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From (Nov 13th – Nov 20th) 2010 The Museum of New Art (MONA) will be presenting a multi-media art riddle crafted by eleven Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate students. The first viewer to solve the riddle will win a cash prize of $1000. Three other viewers will be chosen to receive $100 second place prizes for incorrect but interesting solutions to the riddle. Be sure to come check out for your chance to solve the riddle and win $1000!
RULES:
To win the $1000 grand prize the viewer must be the first
person to completely solve/decode the puzzle contained in the artworks
present in this show. Please e-mail your solution and a brief explanation of
how you came to that solution to
clubgrubbug@gmail.com. All entries must be received by Thursday Nov.
18th to be considered. Order of entry will be determined by order of receipt
of e-mails.
Three secondary prizes of $100 will be given to entries that incorrectly
solve the puzzle but are interesting interpretations of the show
none-the-less. So, even if you feel unsure of your answer just submit
something! These awards will be determined solely by Carson Grubaugh. All
decisions are final.
The prize money will be distributed and the puzzle explained at a closing
reception on Saturday Nov. 20th from 4 to 5 pm. Any winner who can not make
this event will receive their prize money in the mail.
Students and employees of the Cranbrook Academy of Art are not eligible to
win the $1000 grand prize but are eligible for the three $100 secondary
prizes.
October 2 - October 30
Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA) will be opening a new exhibition as part of the city's Art Detroit Now week:
The show, "New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century," will feature the work of over 50 international, national, and regional artists who explore femininity, masculinity, desire, pleasure, family politics, liberation and repression, pornography, prostitution, sexual violence, exhibitionism and other topics.
The show's theme recognizes that our digital media culture is saturated with sexual representations and complex issues of sexuality from teen "sexting" with mobile phones to YouTube "Booty" videos. The work displayed in this exhibition will probe, comment on, and question such issues through artwork produced in many media including video, performance, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, interactive computer games, and printmaking.
The opening on Saturday,
October 2 (6 to 9pm), will also feature several performances.
The three curators of the show are MONA Director Jef Bourgeau, and guest
curators Jonathan Lillie of Loyola University Maryland and local visual
artist Steve Coy.
The show will be launched
in collaboration with a special issue of NmediaC, the online Journal of New
Media and Culture, which will feature academic articles on the same topic of
"New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century."
Contact:
Guest Curator Steve Coy: loucoy@hotmail.com
Guest Curator Jonathan Lillie: jlillie@loyola.edu
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(new, improved and bigger than ever)
The end
of the last century was accelerated by broad advancements into the science
and the art of intrusion. Now, the 21st century allows each and every one of
us to carry the information age in our pockets and purses. We can talk,
text, tweet, email, view the world on the net, and record and send out our
"life" images from anywhere and everywhere we happen to be.
At the same moment, there is a camera watching us at every street corner.
This isn't big brother, so much as Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes defining us all
as self-proclaimed celebrities in our own right. We neither object nor hide
from our increased visibility. We celebrate and embrace it, and buy into
every new advance and gadget. All of this with the belief that by expanding
the surveillance and instant interactions of our daily lives, we have each
become integral to the entire global matrix of existence and meaning.
We have become our own reality show.
The beneficial catastrophe of Facebook has been a global connecting of the
art world. Artist, critic, curator, gallerist can now communicate quickly
and without tedious elaboration. Yes, no, maybe... And, no matter what their
chosen genre or acquired stature, we can all simply be friends. And among
such friends, it's essential that art be seen to exist.
No wonder 21st Century artists are embracing this quick path out from their
previous roles of unlinked solitude and uninformed discovery. The digital
age is quickly modifying contemporary art's course through the celebrated
chatter of the web, and beyond. It is in this cyber network that the artist
creates a sort of working studio, presenting one's artwork to an
ever-growing audience. At last count, topping off at 500 million.
Facebook no longer restricts the choice of viewer or the artist’s view. For
today's artist, it erases all topicality by invalidating the need for actual
presence: that imposition of place and of working within specific trends and
local tastes. Facebook announces something far more varied, and above all
far more free than previously imagined. It offers us a plural and complete
panorama. It allows the potential for everyone to see how, and to what
extent, art can be both shaped and redefined by technology.
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amanda faye cain
Love feels like a threat in American society.
September 18 - October 30
A Museum of One's Own
In the end, the creative act is not performed by the artist at all: the spectator brings art to life and thus fulfills the work on the spot. THE JANE SHOW brings together art and spectator as one through this documenting of a single museum visitor.
June 19 - July 24
Oliver Aguilar, Bella Angora, Ida Applebroog, Alice Aycock, Angie Baan, John Baldessari, Donald Baechler, Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Kristin Beaver, Dawoud Bey, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Chris Bors, Mary Boone, Jef Bourgeau, Nicolas Bourriaud, Alison Brady, Davin Brainard, Monica Breen, Olaf Breuning, Alex Burdiak, Theresa Byrnes, Dan Cameron, Amanda Faye Cain, Darlene Carroll, Maurizio Cattelan, Saint-Clari Cemin, Sandro Chia, Manohar Chiluvera, Catharine Clark, Larry Clark, Lygia Clark, Stephen Cohen, Matthew Collings, Marco Coraggio, Dorota Coy, Steve Coy, Arthur C. Danto, E.V. Day, Robert del Valle, Cathy de Monchaux, Wim Delvoye, John Divola, Rachel Hunt Durocher, Sacha Eckes, Thoma Eller, Barbara Ess, Susan Evans, Alan Feltus, Zach Feuer, Eric Fischl, Brian Finke, Dido Fontana, Sylvie Fortin, Kelly Frank, Coco Fusco, Brenda Goodman, Ann Gordon, Cynthia Greig, Jessica Guzman, Lisi Hämmerle, Lyle Ashton Harris, Albert Heta, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Wei-Hui Hsu, David Humphrey, Alison Jacques, Irena Jurek, Jesper Just, Deborah Kass, Ulli Knall, Leo Koenig, Mark Kostabi, Anna Kustera, Alix Lambert, Nikki S. Lee, Annette Lemieux, Donald Lipski, Edward Lucie-Smith, Gerardo Macias-Garcia, Ann Magnuson, Stephen Magsig, Allan McCollum, Mike McGillis, Julie Mehretu, Shanna Merola, Vanessa Merrill, Marilyn Mintner, Vik Muniz, Yoshitomo Nara, Joseph Nechvatal, Odd Nerdrum, Achille Bonito Oliva, Hans Op de Beeck, Catherine Opie, Dennis Oppenheim, Patrick Painter, Jim Pallas, Allison Pasarew, Julie Pate, Alix Pearlstein, Judy Pfaff, Amy Phelan, Cara Philips, Jack Pierson, Judy Rifka, Michael Rooks, Andrea Rosen, David A. Ross, Charles Saatchi, Amy Sacksteder, Chris Samuels, Antonio Sassu, Robert Schefman, Peter Schiering, Paul Schimmel, Lauren Semivan, Brent Sikkema, Amy Sillman, Jessica Silverman, Rena Small, Gilda Snowden, Dale Sparage, Alan Sonfist, Buzz Spector, Amy Stein, Jessica Stockholder, Tom Stoye, Billy Sullivan, Jack Summers, Ian Swanson, Bryant Tillman, John Torreano, Alexander Vieth, Jerry Vile, Kara Walker, William Wegman, Wendy White, Vagner Whitehead, Mandy Williams, Anne Wilson, Eva Winkeler, Lindsey Yeo, S. Kay Young, Andrea Zittel, Darcel Deneau.
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Where Furrows Run Deep
moving to New York July 1st
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Jeanette Strezinski:
Works on Paper
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Emily Nachison:
Sculpture and Drawings
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Nobu Matsui:
The
Instant Artist
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Collin Lafleche,
Paolo Morales
and
Erica Shires
In his book "The Decisive Moment", Cartier-Bresson spoke of the 'defining moment' in a photograph as one that occurs within a fraction of a second when you are taking a picture, Bresson called it "a supreme moment captured with a single shot". What occurs before and after this defining moment is left up to viewer's imagination. Portraits move beyond the frame and are completed by stories the viewer brings to an existing narrative. Moments which expand the captured image appear naturally in the compelling photographs of three young photographers, the second show due to open this month at the Detroit Contemporary Center of Photography. Paolo Morales, Erica Shires, and Collin Lafleche use the portrait as a starting point for creating personal statements about themselves and their worlds.
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THE STORE:
The Museum's Sales Gallery opens
featuring original art at $150
May 1 - May 29
with Yisook Sohn, Olaf Breuning,
and Winjoon Choi
@ the DCCP
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PICASSO'S GARDEN
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JOHN MILLER
&
TOM PARR:
New Paintings
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April 24
a one-night preview - 6 to10pm
w/Chris Samuels & Plan b
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April 22
March 20 - April 3
March 20 - April 20
February 25 - February 27
February 6 - March 6
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From over 100,000 international artists at Charles Saatchi's Online Gallery, ten were chosen as the "best" from the last week in October 2009. These ten were selected by Mme. X, an author, art critic and assistant curator in London. Cesar Marzetti, chief curator at the Museum of New Art, has now curated these ten artists into an exhibition of their own.
The Original Ten: Suse Bauer, Jef Bourgeau, Alex Burdiak, Toby Christian, Marsilio Diteramo, Jessica Drum, Megan Jacobs, Mandy Williams, Women's Rooms, Mehran Zamani.
February 13 - March 6
to honor the memory of Jeanne-Claude
this exhibition has been
Extended through January 30
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Museum of New Art (MONA), which remains the first artist-run museum in the world, has announced the winners of its Prinzhorn International Art Prize for contemporary artists. The Detroit museum was founded in 1996 by artists who wanted to create a space for the exploration of new art and to encourage critical discourse in the region. Over the years, MONA has become the proving ground and springboard for hundreds of artists, both new and established.
The winners of this year's Prinzhorn Prize have been chosen because their work is conceptually and emotionally rewarding, both illuminating current artistic dynamics and offering poignant insight into the human condition. All six artists demonstrate adventurousness, conceptual strength, and skillful execution in their work. The Prinzhorn Prize will be given annually, and will be accompanied by an invitation to exhibit for each artist.
