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Lucky Dragons is the Los Angeles based collaborative musical...

youngisdumb — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:13:00 -0600

Lucky Dragons is the Los Angeles based collaborative musical project of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. Their performances are less of a concert and more of a happening that involves participation of the audience. While building layers of sound produced with pre-recorded loops and beats, the audience is given small instruments such as maracas and a lamellophone that are then run through a processor and make additional layers that have corresponding visuals.

They’ve been featured performers in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and at PS1’s Printed Matter Book Fair. Additionally, they host a drawing collective that is open to anyone who would like to participate called Sumi Ink Club.

Lucky Dragons’ new album, EXISTERS was released this week and is available in limited edition of 500 with a 24 page Risograph booklet and screen printed covers.

Glass Master Weston Lambert’s thesis exhibition Forward...

sophietlvoff — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:49:00 -0600

Glass Master Weston Lambert’s thesis exhibition Forward Motion opens tonight (Thursday, 2/16) at Tulane University’s Carroll Gallery from 5:30-7:30pm. Lambert’s sculptures take on the forms of vessels and pods that question fragility and durability in man-made forms. The pieces are crafted out of glass, wood and aluminum.

(Carroll Gallery is located in the Woldenberg Art Center at Tulane University’s uptown campus. Use Willow Street entrance)

President Obama announced his budget proposal yesterday. Here...

toribush — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:06:15 -0600

President Obama announced his budget proposal yesterday. Here are some of the highlights for federal arts funding in 2013: (You can see the full budget document here):

The budget for the NEA increased to $8 million (from $146M to $154M.)
While the NEA’s budget proposal increases several grant categories, it is the Our Town initiative that receives the most significant support: doubled from $5M to $10M. The Our Town Grant was introduced in 2011 with 51 grantees from 34 states receiving a total of $6.5M, one of which was New Orleans.
Donald Trump and his associates have won a bid to turn the current home of the NEA, the Old Post Office Pavilion into a luxury hotel. The NEA will be asked to relocate and has requested $3M to move to a new home. Seems a little excessive, huh.
The most competitive NEA grant category: Literature Fellowships with 3 percent of applicants receiving awards.

It’s New Orleans! is a website that is home to the podcast programs Happy Hour hosted by...

youngisdumb — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:14:57 -0600

It’s New Orleans! is a website that is home to the podcast programs Happy Hour hosted by veteran New Orleans DJ, Grant Morris and Out To Lunch with host Ross Shields.

Hosted from the historic Columns Hotel on St. Charles, the show has guests from all walks of life in New Orleans that come together and discuss their lives and professions over drinks. Recent guests on the respective programs have included artist, Bruce Davenport and gallerist, Jonathan Ferrara.

Sean Cummings and artist Skylar Fein discuss a legal graffiti...

ebsl — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:32:11 -0600

Sean Cummings and artist Skylar Fein discuss a legal graffiti wall erected on the edge of the Rice Mill Lofts in the Bywater. When Cummings began renovating the old building on the New Orleans riverfront near the corner of Montegut and Chartres Streets, he chose to preserve much of the graffiti that marked the walls, allowing the tagging to become part of the apartment’s character. Continuing the street art motif, Cummings created a wall of steel shipping containers at the edge of the property that he envisioned as a legal graffiti haven.

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Our friends at Defend New Orleans have put together their 5th...

ebsl — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:15:22 -0600

Our friends at Defend New Orleans have put together their 5th Annual DNO Ball — a night of festivities following Hermes, D’Etat and Morpheus [Friday Night]— going down at One Eyed Jacks. Supa Group, DJ Dave [Eagles of Death Metal and DJ Musa will ring in the morning. Hosted by Drew Stubbs, [and apparently a new owner of a replacement portrait].

Harp & Altar, an online journal of poetry, prose and reviews...

stephenhilger — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:02:34 -0600

Harp & Altar, an online journal of poetry, prose and reviews recently launched its 9th issue. Artwork by New York-based artist Mamie Tinkler is featured on the front.

Spread the news— Constance is re-launching as a full service...

ebsl — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:22:40 -0600

Spread the news—

Constance is re-launching as a full service publishing, design, and event coordination hub for the New Orleans arts community in the Spring of 2012.

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The Forgotten Space, a film essay by Allan Sekula and Nöel...

stephenhilger — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:51:00 -0600

The Forgotten Space, a film essay by Allan Sekula and Nöel Burch, describes the contemporary maritime world in relation to the complex symbolic legacy of the sea. The film is an expanded version of Sekula’s epic critique of global capitalism, the 1995 book and exhibition Fish Story. Sekula will present The Forgotten Space at 7pm on Monday, Feb. 13th at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Joshua Caleb Weibley is an artist based in New York. His work...

youngisdumb — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:55:00 -0600

Joshua Caleb Weibley is an artist based in New York. His work is a love letter to drawing theory.

Contents of Archive Fever is in an ordinary white binder with what seems to be hundreds of pages blank pages save for one pencil line drawn across each page.

The first page of this book is an exact copy of the table of contents from Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever. Each page thereafter has a singular, perfectly straight line that runs across the page, throughout the book, gradually making its way from the top of the pages in the beginning of the book to the bottom at the end. Upon closer inspection it would show that there is mild gradation in each line. This monotonous task was a deconstruction of the very table of contents, meticulously line by line, page by page, until the entirety of the first page is splayed out through the whole book.

Louisiana native, Stephen Collier is a multi-discipline artist...

ebsl — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:16:03 -0600

Louisiana native, Stephen Collier is a multi-discipline artist living and working in New Orleans and member of Good Children Gallery. His work is equally humorous and absurd as it is disturbing, focusing on various false histories and pop-references.

above: Amalgamation from Helter Skelter and Dream Catcher series.

FOOD (1972) – Gordon Matta-Clark’s Restaurant – Directed...

youngisdumb — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:56:00 -0600

FOOD (1972) – Gordon Matta-Clark’s Restaurant – Directed by Robert Frank

FOOD is a short film directed by aritst/photographer Robert Frank about Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden’s conceptual restaurant. Founded in 1972 in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, FOOD brought together many factors of the local community, artists and otherwise, becoming a space for dialogue and conversation as well as a living piece in it of itself.

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View FOOD here: http://www.ubu.com/film/gmc_food.html

Diplomat is a gallery in Philadelphia showcasing the work of...

sophietlvoff — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:37:36 -0600

Diplomat is a gallery in Philadelphia showcasing the work of international artists working in the medium of photography. Each month the gallery exhibits either a solo or group exhibition featuring artist(s) from one specific country.

A pamphlet is produced in conjunction with each exhibition that contains a dialogue between the artist(s) and the director of the gallery, or if you will the Diplomat (photographer & curator Chad Muthard).

This month: To the Ukraine!

Museum of Contemporary Art // David Hartt: Stray Light David Hartt’s project Stray Light...

aneveningwithpaulrudd — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:34:00 -0600

Museum of Contemporary Art // David Hartt: Stray Light

David Hartt’s project Stray Light inaugurates a new series of media-based exhibitions at the MCA called MCA Screen. Hartt, a Chicago-based Canadian artist, has been working with photographs for many years, attracted to the social, cultural, political, and economic complexities of the subjects he captures, rendering them with a cool, dispassionate eye. Stray Light includes a film displayed in a room carpeted in the style of his subject, the Johnson Publishing Company building in Chicago, as well as a group of photographs in an adjacent room. Granted unprecedented access to film and photograph in this John Moutoussamy–designed building after a long process of earning the trust of the owners, Hartt earnestly records the time-capsule nature of the space, which meticulously heeds to Arthur Elrod’s original 1971 interior design.

The building was purpose-built as the headquarters of this important publishing company, made famous by its Jet and Ebony magazine titles and its role as a leading arbiter of African-American taste and culture during the latter half of the 20th century. Moutoussany was an African-American partner in the firm Dubin, Dubin, Black, and the eleven-story building has an iconic presence on South Michigan Avenue with its illuminated Ebony-Jet marquee at the top of the building. The interior of the building is a clear and exuberant expression of Black taste, resolutely modern, colorful, and complex, a pure expression of founder John Johnson’s vision of what a leading, Black-owned business can be.

One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert...

ebsl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:07:30 -0600

One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana’s plantations in 1926. These images are now housed at the Louisiana State Museum: Presbytere and are on display through September 2012.

above: Woodlawn Plantation, 1929. Terrebone Parish and Belle Chasse Plantation, 1929. Plaquemines Parish.

Local photographer and educator, Aubrey Edwards, will be hosting the first of a series of community...

aneveningwithpaulrudd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0600

Local photographer and educator, Aubrey Edwards, will be hosting the first of a series of community photography workshops at her studio in the Treme.

The upcoming series will focus on EXPOSURE, and will explain ISO, aperture, and shutter speed individually, as well as how to combine them. In addition to understanding the elements of exposure, students will also learn how to read their light meter; and will be shooting (semi) comfortably on manual mode by the workshop’s end.

Each EXPOSURE workshop will be capped at 10 students max, and each is donation-based and open to the public; all donations will be used directly for camera purchases for the Veterans Photo Project.

Please email Aubrey directly at aubreyedwards@gmail.com to secure a spot and await details for the EXPOSURE workshop, Saturday February 25th, 12pm-2pm.

New Orleans own Rachel Jones’ painting and installation...

sophietlvoff — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:01:00 -0600

New Orleans own Rachel Jones’ painting and installation exhibition Momento Mori at The Front just wrapped up on Sunday. If you missed it, check out the review in ARTFORUM!

Image: Rachel Jones, Memento Mori, 2012, oil on plastic, 25 x 23”. Installation view.

LearnToLive Exhibit Night, devised by Yanti Turang, Sergio...

ebsl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:32:43 -0600

LearnToLive Exhibit Night, devised by Yanti Turang, Sergio Padilla and Jason Prowell has come about as a result of the August 2011 research expedition to North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The purpose of the expedition was to scout locations and establish foundations for, LearnToLive, a three-week traveling healthcare program.

The LearnToLive exhibit consists of three mediums: photography (Jason Prowell), a short film (Renso Amariz) and an interactive installation. The exhibition follows the research team as they travel through North Sulawesi, Indonesia, exploring the need for their proposed healthcare program. There will be a silent auction of the photographs to help raise funds for their upcoming trip.

The one-night-only exhibition takes place at Du Mois Gallery, located at 4921 Freret St, on Tuesday, February 7th from 6:00 until 10:00p.

Houston TX native, Athena Melton takes monochromatic still life...

ebsl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:02:28 -0600

Houston TX native, Athena Melton takes monochromatic still life photos.

Young Joon Kwak is an artist based in Chicago. His work is...

youngisdumb — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:57:00 -0600

Young Joon Kwak is an artist based in Chicago. His work is primarily sculpture, performance, and video. Much of Young Joon’s work deals with queer identity. His sculptures are often abstract amalgamations of wigs, slime, and glitter and exhibited in site specific relation.

Young Joon is a drag performer under the name Lil’ Elote and also sings in his band Xina Xurner. You can see them live at Siberia on February 21st.