The Beverly Hills Art Show is this Weekend!

ATOA Fall 2010 Panel Series ~ Through Dec.16

ATOA Fall 2010 Panel Series ~  Through Dec.16
Thursdays - 6:30 Reception, 7:00 Discussion - Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 547 W. 27th St., #301
Admission: $7 Adults, $3 Seniors/Students with ID

THIS THURSAY -- October 14, 2010
Jay Milder: A Life Story -- Video Screening & Dialog
Featuring:  Jay Milder, artist & Ray Grist, filmmaker
Jay Milder is one of the original 7 founders of the Rhino Horn group along with Benny Andrews, Peter Pasantino, Bill Barrell.  This video traces his journey from the midwest to Hans Hofmann student, Ed Clark mentee, and international artist, and includes Bob Thompson, Mimi Gross, Red Grooms, and Mark DiSuvero.
Organizer: Ray Grist

October 21, 2010
Three Dimensions: Hand or Digital?  Sculptors Consider the Alternatives
Moderator:  Doug Sheer, chairman of ATOA
Panelists:  Donna Dodson, wood carver · Ayami Aoyama, stone carver · and other sculptors (stay tuned)
Organizers: Lynne Mayocole & Doug Sheer

October 28, 2010
Raising the Dead
Featuring:  Dr. Chic Schissel, lecturer on the medical system, science, quackery & music · Flash Light, artist · John Rafferty, author, editor & president of the Secular Humanist Society of NY · Dr. Barnaby Ruhe, artist & NYU Gallatin Faculty
Organizer:  Flash Light

November 11, 2010
Art & Wall Street: The Mei-Moses Art Index - Art as Assets
Featuring: Ron Morosan, artist, & Robert A. Schwartz, PhD, Economics & Finance, Baruch College
A discussion on how thid index will allow nonprofits to issue bonds and other financial instruments to allow supporters to "invest" in arts organizations.
Organizer:  Ron Morosan.

November 18, 2010
From Performance to Painter's Tape:
Abstract Art & Materiality
Moderator: Kat Griefen, curator
Panelists: Bibi Calderaro · Creighton Michael · Ray Oglesby · Rebecca Smith
Organizer: Kat Griefen

December 9, 2010
Performance, Re-Performance & All That
Host: Vernita N'Cognita, performance & visual artist
Featuring 10-20 Artists in Performance (stay tuned for playbill)
Organizer: Vernita N'Cognita

December 16, 2010
Hans Hofmann in Film
Moderator: Patricia Stark Feinstein, independent curator
Panelists: Irving Sandler, art historian · Thorpe Feidt, artist, teacher · plus additional panelists to be announced
Featuring an excerpt from Sam Feinstein's film
on Hans Hofmann.
Organizer: Patricia Stark Feinstein

David Salle to Speak at AFA ArtTalks

American Federation of Arts
ArtTalks   No. 28

 David Salle to Speak at AFA ArtTalks

Tuesday, November 16, 6:30 p.m., at Christie's

The American Federation of Arts (AFA) is pleased to announce that artist David Salle is the second speaker in the 2010/11 ArtTalks series, to be held at Christie's on Tuesday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. Following Salle's lecture, audience members are invited to participate in a question-and-answer session and a wine reception.

One of the most important painters to emerge at the end of the 1970s, David Salle helped define the postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 museums and galleries worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial, Documenta, the Venice Biennale, Carnegie International, the Paris Biennale, and most recently, The Pictures Generation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As a painter whose work comes out of a tradition of installation and performance, Salle is a longtime collaborator with Karole Armitage, designing sets and costumes for more than twenty of her ballets and operas. Their collaborations have been staged at such venues as the Metropolitan Opera, the Joyce Theater, Paris Opera, Opera Comique, Opera Deutsche, Oper Berlin, and La Fenice.

Salle is represented in the collections of most modern art institutions, and solo exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; Castello di Rivioli; the Tel Aviv Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Guggenheim Bilbao; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.

Salle has contributed his writings on art to such publications as Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, and Modern Painters, as well as to numerous exhibition catalogues and anthologies. He received a Guggenheim fellowship for theater design in 1986 and in 1995 directed the feature film Search & Destroy starring Griffin Dunne and Christopher Walken.

The ArtTalk will be held on Tuesday, November 16, 6:30 p.m., at Christie's, located at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, which is on 49th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Following Salle's lecture, audience members are invited to participate in a question-and-answer session and a wine reception hosted by Christie's.

In-kind support for ArtTalks is provided by Christie's.

Admission is $15; $10 for AFA members and students with valid identification. Seating is limited and reservations are required. To purchase tickets online, click here or please call 212.988.7700 ext. 210.

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the AFA is a nonprofit institution that organizes art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops educational materials and programs. For more information, visit www.afaweb.org.

Cultural Pitts Field News

Friday+: Jean Genet’s The Maids with an All-Male Cast

The Maids - the way that Genet always wanted it performed - with an all male cast! Jean Genet's play The Maids is based on the Papin sisters who murdered their employer and daughter in 1933. Featuring legendary local actors Ken Deloreto & Daniel Osman.

Friday, October 15th – Sunday, October 31st | Fri & Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm | NEW Stage Performing Arts Center | 55 North Street | 418-0999 | $20