Smells Like Teen Spirit

July 19, 2008 - October 12, 2008
Akron Art Museum
Smells Like Teen Spirit: Posters from the Akron Art Museum Teen Council

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[graphic from Artdaily.org. Caption: "Jon Hicks, Smells Like Teen Spirit, 2008."]

Instruments have Come!

[from Tiptina's Foundation. Stay tuned!]

Performing the Border

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Buffalo, New York

Friday, July 25, 8:00 p.m.
Performing the Border:
Video Essays by Ursula Biemann

In recent years, Swiss artist Ursula Biemann has produced a wide variety of works that investigate issues of mobility, technology and identity. Her experimental video essay Performing the Border (1999) is set in Ciudad Juarez, situated across the border from El Paso, Texas, where many U.S. industries hire Mexican workers to assemble digital equipment and electronics. Using interviews with women factory workers and prostitutes, scripted voice over, and found footage, Biemann explores topics such as divisions of labor and sexual violence in order to document the gendered conditions of this border town.

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[graphic from Hallwalls Web site.]

George Clinton Birthday Party - July 22, 1941

[On the occasion of his birthday, a performance by George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars on Motown Live. Many happy returns!]

Facebook - Vassar

Vassar College
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection

June 27 – August 10, 2008

"This exhibition examines the development of the photographic portrait over a period of eight decades, presenting a selection from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center collection of close to 3,000 photographs. From August Sander’s iconic portraits of the 1920s to the unique personalities captured by visionary artist Diane Arbus in the 1960s and from the theatrical fictions created by Cindy Sherman in the 1970s to the deadpan views of ordinary New Yorkers by Rineke Dijkstra in the 1990s, this exhibition offers a rare view of the history of faces in photography."

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[photo from ArtDaily.org. Caption: Garry Winogrand, World’s Fair, New York City, NY, 1964. Gelatin silver print © Estate of Garry Winogrand.]

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

[With thanks to VMcN in The City, below a truly, wonderfully strange duet of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by none other than "The Killer," Jerry Lee Lewis and sui generis pop idol Neil Sedaka, the closing number on TV's Shindig! on April 14, 1965.]

Ingmar Bergman at 90

[On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of Ingmar Bergman's birth, the opening sequence of his early masterwork "Wild Strawberries." Note that the YouTube version in no way does justice to the exquisitely photographed original.]

A Room of One's Own

July 19 | 5-11 pm

Adapta Project
Terra Sur
km 17 Tijuana-Ensenada Toll Road
Baja California, Mexico 22560
(8 miles south of the U.S./Mexico International Border at San Ysidro)

"The city of Tijuana offers a perfect platform to explore topics of international commentary and critique through cultural and artistic expression. We know what your gut reaction is—I’ve got to cross the border (or something along those lines) you’re not sure if it’s worth the trip—but the purpose of this show is to change your reaction and expectations."

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[graphic from project Web site.]

Civic Design in Los Angeles

[from Farmlab]

Under Spring Optimist Breakfast
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Friday, July 11, 2008 @ 8:15am
Free Admission

Join Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Lauren Bon, Professor Manuel Castells, City Commissioner York Chang, City Councilmember Tom Labonge, City Commissioner & Farmlab's Adolfo V. Nodal, & City Councilmember Ed Reyes for this morningtime presentation about civic design in Los Angeles.

The program will underscore the goal of creating the necessary conditions for consistent and long-term excellence in public architecture, public art, and urban design that best reflects Los Angeles’ international stature as a vibrant and creative cultural center."

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[photo from Farmlab Web site.]

Romanticized Disappointment

Queen's Nails Annex
3191 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 648 4564

Opening Night Saturday July 12, 7pm-11pm
Golf Students Driving Presents...

ROMANTICIZED DISAPPOINTMENT

"Golf Students Driving is a collective that was created under the tenets of the game of golf: truth, talent, ability, self-respect, honor, dignity, and patience. This could also be seen as craving the impossible. This philosophy is also shared in art-making, where instead of completion of eighteen holes, the fruition of work is usually deemed finished when hung in a gallery context. This experience though rousing and enriching for one's career, can ultimately be disappointing."

The players:

Tom Borden Miles Conrad Eric Gibbons Andrew Kjera Susan Martin Sonja Meller Jackson Patterson Elizabeth Pedinotti

Curated by Brian Storts
Co-Curated by Sarah McMenimen

[image from Queen's Nails Web site.]

Sleevefacing

[destined to be so five minutes ago in about five minutes or less, but in the meantime, fya, a bit of weekend entertainment, sure to bring you renewed appreciation of that dead-filed LP collection you can't quite part with: .]

Sleevefacing

[image, "Jazzie B Doris Day" by "Hide and Seek Sleeveface," one of fifteen hundred or so members of the Sleevfacing group on Flickr.]

Neurotic

The Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

July 3-4-5

Neurotic and the pogoing robots

"For three hot and sweaty nights in July, punk music and robots collide at the ICA in a series of exciting and evolving gigs called Neurotic. Neurotic highlights the neurology associated with the essential human experience of pleasure, learning, taste and ageing within the context of the instinct to dance.

Artist Fiddian Warman fronts 'Neurotic and the PVCs' when they play to an audience of humans and three 2-metre tall punk loving robotic versions of Fiddian's younger self. Each robot has the ability to pogo up to an imposing height of 2.3 metres. Controlling these robots is a Neural Network modeled on the neurology of the human brain and educated in punk music."

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[photograph from Neurotic Web site.]