Re-Source II (installation) by Barbara Siegel (photo by courtesy of artist)
Artists: Barbara Siegel, Aimée Burg, Julie Côté, Véronique Ducharme, Bang-Geul Han, Minna Pöllänen, Kathleen Schneider and Catherine Tremblay
Venue: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York NY 10021, mailto: info@whitney.org /(212) 570-3600)
Date: from July 12 – September 30, 2012
Hours: WEDNESDAYS 11am–6pm, THURSDAYS 11am–6pm, FRIDAYS 1pm–9pm, SATURDAYS 11am–6pm and SUNDAYS 11am–6 pm
General admission: $18
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012
Venue: The International Studio & Curatorial Program/ISCP (1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, 718-387-2900)
Genre: Jazz/contemporary music
Ticket: pleae call venue
Over the course of one hour, Eloise Fornieles will orbit a cement mixer containing a marble head of Mercury, the mythological messenger of the Roman gods. The cement mixer will slowly chip away parts of the head, eroding the iconographic replica of the divine figure to its original material state. Covering distance yet traveling nowhere, Fornieles uses this repetitive motion as a form of ritualistic journey. Fornieles’ installations create a space for contemplation, while her own emphasis on physical endurance provides a backdrop for a more visceral understanding of the body as material, with its limitations and capabilities. Continue reading
Date: Wednesday, February 16 at 10:30am – June 6 at 5:00pm
Location: The Museum of Modern Art/The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floor. (11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY)
The work of photographer Laura Levine is featured in Looking at Music 3.0, February 16 – June 6 at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition explores the influence of music on contemporary art in New York in the 1980s and 1990s.
This is really something to check out. Especially for Japan culture feaks! The Samurai life style and spirit are really something special. Even present Japanese can’t relate to it. American culture unfortunately killed it.
Although in this exhibition the arms and armor of the samurai is the principal focus, you will find out by yourself what the spirit of the samurai was about.
