Hustler of Culture

LA - Elena Manferdini & Eric Owen Moss Lecture (04.04.08)

SCI-Arc Gallery exhibition discussion: Elena Manferdini & Eric Owen Moss
04.04.08 | SCI-Arc Gallery @ 7pm

Merletti explores the intricacies of lace at a scale far beyond the intimate size commonly associated with the material. Made by the knotting and intertwining of multiple threads, the dynamic dance of lacemaking is brought to the scale of the SCI-Arc Gallery. This technique became an inspiration to Manferdini, the Los Angeles-based Italian architect; her project, which weaves itself along catenary supporting wires hung from above, engages the viewer at an intimate scale as the installation billows up through the space. Walking in the gallery, the viewer can appreciate the detail of each element that constitutes the overall form and the shadows cast on the floor.

In 2003 Elena Manferdini founded Atelier Manferdini, a highly visible design office that advocates design excellence and is recognized internationally for its ability to create imaginative architecture, fashion and object design. The work is based on the philosophy that design can participate in new developments defining our culture; translating the complexity of contemporary technology into built form.

Southern California Institute of Architecture
960 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
t. 213.613.2200
f. 213.613.1272

LA - "Power and Motion" (04.04.08)

NYC - "Workers (leaving the factory)" (04.04.08 - 05.03.08)

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present Workers (leaving the factory), the fourth solo exhibition at the gallery by Nancy Davenport, running from April 4 to May 3, 2008. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 4, from 6-8 pm.

The Workers project was conceived in 2004 as a constantly evolving, long term endeavor and it has been significantly transformed, expanded and reformatted for each exhibition context. While Davenport makes reference here to the disappearing Sergei Tretyakov model of long term observation in social documentary, the combination of quasi-documentary and straight documentary narratives, digital manipulation and deadpan humor in each variation of Workers offers an utterly contemporary critique of our globalized culture —successively tender, tragic and hilarious.

SM - Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst Pop Up Shop Event (04.03.08)

Singapore - "Apology to the Masters" (04.03.08 - 05.03.08)

ART SEASONS presents
Apology To The Masters 向大师道歉 - Pan Yue 潘钺

3 April - 3 May 2008

ART SEASONS Singapore presents Apology To The Masters, a brand-new exhibition by Chinese artist, Pan Yue.

You are cordially invited to the Opening Reception of Apology To The Masters on Thursday, the 3rd of April from 7-9pm at Art Seasons (Gemmill Lane)

We apologise for the email issue with regards to the rsvp process. We kindly request all those who are interested to attend to rsvp to info@artseasonsgallery.com again. Thank you.

NYC - "I Know Where the Summer Goes" (04.03.08 - 05.03.08)

I Know Where the Summer Goes
Ryan McGinley
April 3rd – May 3rd 2008

Team is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by the New York-based photographer Ryan McGinley. Entitled I Know Where the Summer Goes, the exhibition will run from the 3rd of April through the 3rd of May 2008. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor.

Ryan McGinley’s “snapshots” have been evolving steadily since his guerilla show at 420 West Broadway in 2000. In the intervening eight years he has moved away from an artistic practice that was the soul of casual and towards an elaborated production schedule that raises the ante on “being there.” McGinley has gone from being perceived as the hottest young photographer in town to being considered a serious artist with a rare gift for creating enduring color photographs — photographs that show us the best of youth.

LA - Greg Lynn Lecture (04.02.08)

Greg Lynn: I’ll see it when I know it
04.02.08 | W.M. Keck Lecture Hall @ 7pm

In 2001, Time Magazine named Greg Lynn one of 100 of the most innovative people in the world for the 21st Century. In 2005, Forbes Magazine named him one of the ten most influential living architects. Greg Lynn has been at the cutting edge of design in both architecture and design culture in general when it comes to the use of the computer. The buildings, projects, publications, teachings and writings associated with his office have been influential in the acceptance and use of advanced technology for design and fabrication.

Lynn has received awards from the AIA, Progressive Architecture and the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and has been recognized for "shap[ing] the public realm" by the National Building Museum in Washington for his Korean Presbyterian Church of New York, which is also listed by the NYC Landmarks Commission. His work is in the permanent collection of CCA, SFMoMa and MoMA (which also houses his industrial design work), and also been exhibited at the Pompidou, Beyeler, Cooper Hewitt, MAK, MoCA, NAi, Carnegie, ICA and Secession museums, among others. He represented the United States in the American Pavilion of the 2000 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Palm Springs - "Advocacy in the Arts : Supporting Photography That Promotes Social Change" (04.02.08)

Advocacy in the Arts : Supporting Photography
that Promotes Social Change

Palm Springs Photo Festival
Panel Discussion

Wednesday, April 02, 2008
5:00-6:30 p.m.

Palm Springs Art Museum
101 Museum Drive
Palm Springs, California
(706) 322-4800

Aperture’s Michelle Dunn Marsh will moderate this discussion and present work from the recent Aperture publica­tion War Is Only Half the Story: The Aftermath Project, featuring the work of Jim Goldberg and Wolf Bšwig. Other panelists include Bruce Davidson of Magnum Photos, Adam Weintraub, president of Blue Earth Alliance, and Andy Patrick, founder of Fifty Crows.

Seattle - "The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History Photographs" (04.02.08 - 05.31.08)

The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History Photographs by Stephen Shames Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Exhibition on view: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 — Saturday, May 31, 2008

Odegaard Library
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
(206) 685-3752

During the height of the Civil Rights movement, from 1967 to 1973, photographer Stephen Shames had unprecedented access to The Black Panther Party and captured not only its public face—street demonstrations, protests, and militant armed posturing—but also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments, from private Party meetings held in its headquarters to Bobby Seale at work on his mayoral campaign in Oakland. Shames’s work offers an uncommonly nuanced portrait of this dynamic social movement, during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history.

London - "Les Tâches Dominicales" (04.02.08 - 05.03.08)

Astrid Klein
‘Les tâches dominicales’, 1980
2 April - 3 May, 2008
Private view: Tuesday 1 April, 6-8 pm

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce Astrid Klein’s upcoming exhibition ‘Les tâches dominicales’. Born in 1951 and trained as a painter and sculptor, Klein is a manipulator of the photographic medium. Her photographs, paintings and installations contaminate, deconstruct and revive the relationship between the photographic image and text and can be interpreted as a metaphor for the estranged personal self and its representation in society. Like the work of Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, Klein’s art is an expression of the burgeoning media culture of Western society in the 1970s. While her work is well established in Germany, the exhibition ‘Les tâches dominicales’ (Sunday Work) at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers is her first solo show in Britain since her 1989 exhibition at the ICA (curated by Iwona Blazwick and Andrea Schlieker). The current show consists of a series of collage-based works Klein made in Paris in 1980. The title refers to the artist’s concept of making a collage every Sunday.

Linz - Helmut Hebrank (04.02.08 - 04.30.08)

LA - Hammer Forum: Molly Bingham & Haifa Zangana (04.02.08)

Crisis in Iraq: Which Way Out?
Wednesday April 2, 7pm

Haifa Zangana, Iraqi author and former political prisoner, and Molly Bingham, war photographer and director of the documentary film Meeting Resistance will share their intimate knowledge of the reality in Iraq: Who is taking up arms and why. Who is sowing seeds of peace? And how can Americans help?

Photojournalist Molly Bingham was official photographer to the Office of the Vice President of the United States from 1998–2001. On 9/11 she provided some of the few on-the-scene photos of the Pentagon, and in 2003 was detained for eight days by the Iraqi government security services and held in Abu Ghraib prison. Her first major written story––on the Iraqi resistance––was published in Vanity Fair in July 2004. With photographer Steve Connors, she created the award-winning documentary, Meeting Resistance, which aims to understand both the toll of occupation and the human condition of resistance.

NYC - Todd Hido Lecture (04.01.08)

Parsons The New School for Design Lectures

Todd Hido
Artist’s Lecture

Tuesday, April 01, 2008
6:30 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

As part of the ongoing lecture series hosted by Aperture and presented by the department of photography, Parsons The New School for Design, Todd Hido will discuss the spirit of his work. Hido’s recently published monograph, Between the Two (Nazraeli Press, 2006), features photographs of anonymous models in motel rooms, interiors of abandoned houses. He will also discuss his other series, including exterior views of homes at night. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

NYC -Tod Papageorge Book Event (04.01.08)

TOD PAPAGEORGE
TALK AND BOOK SIGNING

Tuesday, April 1, 7:30 p.m.

Coinciding with the release of his critically acclaimed book, American Sports, 1970, Or, How We Spent The War In Vietnam (Aperture, February 2008), Tod Papageorge will discuss the spirit of this engaging project published here for the first time, which draws a subtle but sharp parallel between the war in Vietnam and the American attitude toward spectator sports. In this stunningly powerful body of work, Papageorge captured the electric and anxious atmosphere in various stadiums all over the United States during a time of conflict where the political, racial and sexual tensions are palpable.

Tod Papageorge (b.1940) is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, including this project, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Since 1979, Papageorge has shaped the careers of many of the most influential American photographers of the past three decades including Gregory Crewdson and Philip Lorca DiCorcia, as professor and director of graduate studies in photography at Yale University.

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY
(212) 475-5555

LA - CHUB Board Room Table Discussion (03.31.08)

CHUB Board Room Table Discussion

F-Lab’s Ramiro Diaz Granados & Heather Flood with SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss

March 31, 2008, 7pm

CHUB Board Room Table Discussion:
Ramiro Diaz Granados and Heather Flood with Eric Owen Moss

F-Lab is a research based design practice committed to the production of architectural form and its relationship to contemporary culture, both pop and sub. A range of abstract and concrete material paradigms drives F-Lab research, with an eye toward mediating the boundaries between individual and collective experiences and between established typological hierarchies. For F-Lab, form is a result of a confluence of forces, from the pragmatics of actual constraints to the desires of virtual fantasies. Ramiro Diaz-Granados and Heather Flood founded F-Lab in 2007. Most recently, F-Lab designed SCI-Arc’s new board of director’s table, CHUB.

**Please note: This talk was previously scheduled for March 21 and has been rescheduled to March 31 at 7 pm.

Kappe Library
SCI-Arc
960 East 3rd Street,
Los Angeles, CA 90013

www.sciarc.edu

Riverside - "The Big Sad" (03.30.08 - 05.17.08)

The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas
Exhibition Dates: March 30 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 30, 2008, 4-7pm

Barry McGee and Clare Rojas have long been associated with the "Mission School", a loose collection of artists inspired by the culture of the street, particularly in the Mission District of San Francisco. Their works are often shown clustered together, mixing handcrafted paintings with scraps scavenged from the street and with photographs and other artwork found at thrift stores.

NYC - "The Human Face is a Monument" (03.30.08 - 05.03.08)

THE HUMAN FACE IS A MONUMENT

March 30 – May 3, 2008
Opening Reception Sunday March 30th, 2-5 pm

SARAH CHARLESWORTH
SARA GREENBERGER RAFFERTY
DANA HOEY
ANYA KIELAR
MARTHA ROSLER
MAY WILSON

Gallery 2: STAN VANDERBEEK
Works From 1950 – 1980

Organized by Sara VanDerBeek

Guild & Greyshkul
28 Wooster Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10013
(212) 625-9224
info@guildgreyshkul.com

NYC - "The Real World" (03.30.08 - 05.04.08)

Andreas Neumeister, Sean Snyder and Wolfgang Tillmans

The Goethe-Institut New York, a branch of the Federal Republic of Germany's global cultural institution, and Kunstverein München are pleased to announce the opening of "The Real World," the next exhibition at Ludlow 38, a new downtown satellite space for innovative contemporary art. Sponsored by MINI, Ludlow 38 is exclusively and autonomously programmed by Kunstverein München for its first year. Ludlow 38 is located a short walk from the New Museum and at the center of the emerging gallery scene on the Lower East Side and in Chinatown.

The Real World, an exhibition of works by Andreas Neumeister, Sean Snyder and Wolfgang Tillmans will be on view from March 30 – May 4, 2008 at Ludlow 38; located at 38 Ludlow, between Grand and Hester, New York,NY 10002 (212-228-6848).

Ludlow 38 will host an opening reception on Saturday, March 29, from 7:00–9:00pm. Later in the evening, there will be an after-party with djs Princess Julia and Lovely Jonjo, London, at another location (TBA at the opening).

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LA - "Society of Ilustrators Los Angeles: Illustration West 46 Juried Exhibition" (03.29.08 - 05.06.08)

Society of Ilustrators Los Angeles: Illustration West 46 Juried Exhibition
March 29-May 6 2008
Reception Saturday March 29, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

SI-LA Presents new work by established and emerging artist chosen for Illustration West 46 competition. Selected by renowned editorial, book and gallery painters and illustrators: John Hendrix, Josh Cochran , Mark Matcho, Noah Woods and Tim Egan the exhibition places established pros along side exciting newcomers giving viewers the chance for the first time to see the next generation of illustrators who are just beginning to make a name for themselves The exhibition is made possible with the support of The Society of Illustrators Los Angeles.

Junc Gallery
4017 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
www.myspace.com/juncgallery