Hustler of Culture

LA - Urb Magazine 150th Issue + Delicious Vinyl 20 Year Anniversary Party (11/04/07)

October 27th Opening Receptions.

Ghada Amer, Stephan Balkenhol, Louise Bourgeois, John Currin, Yayoi Deki, Tom Friedman, Jim Hodges, Izumi Kato, Hideaki Kawashima, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Mitsuhito Okamoto, Chris Ofili, Wilhelm Sasnal, Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley, Aya Takano, Fred Tomaselli, Kara Walker, Keisuke Yamamoto and Lisa Yuskavage

"Just Love Me"

October 27, 2007 (one night only)

LA - Second Annual Distinguished Lecture on South and Southeast Asian Art—Compassion's Magic Body: The Essence of Tibetan Tantric Art (11/04/07)

Second Annual Distinguished Lecture on South and Southeast Asian Art—Compassion's Magic Body: The Essence of Tibetan Tantric Art

Sunday, November 4 | 2:00 pm

Robert A. F. Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University

The work of Robert A. F. Thurman—renowned scholar, riveting speaker, and author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, and culture—has been instrumental in making Tibetan Buddhism accessible to Western audiences. In 1997 Time magazine selected Prof. Thurman as one of its twenty-five most influential Americans, describing him as a "larger than life scholar-activist destined to convey the dharma, the precious teachings of Siddhartha, from Asia to America." In this lecture, Prof. Thurman will discuss the Buddhist view of art and how it emanates from Buddhahood itself. Specifically, he will examine enlightenment in mind and body, Tantra, mandalas, creation-stage-visualization meditation, and the difference between liberative art and technologies of control.

Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

links for 2007-10-31

• Auction of Modernist Landmark Raises Concerns
  Home is where the art is.
  (tags: Architecture MidCenturyModern PalmSprings Design NYTimes)
• Exhibit Honors Young Artist Whose Star Was Rising
  "Young, handsome and talented, Jeremy Blake was a rising star in the contemporary art world."
  (tags: NPR Art Artists Culture News)
• Home, Sweet ... Yikes!
  Scared city slickers. Bok, bok!
  (tags: Humor Travel RealEstate Trends NYTimes)

Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2007 - 11:19 a.m. - Burbank, CA

Punk Pillow.

Three words I thought I'd never read: Vivienne Westwood pillow. Decadent. Luxurious. Expensive as fuck. Rich rockers can enjoy this wool and silk luxury item for $575. Found at The Rug Company.

One is Different.

October 30, 2007 - 9:40 p.m. - Culver City, CA

Writer/director/musician. Tinkerer/Thinker. Director/Art Director. One of these guys is different.

Brooklyn - "The Breaks: Stylin’ and Profilin’ 1982–1990" + "Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop" Event (11/03/07 - 11/11/07)

LA - "'Replace 'Please' with Fast 'Thank you' with Good'" (11/03/07 - 11/28/07)

'Replace 'Please' with Fast 'Thank you' with Good'

featuring new work from: KELSEY BROOKES . ANTHONY LISTER . KILL PIXIE

NOVEMBER 3 - NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday November 3rd, 2007 7-10pm

*Celebrating three years in our Culver City Location!

Gallery hours: tue-fri 11am-6.30pm sat 12.30pm-4.30pm / 310 558 0911
8530 B Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA. 90232

NYC - "Nudes, Still Lives, and Landscapes" (11/03/07 - 12/08/07)

Mariah Robertson: Nudes, Still Lives, and Landscapes

November 3- December 8, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday November 3rd, 2007, 6-8pm

In Mariah Robertson’s exhibition Nudes, Still Lives, and Landscapes, the conceptual artist revisits early photographic techniques to question the transparency of viewing the present. Techniques like ambrotype, solarization, and photocollage threaten to disappear in the wake of digital photography. In using what Robertson calls “alternative historical practices,” her uncanny black and white photographs read as contemporary critiques on the subjective nature of looking. If classical still life photography dictates that the technique be crystal-clear and the objects presented be mute subjects, Robertson deftly, and with a sly sense of humor, appropriates the standard tropes of still life photography to critique what we view as normal, innocuous, and natural. In decisively reaching for conceptual tactics of appropriation and reframing, the deadpan, seemingly “normal” photographs of nudes, still lives, and landscapes become charged fields of looking, full of interference from an unstable past.

LA - Brian Lichtenberg Pop-Up Store (11/03/07 - 12/14/07)

NYC - Step it Up! 2 (11/03/07)

Step it Up! 2
A Call for Federal Action on Climate Change

Saturday November 3

Rally 12noon - 2pm in Washington Square Park

US Representative Anthony Weiner, US Representative Yvette Clarke, Lt. Governor David Patterson, NYU Physicist Emeritus Martin Hoffert, Environmental Defense scientist James Wang, young leaders from NYC and two bands: Peter and J, The Woes.

JOIN THEM!
Last April 14th, 3,000 New Yorkers gathered in Battery Park to send Washington a clear message: cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050! The event, named Sea of People by Solar One organizers, was the largest of over 1,000 such events that were taking place in all 50 states on the Step It Up national day of climate action. The event received considerable press and was successful in pushing this ambitious but achievable and necessary goal onto the national agenda. Just one week later, 2 top-tier presidential candidates endorsed this goal. You can view highlights of the day here.

SF - "Strange Fruit - Bad Seeds" (11/03/07 - 11/30/07)

Receiver Gallery in San Francisco presents:
Strange Fruit - Bad Seeds
New works by John Casey and Martha Sue Harris.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 3rd, 7 - 10 pm.
1415 Valencia Street, between 25th and 26th. More info here!

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 10 - 6 pm.
November 3rd - November 30th. Please call for appointments.

LA - "Head Space" (11/03/07 - 11/15/07)

LA - "Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues" (11/03/07 - 01/18/08)

LA - “Live Art 2007” (11/03/07)

“Live Art 2007”
a day-long celebration of some of the best creative work coming from LA's music, art, and film scenes

Sat. Nov. 3

Hollywood & Highland Center
6801 Hollywood Blvd.
Central Courtyard, Level 2
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323-467-6412

1:00 - 10:00pm
Free to the public

Partners in Curation include: LA Weekly, Indie 103, Moving Pictures, 944 Magazine, Truant Media

A portion of proceeds will benefit Reaching to Embrace Arts (www.rtea.org)

Singapore - "H2O: A Study of Art History" (11/03/07 - 11/24/07)

ART SEASONS presents

H2O: A Study of Art History - Miao Xiaochun

Opening Reception, Saturday, 3rd Nov, 3pm - 6pm
3rd - 24th Nov

links for 2007-10-30

• The Best Fried Chicken Recipe Ever?
  Promises, promises! I'll be the judge of that.
  (tags: Recipes Cooking Food Friends SeriousEats Culture)
• 50 Ways to Green Your Business
  "Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in."
  (tags: Environment Green Sustainability Innovation Business FastCompany)
• The ROFLCon Blog
  A conference worth attending for shits and giggles.
  (tags: Conferences Memes Trends Technology PopularCulture)
• The List: The World’s Worst Airports
  Take note frequent flyers!
  (tags: Travel Airport Lists 2007 Foreign)

NYC - "Things Will End Before They Start" (11/02/07 - 11/03/07)

TM SISTERS
Things Will End Before They Start
Friday, November 2 & Saturday, November 3
6:30-8pm (performance begins at 7pm)

The Miami-based TM Sisters (Tasha and Monica López de Victoria) fuse elements of video and performance art with interactive video game technology. For Performa07, the artists will present their work Things Will End Before They Start. Using a play of innovative postures and expressions against a digitally simulated backdrop, the performance encourages interaction with the audience through the release of emotional and spiritual energy.

The TM Sisters’ practice embraces a do-it-yourself ethic, reflecting their roots in previous independent endeavors such as throwing concerts, creating fanzines, and sewing clothing. Home schooled together as children in Florida, the sisters were raised around intense psychological and spiritual discussions regarding behavior, relationships, and truth.

Presented in collaboration with the Moore Space (Miami). Please RSVP to rsvp@artistsspace.org and include the date and title of the event in your subject heading.

Artists Space
38 Greene St. 3rd Fl, NY NY 10013

NYC - "Fieldwork" (11/02/07 - 12/08/07)

Image Details: Burning Stubble (2004) by Beth Dow | platinum palladium print | 16" x 16" | edition of 25

Fieldwork: B+W Photographs by Beth Dow

Opening Reception: Friday November 2nd | 6pm - 8pm

Please join us on Friday November 2nd, from 6pm-8pm, at an opening reception for Beth Dow's exhibition of black and white photographs, Fieldwork. The exhibition will remain on view through Saturday December 8th, 2007.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, NY 10012