Audubon Advisory~ Priorities Included in Year-End Legislation~

AUDUBON ADVISORY JANUARY 2023

Audubon Priorities Included in Year-End Legislation Passed in the final days of 2022, the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill includes big wins for climate and conservation, although it did not include other important legislation that would greatly benefit wildlife. Audubon is ready to continue pushing for greater investments and protections in priority legislation for birds, people, and the places we need. Read more

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Congress Passes Growing Climate Solutions Act Included in the appropriations bill, the Growing Climate Solutions Act—a multi-year, bipartisan effort to recognize the critical role that the agriculture and forestry sectors play in conservation and naturally storing carbon—will not only help to create a cleaner future for both people and wildlife, but will also preserve bird habitats, and help rural economies. Read more Sandhill Cranes.

Audubon-Backed Legislation Will Help Conserve Our Saline Lakes The recently passed Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act will establish a scientific monitoring and assessment program to help protect the Great Salt Lake and other saline lakes in the West. This bill is the U.S. government’s first coordinated regional assessment of Great Basin saline lakes. Read more American White Pelican.

Water Resources Bill Modernized to Meet 21st Century Issues Also passed by Congress last month was the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022 to help restore ecosystems like the Everglades, Great Lakes, and Mississippi River. This year’s WRDA included key provisions directing the Army Corps to incorporate climate change into project planning and design. Read more American Bittern.

NEWS FROM THE FLYWAYS

Colorado River: Amidst Snow and Rain, Conservation Mindset Still Needed Connecticut: $850,000 Secured to Create Coastal Resilience Hub in West Haven Dakotas: Audubon Dakota Awarded Grant Through ‘America the Beautiful Challenge’ Florida: Audubon’s Science Informs Everglades Restoration & Regional Water Policy Great Lakes: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Passes in Appropriations Bill Minnesota: Budget Surplus Should Support Natural Solutions to Climate Change (published in The Minnesota Reformer) New York: New Law Establishes a 30x30 Conservation Goal for the State Pennsylvania: Revitalizing Green Spaces to Improve Delaware River Watershed Health Western Water: 2022 Highlights, Facing Drought Challenges Head On

IMPACT UPDATES

Climate Corner As the world contends with dual biodiversity and climate crises, a new assessment of land-based biodiversity in North America has identified areas considered to be climate refugia—those places that are likely to provide viable habitat for their current species—under several warming scenarios. The study looked not only at how refugia for birds were affected, but also refugia for amphibians, fungi, invertebrates, mammals, plants, and reptiles. The findings show that areas most critical for sustaining species lack current protections or conservation management. Read more Royal Tern. Your Actions at Work Huge victory! After decades of work, the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion has been approved. This project, the largest ecosystem  restoration project in U.S. history,  will address Louisiana’s land loss crisis by reconnecting the Mississippi River to its wetlands. The Mississippi River Delta provides habitat for more than 400 species of birds. More than 25,000 Audubon members submitted public comments in support of this critical restoration project, which marks a pivotal moment for the state’s fight against coastal erosion and will help offset decades of land loss. Read more Brown Pelican. #audubonpriorties#fineartmagazine#finartbirdfun

The Artists Space presents: Yasunao Tone, & Renee Gladman, throught March 18th.

	Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia
	January 13 – March 18 Opening: Friday, January 13, 6–8pm
	Yasunao Tone performing Music for 2 CD Players at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, 1986. [Black-and-white photograph of a blurred figure in motion sitting behind a wooden desk surrounded by audio equipment in a sparse room.]
	Artists Space is pleased to present Region of Paramedia, the first retrospective dedicated to the work of Japanese American conceptual artist, composer, and theorist Yasunao Tone, whose deep investigation of the potential uses and misuses of emerging technology has made him a pioneer in performance, sound, and digital composition. This landmark exhibition and event series will encompass a comprehensive range of mediums and materials, from graphic scores to manipulated sound objects to documentation of performative actions and rare ephemera. Live events—including first-time restagings—will cover both Tone’s frequent, wide-ranging collaborations and his individually authored works. Spanning the 1960s to the present, Region of Paramedia unfolds over two core chapters: the Japan years and the New York years. It begins with Tone’s varied artistic efforts during his time as a founding member of the Japanese branch of Fluxus, a co-conspirator of Hi-Red Center in their social interventions, and a pivotal member of the key postwar collectives Group Ongaku, the world’s first freely improvising music ensemble, and Team Random, the first computer-art collective in Japan. Tone’s active participation in unsettling artistic forms, genres, and social expectations across these disparate affiliations boldly presaged his future activities. Tone’s penchant for collaboration only deepened with his move to the United States in 1972, where he soon began to work with a prolific range of dancers, visual artists, and musicians that included Merce Cunningham, Blondell Cummings, Allan Kaprow, Senga Nengudi, Butch Morris, and George Maciunas. Since coming to New York in 1973, Tone’s work has been distinguished by his radical procedures for transmuting media into unpredictable and unstable forms through both analog and digital systems. Works like Molecular Music (1982)—in which Tone arranges light sensors on the surface of a projection screen to actively interpret 16mm images (characters from Chinese poetic texts) and sends that information to sound-producing instruments—bring together contingent systems, contemporary continental philosophy and media theory, and traditional Eastern culture. Tone originated the use of “glitch” in artmaking thanks to his groundbreaking modifications of prerecorded compact discs, becoming the first person to compose via the inbuilt potential for their digital disruption. In performances and compositions beginning in the mid-1980s such as Music for 2 CD Players (1985), Tone physically alters the surfaces of compact discs, overriding their error-correcting system and generating wild unpredictability in playback. The artist calls these deviations paramedia, a shorthand way of describing a practice of diverting technological devices from their intended purposes to, in his words, “create pieces that are simultaneously multipliable and nonrepetitive.” In conjunction with the exhibition, Yasunao Tone will perform on multiple occasions at Artists Space, including a January 19 appearance with renowned flutist and composer Barbara Held. More performances will be announced. The exhibition will conclude in March with a weekend of film screenings, organized in collaboration with film scholar Go Hirasawa and the Brooklyn cinematheque Light Industry. Major support for Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia is provided by Taka Ishii Gallery. Exhibition support is provided by James Cahn & Jeremiah Collatz, Fridman Gallery, Stephanie LaCava, and the Japan Foundation, New York.
	Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude
	January 13 – March 18
	Renee Gladman, Untitled (Moon Math), 2022. Pigment, oil, and pastel on paper [An abstract drawing consisting of horizontal white lines scratched across black paper with circles interspersed throughout the composition. On the right side of the drawing are arrows, and blurred, scribbled lines and illegible text. Yellow marks accentuate different parts of the composition.]
	Artists Space is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of the poet, novelist, and visual artist Renee Gladman. Beginning in 2006, Gladman’s extended cross-genre experimentation has compelled her to invent a unique hybrid drawing-writing practice that allows her to enact the syntactical preconditions for language. In mixed-media works on paper, she interpolates multiple diagrammatic systems—those emerging from architecture and city planning, planetary movements, data visualization, and mathematics—within an exploration of her own nervous system and bodily gestures. Gladman’s drawings initially appeared in book form, with the printed page serving as a test site for her eventual efforts in recombining and intercalating prose, poetry, architecture, and drawing. The written word and language itself are simultaneously embellished and obliterated in series of formally particular works that have increased in complexity and scale as they have gained independence from their association with the printed page. As dense interior spaces of subjective unknowing, they move through a vast range of graphic and associative potentialities that assess the impact of Blackness, futurity, and erupting architectures on the topographies of the sentence. For her exhibition at Artists Space, Gladman will present a selection of new and recent drawings made with pastel, gouache, acrylic, and white pigment on primarily black paper. Her sometimes collaborator, the critic Fred Moten, has referred to this initial surface as “the blackground: that nonrepresentational capacity that lets all representation take place.”  Accessibility Artists Space is fully accessible via a wheelchair lift and automated door in front of the entrance on 80 White Street. The cellar gallery can be accessed via the ground floor elevator. Artists Space welcomes assistance dogs, and has wheelchair accessible non-gender-segregated toilet facilities. For access inquiries please contact Artists Space at info@artistsspace.org or 212 226 3970.
	Support Major support for Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia is provided by Taka Ishii Gallery and Joe & Nancy Walker. Exhibition support is provided by James Cahn & Jeremiah Collatz, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson, Fridman Gallery, Stephanie LaCava, and the Japan Foundation, New York. Support for Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude is provided by Nine Orchard Hotel. Exhibition Support is provided by Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, The Cy Twombly Foundation, The Teiger Foundation, The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Fox Aarons Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, The Destina Foundation, The Luce Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Arison Arts Foundation, The David Rockefeller Fund, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, The Jill and Peter Kraus Foundation, The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation. #theartistsspace#fineartmagazine#fineartwinterfun

Catherine Courtlier Gallery, Catch the New Exhibits!

Remembering  George Zimbel Photographer George S. Zimbel (b. 1929 Woburn, Massachusetts, USA) died January 9, 2023, in Montreal of natural causes. He was 93. Zimbel was one of the few surviving elders of photography faithful to the legacy of New York's Photo League who in the 1950s imbued their pictures with a personal commitment towards the people and the social landscape they documented. Read More

Deck the Walls  Exhibit Extended Our Deck the Walls show has been extended through February 18th! As work has sold, new pieces from artists Willy Ronis, Ruth Bernhard, James Fee, and more have been added to the exhibit. View New Additions

New Work from  Maggie Taylor Check out four new pieces from gallery artist Maggie Taylor! Learn how Taylor has incorporated an AI program called Midjourney into some of her latest work in our recent blog post. Read More

Visit us at Expo Chicago with Patty Carroll! EXPO CHICAGO has announced the list of exhibitors for the tenth anniversary edition, April 13-16, 2023 at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall. Find us at our booth featuring Patty Carroll! Mark your Calendar

Save the date for Josephine Sacabo! Catherine Couturier Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition with New Orleans based artist Josephine Sacabo. Save the date for this exciting opening on Saturday, February 25th! Save the Date

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POSITIVE VIBRATIONS ART EXHIBIT

 

KICK OFF 2023 WITH THE POSITIVE VIBRATIONS ART EXHIBIT: 25+ CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, GRAFFITI LEGENDS, and PRO SKATERS AT CITY POINT Presented by Collect with Lulu and Silvertuna Studios Brooklyn, New York 

 POSITIVE VIBRATIONS from the gallerist duo Collect with Lulu and Silvertuna Studios, is a group exhibit featuring paintings, sculpture and murals by celebrities, graffiti and contemporary artists, muralists, and pro skaters. Additionally, the gallery will present art classes by Al Diaz, and a Year of the Rabbit mural with accompanying Coloring Book Calendar by Zimad. The opening will take place at City Point in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn on January 13 from 6-9pm with the exhibit and running through February 5, 2023. Laura “Lulu” Reich, co-curator, explains, “Our gallery presents established artists alongside up and coming talent, and Positive Vibrations focuses on works from the beginning of the New York graffiti movement to today – there is something for everyone – from new art enthusiasts to experienced collectors looking for a smart investment.” Co-curator Koz adds, “Plus, we are excited to offer kids opportunities to experience art through classes with one of the graffiti’s pioneers. Al Diaz, and a Year of the Rabbit mural and coloring book calendar by Zimad.” Artist Al Diaz’s career spans five decades. His friendship and collaboration with Jean Michel Basquiat on SAMO, and the iconic hip-hop record “Beat Bop” are noted in contemporary art history. His exclusive to City Point classes, How to Create Your Own Graffiti Alphabet, will include creative materials, and guidance peppered with highlights from his new exhibition and book City of Kings: A History of NYC Graffiti. Luis Zimad Lamboy known as Zimad brings over 40 years of his graffiti and street art to Downtown Brooklyn with a tribute to the Year of the Rabbit at the Flatbush Atrium of City Point. His brilliantly colored mural depicts two lucky rabbits surrounded by a field of flowers and vibrant cotton candy pink and blue clouds. It invites the viewer to celebrate the Chinese New Year, embrace good fortune and snap a selfie. A limited-edition Year of the Rabbit Coloring Book calendar by Zimad will be sold at the gallery.
 

Featured artists include Al Diaz, Andreas Rousounelis, Christian Hosoi, Chris RWK, COPE2, Damien Mitchell, DENIAL, DONT FRET, EASY, Eli Reed, EL TORO, Eric Orr, Gary Lichtenstein, HISS XX, JOS L RWK, Kathrine Narducci, Key Detail, KIT17, Nite Owl, Olga Correa, Pops Hosoi, Praxis, Rubén Aguirre, Ryan Callisto, Solus, T-KID, WANE COD, Zered Bassett, Zimad, and more. Some words from highlighted artists about the exhibition and their works: “No wasted talent, Sonny would be proud.” Kathrine Narducci visual artist and actress from A Bronx Tale and the Sopranos.
“Colors and drips, straight lines and dips. Graffiti art from my generation bringing you nothing but good vibrations!” – T-KID 170 legendary Bronx artist who started painting on trains in the 1970s. Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 2023 / 6-9pm Exhibition Dates: January 14 –February 5, 2023 Gallery Hours: Monday - Wednesday by appointment, Thursday - Sunday 12-7pm City Point Brooklyn, 445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn, NY 11201 RSVP: lulu@collectwithlulu.com Gallery Contacts: lulu@collectwithlulu.com // silvertunastudios@gmail.com // 646-753-2712 Website: collectwithlulu.com // silvertunastudios.com Follow us: @collectwithlulu @silvertunastudios Press Contact: Jasmine Blandford: jblandford@concretecomm.com // 312 312-6952