Artist-Led Tours of Louise Bourgeois Exhibition

Eye to Eye: Artist-Led Tours of Louise Bourgeois Exhibition
August 27, September 8 & 17
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)

Louise Bourgeois has remained steadfastly at the vanguard of the visual arts for more than seventy years, continuing to create new bodies of work with restless innovation. Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, her richly symbolic paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations expose facets of her own personal history and confront the more universal ethos of human emotion. Join this multigenerational group of leading contemporary artists on private guided tours that explore Bourgeois’s distinctive iconography.

All walkthroughs begin at 6:30 p.m.; receptions with the artists follow.
Single tour $25, $20 members; Series of 3 $60, $50 members. Limit 25 per tour. For more information, call the Box Office at 212 423 3587.

Karen Finley: Wed., Aug. 27
Karen Finley (b. 1956, Chicago) is best known for her politically subversive and deeply personal performance art. Using her voice and body to provoke a visceral response, she forces her audiences into an uneasy confrontation with social issues such as violence against women, the AIDS crisis, and censorship.

Rachel Harrison: Mon., Sept. 8
The work of Rachel Harrison (b. 1966, New York) merges sculptural, painterly, and photographic elements. Incorporating eccentric handmade forms with found objects, she enacts a playful dialogue between abstraction and figuration, referencing art historical movements such as Pop and Minimalism.

Marina Abramović: Wed., Sept. 17
Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramović (b. 1946, Belgrade) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. With the body serving as her subject and medium, she has explored the boundaries of emotional, spiritual, and physical states in the hope of ultimately transcending them.

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism: Aug 16

The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism
Saturday, August 16, 2008, 3:00 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$6 Members, $8 General Public

As scientific consensus about global warming gains traction with the public, this panel explores how such knowledge—and the environmental strategies it prompts—should be expressed visually. With Dr. Cameron Tonkinwise, Charles M. Blow, and Mitchell Joachim. Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/220

Waterboarding Thrill Ride this August

Steve Powers’ The Waterboarding Thrill Ride
The Arcade at Coney Island, New York, NY: July 26 to late August
Private Performance mid-August

On Saturday, July 26 Creative Time and artist Steve Powers opened The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an animatronic diaroma depicting a prisoner being waterboarded, installed in the Coney Island arcade, presented by Creative Time as part of its national public art initiative Democracy in America: The National Campaign. The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, which will boldly raise awareness of the issue of torture in the United States, will be open all summer long and is available for public viewing. In mid-August, the artist will produce a private performance wherein he and several lawyers will be waterboarded by a trained professional in a secret location in the heart of Coney Island.

The Waterboarding Thrill Ride diorama will be reinstalled in the Democracy in America Convergence Center at the Park Avenue Armory from September 21 to 27.

http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/powers.php

Dina Ramadan: Aug 14

Dina Ramadan:
A Taste for the Modern: Art Criticism and the Making of the Egyptian Bourgeoisie
Thursday, August 14, 2008 , 7:30 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Free

Scholar Dina Ramadan discusses the journal Sawt el-Fannan (The Voice of the Artist)—a self-proclaimed pioneering publication in the field of Egyptian art criticism, first produced in 1950—as a departure point for understanding the ways in which art criticism has been imagined in Egypt. Through an expansive understanding of its field, Sawt el-Fannan has produced a complicated and multifaceted relationship between artistic production and art criticism, one in which its role is both reflective and productive. For Ramadan, the notion of “taste” or al-Hassa al-Dhawqiyya is central to the objectives of Sawt el-Fannan as a means of cultivating a bourgeois artistic awareness and aesthetic sensibility (what French cultural sociologist Pierre Bourdieu would call “cultural competence”) as part of the larger project of constructing the modern subject in Egypt.

This program is part of “Museum as Hub: Antikhana,” a project organized by the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, on view in the fifth-floor Museum as Hub spacethrough September 21, 2008.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/219

Remix Videos at EAI: Aug 13

CLEAN CUT
EAI, 535 West 22nd Street, Fifth Floor, New York City
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 pm

The re-edit and the remix have become increasingly important strategies for artists working with appropriated moving images. In the era of YouTube and affordable, user-friendly video editing software, a minimalist approach to reworking appropriated material has emerged. What is the most economical way to make something new from something old? Eschewing collage, the artists in this program choose to make works by refashioning a single piece of found video or film, such as a Hollywood action movie, a '70s sitcom, or a low-resolution video clip. Though recalling Internet fan edits and exercises encountered in film school editing classes, these remixes and re-edits by artists are driven by conceptual or formal investigations. Employing an economy of means, these artists create new forms of cultural critique and media intervention. Artists include: Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Takeshi Murata, Karthik Pandian, Radical Software Group (RSG), and Matt Sheridan Smith

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=109

Rhizome Commissions Conversations: Aug 8

New Museum, 235 Bowery
Friday, August 8, 2008, 7:30 PM
$6 Members, $8 General Public

Rhizome Commissions Conversations with Dan Pfiffer, David Nolen, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Carolyn Strauss and Julian Bleecker, and Melanie Crean. Moderated by Rhizome Editor Ceci Moss.

This is the second in a three-part series that features presentations by artists awarded grants through Rhizome's Commissions Program. Founded in 2001 to support artists working with technology, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded fifty-four commissions to date. Projects realized through the Program represent some of the forward-thinking and innovative works of media and Internet-based art. In this evening's program, the artists will discuss their commissioned projects and larger bodies of work.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/218

Radio Action III: Aug 7

Thursday, August 7, 2008, 7:30 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$8 Members, $10 General Public

Join free103point9, in collaboration with Radio Web MACBA (RWM) and Barbara Held, for a live performance celebrating Radio Action III, an online radio program produced for RWM and the next free103point9 Audio Dispatch CD Release. Radio Action III features twelve five-minute sound works conceptually tied to the idea of “radio” as an instrument or theme, composed by free103point9 transmission artists working in collaborative teams. RWM is a radio-phonic project on the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Web site that explores the possibilities of the Internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition. Performances from: Damian Catera, Melissa Dubbin, and Aaron S. Davidson, The Dust Dive and Latitude Longitude, Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell, Tianna Kennedy, LoVid with Howard Huang, Tom Roe, and others. Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Radio Action III with admission.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/217