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Only in NYC: Members-only art club

Share A members-only club brings artwork out of the gallery and into the home   In a city where you can you can have laundry, food, and pretty much everything else delivered to your door, New Yorkers are now adding contemporary artwork to the list.   Uprise Art, a members-only art collectors club based in...
Art Jam at PLATFORM

Art Jam at PLATFORM

Share Last weekend’s kick off “Art Jam” event at PLATFORM, a giant South Williamsburg loft, was a fun and inspiring blend of artist practices. The two featured artists, musician Nathan McKee and visual artist Alison Kuo, collaborated on a handful of works creating an environment together full of colorful sounds and musical sights. Planned as an ongoing series where visual art and music “jam” together, each session will be held around a particular collaboration, giving the musician and artist pair free-range to produce work around their current practices, while pushing the boundaries of their respective mediums. Rather than trying to bring art into the music realm or vise versa, it’s an invitation instead for artists to exist without the labels of their practice by experimenting beyond their normal processes.   This event was structured in two segments. In the first Alison’s varied works were installed around the space with specific sculptures accompanied by music which Nathan pre-recorded. Later, Nathan took to the stage and performed an hour long set of music, accompanied by video which Alison had prepared for his performance. Nathan’s music conjures a world of relentless idealism that might just hide a creepy underbelly. The music feels light-hearted with quiet poppy hooks. His gentle keyboards and his vocals drowning in syrupy reverb created a soft focus soundscape for contemplation. Alison’s work shares this feeling of walking into an alternate world no matter what medium she’s working in. She created collages, sculptures, and an installation for this show and all seemed to share a joy of strange objects and extremely bright colors. One piece seemed to consist of brightly colored plastic deserts laid out on a plastic table inches off the floor.  In another a motorized panda sculpture sways to Nathan’s pre-recorded music. In her collages, jello molds soar through outerspace and merge with other strange environments.   The work is whimsical, but Alison doesn’t aim to create a dream, per se. Instead she highlights the unexpected marvelous-ness that exists in Chinatown dollar stores where much of her raw materials (cheap curious, neon plastic, googly eyes) originate. It is in these often overlooked stores where where bright colors compensate for poor quality, that Alison seems to find her inspiration. The contrast of worldly items with the otherworldy impression of her finished works is somehow instinctively appropriate.     Inspired by this unique loft under the JMZ train platform, the project feels like a natural use of the space. There is a stage at one end, a bar set-up on the other, and plenty of space for artwork in between. The relaxed and inclusive environment created during the reception and performance put everyone in the right mood for the after-party, when a DJ took over the stage and everyone danced to late 90s tunes under Alison’s bright orange and gold ceiling installation. I’ll surely be watching their Facebook page where the event’s curator Kelly Schroer has promised an update on the next Art Jam session this Spring.   by James Holland (writer, filmmaker, photographer, extraordinary gentleman)   Rate this post by clicking on the stars
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MOROZ CITY -The first snow city in Russia

Share The first snow city in Russia was built just 5 days. Designed from the author’s sketches, selected on a competitive basis, and built by 18 curators, invited from all over Russia, snowy MOROZ CITY has become one of the most unusual structures of winter 2012. The leading creator of the project is Kyrill Bair –...
Dare2Draw - monthly cartoon fun in NYC

Dare2Draw – monthly cartoon fun in NYC

Share The Dare2Draw is a mentoring and networking platform for all artists, an opportunity to connect with each other, face-to-face. Established artists and arts organizations meet in a supportive setting, putting the art back in sequential art.  There are contests and prizes, with a fun and engaging game show vibe.  The Big City Dare2Draw, a...
New Artists: Paintings by Rhea Eunjoo In

New Artists: Paintings by Rhea Eunjoo In

Share Lately, I have been painting using the merry-go-round as a motif. While searching for a unique object that resembles my innocence and extraordinariness well, I decided to paint the sensibility-provoking carousel in an amusement park right next to my apartment in Korea. In my work, I imagine the merry-go-round as the zoo and a...
Artist insight: Marcin Krupa

Artist insight: Marcin Krupa

Share This painting is inspired by an image from a Polish newspaper during a national debate on the health care system. The painter Marcin Krupa wanted to catch at a glance an aspect of daily life which affects all society.Those nurses are not simply an image of the middle class workers but indeed the picture...
Artist insight: Federica Lucia Vinella

Artist insight: Federica Lucia Vinella

Share When I came in Berlin, first steps on ground I had a feeling that I was walking in a silent black and white picture. There was nothing that could remind me of the blue friendly vibe of my land. Silent. White. Grey, then again Silent. Bricks, factories, smooth shapes walking lonely on the streets....

The dream scenarios of Clare Rosean

Share Where my real life anxieties, phobias, and compulsions are acted out in dream scenarios is where I find my most inspiration. The pieces here belong to different phases of my development, and consequently they each belong to their own particular series. All of my work is narrative; allow me to briefly describe the narrative...

Become a MAshRome friend or submit your film!

Share MAshRome Film Fest is in its inaugural year and with your help, we would like it to become the first Italian festival dedicated to Mash Up and cinematic Remix. The creative universe of Mash Up is very rich and we want to explore it with all of you. The festival will be the perfect...

Be part of the 90 paintings in 90 days project

Share Alicia Araya is an artist living in Marshall, USA. She is seeking funding for an Epic Painting project through the site Kickstarter. She picks up the story… I propose to paint 90 landscape paintings in 90 days. I’m basing them on a book titled Turner at the Tate which shows all the Turner pieces in...

Never Standing Still: Zbigniew Rybczynski and Gábor, Berlin Bódy

Share The exhibition “The State of Images” courageously presents two Eastern European media pioneers: Zbigniew Rybczynski and Gábor Bódy by Christiane Lötsch Would you have known? The development of electronic images and sound started in Eastern Europe as early as the 1970s. Zbigniew Rybczynski (*1949, Poland) and Gábor Bódy (*1946-1985, Hungary), overcoming the artistic restrictions...

Thomas Bonny at the KuntsHalle Marcel Duchamp, Lake Geneva

Share by Viola Emaldi Nowadays there are many non-profit project spaces run by artists. These give birth to exhibitions, multiple productions, studio visits, magazines and publications all created with the cooperation of other artists, on the basis of common needs and interests. For many artists, curating is a ‘medium’ like any other, and managing an...

“Roaming Images” at The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

Share by Stéphanie Bertrand Developed within the framework of the ongoing project “Roaming Images” and conjointly presented at the MMCA, the group shows “Roaming Images Exhibition” and “Roaming Images Routes” examined the contemporary role of the image in Arab and Eastern Mediterranean cultures in light of the regions’ shared history of aniconism – from Byzantine...

Security guard! New web comic by William Hessian

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Christmas Cartoon – T’was the night before Christmas…

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Library Science at Artspace, New Haven

Share When I was a child, one of my favorite books was about a girl who went to the library every day. Under the impression that all the world’s books were housed there, she thought she could read them all. Her plan was to go alphabetically, a single volume a day, not permitting herself to...

Christmas Cartoon – Santa’s reindeers by Colin Dukelow

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Free download for all readers: Ross and the Wrongen’s Summer Sun

Share Exciting news, today we have a free download for all our readers. Daylight Saving Time has ended, the days are growing shorter, and we’re all yearning for summer again. Ross and the Wrongens are a UK quintet with more than a hint of 60′s Brit pop to their sound, and we’ve got the free download of...

Yet another language of new media: WebJS at the Nida Art Colony

Share by Mindaugas Gapsevicius On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 there was a discussion in the Tate Modern about contemporary art exhibitions planned in the Flemish part of Belgium in 2012. The director of the museum, Chris Dercon, insisted that curators answer the question about how they describe planned activities and if an “event”  is the...

An interview with Parisian gallerist Alexandre Lazarew

Share The Galerie Lazarew is a new gallery in the Marais, Paris which promotes urban art.  The gallerist Alexandre Lazarew has collected art for forty years and I was intrigued why he had decided to open a gallery. He kindly welcomed The Flaneur and agreed to answer some questions about life, art and the street....

MoCAB in INEX film: Listening to the Past

Share by Dragana Nikoleti? translation into english: ?or?e ?oli? One hardly could think of a place more apt to serve as a setting wherein to hold a presentation of an audio and space reconfiguration workshop with the title “Historical Framework of Memory” and subtitled “Spaces for Listening to the Voices of the Past” inside a perspective...

The Journey of the Faceless man by Hamza Farooq

Share Born without a name, without an identity, the faceless man’s journey begins as any other slum dog. No, he doesn’t grow up to become a millionaire. I doubt any slum kids do. The faceless man’s life is consumed by emptiness and without reason. In his life, there is no such thing as destiny.  ...

The unlikely joys of syntax by Dr John Yeoman

Share Grammar is a joyful thing! I hear you cry: ‘Huh?’.  But ‘tis true – trust me. (I’m a doctor.) Did you spot the seven ‘grammatical errors’ in that paragraph? A copy editor might strike out the colon before the quoted speech (‘Huh?’) and the full stop after it. S/he’d howl at the archaic ‘‘tis’....