KEHINDE WILEY From his World Stage series (Brazil) 
via akireh.:

KEHINDE WILEY 
From his World Stage series (Brazil) 

(Via obia, the 3rd.)

Swerve in These Art Roads:

“Drive through the roads of FAT Village and you may take in a condo building, maybe even a storefront. Now stroll through them and you’ll see that those industrial warehouses that were once considered a part of the undeveloped area south of Sistrunk/Sunrise are now pieces of a budding arts/science district. Name spelled out: Flagler Arts and Technology Village has this terrain: the streets west of Andrews Avenue, up until two blocks west of the FEC railroad tracks, with the north and south borders being NW Sixth Avenue and NW Fourth Avenue, respectively. That space is now occupied with artists studios, theaters, a puppet workshop (among other workshops), businesses, and one gallery space. And on every last Saturday of the month, FAT Village hosts a free Art Walk from 7 to 10 p.m. where art junkies can stroll through all these places and check out the art as well as see a play and take in a puppet show on the side of the street. For Art Walk info, call Alex Benitez at 954-305-6608.”

(Via Broward-Palm Beach New Times.)

“DAWNTOWN BRIEF 2010

DawnTown 2010 is now open!  Registration begins today, and you can register at dawntownreg@gmail.com.  CLICK ABOVE WHERE IT SAYS DAWNTOWN BRIEF 2010 FOR THE DOWNLOAD.

In the coming weeks we will be including biographies on our jurors and directors, updates on the competition and venue, and regular Miami news. Check in with the blog/facebook page / twitter account for the latest information.

(Via Untitled Source.)

The best way to get that project moving forward is to get some expert help. Your lead workshop facilitator has experience with successful project proposals and grant writing. Come join us for the day in Broward and get your project back on track!

Hands on workshop covering all the necessary areas for a project proposal, including: participants, description, process, budget, all with hand-outs.

What you’ll get, details and more!:

Components of a Proposal
Executive Summary
Project Description
Budget
Individual Artist or Corporate Information
Résumé
Conclusion
Support materials

Workshop limited to ten (10) participants for one-on-one attention.
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (lunch break included)

RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW!

“For the Art Public program of Art 41 Basel, the international art show for Modern and contemporary art in Basel / Switzerland, the Italian artist Micol Assaël presented her installation Mindfall (2004), a container filled with motors that produce unpleasant smells and noise.

As every year, the Messeplatz in front of the main halls hosting Art Basel again served as the arena for the fair’s Art Public program. Selected by the Art Basel Committee and curated by Martin Schwander, this year’s Art Public sector featured 14 works by internationally renowned artists Ai Weiwei, Dora Garciá, Eric Hattan, Hanspeter Hofmann, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Ernesto Neto, Bettina Pousttchi, Ugo Rondinone, Alberto Tadiello, Oscar Tuazon, Lawrence Weiner, Heimo Zobernig, and Micol Assaël.

Micol Assaël developed Mindfall for the Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian. In altered form the installation was also shown in 2008 at the gallery Johann König in Berlin. Central elements in Micol Assaël’s artistic work are scientific and physical phenomena and their interaction with the human body. In cooperation with the Moscow Physics Research Institute, Micol Assaël developed a work that transformed the exhibition space at Kunsthalle Basel into an electromagnetic field (Chizhevsky Lessons, 2007) that gave visitors a noticable electirc charge. Entering the installation Mindfall, the visitors is confronted with an arrangement of electrical motors, running on unusual, emmitting very unpleasant odors and noises. After a short while, staying in the room becomes more and more insufferable.

Micol Assaël was born in rome in 1979. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of La Sapienza University in Rome. She took part in several biennials, such as the Venice Biennale, the Moscow Biennale, and the Berlin Biennial.

Micol Assaël: Mindfall (2007) / Johann König, Berlin; Zero…, Milano at Art 41 Basel, Art Pubic sector. June 14, 2010.”

More info via VTV contemporary art search
Micol Assaël: Links | Videos | Images | More Images

See also: A conversation with Micol Assaël at Kunstjournalen B-post.

> Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

(Via VernissageTV art tv.)

Earlier this year, Emirates redesigned its Skywards frequent flyer membership cards by featuring works of art from renowned contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst, Christopher Ries and Simone Cenedese.

Now, with the launch of a global art competition*, we are furthering our commitment to the art world by giving new and undiscovered talent the unique opportunity to enjoy global exposure and have their artwork adorn our membership cards in 2011.

* Terms & conditions apply

Emerging artists are invited to respond to any or all of our three briefs: Gold, Silver and Blue. Each brief asks for an interpretation of a different mood or quality.

If you’re one of our talented winners, you’ll not only receive a commission of US$5,000, your work will also enjoy global recognition. In addition, you’ll have the chance to fly to Dubai and display your artwork and portfolio at Art Dubai, the leading contemporary art fair in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region in March 2011, attended by art critics, collectors and gallery owners from around the world.

Start preparing your entry now – the closing date for entries is 31 August 2010.

A CALL TO ARTISTS – MIAMI, BROWARD AND PALM BEACH
juried exhibition to be held in the month of October, 2010.

jurors: art dealer Richard Arregui (from Fredric Snitzer Gallery,) Lou Anne Colodny (artist and director of the late CoCa museum and Mathew Snitzer, art historian.
All work will be anonymous to jurors.
Send e-mail with five pics of your work attached or a URL where your work samples reside. Youtube URLs welcome.

All mediums – artists must provide own equipment and installation of pieces.

We encourage video art, conceptual art installations.

Three spaces in one building: “The Not-Rented Yet” space, the newly created ZONA VERDE vegan and vegeterian restaurant and the also new THE CONTAINER alternative space. The spaces reside in the building located on SW 12th Avenue and 6th Street.

Special thanks to the City of Miami

Dealine: August 15, 2010

e-mail address for submitting work:
artista126@g-mail.com

“‘These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD as part of a test conducted by the US government in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject was the medic.’ 

via earlyfrost, on3saycheese, lemonmines, nola-darling, ryking, lowfrequencies, xi-theta, sneakystratus, sofapizza.”

(Via obia, the 3rd.)

Guggenheim and YouTube Play’s partnership was developed to uncover the “most creative video content in the world.” The Guggenheim will select a shortlist of submissions to be evaluated by an international jury of experts and celebrities from the worlds of art, design, film and video, with the final 20 videos on display at the Museum.

There are less than 48 hours left for your readership to submit their creative digital videos for the YouTube Play Biennial, as the deadline for submissions is July 31, 2010.

To date more than 8,600 videos from 69 countries have been submitted by artists who aspire to have their work displayed alongside Picasso and van Gogh as part of YouTube Play, a biennial of creative video.

For more information about the project and submission parameters, you can visit youtube.com/play. We also have additional materials available, if you would like extra visual content.

Last week, YouTube and the Guggenheim unveiled a jury of international, celebrated figures from the worlds of art, design, film and music that will select the 20 videos showcased in Guggenheim museums. Jurors include artist Laurie Anderson; musical group Animal Collective; visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Darren Aronofsky; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, and Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector serving as jury chairperson.

This unprecedented project has drawn some remarkable talent, and we’re looking forward to seeing Miami Art Exchange readers’ submissions in our quest to find the most creative videos in the world.

The thing that’s really great about the 5 yr. old is that he really knows plants, and how to take care of them. He grew, for instance, tomatoes and carrots, then had them for his dinner. Yes, my neighbor’s kids eat vegetables, and lots of them. That’s a real education that is not easy to teach in a regular classroom situation. They don’t have junk food in their house so the kids don’t have the opportunity to eat it. That’s a lesson to other parents, don’t provide junk food, the kids won’t eat it. Grow what you eat and it provides greater appreciation for what’s good.

Garden for a Nursing Home by Caballero+Colón de Carvajal:

“Spanish architects Paula Caballero and Diego Colón de Carvajal have designed a garden for a nursing home in Madrid.

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Garden for a Nursing Home by Caballero+Colón de Carvajal

At first, the assignment was the demolition of the cellars of the Madrid Regional Service of Health’s Old Building. However, the possibility of using this ground as a part of the nursing home ‘La Paz’ led to the accomplishment of a small garden with the minimum possible elements and at a very low cost.

In our view, the garden, as nature manipulated by man, finds its beauty in a strange balance between the diffuse and diverse character of the nature, and the clearness and unity of the artifice. In designing the distribution of plants and paths, we looked for an intelligible organization in order to enhance that contrast. As a kind of enlarged graffitti, a series of blotches in different colors with winding shapes establishes in a clear way the three types of grounds: plantation, drainage and paths.

The plants were chosen in consideration of their strength (given the inclemencies of the weather and the urban contamination) and their low water consumption. For this reason our choice was: lavandula angustifolia, salvia officinalis, callistemon viminalis and festuca.

With the same purpose of fighting the deterioration of our natural enviroment, we tried to use as much as possible recycled materials. Thus, instead of the usual gravel under the reinforced concrete we used crushed recycled concrete; the necessary rugosity to prevent slippery surfaces when it rains was obtained by mixing the resin with recycled glass (which produces unexpected brightness and iridescence under the sunlight), and the dark gravel for drainage between the paths and plantation areas is crushed material of demolished roads.”

Visit the Caballero+Colón de Carvajal website – here.

Photography by Miguel de Guzmán

(Via CONTEMPORIST.)