Calling all creatives! Submit your best work for a chance to be included in the Art Takes Miami

Calling all creatives! Submit your best work for a chance to be included in the Art Takes Miami : 1,001 Artists Project, a special presentation of today's emerging talents this December at SCOPE Art Show, the premier showcase for international contemporary art. This year we're featuring more artists than ever before. Be one of them

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Art Takes Miami : The 1,001 Artists Project
Be a part of the premier showcase for international contemporary art.

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$10,000 Cash Grant  |  Feature Booth at SCOPE Miami 2012  |  Luxury Hotel Stay

Featuring more artists than ever before with the 1,001 ARTISTS PROJECT, a digital display of over
a thousand artists in the exclusive Art Takes Miami booth during SCOPE Miami.


 FEATURED EXHIBITION FEATURED EXHIBITION

NANCY DAVIDSON | DUSTUP
This season, Betty Cuningham Gallery opens with Nancy Davidson's first exhibition in the space, featuring her inflatable sculpture Dustup. Known for her unique media and larger than life sculptures, Davidson's take on the rodeo cowgirl will occupy the New York City gallery through October 6. Offering a humorous critique of the American cowgirl, the sculpture's massive measurements come in at over 16 ft in height

LOUIS VUITTON - MARC JACOBS
THE EXHIBITION
Last chance: Louis Vuitton -- Marc Jacobs: The Exhibition, closes this weekend! Covering two floors of the Paris' Musée Les Arts Décoratifs, the exhibition provides new insight into the fashion system during its pivotal periods, beginning with its industrialisation and ending with its globalisation, focusing also on its artistic professions and crafts, technological advances, stylistic creations and artistic collaborations.

 FEATURED EXHIBITION FEATURED EXHIBITION

JEFF KOONS | THE PAINTER & THE SCULPTOR
Turning their attention to an artist who has been setting trends in the art world since the 1980's, Frankfurt's SCHIRN and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung are simultaneously exhibiting works by Jeff Koons this month. While deliberately separating sculpture and painting, the two spaces will present each in its own context. On view through September 23. Click here for details >>

DOROTHY BOHM | SEEING AND FEELING
Londoners, stop by Margaret Street Gallery for Seeing and Feeling, an exhibition of works by 88-year-old Lithuanian-born photographer and skilled portrait artist Dorothy Bohm. Having taken pictures for over 70 years, Bohn has a knack for encapsulating the essence of every day life, deeply aware of the vulnerability of human existence. Click here to read more >>

 FEATURED ART TAKES MIAMI ENTRANTS


Today we introduce you to a select group of sculptors from Art Takes Miami: Robin Antar, Carolanne Leslie, Austin Ballard, Marc Rust, Joe Gentry, Krisse Pasternack, Nico Yektai, Katie Aucoin, and Melissa Maddonni Haims.

We're featuring artists every day so keep your eyes open for the latest highlights in each newsletter. To view the works of this week's featured entrants,

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Sky Light Gallery 9/20 6-8 PM The Last Picture Show

538 West 29th Street New York, NY 10001 646-772-2407 www.skylightgallerynyc.com  info@skylightgallerynyc.com Gallery Hours mon.-fri 10-4 variable Sat. 12-5 (please ring buzzer to enter gallery )  Greetings! "The Last Picture Show"   and "Berlin Meets NY"     Opening Reception, Thursday Sept. 20th 6-8 pm  Exhibition runs Sept. 20th thru the end of Oct. Skylight Gallery NYC is celebrating its final show in the series   "Art Conversations". These art conversations centered on City Based and Hudson Valley Based Artists. "The Last Picture Show" features some of our best represented artists from NYC and the Hudson Valley. Also exhibiting in the Hearth Gallery, "Berlin Meets NY", an exhibition of represented artists from our sister gallery Kunstleben Berlin, Germany. New Projects at Skylight Gallery are coming soon with a new edition to its format centered on Curatorial Projects. Come to our Opening Reception on Thursday, September 20th from 6-9 pm See the work and celebrate our NY artists and our Berlin artists and find out more about our new and exciting future projects. Thank you for supporting the arts and Skylight Gallery NYC Carla Goldberg/Gallery Director

THE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOR ACTOR RICHARD GERE AT 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF FILM FESTIVAL

THE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO HONOR ACTOR RICHARD GERE AT 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF FILM FESTIVAL

 Legendary Actor to receive the Festival’s prestigious Golden Starfish Award For Lifetime Achievement In Acting EAST HAMPTON, NY - SEPTEMBER 13, 2012: 

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced today that actor Richard Gere will attend the 20th Anniversary Festival to receive The Golden Starfish Award for Lifetime Achievement in Acting on October 6th, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY. The award will be presented during the festival’s “Conversation With Richard Gere”, a discussion with Mr. Gere about his life and career, moderated by the Festival’s Honorary Chairman, Alec Baldwin. The event will feature a montage highlighting Mr. Gere’s screen appearances. “Conversation With Richard Gere” is sponsored by Capital One. Richard Gere made an immediate impact on this cinema with his moving debut in Terence Malick’s Days Of Heaven, a film which launched a career that has spanned four decades and has included roles in films such as Pretty Woman, American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Chicago and most recently Arbitrage. The Festival is pleased to present a special screening of Days of Heaven. In addition to his work on the screen, Mr. Gere is an accomplished musician, photographer and humanitarian, advocating for human rights with organizations that include The International Campaign for Tibet, Survival International and Healing the Divide. He also created The Gere Foundation, which supports the cultural preservation of Tibet and the Tibetan people. “Richard Gere’s outstanding body of work speaks for itself. Richard’s phenomenal talent and social activism has showcased his passion and heart. We are thrilled to present him with the Golden Starfish Award for Lifetime Achievement in Acting,” said Karen Arikian, Executive Director of the Hamptons International Film Festival. Past honorees of the Golden Starfish Award for Lifetime Achievement in Acting are Gena Rowlands, Vanessa Redgrave, Joan Allen and Alec Baldwin. About The Hamptons International Film Festival

About The Hamptons International Film Festival

The Hamptons International Film Festival was founded in 1993 to celebrate independent film- long, short, fiction and documentary - and to introduce a unique, varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to the public. The Festival is committed to exhibiting films that express fresh voices and differing global perspectives, with the hope that these programs will enlighten audiences, provide invaluable exposure for filmmakers and present inspired entertainment for all. Taking place among the charming seaside historic villages of Long Island's east end, the Hamptons International Film Festival's intimate, informal atmosphere makes the festival an ideal destination for cinephiles. The 20th anniversary edition takes place over Columbus Day weekend, October 4th-8th, 2012.

For more information on the Festival and to become a member, please visit www.hamptonsfilmfest.org.

Call to Artists - The 50th Annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival

The 50th Annual
Coconut Grove Arts Festival 

 

Call to Artists

WHAT: The 50th Annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival

WHERE: The streets of Coconut Grove, FL, a charming village within the City of Miami

WHEN: February 16, 17 and 18, 2013

NOTEWORTHY:

*380 juried artists in 14 categories

*Estimated attendance: 150,000

*24-Hour Security within a gated venue

*Festival marketing to the art-buying public in TV, newspaper, billboards, bus wraps, airport dioramas, magazines, social media, and press releases valued at over $350,000.

*Artist amenities include: complimentary breakfast, coffee and juice, lunch, water and soda for all three days, booth sitting

*Day-before or morning-of load-in; drive up to booth

*Jury free entry to all award winners for the following Festival

*"We've been around longer than the Super Bowl", 50 years and still going strong

We invite you to apply to our Festival, one of the most prestigious outdoor festivals in the United States. The Coconut Grove Arts Festival is presented by the Coconut Grove Arts and Historical Association, Inc., a non-profit organization with a full-time professional staff, Board of Directors and more than 600 community volunteers. Proceeds from the event provide funding for educational and community programs, including a Building Fund for a permanent Arts Center in Coconut Grove.

Click HERE to Watch a Video About the Festival! 

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:

DEADLINE: September 17th, 2012

NOTIFICATION: November 7th, 2012

BOOTH FEE DUE: December 1st, 2012

Apply at: www.Zapplication.org

For more information please visit: www.CGAF.com

Email questions to Katrina@cgaf.com or call 305.447.0401 to speak to Katrina Delgado, Artist Director.

Galerie Kashya Hildebrand

Scott Williams and Brent Green Opening Saturday, September 15, 6-8pm

SCOTT WILLIAMS HOME INVASION BRENT GREEN TO MANY MEN STRANGE FATES ARE GIVEN September 15 – October 20, 2012 Opening Reception:  Saturday, September 15, 6-8pm Gallery Hours:   Wednesday – Friday 10:30-5:30 Saturday 11:00-5:00 Steven Wolf Fine Arts 2747 19th Street, A San Francisco, CA 94110 415-263-3677 stevenwolffinearts.com BRENT GREEN: Artist’s Talk at SFAI Monday, September 17, 7:30pm San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Street, SF CA SCOTT WILLIAMS This fall, Steven Wolf Fine Arts will recreate the studio interior of painter Scott Williams, best known to San Franciscans as an early aerosol street artist who painted murals, cars and interiors using a spray can and stencils. His primary media though, since 2000, when he exchanged spray can for airbrush, is canvas, wood, and books. Williams cinematic, stencil montages take the form of landscapes, rock posters, political propaganda and various forms of abstraction. Literature, punk flyers, Asian woodcuts and obscure comic books are among his many sources. One of his most intriguing creations is the interior of the Victorian Mission flat that he has lived in for the past 25 years. The residence, studio and gallery is a mixture of wall stencils, decay and paintings that hang on the wainscoting and stack on the floor like sloppy layer cakes. The space is a link to an era of San Francisco studios that flourished before skyrocketing rents, gentrification and the evolution of live/work spaces into generic corporate interiors. His capacity to achieve a painterly looseness with stencils, and his tendency to work flat on the ground in the manner of the abstract expressionists mirrors that link to the past. The installation will include paintings from every stage of Williams' career, new stencils made directly on the wall, and fragments of the studio itself. This isn't the first time Williams has been projected into a conversation about gentrification. As a young artist, in 1983, he was evicted from the Goodman Building on Geary Boulevard between Gough and Franklin. One of the last of the artist hotels in San Francisco, the Goodman's residents fought the city's redevelopment in the name of a utopian communal live/work situation that challenged the normative paradigm of domesticity and labor. After years of court battles, the residents lost, but the case gave rise to an awareness of non-traditional living spaces in a city that was rapidly gentrifying along late capitalist lines. The irony of recreating Williams' studio in a gallery that is gentrifying his very own neighborhood only seems to energize the fragmentary and unstable character of his work. His portraits of Josef Stalin, which oscillate between ironic takes on authoritarian art and a genuine affection for the left, seem likely to drift off the compass of meaning entirely. In a space often devoted to artists just out of art school, his cowboys and Indians paintings, which have the air of movie landscapes peopled by toys, will look like the Photoshop worlds they preceded. In general, the characters in Williams' paintings seem strangely detached from their sources. Like magical phrases that have been spoken so many times they grow uncanny, they lurk at the edge of something we once knew. His process of selection, arrangement and deployment through stenciling seems to vaporize meaning, leaving the viewer in an Phillip K. Dick atmosphere of paranoia, lucidly described by one of his long-time book collaborators, the poet Fred Rinne. "If you could see through the fog and murk that passes for an atmosphere hereabouts you might notice the subtle documentation of the citizenry.... You might notice that you are in a tinny funhouse mirror burlesque of an American city... We call it Frisco." BRENT GREEN Continuing his tradition of applying new technologies to his staunchly DIY, American folk roots, Brent Green built To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given with deconstructed LCD screens, an elaborate welded steel frame, polarized lenses and sets of delicate machine-milled wooden audio horns. These diverse materials all serve as a platform for a new hand-drawn three-dimensional animation displayed on two layered panels simultaneously, hearkening back to the tradition of animating on glass. The animation can only be seen when the viewer looks through the polarized lenses located at three stations on the sculpture; otherwise, Green’s film is invisible. The story centers on the tale of the woman who sewed the spacesuit for Laika, the dog sent into space by the Russians in 1957. Pulsating with the intensity of the artist’s own signature narration, the sound track articulates themes of progress and insight, of invention, wonder and faith. To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given demonstrates both the technical and formal progress in Green’s artistic journey and reflects the increasing deftness with which he handles humanistic themes in his storytelling, carving out from his self-taught roots a new and sophisticated handmade aesthetic, sustained by a stark political agenda that runs through his lyrically composed allegories. For more information please contact Steven Wolf Fine Arts at 415.263.3677 or email stevenwolffinearts@gmail.com

Red Bull Curates for SCOPE Miami 2012

SCOPE ART SHOW PARTNERS WITH RED BULL CURATES: CANVAS COOLER PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS NEW YORK AREA ARTISTS IN ONE NIGHT SHOWCASE AT VILLAIN IN WILLIAMSBURG ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
	BROOKLYN, N.Y. (September 11, 2012) – SCOPE is partnering with Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project, to give emerging artists wings as it tours the United States. The public gallery show will include a curatorial judging panel & audience choice voting. The finalists will receive an all-expense paid trip to participate in a Red Bull Curates group show at SCOPE Miami during Art Basel, where they will have the chance to exhibit and sell selections of their works. Learn more at redbullusa.com/curates. After hosting gallery events in Los Angeles and Chicago, the program arrives in New York with a public gallery event on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 9 p.m. at Villain, The Space at 50 N. 3rd St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This special event is one night only and open to ages 21 and over. For more information visit redbullusa.com/curates.
	SCOPE taps into the cultural psyche to present only the most pioneering work across multiple creative disciplines. SCOPE Art Shows in Miami, Basel, New York, London and the Hamptons have garnered extensive critical acclaim, with sales of over $250 million and attendance of over 500,000 visitors. With over a decade of critically acclaimed art fairs and non-profit initiatives that extend beyond the ordinary in Contemporary art, design, music and fashion: Our Reach is Global. Believing the creative act has no bounds: Our SCOPE is Infinite.