In LA tonight? Eco-art, Artists, and Celebrities combine to bring a focus on the Orangutan Project catch the PonGo Awards tonight June 27th !!!

Katey Sagal and The Forest Rangers to Perform at the 2019 Pongo Environmental Awards – Thursday, June 27 in Culver City

The evening fundraising gala will honor the Netflix series “Our Planet,” The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, The Gecko Project, Renowned Orangutan Researcher Anne Russon, and Orangutan Expert and Author Leif Cocks

Presented by Orang Utan Republik Foundation & The Orangutan Project, the Pongo Awards Will Honor Environmental Achievement and Benefit Critically Endangered Orangutans

June 24, 2019 - Santa Monica, CA. Katey Sagal and The Forest Rangers will perform at the 6th Annual Pongo Environmental Awards hosted by actor/environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr. (star of ABC’s “Bless this Mess”). The evening will honor individuals for environmental achievement, activism, news, television, advocacy, and orangutan conservation. It will be held on Thursday, June 27, 2019 at the Playa Studios in Culver City, CA. The “Pongo Awards” are a co-production of The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) and The Orangutan Project (TOP) and will raise funds for OURF to save wild critically endangered orangutans from extinction. 

The Forest Rangers trace their roots back to the hit series Sons Of Anarchy, where they acted as the musical muse throughout the show’s seven seasons. In this updated incarnation, the band comprises Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson) on bass and vocals, Phil Shenale (Tori Amos, Jane’s Addiction) on keys, Billy Harvey (Patty Griffin) on guitar and vocals, Michael Urbano (Cracker, Sheryl Crow) on drums, Bob Thiele, Jr. on vocals and guitar (Bonnie Raitt, Mavis & Pop Staples) and, of course, Katey Sagal, singing, playing guitar and percussion. 

This year’s recipients of the 6th Annual Pongo Environmental Awards include:

· Series producers Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey for Netflix’s “Our Planet” 

· Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and its Executive Director Justin Winters for sustained and significant environmental activism and philanthropy 

· Dr. Anne Russon, for her 30 years of cognitive and behavioral studies of the Bornean orangutan 

· Tom Johnson and The Gecko Project for investigative journalism uncovering the corrupt aspects of Bornean politics and palm oil 

· A special award will go to international orangutan expert, Australian Leif Cocks, for sustained advocacy supporting orangutan survival in Indonesia. 

The evening gala (7-10:30pm) will feature keynote speaker Leif Cocks, TOP-president and founder and OURF vice president, who will also be signing copies of his new book, “Finding Our Humanity;” surprise celebrity appearances, vegan food by celebrity chef Bruce Kalman, an open bar, musical entertainment by LA-based Australian band Desert Sparrow, and live and silent auctions with unique and exclusive items. 

Tickets are limited and can be purchased here: http://theorangutanproject.org/LA

Previous Pongo Award recipients have included Ed Begley, Jr., Dr. Jane Goodall, orangutan expert Dr. Cheryl Knott, Professor and climate advocate Michael Mann, the producers of the film “The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” and more.

About The Orang Utan Republik Foundation:
The Orang Utan Republik Foundation (OURF) (www.orangutanrepublik.org) is a 501(c)(3) publicly supported charity with a mission to save wild orangutans through education initiatives and innovative, collaborative projects. It also serves as the US chapter of The Orangutan Project expanding its reach and support to over a dozen orangutan support organizations in Indonesia and Malaysia (www.theorangutanproject.org) 

About The Forest Rangers:
The Forest Rangers bring together the history of dozens of collaborations, hundreds of albums and thousands of concerts. 

From the start, The Forest Rangers decided to dedicate their sound to preserving the long lineage of great songs and records that they grew up with, bringing each member’s own individual experience to a carefully crafted repertoire of familiar and unfamiliar songs to which they have applied their our own unique interpretations.
For the love of great music.

Event Info:

The Pongo Awards
Thursday, June 27, 2019 
Playa Studios
11260 Playa Ct, Culver City, CA 90230

Tickets: http://theorangutanproject.org/LA

Video from previous Pongo Awards Honorees:

Jane Goodall Pongo Environmental Award Acceptance Speech
https://youtu.be/7o1i4brbNys

Louie Psihoyos's Pongo Award acceptance speech for "Racing Extinction"
https://youtu.be/jGRv66qcOvk

Fisher Stevens Acceptance Speech Pongo Environmental Award
https://youtu.be/2sgalK268xI

Bill Weir Acceptance Speech Pongo Environmental Award
https://youtu.be/hixjYeqVmJM

Additional information on the Pongo Awards:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjXOe1NpVZiqbx_Eu7BAVmw 
https://www.orangutanrepublik.org/

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On Long Island catch the Southampton Arts Center opening of Joel Sartore's Nat Geo's Photo Ark project June 28th 6-8.

ART National Geographic PHOTO ARK by Joel Sartore presented by Southampton Arts Center & the International Center of Photography ON VIEW JUNE 27-SEPTEMBER 8 Sponsored by the Harbers Family Foundation & Renee Harbers and Chris Liddell Gallery Hours: Thursday-Monday, 11 AM-6 PM Admission: $5 (Free for SAC & ICP Members and Children 12 & Under) Plus PUBLIC OPENING CELEBRATION Friday, June 28 • 6-8 PM • FREE (followed by a dance party with DJ Mister Lama from 8-11 PM) The National Geographic Photo Ark features the compelling and visually stunning work of Nat Geo photographer and Fellow Joel Sartore. This exhibition will highlight Sartore’s images from his work in more than 250 zoos, aquariums and animal rescue centers around the world. MORE INFO Photo Ark is organized and traveled by the National Geographic Society. Image: An endangered baby Bornean orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, named Aurora, with her adoptive mother, Cheyenne, a Bornean/Sumatran cross, Pongo pygmaeus x abelii, at the Houston Zoo. © Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark.#fineartmagazine

Catch Allen Gorman, At the George Bills Gallery, Summer Invitational Exhibition, June 25-July 31 2019,

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Happy summer everyone! Here's a bit of news about a few new and ongoing events    "Two Red Lights" and "Stillwell Stairwell" are featured in this new show NYC Summer Invitational 2019 On view June 25 - July 31, 2019 at George Billis Gallery 521 West 26 Street | 7th Floor | NYC An opening reception will be held next Thursday, June 27 from 6-8 pm   For more details, visit the gallery's website __________________________________________________________________________________________ Also in New York City   On view through July 28th at the Manhattan Athletic Club 277 Park Avenue - 2nd Floor (Enter on 48th and Lexington | NYC For directions and hours, click here #fineartmagazine

Hi All if your on Boston Catch this! Steven Zevitas Gallery, "We Speak Upon the Ashes" June 27th.

Jordan Seaberry, Blueberry (The Right to Self), 2019, acrylic and mixed media on canvas82 x 50 inches Featured in the Boston Globe:  JORDAN SEABERRY | We Speak Upon the Ashes open until July 27, 2019

Jordan Seaberry, Blueberry (The Right to Self), 2019, acrylic and mixed media on canvas82 x 50 inches

"If you took our tip to take in the deCordova New England Biennial, you likely spotted work of Jordan Seaberry, a painter-turned-community-organizer-turned-painter, who also serves as director of public policy at Providence's Nonviolence Institute. This weekend, and through July 27, you can catch Seaberry's first solo show, "We Speak Upon the Ashes," which brings together what the 29-year-old artist considers "two threads in the same practice." "His large-scale, imagistic mixed-media paintings address systemic injustice, family wounds, and moving forward," writes Globe contributor Cate McQuaid. "His process on canvas, like community organizing, is incremental, the outcome unpredictable." "We Speak Upon the Ashes" is on view at Steven Zevitas Gallery in the South End. Find more info here."

Steven Zevitas Gallery 450 Harrison Avenue #47 Boston, MA 02118 617-778-5265 x22 #fineartmagazine

Catch archival Postcards and Stamps on Exhibition at Sag Harbor Whaling Museum June 21st.-July 21st

Mailing Whaling – Postcards & Stamps from Around the World

June 21st - July 21st Opening Reception: Friday, June 21st, 2019 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm “Thar She Blows!!” – Where? In your mailbox! Sometimes, you can find whaling history in the most unexpected of places. MAILING WHALING features dozens of 20th century whaling-themed stamps and postcards from around the world that feature whaling men, whaling ships, whaling tools and whaling scenes - including a series of postcards recording the taking of a whale off East Hampton in 1907. The exhibit also includes contemporary artwork inspired by the stamps, postcards and Sag Harbor’s glorious whaling history, by the following artists: Robert Carioscia  Grover Gatgewood  Susan Lazarus-Reimen  Barbara Maslen  Dave O  Sabina Streeter  Bob Weinstein

Click HERE to view the full calendar

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Catch Katia Ramsey Read Habitat, Gallery 125, July5- opening reception.

Katia Ramsey Read Habitat  Gallery 125 Second Floor Gallery Artist Reception Friday July 5th 5:30-7:30 A portion of proceeds to benefit the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society

Untitled, 2019 Stoneware

Observations on nature and on the natural habitat; both on land and in the aquatic environment. Working with shellfish restoration has brought the ceramicist closer to the bay with a look into the complexity and fragility of marine life. Forms are built with terra cotta, stoneware, and earthenware clays, and kiln fired in Bellport 

Gallery 125  Second Floor Gallery  127 S. Country Road Bellport, NY 11713 July 5 - 28, 2019 Public Viewing: Fridays 5 - 7; Saturdays 10-12 & 5-7 or by appointment Text: 631-880-2693 Email: Gallery125@optimum.net #fineartmagazine

In London Catch Phillips X Gallery spinning back in Time. Catch Kenny Scharf, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy. July 18-Aug.21Look like Kenny Scharf meet with Ron English!! Oh everything is derivative.

Gary Card to Transform Phillips London into an Immersive Landscape with

HYSTERICAL

A Private Selling Exhibition to Include Artworks by Erik Parker, Cindy Sherman, Kenny Scharf, Ugo Rondinone, Joyce Pensato, Harold Ancart, Nicolas Party, Andre Butzer, and Paul McCarthy, Among Others

Open to the Public from 18 July to 21 August 2019

Gary Card

Melissa Medusa, 2018

© Gary Card

LONDON – 20 JUNE 2019 – This summer, Phillips London will transform its Berkeley Square gallery into an immersive landscape with HYSTERICAL, a selling exhibition in collaboration with renowned set designer and artist Gary Card. HYSTERICAL will bridge Gary’s creative wonderland as a backdrop to a selection of works available for private sale by contemporary artists including Erik Parker, Cindy Sherman, Kenny Scharf, Ugo Rondinone, Joyce Pensato, Harold Ancart, Nicolas Party, Andre Butzer, and Paul McCarthy. The works will be exhibited in harmony with Gary’s designs, focusing on the farcical and neurotic within contemporary art. HYSTERICAL will open to the public from 18 July to 21 August 2019.

Miety Heiden, Phillips’ Head of Private Sales, said, “By joining forces with Gary Card we are going to flood our London gallery with colour, fun and audacity – creating an unforgettable experience that will take audiences on a vivid journey. We have a clear roster of artists in mind for this show, one that will co-exist and complement the environment Gary has created. The set design is not just the scenery or the background – it is part of the narrative material that will enchant audiences and transport them to an alternate universe. Works will be presented in a new light, environment and context – HYSTERICAL is an all-encompassing work of art.”

Gary Card, said: “I am thrilled to be partnering with Phillips on this. They are a powerhouse in the art world and to have my name attached to them is a great honour. Having free reign of their space in Berkeley Square is a dream come true, as it’s one of the best spaces to present art in London as no space comes close in scale and visibility. As a set designer it’s a privilege to be able to inhabit and transform a space of this scale. I want the viewer to be thrown into a darkly comic world, part psychedelic fever dream, part saccharine cartoon chaos. Like finding a tarantula in a bunch of bananas these works capture something inherently sinister while appearing equally absurd and disarming.”

Known for his unforgettable dreamlike scenes, Card has worked with major brands such as Nike, Hermès, Balenciaga, Comme des Garçons, to designing album covers for Paul McCartney and costumes for Lady Gaga. In parallel to building the environment, Card will be creating a new site-specific sculpture and a series of prints. Phillips will set up a shop where visitors can buy limited edition toys and collectables by Card.

Erik Parker No Use in Cryin’, 2005

Cindy Sherman Untitled #426, 2004

Kenny Scharf Evilcute, 2019

Ugo Rondinone ACHTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDSIEBEN (February 8, 2007),2007

Exhibition: 18 July - 21 August 2019

Location: 30 Berkeley Square, London

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In NYC? Catch the C 24 Gallery Discussion June 22.

*Reminder* Panel Discussion on June 22nd

Photos by Joseph A. Rosen

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Materiality, Duration and  Creative Partnership

Join us on Saturday, June 22nd from 4-6pm for a panel discussion about the artistic process and creative partnership behind the exhibit, Rock, Paper, Scissors, on view at C24 Gallery through June 29th. The group show, presented in partnership with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA), features the work of C24 resident artist Seçkin Pirim along with EFA member artists Dana Levy, Cheryl Molnar and Suzanne Song. Curator David C. Terry has gathered a collection that offers a multi-faceted investigation of materiality as a tool of expression, through the mediums of stone, paper and the technological processes that illuminate and transform them. The discussion, moderated by EFA Studio Program’s director, Bill Carroll and C24’s Deborah Oster Pannell, will feature artists Dana Levy, Cheryl Molnar and Suzanne Song in an exploration of their work, thematic concerns and participation in EFA’s Studio Program. Light refreshments will be served. C24 Gallery 560 W 24th Street New York, New York 10011 info@c24gallery.com www.c24gallery.com +1.646.416.6300  #fineartmagazine