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DAILY NEWSLETTER
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| Thursday, October 28 |
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Group Show in Spotlight
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"s M L", @ Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Participating artists: Mel Bochner, Chris Caccamise, Dana Frankfort, Matthew Keegan, Christian Marclay, Ed Ruscha, Alexis Smith, Valeska Soares, Lawrence Weiner, and Christopher Wool
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International Top News
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U.S. Recruits a League of Artist Diplomats
In the past, the United States has sent artworks abroad to leverage its soft power. Most famously sending Abstract Expressionist paintings to Soviet-threatened Europe as a symbol of American freedom during the Cold War. Now, instead of dispatching art, the State Department has announced that it will launch the artists themselves. The State Department has allotted $1 million for a new cultural diplomacy pilot program called smART Power, which will ship visual artists abroad to create public projects in 15 foreign countries over the next two years. (Art Info, October 26, 2010)
Sylvia Sleigh Seminal Work On View at Hudson River Museum
Prominent painter Sylvia Sleigh, noted for her feminist portrait genre painting, died, at age 94, on Sunday, October 24. Several panels of her most ambitious work, a panorama titled Invitation to a Voyage: the Hudson River at Fishkill, 1979 -99, is now on view at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. In July 2006, Ms. Sleigh made one of the most significant gifts of art to a museum, when she donated the work to the Hudson River Museum. Its 14 panels, which stretch to a length 70 feet, depict a summer gathering of friends similar to scenes of pastoral gatherings by the 18th-century French painter Jean Antoine Watteau. (Art Daily, October 27, 2010)
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NY Arts Fall 2010 Editorial Preview
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The town of Hongjiang is situated in Xiangxi (West Hunan). Its unique geographical location at the junction of the Yuanshui and Wushui rivers made Hongjiang a trading center since the Song dynasty, serving the provinces of Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Hubei. During the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Hongjiang even became a southwestern metropolis of sorts, with businesses flourishing. In the Qing dynasty, a modern economy began to emerge in China, and it was in the early Mingguo era that Hongjiang reached its zenith. The profusion of firms, warehouses, banks, brothels and restaurants all packed in there together, earned it a nickname—the “Little Shanghai” of Xiangxi.
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Recommended Web Site of the Day
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MOCO - is a web magazine dedicated to everything related to modern contemporary design and architecture. mocoloco.com
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Openings and Art Events on Thursday, October 28
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New York:
-- Sokari Douglas Camp, "Relative Pelican: An Installation of Steel Sculptures", 6-8pm @ Stux Gallery
-- Daniel Canogar "Trace", 6:30-8:30pm @ Bitforms
National:
-- "Linda Geary: Inside Out / Sam Perry: New Works", 5:30-7:30pm @ Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
-- Cameron Ewing, "GET FLOCKED: Pop Up Show and Citywide Installation", 6pm @ Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, CA
International:
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Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International
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-- The International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, June 26-October 31, Carrara, Italy
-- NY Art Book Fair, November 5-7, New York City, U.S.
-- Art Toronto, October 28-November 1, Toronto, Canada
-- Abu Dhabi Art, November 4-7, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
-- IFPDA Print Fair, November 4-7, New York, N.Y., U.S.
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