually. It aims to offer visitors a healthy, relaxing, educational, and uniquely enjoyable experience where art and nature enhance each other. https://sculptureforest.org/
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20. Betty Beaumont, FF Alumn, at Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany, extended thru Jan. 12, 2025
Territorial Perspectives
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
EXTENDED through JANUARY 12, 2024
Terrestrial Perspectives takes the extensive collections at the Ludwig Forum Aachen as a starting point to explore the phenomenon of human interventions on the surface of the earth. The exhibition spans work from the beginnings of Land Art in the late 1960s to the present, and investigates connections between ecology, colonialism, and resource extraction.
The exhibition includes works by Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Nancy Graves, Robert Smithson, Betty Beaumont, and Jean-Michel Basquiat among others.
Betty Beaumont’s Ocean Landmark creates a critical link to ecological activism while offering perspectives beyond the male-dominated narratives within Land Art. Beaumont’s work in Territorial Perspectives includes three videos: The Journey (1980), Ocean Landmark Virtual World ((2000), and Imagining Imaging (2001).
Ocean Landmark is an underwater work on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, made of 500-tons of processed coal-waste, a potential pollutant, that underwent stabilization and a planned transformation into a flourishing ecosystem. Seventeen thousand coal fly-ash blocks were fabricated, shipped to the ocean site, 40-miles from the New York Harbor and three-miles off Fire Island National Seashore, and laid on the continental shelf. Ocean Landmark started to change at the point of its installation. It has grown and developed into a productive new ecosystem over forty-four years and continues to evolve as a living artwork, that when fished, feeds people. Today, the work is listed as a “Fish Haven” on the NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) coastal navigational charts. Ocean Landmark is the fifth in a series of Beaumont’s large-scale site works.
Beaumont freely integrates cross-disciplinary ideas and the connections among them to produce works that reveal transformational ideas about our contemporary world and urban landscapes. The flow from the specific concrete, and technical, to the abstract, meditative and lyrical characterizes her work.
Betty Beaumont has received numerous grants and awards including the Distinguished Alumni Award (University of California, Berkeley), the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Gottlieb Foundation and Creative Capital grants, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships. In addition to exhibitions in galleries in Europe, Japan, South Korea, South America, Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Cuba and the U.S., Beaumont has shown internationally at museums including the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo and Kyoto), Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt), Museum Het Nieuwe Domein (Netherlands), Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Marti (Havana), and in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum, Hudson River Museum, Katonah Museum, and MoMA PS1. Beaumont has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, SUNY Purchase, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, New York University, and Columbia University. She has produced work in a variety of media including photography, sculpture, installations, public interventions, and new media.
Lisa Oord is the curator of Terrestrial Perspectives.
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
Jülicher straße 97-109
52070 Aachen
ludwigforum.de
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21. Joan Jonas, FF Alumn, receives 2024 Nam June Paik Prize
Please visit this link to the announcement of Joan Jonas winning the Nam June Paik Prize – both artists are FF Alumns:
Thank you.
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22. Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, FF Alumns, at Francis Kite Club, Manhattan, Nov. 21
Thursday, November 21 at The Francis Kite Club!
https://www.franciskiteclub.com/calendar#/events/120297
Our record label and artist Nate Harrison are having a launch party.
Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere
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23. Les Levine, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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24. Fred Wilson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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