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Webmasters extraordinaire, Ben Heller and Kaylea Nelson, designers of this and many other fine sites, have upped their game with spruce.it, their new design consulting firm.
The New York Studio School presents their Spring 2011 Evening Lecture Series. Presenters include Vito Acconci, Carroll Dunham and Alexi Worth.
Erik Sommer now exists on Wikipedia.
Hermann Nitsch will perform the first ever painting action in the United States at Mike Weiss on February 15th and 16th.
Thanks to Beautiful/Decay, the super cool DIY photocopied ‘zine started back in 1996, for the mention of my work.
Will Ryman’s The Roses will be featured along Park Avenue from January 25 through May 31. The “38 sculptures of rose blossoms towering as high as 25 feet, complimented by 20 individual scattered rose petals, will festoon Park Avenue Mall between 57th and 67th Streets in the artist’s inaugural public art exhibition.” Presented by Paul Kasmin Gallery, in conjunction with New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation and the Fund for the Park Avenue Sculpture Committee.
The VIP Art Fair, the “first art fair to mobilize the collective force of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries with the unlimited reach of the Internet,” evidently didn’t realize the extent of the Internet’s unlimited reach. This one-week-only event, featuring most of Chelsea’s blue-chip galleries, has been plagued with technical problems and slow response time. It is supposedly now at 100%, just in time for its few remaining days.
Houdini: Art and Magic, at The Jewish Museum, features “magic apparatus such as his straitjacket, handcuffs and milk can, posters, broadsides, period photographs, archival films, and contemporary art work by artists such as Matthew Barney, Petah Coyne, Jane Hammond, Vik Muniz, Deborah Oropallo and Raymond Pettibon.” See it before it disappears on March 27.
Diverse media artist Tom Thayer is having a busy January, with concurrent shows at Tracy Williams LTD, The Kitchen, and Derek Eller Gallery.
Luhring Augustine presents Untitled (painting), a “group exhibition of paintings by artists from both the United States and Europe. Included in the exhibition are: Tauba Auerbach, Bernard Frize, Wade Guyton, Albert Oehlen, Josh Smith, Daan van Golden, Charline von Heyl, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig.”