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SCOPE NEW YORK TO SHOW THE BEST OF INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART AT LINCOLN CENTER
Sneak Preview Thursday, February 22nd,
3pm-8pm

Daily Entry: 10am-8pm, Friday, February 23 – Monday, February 26, 2007

The Scope Pavilion
Lincoln Center
Damrosch Park,
Corner of 62 Street and 10th Avenue

Scope hunts down that most endangered of species: the emerging artist. Both moving target and elusive chameleon, Scope’s 65 participants capture this exotic breed in their roving crosshairs. Challenging passive viewing with 25,000 square feet of open-range, Scope New York exposes visitors to a real-time survey of the contemporary art world available nowhere else.

Building on last year’s success, which broke all sales and attendance figures for an alternative art fair, Scope New York 2007 is proud to announce its new location: a 25,000 square-foot pavilion at New York’s most famous cultural icon, Lincoln Center. Situated in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park, at the corner of 62nd Street and 10th Avenue, Scope New York is just blocks from the Armory Show.

Scope New York returns for its sixth-straight year with its new location. Featuring galleries from four continents and 20 countries, including China, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Spain, and Canada, Scope New York 2007 is the most internationally diverse fair to date. Scope’s sixty-five international exhibitors will uphold its unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The fair opens daily at 10 AM.

Continuing its mandate to redefine what an art fair is, this year’s Scope New York will take advantage of its unique location with special projects by Scope exhibiting artists. Visitors to the fair will be embraced and initiated by roving performers, sound and video pieces interspersed throughout the fair. Nestled atop a snow blown “mountain,” viewers can seek sanctuary in a veritable hunting lodge, where art stars, icons and iconoclasts interview each other and warm to a crackling fire.

For more information about Scope’s special projects and daily programming, please download the picture schedule at http://www.scope-art.com/images/stories/picturesched1.pdf .

Highlights of Scope New York 2007 include:

SNEAK PREVIEW, Thursday, February 22nd, 3PM-8PM
Be the first to see the best of international emerging contemporary art while enjoying a chilled Grolsch Swingtop. Sponsored by Christiania Vodka and Grolsch.

VIP/Press Preview Brunch, Friday, February 23rd, 10 AM - 2PM
Scope New York 2007 launches with a press and VIP brunch featuring special performances and screenings. Press RSVP: press@scope-art.com; VIP RSVP: vip@scope-art.com.

Scope Foundation Benefit, Friday, February 23rd, 6pm-9pm
Collectors and museum patrons join Scope exhibitors as they benefit the launch of the Scope Foundation, whose mandate it is to help emerging artists through grants, awards, and acquisitions.

Culture on the Verge, Friday, February 23rd, 10pm-late (offsite)
In conjunction with Beautiful Decay, Scope New York 2007’s highly anticipated opening night event begins after the VIP Benefit. The event will feature local emerging bands, screenings and performance. Located at Element, 225 East Houston St, New York, NY.

Cinema-Scope: The Perpetual Art Machine. Presenting more than 600 videos by over 400 emerging and established artists from 60 countries, [PAM] allows the visitor to become part of the curatorial process. PAM is organized in collaboration by Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller.

Performance Scope: Featuring Performances by Mark McGowan (CHARLIE SMITH london), Gabriel Martinez (Samson Projects), FEAST (ADA Gallery), Ambrose Martos (chashama), Zhen Heinemann and the Endless Love Crew (chashama), Edisa Weeks (chashama).

GRIZZLY Hunting Lodge/ Interview Booth: Nestled atop a snow blown “mountain,” viewers can seek sanctuary in a veritable hunting lodge, where art stars, icons and iconoclasts interview each other and warm to a crackling fire. Hosted by Althea Viafora-Kress of WPS1 MoMA Art Radio, Vernissage TV, and Scope President Alexis Hubshman.

Dues ex Machina: Right of Passage: Scope’s curated program, featuring outdoor and indoor installation projects by Ryan Humphrey (Nina Arias), Katja Flieger (Umtrieb Gallery), Fernando Mastrangelo (RARE Gallery), Oh Seok Kwon (Umtrieb Gallery), Chris Duncan (Gregory Lind Gallery), Brose Partington, (DAM, STUHLTRAGER), Andrei Molodkin (Daneyal Mahmood), and Rose Kallal (Legion).

Scope Shuttle
The Scope Shuttle provides service from the Armory show to Scope New York every fifteen minutes for the duration of the fair.

About Scope
Scope’s continued mission is to turn viewers into users. Founded in 2002, Scope gives a view of the contemporary art world available nowhere else. Scope international art fairs present up-and-coming dealers, curators, and artists, alongside museum quality programming at fairs in New York, London, Miami, Basel and the Hamptons. Scope is dedicated to not only supporting the international emerging artistic community, but local artistic and not-for profit institutions.

Scope Art Fair
521 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
http://www.scope-art.com
info@scope-art.com

ADA Gallery (Richmond), Ambrosino Gallery (Miami), Andrea Meislin (NYC), Andreas Binder (Munich), Anna Klinkhammer (Dusseldorf), art affairs (Amsterdam), Artspace Witzenhausen (Amsterdam), Begona Malone (Madrid), Bonelli Arte (Mantova), Brain Factory (Seoul), Bryce Wolkowitz (NYC), Carter Presents (London), CHARLIE SMITH (London), Chinese Contemporary (NYC/ UK), Christopher Cutts (Toronto), Christopher Henry (NYC), Claudine Papillon (Paris), Crown (Brussels), Cynthia Broan (NYC), de Soto Gallery (LA), DEAN PROJECT (NYC), douz and mille (Washington, DC), El Charro Negro (Zapopan), Eric Dupont (Paris), Galerie Adler (NYC/ Frankfurt), Galerie Baer (Dresden), Galerie Romerapotheke (Zurich), Galerie Schuster (Berlin/Frankfurt), Galleri K (Oslo), Gallery 10G (NYC), Greener Pastures (Toronto), Gregory Lind (SF), GRIZZLY (NYC), Hamburg Kennedy (NYC), heliumcowboy artspace (Hamburg), Houlsdworth (London), Howard House (Seattle), Janet Oh Gallery (Seoul), Jean Brolly (Paris), Ka
tharine Mulherin (Toronto), Kuckei + Kuckei (Berlin), LEGION (NYC), leo bahia (Belo Horizonte), lincart (SF), loop: raum fur aktuell kunst (Berlin), Magnan Emerich (NYC), MARCdePUECHREDON (Basel), Marlborough Chelsea (NYC), Mike Weiss Gallery (NYC), Moti Hasson Gallery (NYC), Other Gallery (Winnipeg), RARE (NYC), SALTWORKS (Atlanta), Samson Projects (Boston), Sara Nightingale (Watermill), Shine Art Space (Shanghai), Sixty Seven Gallery (NYC), Spinello Gallery (Miami), Steve Turner Contemporary (LA), Store House Group (San Juan), TAKEFLOOR 404&502 (Tokyo), Taylor de Cordoba (LA), The Flat (Milan), The Proposition (NYC), TZR Gallery (Dusseldorf), Yancey Richardson (NYC), Yossi Milo Gallery (NYC)

Scope New York 2007 Sponsors:

Host Sponsors
Corcoran Group Real Estate

Providers
American Apparel
Christiania Vodka
Grolsch
Johnnie Walker Blue
Casa Noble Tequila
Izze

Media Sponsors
Vernissage TV
Beautiful Decay
Artnet
Max Custom Media

Catering Provided by Restaurant Associates

For more information go to: http://www.scope-art.com

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

Winter 2007
new edition of CAC INTERVIU

CAC
Vokieciu g. 2
LT-01130 Vilnius
Lithuania
T: +370 5 262 3476 F: +370 5 262 3954
info@cac.lt
http://www.cac.lt

CAC INTERVIU “the quarterly conversation about art” is a bilingual (Lithuanian & English) interview based publication — also containing editorials, book reviews, and an artist’s project — focused on covering the Baltic region with a view to topical events that impact on art produced internationally. Distributed via direct mail and available for free at partner institutions in major cities all over the world CAC Interviu is a leading source of information about art, cultural events, and cultural debate from post-soviet Europe (with a unique Lithuanian perspective). In concert with the acclaimed alternative broadcast project CAC TV — recently screened at unitednationsplaza and appearing in The Best Surprise is No Surprise — the journal aims to position the CAC at the forefront of institutional production, and keep art and writing produced in Lithuania in the international spotlight.

CAC is pleased to announce the release of issue # 6, in which we hone-in locally and engender debate about Lithuanian specific dilemmas that resonate for the broader eastern European region:
Andreas Gedin talks to Daniel Birnbaum about the opening of the new Portikus in Frankfurt. Firebrand Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Navakas aims trenchant critique at the state of pedagogy at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (sounding a clarion for the situation of art-teaching in the post-soviet). Lars Bang Larsen talks to Lithuanian artist Arturas Raila about his recent solo project at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Giedrius Gulbinas and Gabor Rieder review international conferences recently held in Lithuania addressing the state of Eastern European art history. Two local artists talk with each other about performative provocations that were shut-down by the authorities, while Virginija Januskeviciute tracks a third public art provocation that got away scot-free. A discussion reviewing senior critic and art historian Alfonsas Andriuskevicius’ new book reveals concerns within Lithuanian professional art circles. And by way of this issue’s artist project Gintaras Didziapetris writes a
love letter to Bethan Huws.

For information on back issues, including contributions from: Julieta Aranda, Joseph Backstein, Pierre Bismuth, Mika Hannula, Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Dieter Lesage, Gabriel Lester, Raimundas Malasauskas, Jonas Mekas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Carsten Nicolai, Piotr Piotrowski, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Aaron Schuster, John Slyce, Grzegorsz Sowula, Bik Van der Pol, Lawrence Weiner, and Richard Wright

http://www.cac.lt/interviu
E: interviu@cac.lt
Next issue: April 2007

Winter 2007 Exhibition Program, Until 18 March:
Pearl River City: contemporary art from South China
curated by: Tobias Berger
in association with Para-Site art space Hong Kong and Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Groupe Dunes: Variations_Vilnius
in association with: ‘Contour/Passage’ and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
Us, Them, and Some Out-Takes: young Lithuanian photographers
curated by: Renata Dubinskaite
News:
Lithuanian Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
Artists: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, http://www.nugu.lt
Project: Villa Lituania, http://www.villalituania.lt (coming soon)
Organizers: CAC, Vilnius (commissioner Simon Rees)
Principal funding: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

For more information go to: http://www.cac.lt

Ullens Center for the Arts

Ullens Center for the Arts, Beijing
http://www.ullens-center.org

Ullens Center for the Arts, Beijing seeks Curator and Head of Events

The Ullens Center for the Arts is developing the most comprehensive contemporary art institution in Beijing with exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures and seminars, an art library and educational program. We are currently recruiting for the following two positions: Curator and Head of Events.

CURATOR
Working with curatorial team and Artistic Director, the Curator will have the opportunity to contribute towards overall exhibition strategy and planning of Beijing’s leading contemporary arts institution, working on an international arts program that features solo shows by leading contemporary masters and thematic group exhibitions. The Curator will work closely with the curatorial team to oversee exhibition budget, logistics management, installation and evaluation of each project, as well as researching and writing catalogue and exhibition texts. S/he will conduct visits to contemporary art institutions around the world, including major art fairs and biennials, to evaluate work / exhibitions for consideration, networking with art world professionals and artists and creating partnerships with the Center through collaborative projects. The Curator will also work with Library & Archive, Education, and Cultural Events teams to extend the impact of the visual arts program.

Qualifications
Significant curatorial experience required. Successful candidate should have a strong network of contacts within the contemporary art world. Must be familiar with emerging artists and directions in the breadth of contemporary art and have an interest in the development of Chinese contemporary art. Successful candidate will either relocate to Beijing or travel there one week per month, as determined by the Ullens Center in discussion with the applicant. This is a one-year contract with the possibility of extension.

HEAD OF EVENTS
Working with Artistic Director and the Curatorial Team, the Head of Events will develop and implement a creative and dynamic international events program, taking responsibility for at least 20 events per year out of a total program of 30-50 events annually. These will include lectures, seminars, workshops, film screenings and music performances, targeted for a Chinese audience and presented at Beijing’s leading contemporary arts institution. Working with the Assistant Curator of Events, s/he will take responsibility for budget, partner liaison, promotional material, logistics management, government approvals, program administration, receptions and functions, travel arrangements, maintenance of financial records and evaluation of each project. Expanding his or her existing network of art professionals, the Head of Events will identify and initiate partnerships with cultural organizations in China and abroad.

Qualifications:
Significant curatorial experience required. Must be familiar with the breadth of international contemporary culture and have an interest in the development of Chinese contemporary arts. Should have the ability to develop original thematic events; organize international forums and seminars; write materials for publications; undertake speaking engagements; and collaborate with other departments. Upon hire, successful candidate must be willing to relocate to Beijing. This position is a one-year contract, with the possibility for extension.

TO APPLY:
Please email a cover letter, resume, and two reference letters* by February 20, 2007 to Colin Chinnery: colin.chinnery@ullens-center.org

*Please provide full contact details for referees. To qualify as referee, he/she must be a person who you have worked with for at least one year.

For more information go to: http://www.ullens-center.org