Art Book Swap (NADA and Regency Arts Press Ltd)
27th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues
Saturday, May 19, noon-6pm

Swap one for one or pay $5 for three, $10 for six, $15 for nine books

http://www.newartdealers.org/events/2007artbookswap/2007artbookswap.html

Ann Hamilton on Richard Serra: May 31

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Ann Hamilton on Richard Serra

Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1956, Ann Hamilton's one person exhibitions include presentations at Moderne Museet Stockholm (2005); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass. (2003); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2002); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994); and Dia Art Foundation, New York (1993). In 1998, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennial.

Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse I (1996), along with several other works, is on view at Dia:Beacon.

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

Mark Dion and Nils Norman Slide Slam: May 1

Mark Dion and Nils Norman Present:
The Slide Dialectic of the Seven Seas
May 1, 7pm
LIC Bar, 45-58 Vernon Boulevard at 46th Avenue
Join us for a slide slam with Mark Dion and Nils Norman. These established artists and researchers will present their archives, curiosities, and recent endeavors.

www.sculpture-center.org

Charles Ray: April 18

Charles Ray
April 18
6:30pm at The New School
John Tishman Auditorium / 66 West 12th Street

For more than three decades, Charles Ray's wide-ranging art has continually entertained viewers and upended expectations. With a lively, self-deprecating sense of humor and virtuoso craftsmanship, the Los Angeles-based artist depicts familiar elements of everyday life and modern art in disarmingly altered ways. His abstract and figurative sculptures—many of them among the most iconic artworks of our time—are the result of "some everyday thought that sticks," as he puts it. From his black ink-filled minimalist cube to his elaborate cast-aluminum sculpture of an abandoned piece of work equipment, Untitled (Tractor) (2003-05), Ray's boisterous works cause shifts in perception and address sculpture's most fundamental questions: mass, space, color, and gravity. Interested in the active processes that are happening when one looks at art, Ray's work encourages viewers to focus not just on subject matter, but also on how a sculpture occupies and shapes its surroundings. Toy Truck (1993), a Tonka fire truck scaled up to the size of the actual thing was the show-stopping icon of the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Parked in front of the museum, its one-to-one scale with the city suggested that perhaps everything else around it was a toy version of itself, too.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks-s07.htm

George Stoltz on Sol LeWitt at Dia:Beacon: May 26

George Stoltz on Sol LeWitt at Dia:Beacon
Saturday, May 26, 2007 1pm

Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon are a series of presentations that take place the last Saturday of every month at 1 pm and are free with admission to the museum. Focused on the work of the artists in Dia's collection, the one-hour presentations are given by curators, art historians, and writers, and take place in museum's galleries. Reservations are suggested. Please call Dia:Beacon at 845-440-0100 ext 44.

www.diacenter.org

The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement: Conference May 12 & 13

The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement
May 12 & 13
Cooper Union- The Great Hall, 7th St. and 3rd Ave

A Weekend Conference Presented by Creative Time, inSite, and The Cooper Union
(Free)

Full schedule available here:
http://www.creativetime.org./programs/archive/2007/insite/index.html

In the network society everyone puts together their own city. Naturally this touches on the essence of the concept of public domain…Public domain experiences occur at the boundary between friction and freedom.
--Maarten Hajer and Arnold Reijndorp, In Search of New Public Domain

inSite/ San Diego-Tijuana and Creative Time, New York are pleased to present The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, a two-day multidisciplinary sequence of panel discussions, conversations, and art projects rethinking the challenges of artistic, curatorial, architectural and theoretical engagement in urban and other public spheres.

What is at stake today in terms of public domain experiences? How do we know the impact of cultural projects upon the imaginations of citizens? Do we believe in the possibility of transforming publics? What is the nature of our situational drive?

Participants: Dennis Adams, Doug Aitken, Doug Ashford, Judith Barry, Ute Meta Bauer, Mark Beasley, Bulbo, Teddy Cruz, CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy), Tom Eccles, Peter Eleey, Hamish Fulton, Gelitin, Joseph Grima, Maarten Hajer, David Harvey, Mary Jane Jacob, Nina Katchadourian, Vasif Kortun, Laura Kurgan, Rick Lowe, Markus Miessen, France Morin, Antoni Muntadas, Kyong Park, Anne Pasternak, Vong Phaophanit, Michael Rakowitz, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Osvaldo Sanchez, Saskia Sassen, Allan Sekula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective), Michael Sorkin, Javier Tellez, Nato Thompson, Anthony Vidler, Anton Vidokle, Judi Werthein, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Mans Wrange.

For a full program of events: http://www.inSite05.org or http://www.Creativetime.org.
Tickets are Free! No reservation necessary.

The Situational Drive is made possible, in part, by Artography: Arts in a
Changing America, a grant and documentation program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity, funded by the Ford Foundation.

Additional support provided by haudenschildGarage and the Ronald and Lucille Neeley Foundation; media support by The Village Voice.

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In conjunction with The Situational Drive, inSite is pleased to launch Dynamic Equilibrium: In Pursuit of Public Terrain, the third in a series of books documenting inSite_05. Dynamic Equilibrium includes essays and dialogues drawn from the inSite_05 Conversations, which took place in San Diego and Tijuana from November 2003 through November 2005. For more information, or to place an order, please visit http://www.inSite05.org .

Matthew Ritchie: April 25

Matthew Ritchie
April 25, 2007, 6:30pm
National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street) between Park Avenue and Irving Place

The American Federation of Arts is pleased to announce that Matthew Ritchie, whose conceptually driven work finds inspiration in philosophy, physics, and mythology, will speak at the next lecture of the AFA’s spring season of ArtTalks. Ritchie will discuss the multiple fields of influence that inform his body of work.

The event will be held on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. in the Sculpture Court of the National Arts Club, located at 15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street) between Park Avenue and Irving Place, New York. Following the talk, audience members are invited to participate in a question-and-answer session and then to join the artist for a reception.

Seating is limited and reservations are required. For fees and reservations, please call 212.988.7700 ext. 210 or send an email to arttalks@afaweb.org. Attire is business casual.

Included in Time magazine’s “100 Innovators of the New Millennium” for his explorations of “the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought,” Matthew Ritchie has been no less ambitious than to attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief we employ to interpret and visualize it. His work considers both the attempts and the limits of human consciousness to comprehend the universe’s vastness. Though often described as a painter, Ritchie works in a variety of media, including paper, prints, projections, installations, freestanding sculpture, Web sites, and short stories, which tie his sprawling works together into a narrative structure. Replete with allusions drawn from religious ideologies, historical forces, and theoretical principles of science, his work is continually expanding and evolving, while investigating and challenging the complex interactions between art and various systems of information.

Born in London in 1964, Matthew Ritchie lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London, and attended Boston University. Ritchie’s work has been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; MASS MoCA; SFMoMA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others. His work was also included in the Whitney Biennial (1997), the Sydney Biennale (2002), and the São Paulo Bienale (2004). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A frequent lecturer and contributor to several contemporary art journals, he is the author of the recent artist’s book Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01-07.

ArtTalks is presented by Target.
Support has also been provided by the Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation, Inc.


The AFA is a nonprofit institution that organizes art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops education programs. For more information on the AFA, please visit http://www.afaweb.org