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A.D. Architecture Days

by admin on October 17th, 2006

When I think of Architectural Digest, I don’t tend to think of architecture… and I know I’m not alone. However the publishers appear to be taking some steps to remedy this with a series of events in October and November in three U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles and Miami.

Events include lectures, tours, receptions in amazing spaces, film screenings etc., which “celebrate the power of architecture and its ever-increasing influence.”

While not a ground breaking departure from their focus on interiors and main-stream design, there are some promising events scattered in the mix.

Link: Architecture Days


Originally
from Land+Living

by rsswriter@landliving.com


reBlogged

by Radoya

on Oct 10, 2006, 3:50PM

Design Weekly Events

by admin on October 11th, 2006


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Sara Eichner at the Sears Peyton Gallery

Art & Design Events…

  • The Modern Show
    • Highlights of the 20th Century in art and design
    • October 13th though 15th ($15.00)
    • Preview party Oct. 12th, 6-9pm to benefit the Art Deco Society of New York
    • 69th Regiment Armory in Gramercy Park, (Lexington Ave. at 26th St.) 212/255-0020
  • Dumbofest
    • 10th annual art under the bridge festival–open studios, dance performances, panels, art sales, video installations, and parties galore
    • October 14th and 15th
    • 30 blocks of Dumbo Brooklyn
  • The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
    at Municipal Arts Society

    • Celebrate the opening of CLUI’s new satellite location on the Hudson in Troy, New York, and new publication, Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America.
    • October 12th, 6:30-8pm
    • The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue at 51st Street, rsvp@mas.org, or 212.935.2075 for reservations
  • Ear to the Earth
    • Week-long festival of environmental sound and image with installations, panels, and concerts.
    • October 6th through 14th
    • 3LD Gallery / Art Center, 80 Greenwich Street @ Rector
  • Anatomy of a Brownstone III: Inside and Outside

    • Explore the process of renovating and restoring a
      brownstone–working with an architect, obtaining Landmarks Permits, locating furnishings that blend old and new, and undoing a previous owner’s mistakes.
    • October 28th, 1-5pm at the Atrium Amphitheater, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary) ($35), 718.552.1173 or BSmith@CityTech.cuny.edu.
  • Alternative Landscape Components: A New Land Art

    • A radical new direction in Dennis Oppenheim’s work, involving highly artificial, manmade landscapes of trees, hedges and flowers that clash with and comment on the natural landscape.
    • September 14th through November 8th
    • The Arsenal, 5th Ave. and 64th St., AND large scale outdoor installations at Thomas Paine Park/Foley Square, 212.360.8163

Apropos of Nothing, Cool c. 1940 NYC Map

by admin on September 24th, 2006

For zoom-in fun in a time before Robert Moses the early Moses years, click on through.
· Panoramic Map of New York [Eightface]
UPDATE: Notes a commenter, “My favorite thing about this map is that the Lower East Side is labeled ‘Ghetto’.” Christ, how did we miss that?
Originally from Apropos of Nothing, Cool c. 1940 NYC Map

Natalie Jeremijenko: Ooz, Inc. (…for the birds)

by admin on September 16th, 2006

For all you bird-loving city-dwellers, engineer/artist Natalie Jeremijenko has created a complete urban bird environment (part of her Ooz series) on the roof of Postmasters, with a water system, appropriate foliage, insects, and other bird necessities, including a mall and a concert hall. She has asked some of the freshest architects around to build the […]

Asylum seeking artists

by Regine on May 4th, 2006

This week, WHITE BOX’s gallery space has become a creative asylum where 10 successful applicants (from Mexico, Ukraine, Japan, Nigeria, etc) are spending five nights and days under a state of detention, working and developing an artistic project until April 29, 2006.

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Projects must actively challenge a regime of exclusion in New York by including otherwise excluded individuals from cultural and socioeconomic systems or physical structures in the city.

In exchange, AsylumNYC provides a free lawyer to try to obtain an O-1 “Special Talent Artist Visa.” If successful, the artist will be awarded the opportunity to stay in the U.S. for up to three years.

The artists arrived at the gallery with sleeping bags, clothing and passports but without any material as one of the requirements of the project is to create an art piece from nothing.

“In the gallery they gave us a pen, a notebook, a pillow and meals. The rules say that we can make either an object or a performance, but the final work will depend on the interaction with the public,” explains Venzuelian artist Valeria Cordero. Other rules of the “residence” include: never going out of the gallery and speaking only in english.

The idea of Wooloo Productions, a collective of activists who organised the competition, is to let the artists experience the same conditions and restrictions suffered by those who arrive in the country, looking for an asylum or a working visa.

On April 28 the most original project will be selected and its author will meet Daniel Aharoni, a lawyer specialized in immigration issues. The exhibition of the winning project will open on April 29 at the WHITE BOX’s gallery.

Via El Mundo.