The Visual Movement

SMOCA invites all of us to its 10th Year Opening Awards Ceremony in Phoenix…

Richard Avedon Exhibition Opens
Saturday, January 12 - Sunday, April 13, 2008
The Phoenix Art Museum presents Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence
An exhibition of photographs of the 20th century’s most celebrated fashion, cultural and intellectual subjects.

For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving at the de Young Museum

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents a selection of 40 of the finest rugs, bags, and tent and animal trappings from Turkmenistan, northwest Iran, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan.

Run: December 15, 2007, through April 27, 2008.

de Young
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118

photo:
Left: Camel trapping for bridal procession (khalyk), Central Asia, Yomut Turkmen people, ca. 18th century. Gift of George and Marie Hecksher. Right: Storage bag (juval) face (detail), ca. 1850–1875. The Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Collection

The New Museum of Contemporary Art opens Dec 1

Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese firm Sanaa

*see Designboom interview

New Museum

235 Bowery

New York, NY 10002

212.219.1222

New Museum home page

NY Times Slideshow

Form and Imagination: Women Ceramic Sculptors Exhibition

Fifteen female artists from across the country showcase their figurative art whose work has been inspired by their experiences as children, mothers, women, wives, and artists.

Show: Now through November 24

American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
340 S. Garey Ave., Pomona, CA, (909) 629-1067

NORA NARANJO-MORSE

Jan Fisher Lecture Series

Oct. 24 @ 7:00 pm

Location: ASU Tempe Campus, Coor 1999

Nora Naranjo-Morse, a Native American artist from the Santa Clara Pueblo explores contemporary issues in a wide variety of media: clay, bronze, video and poetry. Morse embraces traditional practices of working with clay imbued by her concerns with community, the environment and what it means to be a Native American woman, in today’s society. She freely challenges perceptions and expectations, expressing issues of gender and aging in a humorous, yet potent manner.

The lecture series brings to the Phoenix community both established and emerging women ceramic artists.

Nora Naranjo-Morse, The Tribe, 2005, variable dimensions

MOULTHROP GENERATIONS: Turned Wood Vessels

by Ed, Philip, and Matt Moulthrop

Arizona State University Art Museum

October 20, 2007 through February 24, 2008

The Moulthrops are a dynasty of artists – grandfather, son, and grandson – who have made significant contributions to the field of wood turning and share a consistency of vision and process. Ed began turning as a teenager in the 1930s; Philip began turning in the 1970s; Matt, who has spent his life around wood, is just beginning his career. Philip and Matt both apprenticed with Ed in Atlanta, Georgia, where each now has his own studio. Moulthrop Generations: Turned Wood Vessels by Ed, Philip, and Matt Moulthrop presents more than seventy turned wood vessels from 1979 until today by the three artists….

While the Moulthrops are well represented in national and international museum collections, Moulthrop Generations is the first major museum exhibition to bring the three generations together. Moulthrop Generations presents the breadth of their work, and reveals their important place within the field of wood turning and contemporary craft.

Photo: Matt Moulthrop, Chalice, 2006, Black willow, 14 x 7 1/4 in..

SOUNDWAVES: THE ART OF SAMPLING
MCASD LA JOLLA
SEPTEMBER 23, 2007 THROUGH DECEMBER 30, 2007
Selections on view through May 4, 2008

Sound has played a significant role in the development of modern and contemporary art, from the visual references of Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian in the early 20th-century to the aural experimentations of Nam June Paik and John Cage in the 1960s.

Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling looks at a specifically late 20th-century manifestation of the conjunction of art and sound, and features artists in MCASD’s collection, such as Tim Bavington, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Sean Duffy, Julio Cesar Morales, Dario Robleto, and Steve Roden, who appropriate the musical process of sampling in their work, either through the incorporation of found sound or through visual and material references.

Photo Info:

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Untitled (series #3), 2001, set of 3 inflatable plastic pools, 3 pumps, water, 93 assorted bowls, water, 21 stem glasses, 3 immersion heaters, Clorox. Museum purchase, International and Contemporary Collectors Funds.

Mapping the Self

Chicago Museum of Contemporary of Art

November 3, 2007 - March 2, 2008

This exhibition is part of the city-wide Festival of Maps, which opens at the Field Museum on November 2, 2007, and is joined by more than 25 cultural and scientific institutions in a unique collaboration that features maps, globes, artifacts, and artworks from ancient to contemporary times….

Since maps can communicate highly complex ideas such as issues of identity, politics, and culture, they increasingly serve as a medium for artists to address socioeconomic and geopolitical issues. In addition, through combinations of traditional maps and high tech mapping systems, the medium allows for a contemporaneous understanding of one’s spatial and temporal place in the world on a personal, local, and global level. The exhibition explores how artists use the medium of maps to decode and re-encode information as a means for personal exploration, artistic expression, communication, and social change. The exhibition is accompanied by a concurrent issue of the local magazine Whitewalls that is dedicated to map making.

Museum of Contemporary Art

220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2643

The photos above are NOT from the exhibit. The art is unavailable because of copyright retrictions. The photos above are strictly metaphorical interpretation.

Pablo Cano: Viva Vaudeville
Exhibition: October 20 - December 29, 2007
Performances: Oct. 20, 21, 27, Nov., 10, Dec. 1, 8, 9, 15, 22, 29
Miami Museum of Contemporary of Art

Artist Pablo Cano creates marionettes inspired by Russian Constructivism, Dada, and the Japanese and European traditions of puppetry from found object and debris. These elaborate assemblage sculptures come to life through music and choreography in Cano’s theatrical performances. For his tenth production commissioned by MOCA, Cano will present Viva Vaudeville, a musical marionette fantasy inspired by Vaudeville shows from the turn of the century in New York and Europe. Life-size marionettes and rod puppets will characterize some famous magicians, comics, dancers, singers and acrobats from the golden age of vaudeville. Accompanied by an original score performed by live musicians, and recordings of 1920’s American pop songs, each performance will recreate an actual vaudeville performance.

Photo of Pablo Cano by Gio Alma