“A DESIRE TO LEARN ESPERANTO:
HAVING A THING to do with Esperanto, Ballantine Beer, both or neither”

Nancy Lupo for works sited

August 30 - September 30, 2010

“Imagine that you are on a train car sitting next to a Russian gentleman with whom you wish to speak. You have brought with you a key to Esperanto in Russian. On the back of the key is written (in Russian), “Everything written in Esperanto can be translated by the help of this vocabulary.” You give the gentleman a sentence written in Esperanto, and he will be able to make out your sentence in a very short time by using the key. As an example Dr. Zamenhof gives the following sentence: Mi ne sci’as kie mi las’is la baston’o'n: Cxu vi gxi’n ne vid’is?”

SCREENING PARTY
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 19, 2010
10:30 PM- ONWARDS
B.EAST
171 E BROADWAY

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NEW WORK BY
JON SANTOS FOR
COMMON SPACE

SCREENING PARTY
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 12, 2010
10:30 PM- ONWARDS
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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

In the spirit of the Exquisite Corpse, we are inviting you to contribute a drawing to create one-(plural)body-as-exhibition. All information here.

ETCAMA: The Solution to Nothing
9–23 July 2010

now now now now you missed it
there’s a new now now now now now.

http://www.extemporetemporarycontemporaryartmuseumamsterdam.com/
http://www.etcama.com/

Picture Industry (Good Bye To All That)
Organized by Walead Beshty
July 17 - August 21, 2010

Opening reception
Saturday, July 17, 6 - 8 pm

Regen Projects

In most Los Angeles social circles, when one speaks of the “industry” they are referring to the Entertainment Industry (a.k.a. the “Picture Industry”). Pictures have a knack for supplanting the concrete, sliding as though self-lubricating around the globe, like poltergeists, they haunt the world they represent like vague recollections, inhabiting concrete forms briefly until slipping off to another host, a billboard here, a magazine page there, creating momentary associations, and chance resonances. And what to make of the application of the term industry, with the heaviness of factories and smoke stacks encircling it, to the production of ephemeral pictures whose power is synonymous with their lightness? It could be said that it is the seemingly invisible and ephemeral aspects–the means of distribution, the contextual frame, the vicissitudes of taste, and an object’s ability to “pass”–which serve as the most robust material of the contemporary work, an embrace of convention that produces an endless sequence of provisional “meanings.” Perhaps the only solution available to us is to allow pictures to be concrete, to reclaim their moments of heaviness, instead of pretending that they are endlessly able to float listlessly in the breeze.

John Baldessari is one of the most influential American artists working today. This long overdue retrospective will feature more than 150 works spanning the artist’s career from 1962 to the present day, and include works on canvas, photography, videos and artist’s books. Baldessari’s text and image paintings from the mid-1960s are widely recognized as among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art, while his 1980s photo compositions derived from film stills rank as pivotal to the development of appropriation art and other practices that address the social and cultural impact of mass culture. Throughout and continuing today, Baldessari’s interest in language, both written and visual, raises questions about the nature of communication. The exhibition is curated by LACMA’s Leslie Jones, Prints and Drawings, with Jessica Morgan, Contemporary Art, at Tate Modern. It will also feature a special installation conceived just for this retrospective.

TURNING PINK W/ LEONG LEONG
Opening Reception/
Asian Flush!
Thursday
May 27, 2010
7:30-9:30PM

May 24–June 6, 2010
Open Tuesday,
Wednesday, & Thursday
3PM–8PM
Open Monday & Friday
By appointment:
info@leong-leong.com

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Afterparty at BEeast
171 E Broadway
New York, NY 10079
10:30–onwards
Special $7 vodka drinks

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TURNING PINK W/ LEONG LEONG
is sponsored by
3.1 Phillip Lim
Pabst Blue Ribbon

Ice sculpture donated by
Okamoto Studio

Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications

mosaicism.org by Daniel Ingroff, 4 March — 1 April 2010

Reception on Thursday, March 4th from 6-7:30pm at the library

A work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” — a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet. Made up of three distinct parts: a website, video and display, mosaicism.org investigates both digital and analogue forms of the “picture” by framing some of the aesthetic and emotional assumptions associated with these binaries.

Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.

Ooga Booga is a concept shop vital to the creative life-blood of Los Angeles. It gathers an eclectic range of products. Spearheaded by Wendy Yao, Ooga Booga fosters a vibrant community of independent producers. For Swiss Institute, Yao installs a lounge in which one may read over 300 titles — from self to professionally published. The room contains contributions by:

Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), is a time-based installation that takes the form of a one-act live theatrical play that repeats nine times over a period of three hours. This documentation is a sampling of all nine runs. Filmed during Performa 09 at X initiative on November 11th & 12th 2009. By Emily Mast.

Shrouded Monument, 2008, C-print, 48.5 x 40.5 inches

Shannon Ebner, Signal Hill
7 January — 13 February 2010
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco

James Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Amir Zaki. The artist has been working as a photographer for more than fifteen years, showing work from New York to Los Angles to Seattle. This is his fourth solo exhibit at James Harris Gallery. For this exhibition, Zaki shows a series of color-saturated lifeguard towers that have been digitally manipulated to render them more iconic than real.

Not Equal, 2009, Plywood, wood glue and enamel paint, 13.1 x 17.75 inches

Shannon Ebner
Invisible Language Workshop
30 October — 19 December 2009
Opening Reception: Friday 30 October, 6-8pm
Wallspace

Two good show openings in LA tonight - Arthur Ou and Alice Könitz (information below this post), and Asher Penn (with a performance by Kayla Guthrie).