Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY

The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along the library’s shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, representing the oil boom and the Dubai bust, the Cold War and the hot pant; depicting Pan-Arabs and Black Muslims, revolutionaries and royals, Orientalism and its opposites.

For the opening night Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.

Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:

Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)

For information visit bidoun.com or newmuseum.org

“As a part of the ART LA Saturday Programming series, I’ll be reading from Municipal de Fútbol on 1/24 at 1pm on a panel with my collaborators — at the Ruskin Theater, which is located across the street from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.”
— Jennifer Doyle

A slide show, reading and panel discussion exploring the different sides of Municipal de Fútbol: photography, writing, art, and design will take place. Municipal de Fútbol celebrates what is arguably Los Angeles’s largest subculture, the world of those playing in the myriad of soccer leagues across the city, far below the radar of sports media. A project initiated by designer Jonathan Maghen, Municipal de Fútbol was inspired by the pick-up and amateur soccer games played in the densest parts of east and south Los Angeles. Centered on Michael Wells’ photographs of weekend and night games played on dusty fields and in urban parks across the city, Municipal de Fútbol explores the possibilities of “Fútbol Angelino”. Jennifer Doyle will present contributions to the project, and talk about the collaboration of design, photography and critic and this inspired marriage of art and sport.

Anna Sew Hoy
Wrist Cast, 2008
Fiberglass, cotton
218 × 76 × 40 cm

Renwick Gallery @ Zoo Art Fair
Booth C22
Featuring works by Anna Sew Hoy

17–19 October 12–8pm
20 October 12–5pm

Belog is a blog by Tiffany Malakooti which posts links to articles and websites about Persian (Iranian) “Secrets” — a culture which has been largely overlooked by the national media considering it’s rich history of contributions to the arts (pre and post Revolution).

Jack Goldstein (1945–2003)

“The Jump, 1978, is a silent twenty-six-second loop projected on a fuchsia-colored wall illuminated by black lights. Using editing effects, Goldstein transformed a high diver, jumping into an amorphous deep purple space, into an incorporeal constellation of Technicolor stars. The strenuously exerted body of Goldstein’s early performative films has been completely recast by technology as an image: a burst of graceful, highly regulated, firework like light. The Jump was the last of Goldstein’s early films, and it is a fitting swan song to an era when the body was still considered a viable site of resistance.”

Thanks Kathy

Charley 1, 2002

Following their work for years and have been wanting to link to them for some time. Was really hoping one day their webpage would develop into a website — webpages are so much cooler though. Purtill Family Business.

Read the review of the Destroy Athens Biennial on the Artforum diary.