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“An Island Now Peopled” is the third exhibition in a three-part free art series, beginning on November 18 at +aRt , a new condominium development in West Chelsea.

AN ISLAND NOW PEOPLED

An Island Now Peopled is a collaborative exhibit between artists Abby Goodman and Cindy Stockton Moore, who have worked together for the last 12 years. The focal point of their new exhibit is a large-scale wooden sculpture. The structure will be built entirely from reused, donated and found materials that visitors will climb onto and inside. The artists’ shared interest in the danger and lure of the natural environment inspired their individual and collaborative bodies of work featured in the exhibit.

EXHIBIT DETAILS      

Exhibition Dates: November 18 – December 11, 2010

Operating Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Location: +aRt – 540 West 28th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues

EVENT:

November 18: Opening Night Reception

6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

RSVP: Alli...@mediashoppr.com

212-867-8778 ext. 223

For more information please visit:

www.realtoughgirl.com

www.cindystockmoore.com

http://www.540w28.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spirituality NYC: Salty, But Good

I attended an event at the Salt Artspace at the Gallery Church on 27th and Broadway last Friday night.  Grace, who was hosting the event said that the Gallery Church is so-named because just like pieces of art represent the artist, each of us are works of art by, and there for represent in some unique way, the creator.  I don’t believe in a God as in a deity up in “Heaven”, but I did like how she put that.

You may call it Jesus, or Mohammad, or Buddha, but to me it is the same force of love, morality, a higher calling if you will, to rise up, not only be our best, but do what ever we need to do in order to leave this world measurably better off then when we found it.    I can’t seem to help inserting my own philosophy in this blog when I can  =)

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A Little Bee Told Me … To Visit the DIA Hispanic Society on Tuesdays this Summer!

DIA Art Foundation presents “Tuesdays on the Terrace,” a series of outdoor events at the Hispanic Society of America‘s Audubon Terrace

If you visit tonight at 7pm, you can experience, “The Collection of Silence,” a project by Eileen Myles.

The Collection of Silence, a baroque site-specific work around the possibilities of silence as central to the syntax and punctuation of everyday life. A diverse group of poets will present short pieces at various locations on the outdoor plaza of Audubon Terrace, where they will be joined by a group of students from PS4. Also accompanied by dancers, Buddhists, an opera singer, and a life drawing class, this mute and active gathering will demonstrate and celebrate the collective power of silence and the capacity of an unvoiced poem to serve the communal purposes of public life. Participants include poets Charles Bernstein, Stephanie Gray, Tim Liu, Monica De la Torre, and Rachel Zolf, Christine Hou, and Julie Patton, dancer-choreographer Christine Elmo, The Village Zendo, and soprano Juliana Snapper. The silent texts will be available in a bilingual edition at the performance.

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Catch the Buzz: Ode to Odin (works by Ernest Concepcion)

Guest blogger Karla Vizcarra tells gives us eight reasons to hit up Ernest Concepcion’s solo art show.

photo description: Odetoodin image: Ode to odin, oil and ink on canvas, 48" x 60," 2006.

Ode to odin, oil and ink on canvas, 48" x 60," 2006.

There are approximately 8 reasons why you have to go to see this show (If you only need one, see number 8).

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The Queens Bee: The Isamu Noguchi Museum In LIC

isamu_noguchi_museumThe Isamu Noguchi Museum is a singular haven within its industrial, Costco-dominated LIC neighborhood. The museum is comprised of an indoor studio featuring stone and metal sculptures mostly curated by the artist himself before he died, as well as a Japanese-inspired garden dotted with textured stones, a fountain and various trees and grasses. The museum offers a comprehensive guided tour that passes through both the garden and interior space and focuses on the duality of Isamu Noguchi’s identity and the impact this duality had on his work and world view. Noguchi, you see, was the illegitimate son of a Caucasian woman and a Japanese poet who all but ignored his blue-eyed son. It’s no surprise, then, that splits and contrasts would play a recurring theme in his work.

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A Tripod Quest: Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn

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Perhaps a pleasant afternoon stroll through Central Park and a quick visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art no longer appeals to you as it would your average out-of-towner seeing the city. I can’t blame you. Paying as you please at the Met is always a sweet perk but I can certainly go without the crowds. And on some days, I just need to be somewhere a bit less…’fine arty’?  Somewhere showing art that makes me sincerely wonder, “What the heck is going on with that piece?” or disturb me enough to make my face twitch like I smelled something funky.

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Queens Bee: Art-O-Mat L.I.C. Keeps It Fresh, Local

Local resident Drew DiCamillo is a face -and chiseled bicep- of the village.

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While Long Island City’s most famous exhibition space, P.S. 1, does an astounding job of collecting and displaying works from as far away as the icy shores of Finland, there is a lesser-known art space just nearby that really focuses on celebrating all that is unique about one of Queens most artistically inclined neighborhoods: LIC’s own Art-O-Mat gallery and shop. Read more »

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A Tripod Quest: In The Midst of Masters

 

My search for Jonas Bendiksen ended in the nick of time. I was slightly dismayed, as I prepared to leave the Aperture Gallery, which hosted Magnum’s Holiday Book Party. For those of you who may not know, Magnum is the world-famous photo agency whose membership boasts the very best in the field. The whole affair had already served enough of a reality check for me – excited as I was about attending (for free) a Magnum event, I really knew very little about the photographers that were present. I flipped through books by familiar names – Susan Meiselas, Sebastiao Salgado – but most of the photographers and their works were still so foreign to me.

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New York City Profile – Beeline Interview: Artist Ernest Concepcion

Ernest is one of my favourite artists and I’m so happy he took time out of his busy Fall schedule to chat. His drawings/paintings always make me feel like I’m in the head of a little boy imagining war and anime, love and friendship – which is a good thing. That child-like quality plus the engrossing detail in his work creates a cinematic feeling. Each time I look at one of Ernest’s pieces, I see something new and am engaged in a new epic adventure. Check out his show, or even better, drop by tomorrow at the opening and say hi.

Name: Ernest Concepcion
Occupation: Artist/Museum Educator
Borough/Neighborhood:  Home: Brooklyn/Kensington, Art Studio: Gowanus

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All Things Brooklyn – Brooklyn Sting: Getting Cultured at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

It’s getting to be that time of year when we want to spend our weekends indoors, somewhere warm and dry. Since we can’t spend the entire winter in our apartments, museums in Brooklyn are a perfect antidote to cabin fever.

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