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Found Art (UES): Unmonumental 99

Found Art (UES): Unmonumental 99, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 98

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 98, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

Art World Silver Linings @ Compound Editions...

 

via Compound Editions, Monday, November 24, 2008:

 
Compound Editions Presents...
Compound Editions celebrates our inaugural publication, a collaboration by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida titled Our Condolences, Volume 1.

Providing comfort in these troubled times, this 6-piece box set of art world "condolence" greeting cards, by two of the art world's most unrelenting practitioners of biting the hands that feed them, is available in an edition of 100 (including 6 cards, 6 envelopes, and a black card box tied with a prim black ribbon). Each set in the edition is US$150.

Our Condolences, Volume 1. will be available at the booths of both Schroeder Romero and Winkleman Gallery at the PULSE Miami Art Fair, December 3-7, 2008. To pre-order your set, email us at compoundeditions@gmail.com. Images below.

Bad at Sports presents Episode 169: Edward Winkleman

via email alert:

Episode 169: Edward Winkleman

THIS WEEK: Gallerist, blogger, straight shooter, and tough-love
proponent Edward Winkleman. Ed tells it like it is and gives some much
needed advice for the young artist.

Edward Winkleman is vastly different than Babe Winkleman, although
both are highly respected in their fields.

NAMES DROPPED:
Ed Winkleman; Plus Ultra Gallery; Winkleman Gallery; Joshua Stern; Art
Blog LA; The Met; Guggenheim; Rockefeller; Klimt; CalArts; Robinson
Crusoe; Louise Bourgeois; Larry Gagosian; Becky Smith; Bellwether;
Tony Fitzpatrick; Paul Klein; Leo Castelli; Damien Hirst; Saatchi;
Takashi Murakami; Annie Leibovitz; White Cube

DIRECT DOWNLOAD:
Bad_at_Sports_Episode_169-Edward_Winkleman.mp3

OUR WEBSITE:
http://badatsports.com

CONTACT US:
badatsports@gmail.com

Warm Regards,
The Bad at Sports Editorial Team

Whatever Happened to "A Day Without Art?"

reblogged from Visual AIDS > blog [thanks to Michael Buitron]:

November 25, 2008

Whatever Happened to "A Day Without Art?"

Reposted from Leap Into the Void by Michael Buitron

Almost twenty years ago, the first "Day Without Art" took place as a way to remember those who have died of AIDS--and the impact the virus has had on the arts community. A New York Times article from that era captures a sampling of some 800 events that happened in museums, galleries and symphony halls across the nation.

In New York, in a prelude to the day's activities, about 500 people crowded into the lobby and balconies of the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday night for a service at which Leonard Bernstein dedicated a two-minute composition for piano and two voices to ''those I love who have died of AIDS.'' Calling the evening ''a half-hour of symbols,'' he added, ''What we do tonight is only a symbolic reaction to threatening and ugly issues.''

Today, looking at the on-line calendars for MOCA, The Getty, LACMA, and The Hammer, only the Getty lists events that mark the day. Does silence still equal death?

This got me to thinking...

Around the era that the first effective therapies for HIV were being developed, so was the internet. This means many artists who died young have few references to their lives and work in cyberspace.

In light of this fact, I thought it would be a good idea to encourage bloggers worldwide post on December 1 as a way to remember an artist or art worker who died of AIDS, and show the disproportionate impact the disease has had on the art world.

So come back here on December 1 to read about an artist and friend of mine who almost goes unmentioned on the internet, and feel free to link your remembrance post to Leap Into the Void through the comment section.

For more by Michael Buitron, visit Leap Into the Void

Visual AIDS also encourages you to leave comments here.

Reposted from Leap Into the Void by Michael Buitron

Almost twenty years ago, the first "Day Without Art" took place as a way to remember those who have died of AIDS--and the impact the virus has had on the arts community. A New York Times article from that era captures a sampling of some 800 events that happened in museums, galleries and symphony halls across the nation.

In New York, in a prelude to the day's activities, about 500 people crowded into the lobby and balconies of the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday night for a service at which Leonard Bernstein dedicated a two-minute composition for piano and two voices to ''those I love who have died of AIDS.'' Calling the evening ''a half-hour of symbols,'' he added, ''What we do tonight is only a symbolic reaction to threatening and ugly issues.''

Today, looking at the on-line calendars for MOCA, The Getty, LACMA, and The Hammer, only the Getty lists events that mark the day. Does silence still equal death?

This got me to thinking...

Around the era that the first effective therapies for HIV were being developed, so was the internet. This means many artists who died young have few references to their lives and work in cyberspace.

In light of this fact, I thought it would be a good idea to encourage bloggers worldwide post on December 1 as a way to remember an artist or art worker who died of AIDS, and show the disproportionate impact the disease has had on the art world.

So come back here on December 1 to read about an artist and friend of mine who almost goes unmentioned on the internet, and feel free to link your remembrance post to Leap Into the Void through the comment section.

For more by Michael Buitron, visit Leap Into the Void

Visual AIDS also encourages you to leave comments here.