El Museo Labienal

Hours Exhibitions Membership Calendar EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW LA BIENAL 2013: Here Is Where We Jump EXTENDED Through Saturday, February 15, 2014 Wednesday - Saturday: 11am - 6pm Las Galerías Admission: Suggested   LA BIENAL 2013, El Museo's 7th biennial exhibition, features work by 37 artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in New York City metropolitan area. The exhibition explores, offers, and supports experimental and experiential aspects of contemporary art, and offers an opportunity for artists and viewers to connect through the art object and ideas behind it. Designed to provide a platform for artists who have never shown at El Museo, LA BIENAL is interested in the conditions under which works of art are made and how they are received by the public.   Click here for more details on the exhibition. PRESENCIA EXTENDED Through Saturday, May 17, 2014  Las Galerías Admission: Suggested PRESENCIA,the most recent exhibition of work from El Museo's permanent collection, focuses on ideas of presence and its antithesis, absence. This theme is explored through photography, painting, prints, drawings, masks, and other objects. The exhibition investigates the visibility and invisibility of the human form through the presentation of the body in literal and conceptual ways. Featured artists include Luis Mendez, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Oscar Muñoz, Benvenuto Chavajay, Christian Cravo, Roberto Juárez, Fernando Salicrup, and Rafael Tufiño. Click here for more details on the exhibition. PROGRAMS DENDÊ & BAND    Wednesday, January 25, 2014 3:00pm - 4:00pm El Teatro Admission: FREE, RSVP     Driven by master percussionist Dendê's polyrhythmic power and joyous melodies, this eight-piece band blends Brazil's rhythm-heavy music with Afrobeat, reggae, merengue, and other global grooves into an irresistible call to the dance floor. Dendê and Band's jubilant, upbeat live shows soar with sizzling showmanship. This concert is presented in collaboration with Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concerts.     For more information, click here.     CELIA: THE QUEEN   Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:00pm - 9:00pm El Teatro Admission: FREE, RSVP     Celia: The Queen, by Joe Cardona, is a loving look at the amazing life and legacy of a woman whose voice symbolized the soul of a nation and captured the hearts of fans worldwide. Immediately following the film, join us for a panel discussion with Producer, Joe Cardona; Hair Stylist Ruth Sanchez; and Poet Felipe Luciano. Moderated by Dr. Marta Moreno Vega.       For more information, click here.     LIVE@EL MUSEO! with Bill Santiago and Bobby Sanabria   Wednesday, February 12, 2014 6:30pm - 8:00pm El Teatro Admission: FREE, RSVP     One night, Twice the BS! Comedy Central Comedian Bill Santiago and seven-time Grammy nominee, percussionist Bobby Sanabria team up for a night of first class variety entertainment!       For more information, click here.   YOUTH   El Museo's Youth Council   El Museo's Youth Council is a free year-long program for NYC youth ages 16 to 24 who are passionate about the arts. Each week you will work with different contemporary artists and museum staff in workshops that give you behind the scenes access to a museum. Along with workshops, you will contribute to programming that the Youth Council will collectively create from the ground up.  Meetings will begin January 29, 2014 and are held every Wednesday from 4:30pm - 6:30pm through May. Applications for spring 2014 admission are due January 15, 2014. Apply here!  GET INVOLVED Internships   El Museo is seeking talented, enthusiastic college students and recent graduates to join our team this Spring! Gain valuable work experience and make connections through an internship in the department that best suits your career goals. We offer internships in Community and Government Affairs, Marketing and Communications, Education and Public Programs, and more.    Deadline to submit internship applications for the Spring 2014 cycle is Friday, January 10, 2014.   Click here for more information. Volunteer Opportunities   El Museo del Barrio succeeds with the generous help of those who participate in our people-driven activities. With the help of volunteers, El Museo provides its services with a human touch. Support programs for a few hours and help make El Museo an experience you can be proud of. Click here for more information.     LA TIENDA La Tienda Spring Sale This spring take advantage of specials on all exhibition-related items! From posters, and catalogues, to postcards, and magnets, stop by and check it out.  MEMBERSHIP Become a Member or give a Gift today!    Our members are very special to us, and we rely on you to make our work possible. Thanks to your generosity, El Museo del Barrio continues to provide free cultural and educational events right here in El Barrio! I invite you to stay engaged and hope you consider a gift to support us, as we look toward 2014 and beyond, with new leadership, andan exciting line-up of exhibitions and programming. This year we celebrate our 45th anniversary-please help ensure our success on behalf of Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latin American artists in New York City and around the world for years to come! To help us celebrate this important year, pleaseclick here to become a Member or give a Gift today!    RENTALS Celebrate Your Next Event With Us El Teatro, El Café and Las Galerías are available for any occassion. El Museo del Barrio, conveniently located in New York City's renowned Museum Mile is the ideal location for your upcoming special event. Whether you are planning a concert series or hosting a corporate function, El Museo provides a unique setting that combines breathtaking views of Central Park along with El Museo's newly renovated, state of the art facilities.  Click here for more information.           PHOTO CREDITS    Photo credits listed in order from top to bottom: Edgar Serrano (Illinois 1979; New York) A dios, 2012. 24 x 24 inches. Acrylic and latex on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. Fernando Salicrup (New York, 1946) Una vez más, Colón (Once more, Columbus), 1978. Acrylic on linen, 54 x 44 in. El Museo del Barrio, New York. Photos made available by Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel©    Image courtesy of El Museo.     Image courtesy of El Museo. Image courtesy of El Museo.   Image courtesy of El Museo. Image courtesy of El Museo. Image courtesy of El Museo. Image courtesy of El Museo. Image courtesy of El Museo.  Hours of operation: Las Galerías Sunday - Tuesday Closed Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm   La Tienda Sunday - Tuesday Closed Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm   El Café Sunday - Monday Closed Tuesday - Friday 11am - 3:30pm Saturday 12pm - 3:30pm

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Skylight Gallery NYC Presents 17 artists

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 )  Skylight Gallery NYC Presents 17 artists from                                                                                    image by Rebecca Darlington                                                           An exhibition of contemporary visual art.    Featuring the work of:    Donald Alter, Rick Thurston, Anita Jacobson, Barbara Galazzo,  Cali Gorevic, Cindy Booth, Carla Goldberg, Gregory Martin, Jane Soodalter, Polly King, Rebecca Darlington, Carol Flaitz, Clare Lewis, Suzanne Langle,   Cynthia McCusker, Maureen Winzig, Anthony Volpe     A Gallery 66 NY Event  @ Skylight Gallery NYC 538 West 29th Street  New York, NY 10001   Opening Reception  Thursday, January 23rd, 6-9pm  On View From   January 23rd - February 21st                               image by Anita Jacobson "Mother Earth"   Skylight Gallery NYC 538 West 29th Street, New York, New York 10001 View Map · Get Directions About Us Skylight Gallery NYC provides space in the Chelsea Art District to guest curators. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for curation only, please contact Gallery Director Carla Goldberg at info@skylightgallerynyc.com #fineartmagazine

SUNDARAM TAGORE NEWS &EVENTS

Donald Sultan, Navy Blues March 13 2006, 2006, flock, enamel, tar and Spackle on tile over Masonite, 96 x 144 inches We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be representing Donald Sultan in Hong Kong and Singapore. With a distinguished career spanning more than thirty years, painter, printmaker and sculptor Donald Sultan is best known for large-scale paintings that merge geometric and organic forms with a formal purity. Set against stark backgrounds, Sultan’s instantly recognizable silhouettes of fruit, flowers and lemons, among other objects, are applied to the support with industrial materials including plaster, tar and Spackle. Work by Donald Sultan will be on view at our booth at Art Stage Singapore, which opens with a preview January 15. Click here to view the work Please join us for Art Stage Singapore international art fair at the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre, January 15 through 19. We’ll be at Booth A5. Click here for more information Gallery artist Jane Lee will showcase new work at Platforms, a specially curated exhibition at Art Stage Singapore organized by leading curators and art advisors. Lee’s work will be part of the Southeast Asia Platform, which runs alongside seven other Platforms showcasing art from Asia and the Pacific region. Click here for more information   Prabir Purkayastha, Alexander, Shovabazaar Raj Bari, North Calcutta, 2011, archival, Museum-grade digital paper, 44 x 66 inches, photograph © Prabir Purkayastha Throughout January the Chelsea and Madison Avenue galleries will bring together a rotating selection of work by gallery artists including haunting, specially commissionedimages of Calcutta's colonial past by Indian photographer Prabir Purkayastha. Through February 1 Click here to view the work   Edward Burtynsky, Salina #3, Cadiz, Spain, 2013, chromogenic color print, 48 x 64 inches photograph © Edward Burtynsky Natural Selection, currently on view in the Hong Kong Gallery, features the work of four artists who share a deep-rooted connection to the natural world, but employ vastly different visual means to express that relationship. With photographer Edward Burtynsky, painters Hiroshi Senju and Ricardo Mazal and digital artist Kim Joon. Through January 26 Click here to view the work   Jane Lee, Portrait #9, 2013, acrylic paint, gel on mixed fiberglass base, 48.4 x 72.8 inches Singaporean artist Jane Lee presents new work in the monumental solo exhibition 100 Faces. Known for her highly tactile and visually spectacular paintings, she makes a significant stylistic leap with this new body of work, focusing her talents on three sumptuous new series—Faces, Stacks and Portraits—which challenge the ways in which viewers approach and perceive paintings. January 10–March 2, 2014 Opening cocktail reception: Friday, January 10, 6–9 pm Click here to view the work   MEET THE ARTIST In conjunction with Art Stage Singapore, we will host an Art Stage VIP event for collectors to enjoy cocktails and meet artist Jane Lee in the Singapore gallery.   Thursday, January 16, 6–8 pm RSVP at singapore@sundaramtagore.com     GALLERY TALK Please join Khim Ong, the curator of Jane Lee: 100 Faces, for an informal talk about the exhibition.   Saturday, January 11, 4 pm RSVP at singapore@sundaramtagore.com

NEW YORK Chelsea: 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 • tel 212 677 4520 Madison Avenue: 1100 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10028 • tel 212 288 2889 gallery@sundaramtagore.com   HONG KONG 57-59 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong • tel +852 2581 9678 hongkong@sundaramtagore.com   SINGAPORE 01-05 Gillman Barracks, 5 Lock Road, Singapore 108933 • tel +65 6694 3378 singapore@sundaramtagore.com #fineartmagazine

Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault

Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart:  Collected by Julie Ault  Film and Video Program December 5, 2013 – February 20, 2014
Curated by Jason Simon, with Julie Ault  55 Walker Street New York NY 10013 T 212 226 3970  $5 Entrance Donation Members Free, Guaranteed Entry  Become a Member Today click here Get 365 Days of Free Entry to All Talks & Events!
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THE FOURTH ANNUAL ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP

THE FOURTH ANNUAL ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL:
A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP 

Sherry Lansing to receive Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award
Additional awardees include Keri Putnam, Callie Khouri and Kasi Lemmons 

 Festival returns to Barnard College
February 6 – February 9, 2014 

The Athena List to debut as a call for more female protagonists on screen

 New York, NY (December 9, 2013) – Barnard College’s Athena Center for Leadership Studies and Women and Hollywood, announce the fourth annual Athena Film Festival — a celebration of women and leadership — to take place February 6-9, 2014 on Barnard’s campus in Morningside Heights. Honoring extraordinary women in the film industry and showcasing films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world, the festival will include Q and A sessions with producers and directors, Hollywood conversations and master classes. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival and Regina K. Scully, Founder and CEO of Artemis Rising Foundation, will also serve as a festival co-chair.

The Athena Film Festival is proud to announce this year’s recipients of the Athena Film Festival Awards, which honor noted actors, directors, producers and other members of the film industry for their leadership and creative accomplishments. Philanthropist Sherry Lansing, former Chair and CEO of Paramount Pictures and former President of 20^th Century Fox, who over her career was involved in the production, marketing, and distribution of more than 200 films, will receive The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional awardees include Keri Putnam, Executive Director of the Sundance Institute, Callie Khouri, Academy Award winning screenwriter of Thelma and Louise, and creator of the series Nashville, and Kasi Lemmons, actress, director and writer of the current film Black Nativity as well as Talk to Me, Eve’s Bayou and The Caveman’s Valentine. 

The Athena Film Festival is also announcing the creation of the Athena List, which will highlight between 3-5 completed screenplays with strong leading female characters that have yet to be made into films. The first group of selected screenplays on the Athena List will be announced at the festival.

"It is my great honor to receive an award in Laura Ziskin’s name from the Athena Film Festival,” said Sherry Lansing.  “Laura helped lead the way for so many women in Hollywood and she would be incredibly proud of the filmmakers highlighted at this event.” 

“As the founding sponsor of the Athena Film Festival, Artemis Rising Foundation looks forward to participating in the event every year,” said Regina K. Scully.  “ We always find it a great privilege to be involved in this festival which is so deeply invested in supporting and acknowledging women in the film industry.”

“The women we are honoring this year showcase extraordinary talents in the film and entertainment world,” said Kathryn Kolbert, co-founder of the Festival and the Constance Hess Williams Director of the Athena Center. “Each of these women bring with them experience and knowledge that is inspirational on every level.”

“Now entering our fourth year of the festival we continue to push boundaries with our films and filmmakers, focusing on celebrating women leaders and their talents,” said Melissa Silverstein, co-founder and Artistic Director of the Athena Film Festival and founder of Women and Hollywood.  “We look forward to honoring these creative women and are excited for a diverse slate of programming and films this year.”

Early bird passes for the festival are now available online.  Individual ticket sales and the announcement of the lineup will take place in early January 2014. Please visit http://www.athenafilmfestival.com for regular updates, announcements and to purchase passes.  

ABOUT THE ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL
Now in its fourth year, the Athena Film Festival -- a celebration of women and leadership -- is an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. The four-day festival, which includes conversations with directors, producers and actors, as well as activities for filmmakers, will be held Feb. 6-9, 2014 in the heart of New York -- at Barnard College (117th & Broadway).

ABOUT THE ATHENA CENTER
Established at Barnard College in 2009, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies is a catalyst for the education, development and advancement of inspired and courageous women leaders worldwide. Renowned civil rights attorney, Kathryn Kolbert, is the Center’s Constance Hess Williams Director.  For more information, visit: http://athenacenter.barnard.edu

ABOUT WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD
Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry. In only six years, it has grown to be one of the most respected sites focused on women's issues and popular culture, and its founder, Melissa Silverstein, has become a well-respected leader on the subject.  For more information, visit: http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/

ABOUT ARTEMIS RISING FOUNDATION
Artemis Rising Foundation is committed to transforming our culture through media and education. Regina K. Scully is the founder and CEO.

ABOUT BARNARD COLLEGE
The idea was bold for its time. Founded in 1889, Barnard was the only college in New York City, and one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education available to men. Today, as the world-renowned liberal arts college for women at Columbia University, Barnard remains devoted to empowering extraordinary women to become even more exceptional. For more information, visit: www.barnard.edu.

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Eugene Lemay in collaboration with Shen Wei Dance Arts Opening tomorrow January 12th

Eugene Lemay in collaboration with Shen Wei Dance Arts Opening tomorrow January 12th Tomorrow January 12th at Mana Contemporary, Mike Weiss Gallery artist Eugene Lemay will debut a selection of new works with a special collaborative performance by Shen Wei Dance Arts.   Eugene Lemay at Mana Contemporary 1-6pm Sunday January 12, 2014 888 Newark Ave Jersey City, NJ 07306        Known for his large inkjet prints of landscapes, skies, or Hebrew and Arabic-like texts cast in a rich mottled black, Eugene Lemay presents viewers with a string of somber visual riddles. He creates a tapestry of indiscernible marks that conjure notions of remembrance tied to a vivid, almost visceral sense of terrain that emulates the silent, mysterious effect of the night. Once a Navigator in the Israeli army, Lemay is painfully aware that wars are frequently fought over issues of territory.  The artist's obsessive, lightless works are not celebratory, rather they possess a dualistic quality hovering between commemoration and protest. He achieves an overall effect that is one of awe and reflection, where the corporeality of the handwritten word intersects with the cool order of our technological age; Lemay literally seamlessly merges the two. Eugene Lemay was named in Art & Auction magazine's Power 100 list in 2013. He has exhibited his works worldwide, including shows in Holland, Israel, Germany, Dubai, and the United States. Lemay recently founded the Middle East Centre for the Arts (MECA), an exhibition space and residency program where Jewish an Arab artists work and exhibit together. He currently lives and works in New Jersey. For questions or more information, please contact Lauren Licata at lauren@mikeweissgallery.com 520 W 24 NYC 212 691 6899 mikeweissgallery.com

Richard Barnes

Murmur No. 20, 44 x 44 inch inch pigment print  Richard Barnes  Murmur & Refuge January 15 - February 23, 2014   The formations of birds in flight and their nest building architecture are both guided by an innate sense of purpose and survival.  In an early investigation from Animal Logic (Princeton University Press, 2009), we find the photographer examining both phenomena with reverence. In Murmur, Barnes observes the flocks of starlings that cloud the skies of EUR, a suburb of Rome.  In this series, he depicts nature as it behaves on it's own, alive and breathing.  The photographs capture the birds' aerial displays, which can take on the form of suspended mesh sculpture or simply blacken the sky. The photographs of the starlings can appear light, airy, and elegant, while others are captured with an unnerving and ominous quality. Refuge examines the complex architecture of birds' nests, constructed from elements of the natural world along with debris discarded by humans such as string, plastic and dryer lint.  The nests are intricate structures, unique in shape and form.  This study of birds' nests exhibits an interesting and perhaps complicated relationship between humans and nature.  As we make more debris and waste, we pollute the environment, but in turn these nests are made of things we see as trash and they become safe havens for this part of the animal kingdom.   Richard Barnes graduated from the University of California at Berkley with a BA in Fine Arts. He went on to work as the photographer for the joint Yale/University of Pennsylvania excavations at Abydos, Egypt.  His resume includes solo exhibitions at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Carpenter Center at Harvard, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and the University of Michigan Art Museum.  His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Barnes received the Rome Prize in 2005/2006, and the Alfred Eisenstadt Award in Photography and the Sidman Fellowship for the Arts in 2009. Murmur & Refuge will remain on view through February 23rd.  Foley Gallery is openWednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm.  To request images; please contact the gallery at 212.244.9081or info@foleygallery.com.   #fineartmagazine