Saturday, October 24, 2009
THE YES MEN AT MIT - October 26, 2009
City as Stage, City as Process - MIT Visual Arts Program Lecture Series Fall 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
7:00pm
'Propaganda City'
Speaker:
Mike Bonanno of 'The Yes Men'
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bartos Theater
(Building E15, Wiesner Building)
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA, USA
Map
Phone: 001-617-253-5229
Contact:
vap@mit.edu
visualarts.mit.edu
The activist collective The Yes Men transformed New York City for a day through a tactical media intervention. A hoax print of the New York Times was massively distributed throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign in 2008.
The Yes Men have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift store suits, The Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world. The Yes Men were featured in the documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, which won the Panorama Audience Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
This lecture series, City as Stage, City as Process, brings together speakers from art and (counter) culture, architecture, urbanism, and media technology to discuss such questions as: In what way is the city not a fixed entity, but a process? How do artists and cultural activists reclaim the street, activating the city as backdrop and insisting on the right to a public sphere? What makes a city a city? Who owns the city? How can media technology be designed to intervene in and navigate the city? The MIT Visual Arts Program (VAP) lecture series is directed by Ute Meta Bauer and Amber Frid-Jimenez. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the VAP this term, the lecture series highlights the issues at the core of the academic program and the work and research of the faculty.
LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
09/28/09 - Factory City
Christoph Schaefer
In the new urban fabric, subcultures, cultural workers, musicians and artists play a significant role as producers of collective spaces, of places shaped by desires, and as inventors of new perspectives and lifestyles. Christoph Schaefer will introduce Park Fiction, a collective self-organised project that sought to break an expensive piece of land at the prestigeous riverbank of Hamburg St. Pauli out of the grip of real estate developers. This fight by residents, along with artists, for the right to the city, and against gentrification, succeeded in the creation of a public park with a harbor view. Hamburg-based German conceptual artist Christoph Schaefer focuses on urban space and how it can be altered through art.
10/05/09 - Performative City
Joan Jonas
Performance and video pioneer Joan Jonas screens and discusses her outdoor performance pieces Jones Beach Piece, Nova Scotia Beach Piece, and Delay, Delay that she developed into a video piece titled Song Delay (1973). First performed in lower Manhattan in 1972, the footage was shot from the roof of a loft building. From there, the audience overlooked the performance taking place in empty lots below with a view to the distant docks of the Lower West Side. Performing with a cast that included Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonas choreographed a theater of space, movement and sound with the urban landscape of New York in a featured role. She performed this piece a second time in Rome, where the audience watched the performance from the other side of the Tiber riverbank. Joan Jonas is a professor in the MIT Visual Arts Program, teaching performance and related media.
10/19/09 - Public City
Antoni Muntadas
Artist Muntadas investigates notions of 'City' and 'public.' Is there still a public space? Is the city a place for interventions? City authorities and the private sector provide surveillance and control. Yet it is the city dwellers who should make critical decisions over the city. Can they? What contribution can artists, architects, designers, city planners make today to this discussion? Antoni Muntadas is a visiting Professor of the Practice in the MIT Visual Arts Program. In his teaching, Muntadas focuses on the shift of public art to the production of public spheres through artistic intervention.
10/26/09 - Propaganda City
Mike Bonanno of the The Yes Men
The activist collective The Yes Men transformed New York city for a day through a tactical media intervention. A hoax print of the New York Times was massively distributed throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign in 2008. The Yes Men have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, they lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways.
11/02/09 - Protest City
Ana Miljacki, Nomeda Urbonas
Architect and architecture theorist Ana Miljacki speaks about her project Classes, Masses, Crowds. Representing The Collective Body and The Myth of Direct Knowledge. Miljacki is an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Architecture. Nomeda Urbonas, member of the Lithuanian artist collective Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas, talks about the concept, process, and outcome of their project Pro-test Lab, a multi-dimensional project to save a historical cinema in Vilnius.
11/09/09 - Fragmented City
Angus Boulton
Berlin-based English photographer Angus Boulton talks about his photo series Richtung Berlin currently on view at the Wolk Gallery in MIT's Department of Architecture. This 'Becoming Berlin' event is collaboration between the MIT Museum and the MIT Visual Arts Program on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Boulton's Berlin images are currently on view at the Wolk Gallery in MIT's Department of Architecture.
11/16/09 - Porous City
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko introduces his critical design proposals including Poliscar and Homeless Vehicles. Wodiczko's work points toward the search for the city to come, one which provides a space that allows for disagreement, a prerequisite for democracy. This lecture coincides with his solo show at the ICA Boston, which will be open November 4, 2009 to March 28, 2010. Wodiczko is a professor in the MIT Visual Arts Program and Director of the Interrogative Design Workshop and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.
Monday, October 26, 2009
7:00pm
'Propaganda City'
Speaker:
Mike Bonanno of 'The Yes Men'
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bartos Theater
(Building E15, Wiesner Building)
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA, USA
Map
Phone: 001-617-253-5229
Contact:
vap@mit.edu
visualarts.mit.edu
The activist collective The Yes Men transformed New York City for a day through a tactical media intervention. A hoax print of the New York Times was massively distributed throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign in 2008.
The Yes Men have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift store suits, The Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world. The Yes Men were featured in the documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, which won the Panorama Audience Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival.
This lecture series, City as Stage, City as Process, brings together speakers from art and (counter) culture, architecture, urbanism, and media technology to discuss such questions as: In what way is the city not a fixed entity, but a process? How do artists and cultural activists reclaim the street, activating the city as backdrop and insisting on the right to a public sphere? What makes a city a city? Who owns the city? How can media technology be designed to intervene in and navigate the city? The MIT Visual Arts Program (VAP) lecture series is directed by Ute Meta Bauer and Amber Frid-Jimenez. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the VAP this term, the lecture series highlights the issues at the core of the academic program and the work and research of the faculty.
LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE
09/28/09 - Factory City
Christoph Schaefer
In the new urban fabric, subcultures, cultural workers, musicians and artists play a significant role as producers of collective spaces, of places shaped by desires, and as inventors of new perspectives and lifestyles. Christoph Schaefer will introduce Park Fiction, a collective self-organised project that sought to break an expensive piece of land at the prestigeous riverbank of Hamburg St. Pauli out of the grip of real estate developers. This fight by residents, along with artists, for the right to the city, and against gentrification, succeeded in the creation of a public park with a harbor view. Hamburg-based German conceptual artist Christoph Schaefer focuses on urban space and how it can be altered through art.
10/05/09 - Performative City
Joan Jonas
Performance and video pioneer Joan Jonas screens and discusses her outdoor performance pieces Jones Beach Piece, Nova Scotia Beach Piece, and Delay, Delay that she developed into a video piece titled Song Delay (1973). First performed in lower Manhattan in 1972, the footage was shot from the roof of a loft building. From there, the audience overlooked the performance taking place in empty lots below with a view to the distant docks of the Lower West Side. Performing with a cast that included Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonas choreographed a theater of space, movement and sound with the urban landscape of New York in a featured role. She performed this piece a second time in Rome, where the audience watched the performance from the other side of the Tiber riverbank. Joan Jonas is a professor in the MIT Visual Arts Program, teaching performance and related media.
10/19/09 - Public City
Antoni Muntadas
Artist Muntadas investigates notions of 'City' and 'public.' Is there still a public space? Is the city a place for interventions? City authorities and the private sector provide surveillance and control. Yet it is the city dwellers who should make critical decisions over the city. Can they? What contribution can artists, architects, designers, city planners make today to this discussion? Antoni Muntadas is a visiting Professor of the Practice in the MIT Visual Arts Program. In his teaching, Muntadas focuses on the shift of public art to the production of public spheres through artistic intervention.
10/26/09 - Propaganda City
Mike Bonanno of the The Yes Men
The activist collective The Yes Men transformed New York city for a day through a tactical media intervention. A hoax print of the New York Times was massively distributed throughout the city during the US presidential election campaign in 2008. The Yes Men have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, they lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways.
11/02/09 - Protest City
Ana Miljacki, Nomeda Urbonas
Architect and architecture theorist Ana Miljacki speaks about her project Classes, Masses, Crowds. Representing The Collective Body and The Myth of Direct Knowledge. Miljacki is an Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Architecture. Nomeda Urbonas, member of the Lithuanian artist collective Gediminas and Nomeda Urbonas, talks about the concept, process, and outcome of their project Pro-test Lab, a multi-dimensional project to save a historical cinema in Vilnius.
11/09/09 - Fragmented City
Angus Boulton
Berlin-based English photographer Angus Boulton talks about his photo series Richtung Berlin currently on view at the Wolk Gallery in MIT's Department of Architecture. This 'Becoming Berlin' event is collaboration between the MIT Museum and the MIT Visual Arts Program on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Boulton's Berlin images are currently on view at the Wolk Gallery in MIT's Department of Architecture.
11/16/09 - Porous City
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko introduces his critical design proposals including Poliscar and Homeless Vehicles. Wodiczko's work points toward the search for the city to come, one which provides a space that allows for disagreement, a prerequisite for democracy. This lecture coincides with his solo show at the ICA Boston, which will be open November 4, 2009 to March 28, 2010. Wodiczko is a professor in the MIT Visual Arts Program and Director of the Interrogative Design Workshop and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
CAMBRIDGE PHOTO CALENDAR CONTEST - October 19, 2009
Greetings! The Mass. Municipal Association is seeking photo submissions for its annual calendar contest. Some of our submissions have been selected in the past and one was used as the back cover.
This year, the MMA has selected the theme, Simply Massachusetts. Photographs will be judged primarily on their ability to answer the question, “What in your city/town is an inexpensive destination or activity?” Additional weight will be given to geographic and seasonal breakdown in an attempt to represent each region of the state and all four seasons equally in the calendar. The deadline for entry is October 19, 2009. Photo credits are provided on the calendar.
This year in Cambridge, we have celebrated the opening of several new parks and playgrounds that fit this category of “inexpensive destination.” Also the new Library is also an inexpensive destination. If you have any photos that fall into the above category, please send them to me for consideration. Additionally, over the years, we have obtained a variety of great photos of Cambridge scenery, many of which are used on the scrolling picture screen for the City's Website. We also provide photo credits on our Website. So, if you have a Cambridge photo you would like to submit for consideration for our Website or for this contest, please send them to me at the e-mail below. Thanks!!
Ini Tomeu
Public Information Officer
itomeu@cambridgema.gov
This year, the MMA has selected the theme, Simply Massachusetts. Photographs will be judged primarily on their ability to answer the question, “What in your city/town is an inexpensive destination or activity?” Additional weight will be given to geographic and seasonal breakdown in an attempt to represent each region of the state and all four seasons equally in the calendar. The deadline for entry is October 19, 2009. Photo credits are provided on the calendar.
This year in Cambridge, we have celebrated the opening of several new parks and playgrounds that fit this category of “inexpensive destination.” Also the new Library is also an inexpensive destination. If you have any photos that fall into the above category, please send them to me for consideration. Additionally, over the years, we have obtained a variety of great photos of Cambridge scenery, many of which are used on the scrolling picture screen for the City's Website. We also provide photo credits on our Website. So, if you have a Cambridge photo you would like to submit for consideration for our Website or for this contest, please send them to me at the e-mail below. Thanks!!
Ini Tomeu
Public Information Officer
itomeu@cambridgema.gov
Saturday, October 10, 2009
CALL FOR LARGE SCALE 2D & 3D WORKS - November 1, 2009
HarborArts seeks to implement an outdoor artwork loan program for a limited number of large-scale, 2D and 3D works at Boston Harbor Shipyard in East Boston, Massachusetts. Works will be exhibited on a rotating schedule lasting a minimum of 3 months to several years, depending on availability and feasibility. Artists/designers/teams are invited to forward a selection of up to four existing works and/or installation proposals for new work. HarborArts will offer participants the opportunity to pair with an environmental organization to raise awareness and educate the public about issues and solutions affecting oceans, waterways and harbors. Approximately 12-20 works will be installed. Artists will receive a $500 stipend to go toward the cost of transportation and installation. Artists are invited to offer work for sale. Sales will be subject to 20% commission. Entry fee.
Contact:
Christina Lanzl
UrbanArts Institute
617-879-7973
http://www.urbanartsinstitute.org
christina.lanzl@massart.edu
Contact:
Christina Lanzl
UrbanArts Institute
617-879-7973
http://www.urbanartsinstitute.org
christina.lanzl@massart.edu
PANOPTICON GALLERY PHOTO EXHIBITION - Sep 10 - Nov 10, 2009
Architecture and Landscape
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson,
and Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception and Booksigning
Thursday, October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
Contact:
Panopticon Gallery
p: 617-267-8929
gallery@panopt.com
Links...
Link to Press Release
Panopticon Gallery
Join Our Mailing List!
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson, Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception and Booksigning: October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
Reception with the artists.
Steve Rosenthal will be signing copies of his exquisite new book:
"White on White", published by Monacelli Press, 2009
White On White, published by Monacelli Press, 2009
Churches of Rural New England - Steve Rosenthal presents an ambitious photographic project begun in the 1960's - exquisitely crafted, large format film generated digital photographs of pristine structures. He writes: These are the buildings which give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character. Collectively, they are as important to the cultural and architectural history of these villages as are the great cathedrals to the cities of Europe. The quality of the whites captured in these churches are as spiritual as the structures themselves.
York St.
York St. Baptist Church - York Village ME
©Steve Rosenthal
Night Road - John Woolf's nighttime photographs of garish and mostly commercial places, with their dominating neon and electrical lights, are stark contrast to Rosenthal's mostly white structures. Woolf writes: Diners and other 20th century roadside vernacular architecture are quickly disappearing from the American landscape. These treasures are from a time when commercial architecture was more playful and symbolic; a time when even common structures were made with a high level of craftsmanship and imagination. Woolf uses a digital camera and makes multiple exposures for each light source, enabling him to accurately portray the lurid color and dramatic lighting of these roadside structures.
Miss Florence Diner
©John Woolf
Grids, Typologies, Topologies and the Extended Image - Keith Johnson's new work isolates landscape elements, laying them out in grid and multiple linear formats. He suggests that the presentation of multiple images has a very structured and multilayered effect, creating a visual experience larger than the sum of the individual parts.
©Keith Johnson
Pete Vanderwarker (like Steve Rosenthal) is a professional architectural and fine art photographer. Specific images chosen from Vanderwarker's professional and fine art photographs serve as visual reference for this exhibition. His professional architectural images of The M.I.T. Stata Center and Green Center for Physics are the epitome of visual, balancing form and content. Images from his Marfa project (an art installation in a remote West Texas desert town) sometimes quite surprisingly juxtapose the architected structure with the natural landscape.
Prada Store, Marfa, Texas
©Peter Vanderwarker
Architectural shapes define spaces within the structures themselves. A structure's eventual success or failure is built on the relationships of these spaces. As documents of architecture and landscape, these photographs face the same challenge.
For more information and or for press photos, please contact Tony Decaneas at Panopticon Gallery. panopticongallery@panopt.com 617-267-8929.
About Panopticon Gallery
Founded in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography.
Panopticon Gallery is located in the Hotel Commonwealth at 502c Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. It is conveniently situated near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line. Driving directions are on the gallery web site. The gallery is staffed Tuesday through Friday, 10 PM to 6 PM and Saturday, 11 PM to 5 PM.
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson,
and Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception and Booksigning
Thursday, October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
Contact:
Panopticon Gallery
p: 617-267-8929
gallery@panopt.com
Links...
Link to Press Release
Panopticon Gallery
Join Our Mailing List!
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson, Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception and Booksigning: October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
Reception with the artists.
Steve Rosenthal will be signing copies of his exquisite new book:
"White on White", published by Monacelli Press, 2009
White On White, published by Monacelli Press, 2009
Churches of Rural New England - Steve Rosenthal presents an ambitious photographic project begun in the 1960's - exquisitely crafted, large format film generated digital photographs of pristine structures. He writes: These are the buildings which give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character. Collectively, they are as important to the cultural and architectural history of these villages as are the great cathedrals to the cities of Europe. The quality of the whites captured in these churches are as spiritual as the structures themselves.
York St.
York St. Baptist Church - York Village ME
©Steve Rosenthal
Night Road - John Woolf's nighttime photographs of garish and mostly commercial places, with their dominating neon and electrical lights, are stark contrast to Rosenthal's mostly white structures. Woolf writes: Diners and other 20th century roadside vernacular architecture are quickly disappearing from the American landscape. These treasures are from a time when commercial architecture was more playful and symbolic; a time when even common structures were made with a high level of craftsmanship and imagination. Woolf uses a digital camera and makes multiple exposures for each light source, enabling him to accurately portray the lurid color and dramatic lighting of these roadside structures.
Miss Florence Diner
©John Woolf
Grids, Typologies, Topologies and the Extended Image - Keith Johnson's new work isolates landscape elements, laying them out in grid and multiple linear formats. He suggests that the presentation of multiple images has a very structured and multilayered effect, creating a visual experience larger than the sum of the individual parts.
©Keith Johnson
Pete Vanderwarker (like Steve Rosenthal) is a professional architectural and fine art photographer. Specific images chosen from Vanderwarker's professional and fine art photographs serve as visual reference for this exhibition. His professional architectural images of The M.I.T. Stata Center and Green Center for Physics are the epitome of visual, balancing form and content. Images from his Marfa project (an art installation in a remote West Texas desert town) sometimes quite surprisingly juxtapose the architected structure with the natural landscape.
Prada Store, Marfa, Texas
©Peter Vanderwarker
Architectural shapes define spaces within the structures themselves. A structure's eventual success or failure is built on the relationships of these spaces. As documents of architecture and landscape, these photographs face the same challenge.
For more information and or for press photos, please contact Tony Decaneas at Panopticon Gallery. panopticongallery@panopt.com 617-267-8929.
About Panopticon Gallery
Founded in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography.
Panopticon Gallery is located in the Hotel Commonwealth at 502c Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. It is conveniently situated near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line. Driving directions are on the gallery web site. The gallery is staffed Tuesday through Friday, 10 PM to 6 PM and Saturday, 11 PM to 5 PM.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE - October 29, 2009
The community is invited to an Open House and Ribbon Cutting at our new Main Library building on Thursday, October 29 from 5-7:30 PM.
The official ceremony will begin at 6:00.
RSVP is required for the ceremony.
Please call 617-349-4032.
Library services will not be available that evening.
On Sunday, November 8, the Main Library will open for library services from 2 -5 and will be open its regular hours from then on.
Details to follow.
Hours will be:
Monday –Thursday 9-9
Friday & Saturday 9 – 5
Sunday 1-5 (November through April)
Children’s Room
Monday –Thursday 9-7
Friday & Saturday 9 – 5
Sunday 1-5 (November through April)
Susan M. Flannery, Director of Libraries
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge MA 02138
617 349-4032
The official ceremony will begin at 6:00.
RSVP is required for the ceremony.
Please call 617-349-4032.
Library services will not be available that evening.
On Sunday, November 8, the Main Library will open for library services from 2 -5 and will be open its regular hours from then on.
Details to follow.
Hours will be:
Monday –Thursday 9-9
Friday & Saturday 9 – 5
Sunday 1-5 (November through April)
Children’s Room
Monday –Thursday 9-7
Friday & Saturday 9 – 5
Sunday 1-5 (November through April)
Susan M. Flannery, Director of Libraries
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge MA 02138
617 349-4032
Friday, October 02, 2009
FRAMINGHAM STATE COLLEGE ART EXHIBITION - October 5-30, 2009
From October 5-30, 2009, the Mazmanian Art Gallery at Framingham State College will present SEMI-SIMPLE , new works by Sand T. A reception for the artist will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The exhibition will consist of 34 objects in epoxy resin, paint and graphite on clayboard.
Using a “reductive, minimalist approach to art-making,” Sand T, a Malden, Massachusetts-based artist has created a body of work to create a “simple” visual experience with dot, line, color, surface, and light. She declares the work semi-simple as this simple experience is the result of a complex and labor intensive process of drawing, pouring, and sanding. Non-objective in nature, her objects employ repetition and reference geometric abstraction to suggest a meditation on time and motion. Their surfaces are tactile, with glistening, shining surfaces that evoke rain on a window, deep space, or some mysterious code. Each work moves the viewer between micro and macroscopic universes.
For more information please contact Tim McDonald, Director at 508-626-4936, email tmcdonald@framingham.edu.
Mazmanian Art Gallery @ Framingham State College is located in the D. Justin McCarthy College Center, 100 State Street, Framingham, MA 01701.
Gallery Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Using a “reductive, minimalist approach to art-making,” Sand T, a Malden, Massachusetts-based artist has created a body of work to create a “simple” visual experience with dot, line, color, surface, and light. She declares the work semi-simple as this simple experience is the result of a complex and labor intensive process of drawing, pouring, and sanding. Non-objective in nature, her objects employ repetition and reference geometric abstraction to suggest a meditation on time and motion. Their surfaces are tactile, with glistening, shining surfaces that evoke rain on a window, deep space, or some mysterious code. Each work moves the viewer between micro and macroscopic universes.
For more information please contact Tim McDonald, Director at 508-626-4936, email tmcdonald@framingham.edu.
Mazmanian Art Gallery @ Framingham State College is located in the D. Justin McCarthy College Center, 100 State Street, Framingham, MA 01701.
Gallery Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY - Sep 10 - Nov 10, 2009
Architecture and Landscape
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson,
and Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
Contact:
Panopticon Gallery
p: 617-267-8929
marketing@panopt.com
Panopticon Gallery
Join Our Mailing List!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 27th, 2009
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson, Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception: October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
(Steve Rosenthal will be signing copies of his exquisite new book:
"White on White", published by Monacelli Press, 2009)
Balance of form and content is the foundation for this exhibition of four photographers representing architecture and structured landscape.
Churches of Rural New England - Steve Rosenthal presents an ambitious photographic project begun in the 1960's - exquisitely crafted, large format film generated digital photographs of pristine structures. He writes: These are the buildings which give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character. Collectively, they are as important to the cultural and architectural history of these villages as are the great cathedrals to the cities of Europe. The quality of the whites captured in these churches are as spiritual as the structures themselves.
York St.
York St. Baptist Church - York Village ME
©Steve Rosenthal
Night Road - John Woolf's nighttime photographs of garish and mostly commercial places, with their dominating neon and electrical lights, are stark contrast to Rosenthal's mostly white structures. Woolf writes: Diners and other 20th century roadside vernacular architecture are quickly disappearing from the American landscape. These treasures are from a time when commercial architecture was more playful and symbolic; a time when even common structures were made with a high level of craftsmanship and imagination. Woolf uses a digital camera and makes multiple exposures for each light source, enabling him to accurately portray the lurid color and dramatic lighting of these roadside structures.
Miss Florence Diner
©John Woolf
Grids, Typologies, Topologies and the Extended Image - Keith Johnson's new work isolates landscape elements, laying them out in grid and multiple linear formats. He suggests that the presentation of multiple images has a very structured and multilayered effect, creating a visual experience larger than the sum of the individual parts.
©Keith Johnson
Pete Vanderwarker (like Steve Rosenthal) is a professional architectural and fine art photographer. Specific images chosen from Vanderwarker's professional and fine art photographs serve as visual reference for this exhibition. His professional architectural images of The M.I.T. Stata Center and Green Center for Physics are the epitome of visual, balancing form and content. Images from his Marfa project (an art installation in a remote West Texas desert town) sometimes quite surprisingly juxtapose the architected structure with the natural landscape.
Prada Store, Marfa, Texas
©Peter Vanderwarker
Architectural shapes define spaces within the structures themselves. A structure's eventual success or failure is built on the relationships of these spaces. As documents of architecture and landscape, these photographs face the same challenge.
For more information and or for press photos, please contact Tony Decaneas at Panopticon Gallery. panopticongallery@panopt.com 617-267-8929.
About Panopticon Gallery
Founded in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography.
Panopticon Gallery is located in the Hotel Commonwealth at 502c Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. It is conveniently situated near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line. Driving directions are on the gallery web site. The gallery is staffed Tuesday through Friday, 12 PM to 6 PM and Saturday, 12 PM to 5 PM.
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson,
and Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
Contact:
Panopticon Gallery
p: 617-267-8929
marketing@panopt.com
Panopticon Gallery
Join Our Mailing List!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 27th, 2009
ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE
Photographs by: Steve Rosenthal, John Woolf, Keith Johnson, Peter Vanderwarker
September 10th - November 10th, 2009
Reception: October 15th, 5 - 7 pm
(Steve Rosenthal will be signing copies of his exquisite new book:
"White on White", published by Monacelli Press, 2009)
Balance of form and content is the foundation for this exhibition of four photographers representing architecture and structured landscape.
Churches of Rural New England - Steve Rosenthal presents an ambitious photographic project begun in the 1960's - exquisitely crafted, large format film generated digital photographs of pristine structures. He writes: These are the buildings which give New England towns and villages a unique sense of place and define, in many minds, the New England character. Collectively, they are as important to the cultural and architectural history of these villages as are the great cathedrals to the cities of Europe. The quality of the whites captured in these churches are as spiritual as the structures themselves.
York St.
York St. Baptist Church - York Village ME
©Steve Rosenthal
Night Road - John Woolf's nighttime photographs of garish and mostly commercial places, with their dominating neon and electrical lights, are stark contrast to Rosenthal's mostly white structures. Woolf writes: Diners and other 20th century roadside vernacular architecture are quickly disappearing from the American landscape. These treasures are from a time when commercial architecture was more playful and symbolic; a time when even common structures were made with a high level of craftsmanship and imagination. Woolf uses a digital camera and makes multiple exposures for each light source, enabling him to accurately portray the lurid color and dramatic lighting of these roadside structures.
Miss Florence Diner
©John Woolf
Grids, Typologies, Topologies and the Extended Image - Keith Johnson's new work isolates landscape elements, laying them out in grid and multiple linear formats. He suggests that the presentation of multiple images has a very structured and multilayered effect, creating a visual experience larger than the sum of the individual parts.
©Keith Johnson
Pete Vanderwarker (like Steve Rosenthal) is a professional architectural and fine art photographer. Specific images chosen from Vanderwarker's professional and fine art photographs serve as visual reference for this exhibition. His professional architectural images of The M.I.T. Stata Center and Green Center for Physics are the epitome of visual, balancing form and content. Images from his Marfa project (an art installation in a remote West Texas desert town) sometimes quite surprisingly juxtapose the architected structure with the natural landscape.
Prada Store, Marfa, Texas
©Peter Vanderwarker
Architectural shapes define spaces within the structures themselves. A structure's eventual success or failure is built on the relationships of these spaces. As documents of architecture and landscape, these photographs face the same challenge.
For more information and or for press photos, please contact Tony Decaneas at Panopticon Gallery. panopticongallery@panopt.com 617-267-8929.
About Panopticon Gallery
Founded in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest galleries in the United States dedicated solely to photography. The gallery specializes in 20th Century American Photography and emerging contemporary photography.
Panopticon Gallery is located in the Hotel Commonwealth at 502c Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. It is conveniently situated near the Kenmore Square T stop on the Green Line. Driving directions are on the gallery web site. The gallery is staffed Tuesday through Friday, 12 PM to 6 PM and Saturday, 12 PM to 5 PM.
MFA Exhibition - October 2, 2009
My artwork has been accepted to be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, from October 2nd until October 8th, in assosiation with the Roxbury Open Studios event.
I am very pleased to invite all who can attend to the Opening Reception for the Roxbury Open Studios, at the Museum of Fine Arts from 5:30 to 9:30pm on Oct. 2nd.
The Roxbury Open Studios event takes place next weekend, from Friday October 2nd until Sunday October 4th, featuring over 150 artists in over 20 sites in the Greater Roxbury area. Please visit www.roxburyopenstudios.org to find out about artists, media, locations, shuttle busses, during the event, and the rich cultural and artistic capital that Roxbury has to offer.
A special thank you to all those who have supported me along the way,
I hope to see you there!
- Basil
Event: ArtROX! opening reception at the Museum of Fine Arts
What: Opening
Start Time: Friday, October 2 at 5:30pm
End Time: Friday, October 2 at 9:30pm
Where: Museum of Fine Arts
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Basil El Halwagy
MAT '09 Tufts University
857 891 5486
basil.elhalwagy@gmail.com
I am very pleased to invite all who can attend to the Opening Reception for the Roxbury Open Studios, at the Museum of Fine Arts from 5:30 to 9:30pm on Oct. 2nd.
The Roxbury Open Studios event takes place next weekend, from Friday October 2nd until Sunday October 4th, featuring over 150 artists in over 20 sites in the Greater Roxbury area. Please visit www.roxburyopenstudios.org to find out about artists, media, locations, shuttle busses, during the event, and the rich cultural and artistic capital that Roxbury has to offer.
A special thank you to all those who have supported me along the way,
I hope to see you there!
- Basil
Event: ArtROX! opening reception at the Museum of Fine Arts
What: Opening
Start Time: Friday, October 2 at 5:30pm
End Time: Friday, October 2 at 9:30pm
Where: Museum of Fine Arts
--
Basil El Halwagy
MAT '09 Tufts University
857 891 5486
basil.elhalwagy@gmail.com
Thursday, October 01, 2009
FOLK/AMERICAN BAND SEEKS LOGO - October 15, 2009
We are Wickwire, and we're comprised of two vocalists, a mandolinist, a bassist, and a guitarist. Our MySpace page will soon be up and running. We perform original work, with some covers thrown in, and we are working on our first CD. But we're missing one thing: a logo!
Rules for the logo available from:
JPwickwire@gmail.com
Rules for the logo available from:
JPwickwire@gmail.com
WORLD MUSIC CONCERT ON INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS DAY - October 24, 2009
Six Styles of Music and Dance from Around the World In Benefit Concert for Climate Change
October 24, 2009 is
International Climate Change Awareness Day.
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Tickets ($20)
or
Students and Seniors ($15)
On Saturday, October 24, six different Boston-based performers of international music and dance will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: Balkan and European music by members of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Libana; contemporary Indian classical dance with the Aparna Sindhoor Dance Theater; Japanese classical music for koto and shakuhachi with Ayakano Cathleen Read & Elizabeth Reian Bennett; Hindustani classical music with Warren Senders and The Raga Ensemble; middle-Eastern music with Beth Bahia Cohen, and traditional drumming and dance of Ghana with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. The music begins at 6:30 pm, at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734.
October 24, 2009 is
International Climate Change Awareness Day.
Order here via CCNow
Tickets ($20)
or
Students and Seniors ($15)
On Saturday, October 24, six different Boston-based performers of international music and dance will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: Balkan and European music by members of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Libana; contemporary Indian classical dance with the Aparna Sindhoor Dance Theater; Japanese classical music for koto and shakuhachi with Ayakano Cathleen Read & Elizabeth Reian Bennett; Hindustani classical music with Warren Senders and The Raga Ensemble; middle-Eastern music with Beth Bahia Cohen, and traditional drumming and dance of Ghana with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. The music begins at 6:30 pm, at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734.
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