Photograph of Hannah Arendt, NYC, 1944. (image courtesy of the Estate of Fred Stein)

The Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory and Creative Research is a $5,000 essay prize awarded in an annual competition for those interested in the juncture of art and creative research and in the principles at the heart of the arts and humanities, including sense-based intelligence; the reality of singular, nonrepeatable phenomena; ethical vision; and consilience between inner and outer, nature and reason, thought and experience, subject and object, self and world.

The award is presented by the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Entry submission: essay of 1,500 words or less
Application deadline: Friday, May 31, 2013
Theme: On Art and Disobedience; Or, What Is an Intervention?
Cash award: 5,000 USD

The winner will be announced by Saturday, August 31, 2013.

Please note that essays over the limit will be disqualified.
Application for the prize is open to the general public.

Download the PDF application and email the completed application and the essay (in a .doc or .pdf format) to ctcrprize@pnca.edu.

Explication of theme:

“To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits. The history of human progress amounts to a series of Promethean acts. But autonomy is also attained in the daily workings of individual lives by means of many small Promethean disobediences, at once clever, well thought out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely. All that remains in such a case is an equivocal, diluted form of guilt. I would say that there is good reason to study the dynamics of disobedience, the spark behind all knowledge.”

—Gaston Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire

Intervention is an omnipresent if not ubiquitous word in contemporary discourse, but what forms does it take in the age of genetic engineering and real-time media?  Is the concept a decoy or distraction in the face of futility? A cover or compensation for hopeless battles and set-ups? Is it simply working to slow down the Inevitable, a notion that in and of itself works as a major obstacle to critical thought and action? Or is it something more serious, more durable, and more dangerous? What is the relation of critique and intervention, theory and practice? And what role does art play in what Bachelard called “creative disobedience,” acts of Prometheanism “so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely”? Might art now comprise one of the last forms of political stealth, working in increasingly sophisticated time-based ways? What kinds of thought and action are powerful and compelling interventions today, whether one-off spectacles, sabots, monkey wrenches, sleepers, gummy bears, or Trojan Horses?

Along with Anne-Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders, Founding Co-Chairs, MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research, Pacific Northwest College of Art, the judges for 2013 include:

• Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Exhibition History, Graduate Center, The City University of New York
• Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, The University of California, Berkeley, and Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy, Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien/EGS
• Barbara Duden, Professor Emerita, Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Julia Kristeva, Professor Emerita and Head of the École doctorale Langues, Littératures, Images, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, and recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought
• Heike Kühn, Film Critic
• Martha Rosler, Artist and contributor to the Hannah Arendt Denkraum (on the occasion of Hannah Arendt’s 100th birthday)

For more information visit pnca.edu.

ArtPrize

To open things up even further, ArtPrize blends their epic public vote with juried prizes, exploring the tension that exists between popular and professional opinion.

Jerry Saltz, one of the 2012 Juried Grand Prize jurors, said of ArtPrize, “It is pretty damn impressive… An amazing inversion of the top-down pedigreed model we use. It takes all kinds.”

ArtPrize has announced its 2013 panel of jurors — eight people who represent the voice of the professional art world and whose say will be the counterbalance to the public vote. Together, this panel will distribute $200,000: five prizes of $20,000 each and one Juried Grand Prize totaling $100,000.

The Grand Jurors include:
Manon Slome, PhD — President and Chief Curator of No Longer Empty.
Mel Chin — Conceptual artist who engages cultural, political, and social space.
Anne Pasternak — President and Artistic Director of Creative Time.

Category jurors include:
2D Work: John Yau — Editor of Hyperallergic Weekend, poet, and critic.
3D Work: Hesse McGraw — Curator at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Neb.
Time-Based Work: Rashida Bumbray — Independent curator, most recently of The Kitchen.
Use of Urban Space: Eva Franch I Gilabert — Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Venue: Alice Gray Stites — Chief Curator and Director of art programming for 21c Museum Hotels.

As Tyler Green, ArtPrize’s 2012 2D juror, said, “If you love art and you don’t find [ArtPrize] a little bit awesome, you’re lacking a soul.”

ArtPrize’s open call for artists is happening right now. Register online at www.artprize.org.

Liam Benson “Santa” (2013), Pigment in ink on cotton rag paper, Edition of 5 + 2 AP’s, 150 x 150cm (59.1 x 59.1in)

Distilling the ethos of a national avant-garde is a daring act, but curator Marissa Bateman’s goal is to accomplish just that in Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art from Australia at Garis & Hahn. The exhibition aims to showcase the most effervescent artists of Australia’s contemporary art scene, marking the New York debut of the participants. Artists include Australia’s Venice Biennale representatives Vernon Ah Kee, Claire Healy, and Sean Corderio as well as Joel Beerden, Stephen Bird, Nicholas Folland, Dan McKewen, Amanda Marburg, and Phoebe Rathmell.

The works in Peripheral Visions will offer a meaningful departure from the dominant Australian art narrative, which is all-too-routinely associated with landscape painting. Australian-born curator Marissa Bateman discusses the exhibition’s intention and focus:

Peripheral Visions carries multiple meanings and resonances. Most immediately it refers to Australia’s peripheral positioning within the international art market, of which New York is the epicenter. With London’s art powerhouses Saatchi Gallery and the Royal Academy both staging surveys of Australian art in the next eighteen months, it seemed fitting to start this international engagement with the exceptional artistic talent emerging from Australia in the partly Australian-run New York gallery, Garis & Hahn.

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro “T+85_red&blue_diptych” (2013), LEGO, 105 x 298cm (41.3 x 117.3in)

The artists were selected for their unique mark making processes with peripheral materials such as Plasticine and LEGO, and the occasion of the exhibition also represents the first time each artist will exhibit in New York — an astounding fact given that three of the artists (Vernon Ah Kee, Claire Healy, and Sean Cordeiro) have exhibited at the world’s most prestigious contemporary art event, the Venice Biennale.

The dynamic dialogue within the exhibition escapes an overarching academic theme and expands on topics such as urban/popular culture, gender, identity, and indigenous/personal history. The diverse and multifaceted work will communicate a picture of contemporary Australia that many international observers may not have seen. It’s a radical rejoinder to more staid conceptions of Australian art today, a singular representation of the country’s contemporary canon.

Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art from Australia is on view at Garis & Hahn (283 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through June 15, with a performance by artist Phoebe Rathmell at 4:30pm on May 15.

Doors are open to the public on weekdays, and quarterly, on weekends for major events. One of these quarterly openings is this Saturday May 4, from 1–7 pm. Art openings at Mana Contemporary differ from typical museum openings because Mana is dedicated to showcasing the process of creating art, not just the final product.

Guests who attend the event will be able to see three provocative exhibits, meet over 70 artists inside their studios, listen to live music in the beer garden, watch metal being poured in Mana’s new foundry, and so much more. Here’s a few more details about each of the featured exhibitions opening this weekend:

Nobuyoshi Araki
The largest and most comprehensive survey of the legendary Japanese photographer to be held in the U.S featuring more than 100 works from a private collection.

Andres Levin (Music Has No Enemies)
The Grammy award-winning producer presents live music in the Mana Contemporary beer garden featuring Cucu Diamantes, Slavic Soul Party, Forro in the Dark and a special appearance by Los Hanky Pankys.

ESKFF Presents: Obsession
What compels one to collect contemporary art? The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family foundation offers a window into the mind of five passionate collectors.

Voices from the Interior: Palestinian Women Artist
The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) presents an unprecedented showcase of video art by six Palestinian women living and working in Israel.

Mana Contemporary
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306

Mana Contemporary will provide free shuttle service beginning at 12:30 p.m. from Milk Gallery at 450 West 15th Street, New York, NY 11011.

This event is free and open to the public.

RSVP at www.artmanafest.com

Maryana Hordeychuk, MPS Digital Photography Thesis Project

Pursuing a master’s degree requires the right school with the best program at the appropriate time in your life. The SVA Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Photography is an intensive one-year master’s degree program that is offered as an on-campus/summer residency or an online/summer residency that seamlessly blends the most current technical and aesthetic aspects of contemporary photographic image making.

The program meets the needs of professional photographers, photographic educators, and creative professionals who need to advance their skills in digital image capture, image processing, multimedia production, business issues, conceptual and critique practice, and high-quality output to remain competitive in a variety of photographic, design, production, educational, multimedia, and related fields.

The online/summer residency program is ideal for anyone who has a deep passion for exploring the confluence of photographic aesthetics and digital technology but cannot relocate to New York City for a full academic year. The program is conducted online during the fall and spring semesters. It then culminates in an intensive on-site 9-week summer session in New York City, where students produce the thesis project deliverables. Like the on-campus classes, the online classes are limited in size and fully engage students in creating original photographic images of the highest caliber and mastering contemporary digital and business practices. Online students may choose to complete the curriculum on a full-time one-year or part-time two-year basis. SVA offers a 50%–75% tuition scholarship for qualified photographic educators in the online/summer residency program.

The MPS Digital Photography Program is now accepting applications for Fall 2013 admission. Applicants should apply online through the SVA website. For more information please visit www.sva.edu/digitalphoto or to schedule a meeting, please contact mpsphoto@sva.edu.

After the call for entries, the semifinalist designs chosen by the UncommonGoods buyers will appear on UncommonGoods.com where the online community will vote on their favorite pieces to move on to the final round of judging. The top five voted designs will be judged by their buyers and a winner will be chosen at the end of every month. Designers and artists are welcome to submit their work here.

You can also check out their UncommonGoods Art Gallery to find artwork for sale from dozens of talented artists. UncommonGoods also sells personalized wall art, handmade frames, and sculptures here.

BAM, in collaboration with Paddle8, is proud to announce its ninth annual BAMart Silent Auction, which will take place at The Hole gallery (312 Bowery) in Manhattan. Co-chaired by Cindy Sherman, Beth Rudin DeWoody, and Kathy Grayson, the silent auction begins online on today, April 17 at www.BAM.org/auction and will be on view at the gallery from Tuesday April 23– Sunday April 28, 12–7pm.

BAMart will host an opening reception at The Hole on April 23, 6-9PM, followed by a closing reception featuring the final auction event on April 28, 3–6pm.

Featuring works from internationally renowned and emerging artists, including Philip Guston, Tara Donovan, Robert Longo, Marilyn Minter, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Richard Serra, and Kara Walker, proceeds from the auction will benefit BAM and its extensive programming.

Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled” (2010/2012) is one of the dozens of items available during the BAMart silent auction. (Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures)

This year, a portion of the proceeds will benefit NYFA’s Emergency Relief Fund which assists artists with damages and losses as a result of last year’s Hurricane Sandy. The Andy Warhol Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Lambent Foundation (a project of the Tides Center) established the Emergency Relief Fund, which is administered by NYFA.

Paddle8, which is known for an advanced technological platform that simplifies the sale and acquisition of art and collectibles, will debut a new set of tools with the upcoming BAMart sale that enhance and streamline the in-person auction experience. For the first time, online bidders will be able to compete with guests physically present at the auction event, so there is no need to miss the final moments of a winning bid.

Other new features include a registration tool for event organizers that assigns paddle numbers to auction attendees, a beautiful new iPad app for bidding in real time at the event, and a tool for processing transactions and shipping services immediately upon the close of the silent auction.

Also for the first time, ABSOLUT partners with BAMart this year to host all hospitality and VIP events connected to the auction including the opening and closing reception and an eye-catching bar designed by Julia Chiang.

This highly anticipated annual art event underscores BAMart’s commitment to the growing community of visual artists based in Brooklyn while also cultivating the next generation of BAM supporters across the city.

Where do avant-gardes congregate? If you ask Tokyo-based artist, composer, programmer, and graphic designer Yousuke Fuyama, he believes it is something that keeps emerging in the edge of societies, where new ideas are created.

At the age of twelve, armed with a small tape recorder, Fuyama began recording and cataloging the various found sounds in his environment. This eventually led to an obsession with synthesizers, samplers, digital audio processing, and recording technology. As a college student, his research focused on computer programming and data interconversion as a means of further expanding the possibilities of multimedia art.

The Avant/Garde Diaries visited him recently at his favorite venue in Tokyo, SOUP, a non-profit DIY venue that evolved from an illegal space built by street artists to a vibrant hub for the city’s underground multimedia art scene. “SOUP is stewed with many different kinds of ingredients, and it tastes a little strange,” he says. ”I think SOUP works as a community, people with different views get together and communicate through performances, they get inspired to create something new or find different values in art.”

Alexander Doolan, “Sunburn” (2013)

Opening at Show Room gallery in the Lower East Side this Friday, April 12, from 6 to 9 pm is Brooklyn College’s MFA thesis exhibition, 12 (twelve) noun /ˈtwɛlv/ is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13, curated by Rachel Gugelberger. The exhibition features the work of 12 emerging artists drawn from the college’s program.

Anna Hoberman, “Composition XI” (2013)

The exhibition, as is shown by its unorthodox title, is unconcerned with providing a particular theme or brand for its participants. Rather, it’s a way to showcase the school and the artists’ own individuality. Tucked away in the middle of Brooklyn, with wild parrots roaming a Georgian-style campus, Brooklyn College is home to non-conformists. That rebellious spirit will be on display in the work on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Artists Jeannine Bardo, Nicole Donnelly, and Cecilia Whitaker-Doe contemplate our relationship to the natural world in intimate works that include prints, painting, stop-motion animation video, weavings, and artist books. Anna Hoberman and Mitch Patrick organize evidence of human use — handwriting and digital marks — into serial prints, illuminated 3D works, and videos that serve as archives of images and information. The socially charged hybrid paintings of Samuel Jablon and Andrew Kennedy respond to the cacophony of advertising and deluge of media in our digital world.

Kate McGraw, “Chouffe Mountain” (2012-13)

John Ros reclaims liminal space, assembling site-responsive installations that speak to the waste inherent in consumption and artistic practices. Through her sweetly surreal installations, Kate McGraw creates an alternative, meditative realm for the viewer. With varying perspectives, Nick Stolle, Alexander Doolan, and Anthony Randell reflect on the possibilities of art and their individual relationships to the materials they use, from painting to found objects, sound, performance, and photography.

Bound in dialogue by respect and admiration, each artist provides a unique and personal reflection on our cultural moment and their own place in it. Forever looking at the world from a canted perspective, these young artists are reshaping how we encounter the aesthetic environment.

Mitch Patrick, “Inner_ manipulative_substratums” (2013)

12 (twelve) noun /ˈtwɛlv/ is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13 runs at Show Room (170 Suffolk Street, Manhattan) through April 28. A series of events will accompany the exhibition.

Cynthia Lin, “Crop1aAsideEyeEA” (2009) (All images courtesy Garis & Hahn)

Garis & Hahn is a new gallery on the Lower East Side whose tagline — “Est. Now” — signals their commitment to provocative contemporary programming. Tonight, the gallery opens Borderline: Depictions of Skin, a show composed of a trio of artists, Gwen Hardie, Cynthia Lin, and Diana Schmertz, investigating the skin as a signifier of sensory boundaries.

Skin is a multifarious concept — it brings to mind the outermost surface of things, or, perhaps, the condition of vulnerability that comes when our skin is exposed. The artists in Borderline take on skin as way to connect to the human body; by depicting and appropriating our corporeal forms, the three women presented here reach toward deeper issues, approaching themes of connection, endurance, and intimacy.

Gwen Hardie, “Body 09.13.09″ (2009)

Cynthia Lin’s dramatic graphite and charcoal drawings get up close and personal with the body, zooming in on singular features and diving into the texture of skin itself, with all of its valleys and crags. In “Crop1aAsideEyeEA” (seen above), she takes viewers on trip through the details of an eyebrow, eyelash, and lid. Their size turns familiar details into epic landscapes.

Gwen Hardie uses soft membranes of oil paint to create diaphanous, abstract paintings that hint at depths of flesh. For Hardie, skin serves as the primary witness to inner life, dividing the self from the outside world. Veins creep through her “Body 09.12.09,” a tondo of yellow, red, and pale blue tones that forms a close-up of an elbow or palm crease lit by natural light.

Diana Schmertz, “The Cause of Itself” (2010)

In her surreal paintings, Diana Schmertz uses bodily forms as a way to examine how sensory perception informs how we think and feel as human beings — the skin is our ultimate arbiter of action. In “The Cause of Itself,” a tower of hands twist together to form a single, self-reflexive unit.

See how these various strategies intersect when Borderline: Depictions of Skin opens tonight from 6 to 8 pm at Garis & Hahn (283 Bowery). The exhibition runs through April 27, and a panel discussion with the artists will be hosted at the gallery at 7 pm on April 10.

Installation view of “Walking Into the Dashboard” at 319 Scholes during The World’s First Tumblr Art Symposium.

If you were in attendance at Hyperallergic’s recent Tumblr Art Symposium, you might have noticed a curated collection of tumblelogs projected onto the walls of the 319 Scholes gallery space. The exhibition was created with the help of equipment provided by Tekserve Rentals, which offers an array of computer rentals to individuals and businesses.

We used Tekserve’s projectors to display auto-scrolling versions of some of the coolest art projects on Tumblr. The show, called Walking Into the Dashboard, considered how Tumblr has become a medium unto itself for artists. The projectors and computers from Tekserve helped to materialize the ideas and creations of the artists, writers, and scholars who participated in the symposium.

When dealing with digital art, it’s often hard to present it in a physical space. Tekserve’s resources made that a simple process. The company offers rentals of everything from computers and media players to displays and accessories with software bundled in to the deal. Check out their full list of options on their website.

We, the CUNY Queens College MFA students, invite you to our show, Shared Spaces. We’re not your typical art school/department, at least not your 200K per year extravaganza. We’re a low to no-debt operation, a public school with a unique cadre of artist professors and a no-frills melting pot of artists from the five boroughs and beyond.

We like to try new things, like a social practice partnership with the Queens Museum and most recently, an art intervention in a Hilton Hotel room during the CAA conference where you should have seen Hans Haacke grinning as security was compelled to disband our gathering right in the middle of our conversation with him about censorship in the arts.

Shared Spaces is curated by Liz Park, and here is how she describes our work:

“Sol Aramendi, Seth Aylmer, Barrie Cline, and Jose Serrano-McClain create social spaces through events, workshops, classes, and community outreach and organization. Chris Esposito, Kristie Hirten, Kara Szemelynec, and Asia Sztencel explore elements of their urban environ or man-made structures in juxtaposition with the natural environment. Pablo Alvarez, Henry Kielmanowicz, Thea Lanzisero, and Liz Pasqualo are interested in picking up the material detritus of their urban fabric in order to provide commentary on socioeconomic conditions or on the ecology, or to reflect on their individual connections to these materials. A. Coffey, Christie Farriella, Marthe Keller, Lauren Nickou, and Amanda Shea explore a more intimate subjective relationship with the materials and the media in which they each work.”

Read more in the official press release.

Shared Spaces
Opening Saturday March 23, 6–9pm
March 23–April 2, 2013
ONE ART SPACE, TRIBECA (map)
23 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007

With Armory Week rapidly sneaking up on us, there are two things you’re going to need to survive: a guide to which shows are going on where and a strong drink (or several). Thankfully, WAGMAG and Pernod are here to solve both of those problems.

This Saturday, March 9, is Armory Arts Week’s Brooklyn Night, with a slew of galleries launching special projects and staying open late in New York’s coolest borough. Art spaces in Williamsburg will open their doors till 10 PM, with installations like Kevin Cooley’s “Skyward” ceiling projection at Pierogi’s The Boiler and playwright and designer John Jesurun’s performance at Ventana244, among many other happenings. Bushwick galleries like Interstate Projects, NURTUREart, and Regina Rex will also be open till 10.

Thankfully, with so much going on, there’s an app to help you figure out both which shows to attend and which Williamsburg bars to belly up to. Get your bearings for Brooklyn Armory Night by downloading WAGMAG and Pernod Absinthe’s The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn to help you navigate the exhibitions, special events, projections and installations the night has to offer.

The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn also features monthly gallery listings, GPS mapping, and seamless integration with all forms of social media, so you can let all your friends know where you’ve been and what you’ve seen.

Today might be National Absinthe Day, but the celebration should stretch well into the weekend with Pernod Absinthe’s cocktails on tap at many of Brooklyn Armory Night’s participating galleries. See you there!

Mohammed Kazem, “Photographs with Flags” (1997 – 2003)

Contemporary art is a resolutely global affair, but it can be difficult to learn about international art scenes without a big travel budget. On Tuesday, February 26, at 6:30 pm, Reem Fadda, Associate Curator of Middle Eastern Art at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, will explore the contemporary history of the United Arab Emirates art scene in a lecture at the museum, “The Contemporary History of the UAE Art Scene.”

In the last few years, the UAE art scene has been the center of the world’s attention as the nation has been building an institutional infrastructure that includes the important Sharjah Biennial, numerous art fairs (Abu Dhabi and Dubai), and major museums, including Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Louvre Abu Dhabi. The country is sowing the seeds of culture with the hopes of growing a fertile artistic crop that would flourish into a global hub of art.

Following Fadda’s lecture, Mohammed Kazem, a featured artist of the UAE pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, which will be curated by Fadda, will join the curator for a discussion.

Mohammed Kazem

Mohammed Kazem is a leading conceptual artist in the UAE contemporary art scene and is known for his incorporation of new media and his sophisticated formalist language. Kazem first studied Fine Arts at the Emirates Fine Art Society and subsequently studied music at the Al Rayat Music Institute of Dubai and painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. He was a Painting Instructor at the Dubai Art Atelier for ten years. Kazem has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the UAE and abroad, and most recently he exhibited at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2010) and at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012).

When selecting Kazem for this year’s UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Fadda explained why the artist was an important artistic voice in the country. “Mohammed Kazem, a pioneering contemporary artist and thinker from the UAE, represents a generation that emerged from an avant-garde legacy of arts and artists in the UAE and the surrounding region, one that has thrived since the mid-’70s with advocates such as his mentor artist Hassan Sharif,” she said. “By engaging the work of Kazem, we can witness the urban modernity of an emerging nation through the eyes of its individual artists.”

The event will take place on Feb 26th at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan) and tickets are $12, $8 members, free for students with valid ID and RSVP. For more information or to purchase tickets please visit guggenheim.og/cca.

If you’re not in New York, don’t worry. You can watch the live webcast of this program at www.ustream.tv/guggenheim

Online viewers can submit questions for the Q&A to publicprograms@guggenheim.org and follow @Guggenheim and the hashtag #KazemUAE to join the conversation online.

The broadcast takes place at:

• New York: February 26, 6:30 pm EST
• Los Angeles: February 26, 3:30 pm PST
• London: February 26, 11:30 pm GMT
• Abu Dhabi: February 27, 3:30 am UTC

Wiran Honthumma’s Toyota dream car

What did you imagine the future would be like when you were a child? Through their Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, Toyota asked kids around the world to think about their daily lives, write a letter to their future selves describing what their childhood is like, and draw what kind of car they imagine they might be driving years down the line.

The children’s creative visions are realized in videos that animate their drawings, turning fantasy into reality and making dreams come true. In the short video below, Wiran Honthumma of Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province narrates her letter from a sunny schoolhouse in the countryside. She creates a car that has a bathtub and toys, as well as a place to cook food, a vehicle that might help with her babysitting duties.

Extended versions and additional videos including Kenyan Naylee Nimesh Nagda’s story, can be found on Toyota’s site dedicated to the Dream Art Contest.

See the prize-winning car designs in Toyota’s gallery. The ideas range from cars for the blind to a car that runs on solar energy, a tsunami resistant car, and advanced sports cars — the possibilities are endless.

Iram Mahbub Nokshi’s Toyota dream car

Katunyu Wattanapraditchai’s Toyota dream car

“If there’s really a car like this in the future I bet you’ll be so happy,” Honthumma tells her future self in the video. The cars that the children imagine are given shape by their vibrant drawings. It’s art, after all, that allows us to show the world not just how it is but how we hope it to be.

Check out more of Toyota Dream Car Art Contest in the drawing galleries.

Art Wynwood is back! Following its widely acclaimed inaugural edition, the Art Wynwood art fair will return for its second year during Presidents’ Day Weekend (February 14–18, 2013) in the Wynwood neighborhood or Miami. Art Wynwood will take place in the spacious 100,000-square-foot Art Miami Pavilion, which attracted more than 60,000 attendees during the 2012 edition of Art Miami.

Showcasing a diverse range of fresh and edgy works by established and emerging international contemporary artists from more than 13 countries, Art Wynwood continues to shine a spotlight on Midtown Miami and the Wynwood Arts District as a flourishing international cultural destination and the epicenter of Miami’s art, fashion, design, and culinary communities.

Guests at the exclusive VIP Preview on Valentine’s Day, February 14, will experience a first view of the highly anticipated Art Wynwood fair during a private reception.

A main feature of the 2013 Fair will be the highlight of street art, murals, pop surrealism, and other genres from the contemporary underground movement exemplified by two very special projects by Wynwood Walls, including a stunning wrap around installation suspended above the VIP Lounge by artist Jesse Geller (aka Nemel), in honor of the late Tony Goldman. In addition to the installation by Jesse Geller, Wynwood Walls will also present a curated exhibit featuring specially commissioned lenticulars with the original paintings by selected artists of the Wynwood Walls installed in the intermediary spaces throughout Art Wynwood. Artists participating include: Aiko, Ron English, Logan Hicks, Futura, Swoon, Kenny Scharf, and How & Nosm.

Art Wynwood will begin with a VIP Preview on Thursday, Feb. 14 and continues through Monday, Feb. 18, in the Art Miami Pavilion.

Mira Hunter, Durational Public Whirling (Grand Central), 2010, Video, TRT 13:41,
Edition of 10, $2,000-$5,000

On Saturday, February 2, Gallery Brooklyn in Red Hook, Brooklyn will host the opening for an exciting group exhibition presenting seven finalists for the new ArtCycle Discovers Prize.

Barry Schwabsky, art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum, will lead a panel of judges as they select a winner from the seven finalists.

ArtCycle, an online e-commerce site, had an open call in the Fall of 2012 for MFA students and received nearly 100 entries. Seven finalists were chosen to represent the new crop of emerging talent in the city’s MFA programs, and the selected finalists hail from Hunter College, Columbia Univeristy, Parsons The New School of Design, and Pratt Institute.

A group exhibition will be held at Gallery Brooklyn (351 Van Brunt St, Red Hook, Brooklyn) featuring all of the finalists:

• Jenna Bauer, CUNY Hunter, painting
• Leo Castaneda, CUNY Hunter, painting
• Caroline Falby, CUNY Hunter, collage
• Bing Han, Parsons The New School for Design, painting
• Mira Hunter, Columbia University, performance/video
• Lilian Kreutzberger, Parsons The New School for Design, painting
• Shahpour Pouyan, Pratt Institute, painting/video

The winner of the first ArtCycle prize, which will be announced during the show, will be awarded $1,000.

The Discovers Prize group exhibition opens February 2nd, 2013, 6pm* at Gallery Brooklyn (351 Van Brunt St, Red Hook, Brooklyn).

*Courtesy shuttle available to Carroll St. stop (F, G trains) 7:30pm–9:00pm

For Additional information and preview exclusives please contact Richard Smolin, Director of ArtCycle. 917.273.6760 or Richard@artcycle.com or Gallery Brooklyn at info@gallerybrooklyn.com.

Futura 2000, “Blueboy” (2013), aerosol on canvas, 54 x 54 in., Est. $40,000-$50,000

Over 50 works by leading street and graffiti artists are included in artnet Auctions‘s Tag Sale: Graffiti and Street Art, which is live online through February 5, 2013.

Featuring works by Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, JR, Chris Johanson, Stephen Powers, and others, the art includes works from the 1980s until today, and provides a good overview of much of the art being made by some of the best-known talents in the field. Estimates for the work ranges from US$1,500 to 120,000.

Among the unique works featured in the sale is “Blueboy” (2013), a major new painting by legendary graffiti artist Futura 2000. “Blueboy” belongs to the Wrinkle Finish series that debuted in Future Shock, Futura’s large one-man exhibition in New York last year.

Banksy, “Barely Legal / LA Set” (Portfolio of 6 Prints) (2006), screenprint on Arches paper, 22 x 29.9 in., Est. US$90,000-120,000

Another highlight of Tag Sale is a selection of signed and authenticated works by world-renowned street artist Banksy, including “Applause” (2006), “Toxic Mary” (2003), and “Barely Legal/LA Set” (2006), the remarkable six-print portfolio.

Also featured in the sale is a diverse group of paintings by Richard Hambleton, including “Shadowman” (1986), estimated at US$8,000 to 10,000, which dates from the heyday of 1980s New York graffiti scene. This work belongs to the iconic Shadowman series, for which Hambleton is best known. The black-splattered figures in this series adorned street corners and walls from Berlin to New York in the 1980s.

Tag Sale: Graffiti and Street Art is live on artnet Auctions through February 5, 2013.

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Founded by Sanford Smith in 1993, the Outsider Art Fair quickly became a critical and commercial success, as well as the leading event in the field of outsider, self-taught, and folk art. The fair was recognized for its maverick spirit, and crowds began to flock annually to New York’s Puck Building, the event’s location for its first 15 years.

This year, under the leadership of Wide Open Arts, a new company formed by art dealer Andrew Edlin, the Outsider Art Fair is moving to Chelsea, to the site of the former Dia Art Foundation. It will continue to provide a dynamic atmosphere for dealers to showcase compelling and unusual artworks, and visitors can expect to find prime examples of art by both legendary and newly discovered artists.

George Widener, “Titanic” (2012) (image courtesy Henry Boxer Gallery, London)

The upcoming edition of the fair will host 40 dealers, 10 of whom will be exhibiting for the first time. They include former SITE Santa Fe director Laura Steward, New York’s Laurel Gitlen, Feature Inc., Kinz + Tillou, and Vito Schnabel. You can see a full list of exhibitors at outsiderartfair.com.

Also for the first time, the fair will also host two guest-curated booths, featuring solo exhibitions of renowned Swiss photographer Mario Del Curto and North Carolina–based artist Renaldo Kuhler, who is known for his creation of the fictitious country Rocaterrania.

There will be a daily program of panel discussions organized by art historian and curator Valérie Rousseau. Participants will include curators Daniel Baumann, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ralph Rugoff, as well as scholars Dr. Gail A. Hornstein, Dr. Thomas Röske, and Dr. Kent Minturn. The full list of talks and panels can be found online.

Use the promo code “hyperallergic” to reserve a complimentary 1-day ticket to the fair.

The Outsider Art Fair will take place from January 31 through February 3 at Center 548 (548 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan).

Matthew Brannon, “Immature, Artist” (2012), Edition of 9, 35 x 47 inches, for sale by Lincoln Center

Most people, when they think of Lincoln Center, think of the performing arts: theater, opera, dance, music. But the iconic New York arts center also has a strong visual art program — one that’s actually been commissioning and producing prints from such artists as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol Lewitt, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Glenn Ligon, and Chuck Close for the past fifty years.

The Lincoln Center Vera List Art Project was founded by philanthropist and arts patron Vera List, who became involved with Lincoln Center early on. List believed in the power of art and the importance of its accessibility to the general public, so she started the Art Project, which commissions contemporary artists to create posters and limited-edition prints for Lincoln Center.

In 1962, List jumped right in with the contemporary artists of her time, and that tradition continues today. Donald Baechler and Barbara Kruger recently created prints for the project’s 50th anniversary this year, and the program will ring in 2013 with a new work by artist Matthew Brannon.

Brannon’s piece, “Immature, Artist,” is simply clever, playing images and words off each other, as per the artist’s usual style. The large print (35 x 47 inches) depicts blocks and wheels and wedges of cheese arranged in a floating tableaux. Of the connection between cheese and Lincoln Center, Brannon explains that both remind him of when he first moved to New York: he was broke at the time, so him and his friends would hang out outside of Lincoln Center; he also attended a lot of art world events, where cheese was always served. “You could say the print is of artisanal cheeses — aspirational cheeses,” he says.

Underneath the aspirational cheeses — which may also symbolize aspiring artists — Brannon added a punch line: “Immature, Artist.” The joke acknowledges that both artists and cheese get better with age, but also underscores the need for artists to remind open-minded and engaged with the world.

Brannon’s screen print comes in an edition of 9 and is available for $4,000 at Art.LincolnCenter.org. Proceeds from the sale of the work will go toward supporting Lincoln Center’s innovative cultural programming.

Kenny Scharf (American, b.1958) LOT ID: 76472, “Trektime” (1984), Acrylic, Spray Paint, on unstretched canvas, 24 х 39.75 in (Est. US$12,000–18,000)

Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hambleton, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000, CRASH, Taki 183, and other leaders of the first wave of international street art and graffiti stars are included in this week’s ’80s Graffiti Sale by artnet Auctions.

A fantastic mix of drawings, sculptures, collaborative pieces, and event a street sign, the sale highlights the incredible energy that was bubbling up from the streets of New York during the heady years of the 1980s before it launched across the planet to inspire new waves of street art practitioners working today. These are works from some of the original masters.

artnet Auctions is featuring the ‘80s Graffiti Sale, an auction of over 30 works by iconic street artists. The works have estimates ranging from US$1,500 to US$95,000. The sale features one of Keith Haring’s iconic subway drawings, a set of works the artist created from 1980 to 1985. Haring executed these works in chalk on unused subway advertising panels covered in black matte paper. “Untitled (Robots, Figures, and Angels),” estimated at US$75,000 to US$95,000, was taken from New York City’s 59th Street Station. The piece demonstrates the fusion of Haring’s unique style with the larger Street Art movement of the 1980s.

The sale also includes an early Futura 2000 spray paint on canvas from 1985 entitled “Cerise Clock.” The work, estimated at US$20,000 to US$30,000, exemplifies the artist’s pioneering approach to Graffiti Art. The chaotic arrangements of contrasting color, abstracted forms, and dynamic shapes echo the works Futura 2000 executed across subway trains in the late 1970s.

The ‘80s Graffiti Sale is live on artnet Auctions through December 20, 2012.

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Getting a Masters of Fine Arts is a huge commitment, not just financially but in terms of time and space as well. Rather than taking on moving cross-country and leasing a new apartment, SVA’s Art Practice MFA program takes a more accessible approach to graduate school.

The MFA Art Practice program is a low-residency, cross-disciplinary graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The program is composed of three intensive summer sessions, with extensive, media-rich online coursework in the intervening semesters. While in the city, students will have full access to the great facilities of SVA’s campus, which features a new digital sculpture center and a nature and technology lab.

SVA Art Practice encourages artists to pursue their practice by engaging an idea first, and then developing a plan for study that may involve a combination of media, technologies, and techniques.

Faculty members for SVA’s Art Practice program include: David A. Ross, Suzanne Anker, Dara Birnbaum, Kathy Brew, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, Laura F. Gibellini, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Daniel Kunitz, Steven Henry Madoff, Ernesto Pujol, Sarah Sharp, Gary Simmons, Stefan Saffer, Elisabeth Sussman, Jovana Stokic, Mark Tribe, and Robin Winters. Visiting artists, guest lecturers and mentors include: Vito Acconci, Cory Arcangel, Liam Gillick, James Gleick, Dan Graham, Natalie Jeremijenko, Terence Koh, Mingwei Lee, Maria Nordman, Izhar Patkin, Martha Rosler, Tim Rollins, Lorna Simpson, Philippe Vergne, Cecilia Vicuña, and Carrie Mae Weems.

The MFA Art Practice Program is now accepting applications for Summer 2013 admission. Applicants should apply online through the SVA website. Applications received by January 15th have priority, but applications will continue to be accepted after that date, space permitting. For more information or to set up a visit, contact artpractice@sva.edu.

Barbara Kruger, “Culture Vulture” (2012) for sale by Lincoln Center

Barbara Kruger might not be a household name, but the artist’s signature graphic aesthetic is instantly familiar. Kruger’s bold, incisive style and her acidic wit is eminently on display in “Culture Vulture,” a new print commissioned by Lincoln Center’s Vera List Art Project, one of a range of exceptional prints by celebrated contemporary artists.

Kruger came to prominence in the 1970s Pictures-Generation era of Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler, and Richard Prince. Like those artists, she twisted found visual language and images into pointed weapons battling the entrenched opinions of society. Kruger’s background in magazine design (she once worked at Condé Nast) made text an easy artistic tool.

Kruger’s work is about how language and commercial imagery shape our identities. In block text stamped on top of pictures appropriated from newspapers and advertising, Kruger confronts us with our own insecurities: “I shop therefore I am,” one iconic piece reads. “Your body is a battleground,” another states.

Barbara Kruger, “We don’t need another hero” (1987) (Image via Mary Boone gallery)

The Vera List Art Project’s “Culture Vulture” is similarly combative. We would all like to think of ourselves as fans of “culture,” but Kruger’s all-caps words turn the title into an insult as much as a point of pride. Just who are the vultures, and what do they prey on? There is a powerful ambivalence in the piece.

The 17.5-by-17-inch print is produced on heavyweight paper and features a textural background that emphasizes Kruger’s emphatic words. “Culture Vulture” is now on display in the lower concourse art gallery in the Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and is available for purchase for $3,000 at Art.LincolnCenter.org or by contacting Vera List Art Project at art@lincolncenter.org or 212-875-5061. Proceeds from the sale of the work will go toward supporting Lincoln Center’s innovative cultural programming.

Naoya Fujii, “balloons” (2008) (via flickr.com/naoyafujii)

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• Asia Society Museum – Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao represents the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States
• One River Gallery - LOVE is an exhibition of abstract paintings by eleven artists active today in New York.
• Artspace – Insider access to art from the best artists, museums, and galleries in the world
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• Pernod Absinthe - The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn – mobile interaction with the thriving arts community of Brooklyn, NY
• Fountain Art Fair - Exhibition of avant garde artwork in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach
• School of Visual Arts - Graduate MFA programs including one in Critical Theory and the Arts, and another in Photography, Video and Related Media
• East Tennessee State University‘s Positive/Negative National Juried Art Exhibition aims to serve as platform for diverse visual art production
• New York Academy of Sciences – Science and the Seven Deadly Sins is a vice- ridden series of events featuring scientists, authors, urban planners and many more
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Looking for an all-purpose art guide to Brooklyn? Look no further.

Pernod Absinthe Superieure, creator of art history’s most inspirational spirit, has teamed up with WAGMAG, the Brooklyn art guide, to bring you mobile interaction with the thriving arts community of Brooklyn, NY.

This newly improved app features WAGMAG’S unparalleled monthly gallery and events listings, as well as the best cocktail lounges in Brooklyn’s favorite party neighborhood, Williamsburg. The app features GPS mapping guiding you to the nearest art-and-drinks hot spots, and Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare integration so you can know who is where and what’s happening — right now.

The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn has just been upgraded to offer an even better user experience, with easier navigation and more geo-location capabilities.

For more information or to download the app for iPhone or Android visit artandabsinthebk.com.

Jim Dine’s “Twin Hearts” at the Montreal Musee des Beaux Arts. (via flickr.com/mafleen)

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• Brooklyn Museum- GO is a community-curated open studio project. Artists across Brooklyn opened their studio doors, so that the public could decide who will be featured in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum
• NYU Steinhardt -  Offers graduate art programs in Studio Art, Art Education, Art Therapy, Visual Culture: Costume Studies, and Visual Arts Administration. Admission Deadlines: January 6, 15 & February 1, 2013
• Creative Time - The Last Pictures, Trevor Paglen has developed a collection of one hundred images that will be etched onto a silicon disc to be sent into orbit onboard the Echostar XVI satellite in Fall 2012, as both a time capsule and a message to the future
• Vera List Art Project - Culture Vulture, a new commissioned print by acclaimed artist Barbara Kruger, has been released to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vera List Art Project
• International Center of Photography -  The ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies offers a curriculum of professional and studio practice, critical study, and Resident Artist Projects. Application Deadline: January, 18, 2013
• Association of Public Art - Open Air, an interactive art installation that allows participants’ voices to transform the night sky over Philadelphia’s historic Benjamin Franklin Parkway. September 20 and October 14, 2012
• Norte Maar - To be a Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts,  is on view at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery featuring the work of forty-five female artists born over the last century. September 24, 2012 – January 18, 2013
• Guggenheim - Stillspotting nyc: bronx, the fifth and final edition in the stillspotting nyc series, Improv Everywhere presents Audiogram, an interactive audio experience and theatrical group hearing test designed for the South Bronx. October 13-14, 2012
• Vilcek Foundation - Now accepting submissions for dARTboard, a digital art space that invites foreign-born artists living permanently in the United States and specializing in new media art forms to submit their work for exhibition. Submission Deadline: October 22nd
• Ripley Auctions -  Celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Contemporary Art Society at the Indianapolis Museum of Art with a Contemporary Art Auction benefiting the museum

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• Art Systems – Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software
• Scott Chasse Art Panels - Quality artist’s painting panels, made-to-order in Brooklyn, NY
• TNC Gallery - App* Art: Painted Paper,  Continues Peter J. Ketchum’s interest in the past as it is encapsulated in printed matter. September 11- October 25, 2012 
• Safety: An Art Exhibition - Group exhibition curated by Cassandra Young about actively seeking contentment and in ascending towards needing nothing. On view at Leloveve Gallery, September 2012
• TheBowerbirds - brings together a collection of art from various Asian artists and makes them available to everyone as art prints
• Brooklyn Comics Festival - an annual curated event consisting of four parts: artists and publishers displaying and selling publications; gallery exhibitions; films and performances; and lectures and conversations on comics. Free to the public, Saturday, November 10
• Waterfront Toronto - Seeking proposal submissions from artists for three public art opportunities on Front Street East in the West Don Lands. Submission Deadline: October 22, 2012

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• Brooklyn Museum – GO is a community-curated open studio project. Artists across Brooklyn will open their studio doors, so that you can decide who will be featured in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum. Voter Registration Deadline: September 9
• School of Visual Arts – The NYC art and design school is offering continuing education courses to meet the diverse educational needs of the city’s professional art and design community.
• Vilcek Foundation – Now accepting submissions for dARTboard, a digital art space that invites foreign-born artists living permanently in the United States and specializing in new media art forms to submit their work for exhibition. Submission Deadline: October 22
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• Asia Society Museum - Current exhibition of ink paintings by Wu Guanzhong, considered one of the most important Chinese artists of the twentieth century, April 24th – August 5th
• Parrish Museum - The Parrish Road Show is  an off-site creative summer series that will feature artists’ projects and related programs that will be sited in atypical public spaces.
• Art Southampton – The Premiere International Contemporary & Modern Art Fair in the Hamptons, July 26th – 30th
• Saatchi Online – Online gallery that connects artists and art lovers directly

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• Art Systems – Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software
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Scores of Young Contemporaries to Attend Special Events at Art Southampton Pavilion

The inaugural edition of Art Southampton, presented by Art Miami July 26–30, is proving to be catnip for savvy young collectors and groups from up and down the East Coast. Many of the individuals and groups are very familiar with the Art Miami style of presentation and are eagerly looking forward to the fair. But there is also great excitement among first-timers, many of whom are too busy to fly down to Miami mid-winter and relish the idea of a world class art fair right outside New York City.

Art Southampton has already won the support of numerous prominent collectors, philanthropists and major art world figures who call the Hamptons home, many of whom are serving on its prestigious Host Committee. They have also made a concerted effort to reach out to the next generation of collectors.

The event schedule includes visits and events with several prominent groups, including:

• Harvard Business School Club of New York
• Whitney Contemporaries
• Museum of Modern Art Junior Associates
• Columbia Alumni Arts Patrons
• Hedge Funds Care Young Professionals
• The Museum of Arts and Design Members
• The Contemporaries
• ArtTable

Art Southampton will take place from July 26 to 30, 2012, in a state-of-the-art, 75,000-square-foot pavilion located on the sprawling, 18-acre fairgrounds behind the Southampton Elks Lodge. The fair will commence on Thursday evening, July 26, with a highly anticipated opening night VIP preview benefiting Southampton Hospital.

The Avant/Garde Diaries is a digital interview magazine that documents artists on the forefront of their creative field. In each article a featured diarist speaks about people or individual works of art they consider to be ahead of their time. These iconoclasts discuss the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. Through their eyes we experience uniquely personal profiles that celebrate and inspire the avant-garde.

The Avant/Garde Diaries’s most recent entry, “Jonathan Jones & Cockatoo Island – Dialogue for the Future” follows the site-specific installation artist Jonathan Jones as he explores his native Sydney Harbor’s largest landmass, Cockatoo Island. The area’s vast indigenous and industrial history make it a fascinating site for contemporary art and the Biennale of Sydney.

Jonathan Jones & Cockatoo Island – Dialogue for the Future from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo.

Find out more at avantgardediaries.com or facebook.com/avantgardediaries.

“Weekend Warrior” from J.D. Hancock’s “Stormtroopers” series (via flickr.com/jdhancock)

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• Brooklyn Museum — GO is a community — curated open studio project. Artists across Brooklyn will open their studio doors, so that you can decide who will be featured in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum.
• Parrish Museum — The Parrish Road Show is  an off-site creative summer series that will feature artists’ projects and related programs that will be sited in atypical public spaces.
• Art Southampton — The Premiere International Contemporary & Modern Art Fair in the Hamptons, July 26-30
• Saatchi Online — Online gallery that connects artists and art lovers directly.
• International Center of Photography — The ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies offers a curriculum of professional and studio practice, critical study, and Resident Artist Projects.
• MassArt — Art New England Summer Workshops in Bennington, Vermont provide an opportunity to immerse yourself in your art without the interruptions and responsibilities of daily life. Workshops start July 15.
• Danube University – Leonardo Scholarship — Danube University offers Leonardo Scholarship for Media Art Histories
• Corey Helford Gallery — Motion: The Art of Movement, a major group exhibition open through June 30

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• Lumen Festival — International video art and projection festival in Staten Island
• Storefront Bushwick — Opening reception for Julie Torres, Ghost in  the Machine, July 6th
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The Avant/Garde Diaries’s most recent entry, “Redirect Our Medium,” shines the spotlight on Adam Green and Todd Diciurcio. Adam Green is a musician and artist and most recently released the independent film The Wrong Ferrari, which he both wrote and directed, starring Macaulay Culkin. Todd Diciurcio is a painter, sculptor and music-video director. His often large-scale drawing and paintings are created within and respond to the context of the staged live performance and special event. The two met in London to share their zest for exploring outside the proverbial box and asking “why not”?

Find out more at avantgardediaries.com or facebook.com/avantgardediaries

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• Artspace – Collect art from the world’s best contemporary artists at accessible prices
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• Creative Time – Tom Sachs – Space Program: Mars at the Park Avenue Armory through July 17
• Corey Helford Gallery - Motion: The Art of Movement, a major group exhibition opens June 9
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• Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibit 2012 – May 17–June 16
• Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Show 2012 – June 9–17
• Lumen Festival – International video art and projection festival in Staten Island, Sat, June 23
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• New York Studio School – Summer Intensives from June 4–July 20
• Claremont Graduate University MFA – A highly focused graduate-only studio-art program
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One recent video, “Taking Chances,” features Swiss pro snowboarder Nicolas Mueller and L.A. based action sports manager Circe Wallace. The two met in Muellers picturesque hometown Laax in Switzerland, went snowboarding and spoke about taking risks and the need in recognizing chances.

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UPrinting is a leading, socially responsible online printing company. The company has been online since 2000 and has established itself as a major player in the industry. They are known to deliver high quality printing with a robust yet easy-to-use online ordering system.

UPrinting offers a wide variety of products from business cards and brochures to envelopes, greeting cards, posters, canvas prints and more.

Go and check out their high quality eco-friendly prints that use recycled paper types and vegetable/soy-based inks with lower levels of VOCs than traditional petroleum-based inks.

Under the direction of Sarah Cameron Sunde, in collaboration with choreographer Pia Monique Murray and composer Christopher Berg, the team has the absurd task — aka creative challenge — of generating a new musical that fulfills the performers’ sincere desire to be in a famous orphan musical without them actually being in a famous orphan musical.

Cast members rehearsing for "Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical!"

This impractical endeavor takes place over five weeks at EFA Project Space in Manhattan. The project is as an ongoing live performance (rehearsals are open to the public), with a final performance on May 19 at 7 pm.

Tickets for the final performance are free and will be available beginning at noon on Saturday, May 12 on the project’s website.

For more information about the rehearsal schedule or to reserve tickets for the final performance of Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical! visit efanyc.org/unnamed-broadway-musical.

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Artspace is the premier online marketplace for contemporary art, offering collectors and aspiring collectors the opportunity to discover, learn about and collect art from the top contemporary artists in the world, at insider prices.

Membership to Artspace is free. Art prices start at $100, and every sale of work on the site supports an artist, cultural institution or nonprofit organization.

Working in partnership with local galleries, national institutions and an international network of curatorial partners, United Photo Industries is building Photoville — a unique, large-scale, photographic village built from more than 40 freight containers in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, at the Pier 3 Uplands. For a taste of what’s to come, visit photovillenyc.org.

This free and open-to-the-public photo destination will create an interactive space for artists and art lovers alike to enjoy a unique experience of photography. Photoville aims to celebrate photography in all its forms and across all levels, bridging the community that photography creates.

Throughout the weekends, Photoville will feature a mix of curated exhibitions, lectures, hands-on workshops, special demos and nighttime projections. At the center of the village will be a beer garden and picnic area, a photographic greenhouse installation, as well as a dog park for visitors to gather, reflect and chat.

Photoville will feature exhibitions in shipping containers.

And to top it all off, United Photo Industries has joined forces with Photo District News and Brooklyn Bridge Park to curate and produce “The Fence” — a 1,000-foot-long public photographic installation cutting a vibrant swath along the Brooklyn waterfront, with an expected audience of more than 300,000 visitors during the summer of 2012.

Photographers of all levels are invited to submit images that capture the essence of “community.” For information on the jury and prizes, and to submit, please visit: photoville.nielsencontests.com.

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• ArtPrize — Part art competition, part social experiment that awards $560,000 total in prizes; registration through May 24
• Pulse Art Fair — Pulse New York runs May 3–6, 2012, at The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York
• BAMart Silent Auction — Auction featuring over 100 artworks, with proceeds to benefit the Brooklyn Academy of Music and its programs
• Saatchi Online — Online gallery that connects artists and art lovers directly: discover art, get discovered
• Dumbo Arts Festival — Brooklyn’s biggest arts event takes over Brooklyn’s waterfront with visual arts, music, and literature on September 28–30
• Norte Maar — Community-building nonprofit organization with an emphasis on collaborative projects
• UncommonGoods — Cool and unusual gifts for any occasion
• Adam Lindemann — Follow what the New York Observer columnist is seeing and reading at his site
• Storefront Bushwick — Bushwick gallery currently featuring artists Carol Salmanson and Stephen Traux
• Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical! — An experimental, legally questionable restaging of an orphan-themed Broadway musical, at EFA Project Space
• Pernod Art & Absinthe Guide — A handy mobile app that lists galleries, events and bars serving Pernod in Brooklyn
• Artspan — Contemporary art destination and service providing totally customizable artist websites
• FIT Art Market MA Program — The group exhibition “No Other Medicine” is now on view at NY Studio Gallery through May 19
• “Oh hey. What’s going on?” — a project by artist Jesus Benavente
• Art Systems — Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software
• Tyler Summer Painting & Sculpture Intensives — 7-week immersion program for artists interested in developing their work in a challenging and supportive environment
• 950 Hart Gallery — The Lowbrow Society Smut! Show, a public celebration of private affairs, May 4–5
• Claremont Graduate University MFA — A highly focused graduate-only studio-art program
• The Avant/Garde Diaries — A digital interview magazine that documents personal views on the avant-garde
• Artists Wanted — Connecting creative talent with an international audience of collectors and art enthusiasts

If you are interested in advertising on Hyperallergic, please get in touch with Nectar Ads, the Art Ad Network.

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Designed to be a simple yet transformative experience for both artist and audience, ArtPrize is a platform on which artists are given absolute freedom to experiment, collaborate and explore new ideas. Artist registration is open at www.artprize.org now through May 24.

“We expect more than 350,000 people to visit ArtPrize in 2012,” said Kevin Buist, director of artist relations. “These are art lovers of all experience and background, ranging from novice to expert.

Distinguishing ArtPrize from any other competition is the total value of the prizes, $560,000 dollars in 2012, which will be awarded to 16 artists based on public voting and a host of jurors.”It’s a big year for the juried awards,” said Buist. “We’ve added a $100,000 Juried Grand Prize, determined by a committee of three.” This year’s committee includes Jerry Saltz, senior critic with New York magazine, and Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

In addition to the Juried Grand Prize, there are five juried awards based on category, each awarding $20,000. The prizes and jurors are:

• Two-Dimensional Work – Tyler Green, editor of Modern Art Notes and columnist for Modern Painters magazine
• Three-Dimensional Work – Lisa Frieman, senior curator and chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale
• Time/Performance-Based Work – Cathy Edwards, director of Performance Programs at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut
• Use of Urban Space – Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine
• Outstanding Venue – Tom Eccles

These juried awards happen alongside the prizes determined by public vote. Ten winners are chosen in two rounds of voting. First place receives $200,000, second $75,000, third $50,000 and fourth through tenth each receive $5,000.

ArtPrize is unlike any other public art event: any location in the city can host art, and any artist in the world can enter. The work is not centrally curated, each of the nearly 200 venues — from art museums to parks to businesses — design their own exhibition and work directly with artists.

Artists can register at artprize.org/get-involved/artists/ through May 24, but are encouraged to enter now as venues make their selections early. ArtPrize 2012 runs September 19 to October 7.

This year’s auction reflects the exhilarating Brooklyn art world and its myriad artists — including Tauba Auerbach, Dustin Yellin, David Benjamin Sherry and Mariah Robertson — alongside blue-chip works by Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Louise Nevelson, William Kentridge and Andy Warhol, among others. The auction underscores BAMart’s continued commitment to the growing community of visual artists based in Brooklyn while celebrating BAM’s 150th anniversary alongside the next generation of supporters. With works across all media — from painting and prints to photos and sculpture — and bids beginning at $200, there is something for every collector out there.

Christian Marclay, "Brooklyn" (2005) (courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, NY)

The BAMart Auction is powered by Paddle8, the premier online art marketplace. Additionally, BAM will be partnering with Phillips de Pury & Company, which will feature a number of works in their upcoming spring auctions throughout April and May. Visit the BAMart auction website for more information and to register, browse and bid. Bidding closes at 6 pm on April 22.

Highlights includes choreographer Julia K. Gleich’s π dance, a new film created by painter and poet Paul D’Agostino, a projection and sound experimentation by duo Audra and Margo Wolowiec and a dance, set to a score by Stefan Wolpe, responding to a series of paintings by Abstract Expressionist Jack Tworkov. The ballet is directed and choreographed by Gleich, with musical direction by Ryan Francis and décor and costumes by Tamara Gonzales. The dancers are Dylan Crossman, Michelle Buckley, Jace Coronado, Morgan McEwen and Abbey Roesner.

The Brodmann Areas will take place at the Center for Performance Research (361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn) on April 12, 13 and 14 at 7:30 pm, and April 15 at 2 pm. Tickets are $25 ($20 for seniors/students) and can be purchased at nortemaar5.eventbrite.com.

In each digital portrait, featured diarists are asked to introduce someone or something they consider to be ahead of their time. The result is a collection of very personal snapshots that celebrate new ways of thinking and spread inspiration. Be sure to check out the complete video portrait library at theavantgardediaries.com.

On April 20 – May 6th, 2012 The Avant Garde Diaries invites you to TRANSMISSION LA: AV CLUB Curated by Mike D.

Mike D of the Beastie Boys have invited artists and musicians to create a 17-day festival in Los Angeles. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA will be the meeting point for the international avant-garde, including Benjamin Jones, Mike Mills, Tom Sachs, Lauren Mackler from Public Fiction, Sage Vaughn, Isaac from Still House Group, Peter Coffin, Roy Choi and Will Fowler. Exhibitions, concerts, DJ nights, performances and installations will make the festival an extraordinary audiovisual experience.

Find out more at avantgardediaries.com or or at facebook.com/avantgardediaries

We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out!

• 20×200, a great place to browse and buy contemporary art prints at reasonable prices.
• Artspace. Collect art from the world’s best contemporary artists at accessible prices.
• Pulse Art Fair. New dates Pulse NY, MAY 3-6, 2012 at The Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th Street, New York.
• Tyler School of Art. 2012 MFA Thesis exhibitions on view through May 12.
• Pernod Art & Absinthe Guide. A handy mobile App that lists Galleries, Events and Bars in BK.
• Storefront Bushwick. Bushwick Gallery currently featuring artist Kirk Stoller.
• Artspan. A contemporary art destination and service providing totally customizable artist websites.
• Norte Maar. Community building non-profit organization with an emphasis on collaborative projects.
• Art Systems. Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software.
• Tyler Summer Painting & Sculpture Intensive. 7-week immersion program for artists interested in developing their work in a challenging and supportive environment.
• SVA MPS Graduate Fashion Photography Program. An intensive one-year degree program offering practicing photographers the opportunity to advance their bodies of work.
• Art New England Summer Workshops. Immerse yourself in your art without the interruptions and responsibilities of daily life.
• Bernard Klevickas. New York-based sculptor.
• Adam Lindeman. Follow what the NY Observer columnist is seeing and reading at his site.
• Avant/Garde Diaries. A digital interview magazine that documents personal views on the avant-garde.
• Artists Wanted. Connecting creative talent with an international audience of collectors and art enthusiasts.

If you are interested in advertising on Hyperallergic, please get in touch with Nectar Ads, the Art Ad Network.

Image credit: A view of Sideshow Gallery’s MIC CHECK exhibition earlier this year. Photo by Hrag Vartanian

In each digital portrait, featured diarists are asked to introduce someone or something they consider to be ahead of their time. The result is a collection of very personal snapshots that celebrate new ways of thinking and spread inspiration. Be sure to check out the complete video portrait library at theavantgardediaries.com.

On March 29th The Avant/Garde Diaries will host a festival-night full of music, art and performances at H.C. Andersen Slottet (Tivoli) in Copenhagen. Curated by painter Andreas Emenius, the event revolves around the motto “movement” in interdisciplinary installations, concerts and discussions. As main protagonist Emenius selected New York based composer and musician Mikkel Hess who will give insight in his definition of “movement”. Further participants of the festival include Anders Trentemøller, Jenny Wilson, Lonely Boy Choir, Alessandro Pereira, Stina Mårtensson and The Horse Ensemble.

Find out more at avantgardediaries.com

Half art stroll, half bar crawl, alternative spaces and reputable galleries will once again welcome the public to see real art in real time, one night only on March 10, 6-10pm with an official after party at English Kills from 10-12pm.

Voted Best Neighborhood-wide Gallery Nite by L Magazine, Beat Nite has been a signature bi-annual party in Bushwick, which continues to be a place to make art far from the glitz and commercialism of the greater art world.

Jason Andrew + Norte Maar continue to put the spit on the art world where community counts more than commerce, the art is real and the people producing it are too.

Beat Nite is a proud participant of Armory Arts Week: Brooklyn Night.

Participating Spaces include: Norte Maar, Centotto, English Kills, Factory Fresh, AIRPLANE, Botanic, Microscope, Storefront Bushwick, Active Space, Art on Fire, Camel Art Space, Cojo Art Space, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Small Black Door, Studio 10, Theodore Art, Valentine Gallery, 950 Hart Gallery and Parlour.

Visit nortemaar.org for the full list and links to participating galleries and to download the Beat Nite gallery map.

Beat Nite is sponsored by Hyperallergic, Bodega Wine Bar, Pernod Absinthe and WAGMAG’s “The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn.”

For its seventh New York incarnation, Fountain will be exhibiting at the 69th Regiment Armory, the site of the original 1913 Armory Show that launched the fame of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” to the world. Now the iconic sculpture’s namesake is coming home.

Visitors will experience Fountain’s signature street-art installation, while a frenzy of artistic and musical performances will share the space with over 30 international exhibitors at the new landmark location.

Things are getting bigger and better at Fountain, which is launching a new and improved VIP program. What does that mean? VIPs receive a host of benefits including priority access to the fair’s VIP preview on March 9, access to an exclusive lounge with open bar, special artist-led tours of the fair, reciprocal admittance to Volta NY, gifts from their sponsors and complementary coat check.

We have FIVE pairs of VIP tickets to give away to our readers and all you have to do to qualify is to enter your name and email below by Wednesday, March 7th at 5PM.

The contest is now closed. Thanks to all that entered to win.  For those that didn’t win, there are discounted tickets available online at fountainartfair.eventbrite.com

The 2012 Fountain Art Fair New York will run from March 9 – 11, 2012 at the 69th Regiment Armory (68 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street, Gramercy, Manhattan).