Things You Should Know From This Week

Archived E-Announcements: Monday, Sept 26, 2011 2011 SNAP! BENEFIT PARTY Wednesday, Sept 28, 2011 3RD WARD OPEN CALL Thursday, Sept 29, 2011 India Art Fair, 4TH Edition 25-29 January 2012 in New Delhi Friday, Sept 30, 2011 Fountain Art Fair Los Angeles, 2011

Things You Should Know From This Week 1Q84 is published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Harvill Secker in the UK, imprints of the Random House Group. (via nowness) Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Jenny Saville and Women for Women International Raise Funds for Gender Equality AUCTION Nadja Romain and Jenny Saville invite internationally renowned contemporary artists to support Women for Women International. “In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism… in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.” – Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Continue reading... Wednesday, September 28, 2011 MAXXI: Verso Est: Chinese Architectural Landscape EXHIBITION In this month’s feature on PLANET, Nalina Moses takes us on a “Journey to the East” to tour China’s ever expanding architectural landscape in an exhibit at Rome’s modern art museum MAXXI, Verso Est: Chinese Architectural Landscape. Continue reading... Thursday, September 29, 2011 Printed Matter, Inc. presentes The NY Art Book Fair FAIR Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. Continue reading... Friday, September 30, 2011 Nowness Design Competion | Drawing Inspiration: Murakami DESIGN Artist Micah Lidberg interprets five titles by Haruki Murakami to kick off NOWNESS’s latest design competition marking the highly anticipated English-language release of the Japanese author’s new novel 1Q84. In collaboration with Random House Inc., NOWNESS invites you to submit an original artwork inspired by any of the writer’s best-selling novels or short stories—the full list can be seen here—to win exclusive Murakami editions or a commission for NOWNESS. Cont inue reading...