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Lorna Simpson
Organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA)
Opening March 1, 2007, at the Whitney Museum of American Art

“Lorna Simpson has spent her career as a photographer and videographer objectifying forces latent in the culture, questioning the semiotics of looking, exploring the construction of difference, asserting the interconnectedness of human beings and using art as a powerful means to heighten consciousness.” —Art in America, December 2006

Lorna Simpson, a comprehensive survey of the multi-faceted work of one of the leading artists working in the United States today, will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art from March 1, 2007 through May 6, 2007. The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts (AFA). It is curated by AFA Adjunct Curator Helaine Posner.

The exhibition includes approximately eighteen of the artist’s acclaimed image and text pieces (1985–93) and seven major photographs on felt (1994–2005). Also on view are six film installations dating from 1997 to 2004, including Call Waiting; Easy to Remember; Interior/Exterior; Full/Empty, a seven-part projection and related series of photographs; and Corridor (2003), a work that juxtaposes the domestic meanderings of two women—one set in the seventeenth-century Coffin House and the other in the 1938 house built by Bauhaus architect/designer Walter Gropius for his family in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The exhibition concludes with Simpson’s recent photographs, which consist of ghostly, silhouetted profiles of black women and men accompanied by the titles of paintings, songs, and films that date from the 1790s to the 1970s.

Lorna Simpson first became well known in the mid-1980s for her large-scale photograph and text works that confront and challenge conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory. In the mid-1990s, she began creating large multi-panel photographs printed on felt that depict the sites of public—yet unseen—sexual encounters. More recently, she has turned to moving images. In film and video works such as Call Waiting, Simpson presents individuals engaged in intimate and enigmatic yet elliptical conversations that elude easy interpretation but seem to address the mysteries of both identity and desire.

About the Artist
Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1990), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992), the Miami Art Museum (1997), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1999), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003). She has participated in such important international exhibitions as the Hugo Boss Prize (1998) at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Documenta XI (2002) in Kassel, Germany. Simpson has been the subject of numerous articles, catalogue essays, and a monograph published by Phaidon Press.

Tour
Lorna Simpson debuted in April 2006 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and then traveled to the Miami Art Museum. After the presentation at the Whitney, the exhibition will travel to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 25–August 19, 2007) and the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina (September 7–December 2, 2007).

Catalogue
A fully illustrated catalogue published by Abrams, New York, in association with the American Federation of Arts accompanies the exhibition. The book includes a curatorial foreword by Helaine Posner; a dialogue including Lorna Simpson, artist Isaac Julien, and Studio Museum in Harlem Director Thelma Golden, with a preface by Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; an overview of Simpson’s work, from the earlier image and text work to the recent films, by Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute; and an essay exploring the relationship of Simpson’s work to cinema by cultural critic and New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als.

The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and made possible, in part, by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., the Martin Bucksbaum Family Foundation, Emily Fisher Landau, and The Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation.

The AFA is a nonprofit institution that organizes art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops education programs. For more information on the AFA, please visit http://www.afaweb.org

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial
Auckland / New Zealand
from 9 March 2007

Curator / Victoria Lynn

Presented by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki in association with exhibition partners ARTSPACE / The Gus Fisher Gallery / ST PAUL ST / Academy Cinemas

http://www.aucklandtriennial.com

exhibition + films + symposium + catalogue + performances + events

We live in turbulent times…

The 3rd Auckland Triennial addresses the condition of turbulence – the complex and unpredictable cultural and political environment in which we live. Curated by Victoria Lynn, an independent curator based in Melbourne, Australia, the exhibition includes works that respond to the ambient hopes and fears in our midst. The artists in turbulence create aesthetic interventions – active, vital and alternative ways of looking at the world around us.

They present their real and imagined expressions of sustenance and exile, ancestry and colonisation, trade and co-existence. Some artists are motivated by a sense of protest, some forge an aesthetics of survival, while others try to out-manoeuvre turbulence by representing alternative routes and pathways.

The exhibition includes the work of over 35 artists from more than 20 countries.

Lida Abdul (Afghanistan); Chantal Akerman (Belgium); Vyacheslav Akhunov (Uzbekistan) with Sergey Tichina (Uzbekistan); Eve Armstrong (New Zealand); The Atlas Group / Walid Raad (Lebanon / United States of America); Carlos Capelán (Uruguay/Sweden); Kah Bee Chow (Malaysia / New Zealand); Phil Collins (United Kingdom); Donna Conlon (United States of America / Panama); Shane Cotton (Nga Puhi / New Zealand); Christina Dimitriadis (Greece / Germany); Willie Doherty (Northern Ireland); Regina José Galindo (Guatemala); Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba); Alexandros Georgiou (Greece) Mónica Giron (Argentina); George Gittoes (Australia); Fiona Hall (Australia) Mona Hatoum (Palestine / United Kingdom); Julian Hooper (New Zealand); Alfredo Jaar (Chile / United States of America); Isaac Julien (United Kingdom); Long March Project (People’s Republic of China); Lucía Madriz (Costa Rica); Daniel Malone (New Zealand); Oscar Muñoz (Colombia); John Pule (Niue / New Zealan
d); r e a (Gamilaraay / Wailwan people of NSW, Australia); Michal Rovner (Israel / United States of America); Julie Rrap (Australia); Lázaro A. Saavedra González (Cuba); Sriwhana Spong (New Zealand); Yuk King Tan (New Zealand / Hong Kong); Laura Waddington (United Kingdom); Lynette Wallworth (Australia); Areta Wilkinson (Kai Tahu / New Zealand).

The Auckland Triennial is New Zealand’s premier international contemporary art exhibition providing a window onto the world of contemporary art while creating a dialogue between local artists and their global counterparts.

turbulence is accompanied by a substantial catalogue, including essays by Victoria Lynn, Cuban curator and writer Gerardo Mosquera and New Zealand sociologist David Craig. Illustrated throughout, with an elegant and contemporary design, it also includes texts on each of the artists by leading international curators and writers.

The 3rd Auckland Triennial supporters:
AUT University / Simpson Grierson / Sue Fisher Art Trust / Chartwell Trust / Creative New Zealand / Auckland Festival AK07 / Patrons of the Triennial / British Council / Australia Council for the Arts / Asia New Zealand Foundation / Trethewey Stone (ck) Stone / British Airways / CityLife Auckland / Aalto Colour / Elam Residency Project, University of Auckland

For more information go to: http://www.aucklandtriennial.com

Stedelijk Museum CS

Mapping the City
16 February – 20 May 2007

Stedelijk Museum CS
Post CS Building, 2nd floor
Oosterdokskade 5
1011 AD Amsterdam, NL
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Fax. +31 (0)20 6752.716
http://www.stedelijk.nl

‘Mapping the City’ focuses on the relationship between artists and the city from around 1960 to the present day. The group show revolves around the way in which artists perceive urban space. The emphasis is on the city as social community, on behaviour, poses, and urban rituals.

Participating artists
Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Stanley Brouwn, Matthew Buckingham, Philip Lorca diCorcia, Guy Debord/Asger Jorn, Ed van der Elsken, Valie Export, Lee Friedlander, Dan Graham, Frank Hesse, Douglas Huebler, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Sol LeWitt, Sarah Morris, Bill Owens, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Willem de Ridder en Wim T. Schippers, Beat Streuli, Jeff Wall

Two ideas are at the heart of the exhibition: the flâneur, a type first described by Charles Baudelaire around 1850, and the activity of dérive, a practice coined by Situationist Guy Debord. The exhibition begins in the late nineteen-fifties when Debord published his Theorie de la dérive (1958). Another jumping-off point is Stanley Brouwn’s famous series This way Brouwn. Starting in 1962, Brouwn started asking random passers-by for directions in getting from point A to point B. He gave each route that people drew for him the title This way Brouwn.

From the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies onwards, many artists adopted the city as their workspace. Similar to Brouwn, themes such as walking through the city, chance, and grappling with our everyday environment are also integral to the work of Douglas Huebler. Others, like Martha Rosler, subject the metropolis to critical scrutiny. In her piece The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems Rosler employs photography and text to analyze the underbelly of New York society. For Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, the city was ‘still a male space’. With her Tapp- and Touch Cinema (1968), she invited the viewer to a ‘tactile experience that is the reverse of inauthentic voyeurism’.

Another theme in the exhibition is ‘street photography’. From the nineteen-fifties onwards, photographers like Ed van der Elsken, William Klein and Saul Leiter, injected post-war photography with a freshness and immediacy. For instance, Klein’s unpolished, experimental style caused quite a furore and inspired a generation of young photographers. His photo diary of New York figured people, children, parades, litter and an aggressive, alien, lonely urban landscape cluttered with raucous billboards.

Contemporary art
The core of Francis Alÿs’ activities revolves around the many walks he has taken through the centre of Mexico City since the early nineteen-nineties. Alÿs’ Collection of Ephemera includes numerous drawings, photos, notes, maps and objects that relate to his walks in the ten-block radius around his studio in the historic centre of Mexico City.

The Heads of Philip Lorca diCorcia and the street scenes by Beat Streuli can be seen as contemporary variants of classic street photography. Their photographs capture the manifestly vacant expressions on the faces of anonymous passers-by.

A biography of Florida’s sun-drenched capital, Sarah Morris’ video work Miami presents the city’s various facets as the hub of the tourist industry, drug and illegal immigrant trafficking on a more or less equal footing. The film installation A Man of the Crowd by Matthew Buckingham is based on the similarly-titled short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The result is a tense mini-thriller set in the streets of Vienna. The video piece by Doug Aitken, Electric Earth, is pervaded by a powerful sense of estrangement. This overwhelming video installation projected onto eight huge screens confronts us with the modern city as though it were the remains of an alien civilization.

Press contact: Arjan Reinders, tel. +31 (0)20 5732.662 / pressof<fice@stedelijk.nl
General press info and (high res.) images: http://www.stedelijk.nl/press

Stedelijk Museum CS
Post CS Building, 2nd floor
Oosterdokskade 5
1011 AD Amsterdam, NL
Tel. +31 (0)20 5732.911
Fax. +31 (0)20 6752.716
Open: daily from 10.00 -18.00.
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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, ESTONIA

52. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte - La Biennale di Venezia
52nd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Marko Mäetamm’s project
LOSER’S PARADISE

Exhibition:
June 10th – November 21st, 2007
Vernissage:
June 8 th, 2007

Palazzo Malipiero
San Marco 3079
Venezia

The Estonian artist Marko Mäetamm presents a solo exhibition called LOSER’S PARADISE, which will represent Estonia at the 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2007. The exhibition at the Estonian Pavilion is curated by Mika Hannula and commissioned by Center of Contemporary Arts, Estonia.

For the current exhibition, Mäetamm has created a conceptual framework that holds together all the new works done especially for this event; works that range from video installation via sculpture to paintings. A framework that guides the visitor through a setting that delivers what it promises: an all-encompassing view on the private sphere of a truly confused individual. What we see and hear is the litany of the ways how a specific person, this time highly personally the artist himself, fails to cope with contemporary pressure of success and competition. And yes, what we also see is how his fears and agonies have turned into violence and murder – descriptively speaking.

However, as the saying goes, if everything is wrong, then what is possibly right? Thus, what we feel and relate to is much more than meets the eye. Marko Mäetamm’s story in itself is so exaggerated, so over-whelming at its whining tone that as a viewer you can’t escape the feeling that something strange is going on. Isn’t his confession a bit too real? Can this actually be an autobiographical narrative? How much of his personal pain is manufactured and constructed?

All assumptions and assertions come together in the interactive play between experience and expectation, between real and fake, between soft and hard, sugar and spice, love and hate. We have no way of knowing. All we can do is to go with the flow at the site of the Estonian Pavilion and enjoy this weirdly enjoyable visual narrative with physical dimensions. Here, we confront a complex conceptual work in which Marko Mäetamm presents himself as a master of manipulation, an artist who certainly knows how to twist and turn the tales within the exhibition format. A story as in a proper gesamtkunstwerk that leaves you “violently happy”.

Curator
Mika Hannula

Commissioner
Johannes Saar
head of the Center of Contemporary Arts, Estonia

Deputy Commissioner
Elin Kard
project manager of the Center of Contemporary Arts, Estonia

Deputy Commissioner
Andris Brinkmanis

Website
http://www.cca.ee
http://www.maetamm.net

For further information please contact:
Elin Kard

elin@cca.ee
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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, ESTONIA
Vabaduse väljak 6
10146 Tallinn
ESTONIA
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Jeffrey Weiss, curator and head, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., to join Dia

New York, NY - The Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation today announced the appointment of Jeffrey Weiss, curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as Dia’s new director. Mr. Weiss, who assumes his post in late-spring 2007, succeeds Michael Govan, who became director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Nathalie de Gunzburg, chairman of Dia’s Board of Trustees, states, “We are thrilled that Jeffrey Weiss will join us as director of Dia Art Foundation. Jeffrey’s deep knowledge of modern and contemporary art, combined with his understanding of the important role of cultural institutions in contemporary society, will be critically important to Dia as we move into the next phase of our development. I know that I speak for all of my colleagues when I say how much we look forward to working with Jeffrey.�”

Mr. Weiss says, “I am deeply honored to become director of Dia Art Foundation, one of the world’s most vital and pioneering institutions devoted to contemporary art. Dia fulfills a crucial role among arts organizations, showing an extraordinary commitment to serving art and artists. Indeed, by keeping artists at the center of its activities, Dia has facilitated projects and installations that might otherwise never have been realized. Dia’s identity is now both historical and forward looking-a perfect platform on which to build.”

Mr. Weiss joins Dia, which was founded in 1974, at a pivotal period in its history. In May 2003 the institution launched Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, a museum in Beacon, New York, where Dia displays its world-renowned collection of art from the 1960s to today, and presents special exhibitions and public programming. To date, Dia:Beacon has drawn some 330,000 visitors. Mr. Weiss will lead the organization as it enters a new stage, redeveloping its New York City program while continuing both to present its schedule at Dia:Beacon and maintain long-term, site-specific projects in the western United States and New York City, as well as on Long Island.

Mr. Weiss brings to Dia significant experience as a museum professional and scholar. At the National Gallery, where he has worked since 1994, he has organized numerous exhibitions, edited and contributed to their catalogues, and overseen a vigorous acquisitions program. Most recently, he organized Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting 1955-65, which opened at the National Gallery on January 28, 2007. In addition, in 2004 he worked with Dia to bring to the Gallery the first presentation of the internationally touring Dan Flavin retrospective, which was organized by Dia in association with the Gallery. Other exhibitions that he has organized or co-organized at the National Gallery include Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier (2003), Cy Twombly: The Sculpture (2001), and Mark Rothko (1998). He has also devoted considerable attention to building the collection in art from the 1960s and 1970s. Under his tenure as department head, the National Gallery has acquired important early and classic-period works by Flavin, as well as Mel Bochner, Lee Bonetcou, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Gober, On Kawara, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, James Turrell, Andy Warhol, and numerous other artists of the period.

Prior to being named curator and head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Gallery, Mr. Weiss served as associate curator and assistant curator in the department; from 1991 to 1993, he was a research associate and associate research curator at the Gallery. He is currently the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he is leading a graduate seminar and, where, this spring, he will deliver public lectures on the art of the 1960s and 1970s at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mr. Weiss has lectured and published widely. His writing has appeared in numerous catalogues and books, as well as in a number of prestigious magazines. He has additionally served as editor of several exhibition catalogues, and regularly participates in and organizes scholarly conferences and symposia. The latter includes the major symposium Dan Flavin: New Light, resulting in a book recently published by the National Gallery and Yale University Press for which Mr. Weiss served as editor and contributor.

Jeffrey Weiss received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 1991, and a B.A. from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in June 1980.

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO PRESENTS
THE DISAPPEARED (LOS DESAPARECIDOS)

February 23 – June 17, 2007

Press Preview: Wednesday, February 21
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution, will present The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) from February 23 – June 17, 2007. This traveling exhibition, organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art and curated by Laurel Reuter, brings together visual artists’ responses to the tens of thousands of persons who were kidnapped, tortured, killed and “vanished” in Latin America by repressive right-wing military dictatorships during the late-1950s to the 1980s.

The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) gathers 14 contemporary living artists from seven countries in Central and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Venezuela), all of whose work contends with the horrors and violence stemming from the totalitarian regimes in each of their nations during the mid- to late-20th century. Some of the artists worked in the resistance; some had parents or siblings who were disappeared; others were forced into exile. The youngest were born into the aftermath of those dictatorships. And still others have lived in countries maimed by endless civil war. These artists whose work is represented in the exhibition are Marcelo Brodsky, Luis Camnitzer, Arturo Duclos, Juan Manuel Echavarría, Antonio Frasconi, Nicolás Guagnini, Nelson Leirner, Sara Maneiro, Cildo Meireles, Oscar Muñoz, Ivan Navarro, Luis González Palma, Ana Tiscornia and Fernando Traverso. Also included is a collaborative insta
llation Identity/Identidad by a collective of 13 Argentinean artists.

The range of visual languages — drawings, prints, photographs, installations and mixed media — incorporated in The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) frequently employs similar forms to evoke the presence of the missing person or persons. Bodies, faces, personal possessions and names, often methodically compiled and arranged, appear both boldly and subtly throughout the work in the exhibition. “Through their intense visual and emotional impact, these works communicate the unspeakable and reveal the artist’s assumed role of social responsibility towards ending the silence surrounding these extreme cases of human rights violations,” says Julián Zugazagoitia, Director of El Museo del Barrio. “In this context of public awareness and education through art, El Museo, as the first venue in the Eastern United States for this internationally traveling exhibition, aims to assemble as broad an audience as possible to confront and preserve the memory of these recent historical t
ragedies.”

Free public programs for adults, educators and children will be offered in relation to the exhibition and to encourage dialogue among viewers. Scheduled programming includes a series of film screenings, monthly family tours and workshops, an evening of music as a tribute to los desaparecidos on March 23, and an artist panel moderated by Columbia University Professor Andreas Huyssen on May 23. A bilingual illustrated color exhibition catalogue written by Laurel Reuter and Lawrence Weschler and produced by Charta, Italy with funding from The Lannan Foundation will accompany The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos).

Sponsors for The Disappeared (Los Desaparecidos) are the Otto Bremer Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. This exhibition has also been supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute, and by Mahnaz I. and Adam Bartos.

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets
New York, NY 10029
212-831-7272
http://www.elmuseo.org

Press Contact: Lauren Van Natten
T. 212 660 7102
lvannatten@elmuseo.org

Museum Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 11AM to 5PM. Closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Directions:
By subway: #6 to 103rd Street Station, #2, #3 to Central Park North/110th Street station
By bus: M1, M3, M4 on Madison and Fifth Avenues to 104th Street; local crosstown service between Yorkville or East Harlem and the Upper West Side in Manhattan M96 and M106 or M2.

For more information go to: http://www.elmuseo.org

MiArt

Waiting for MiArt 2007
New developments and projects confirm the fair’s international edge

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e-mail miart@fmi.it
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About to be staged for the 12th time, Milan’s International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair is today a truly international and increasingly high level event. This is not only because of the participation of numerous galleries from all over the world, but also for its prestigious special projects, designed to create a full-immersion art experience in Milan – an opportunity to discover and experience the Fair and the city in a whole new way.

Among the jewels in the MiArt 2007 crown, we must first mention the participation of the prestigious Basel-based Foundation Beyeler, which, for the first time, will be occupying a stand and telling the public something of its history through the display of some of the genuine masterpieces from its collection. And 2007 marks two important anniversaries for Ernst Beyeler, who this year is celebrating his first ten years of work with the foundation that bears his name as well as the 60th anniversary of the Beyeler Gallery. The Foundation’s decision to take part on MiArt was a strategic move in intensifying its relationship with people interested in art in Italy. At the Fair, Foundation Beyeler will be exhibiting two monumental and priceless works – a Matisse and a Christus – completing the virtual visit to the museum with a series of photographic images of the collection. An exciting key attraction with no shortage of surprises, the event will bring a special flavor to the 12th
MiArt.

And the news doesn’t finish there. The Anteprima section, which this year will have a more experimental edge than ever, will be hosting a series of extremely high profile special events, complemented by discussion, meeting and roundtable sessions that will make the Fair a dynamic, effervescent and cosmopolitan center for interaction – an opportunity for exchange and face-to-face discussion with the foremost art critics, curators and museum directors from around the world.

The question of the spaces used for art will come under the spotlight at the roundtable session Isomorphic Space. The homogenization of spaces in art. The session will examine the issue of spaces dedicated to contemporary art, placing the focus on the works that artists intend to create in them. The speakers, Daniel Birnbaum, Liam Gillick and Christine Macel, will endeavor to answer the question: Are art fairs today all that different from museums, galleries and independent spaces, or are there still some real differences between these spaces?

The Video and Film Lounge project will be complemented by a roundtable discussion entitled The inheritance of the cinematic form in the art video that will see the participation of Maria Rosa Sossai, Ian White, Christian Merlhiot and Bart Rutten. The Art and community conference, presented by More Art in collaboration with Art for the World, will focus on the issue of the promotion of young Italian and international artists relative to their local area. It will also feature an installation by Brazilian artist Fabiana De Barros entitled Fiteiro Cultural (Culture kiosk), designed for discussion and learning in the context of the artist-audience-place relationship. Finally, Arcipelago Olanda , conceived as a live creative workshop, will be presented alongside a discussion session entitled The Talks, which will feature all the artists involved in the workshop, who will discuss their experiences while outlining the Dutch artistic and institutional scenes.

Info:
tel. +39 0248 550.489
fax +39 0248 550. 420
e-mail miart@fmi.it
web site http://www.miart.it

Press office and PR:
Olivia Spatola, Federico Poletti: press_miart@fmi.it
Cristina Pariset: cristina.pariset@libero.it

Organizing secretariat:
Fiera Milano International spa
Via Varesina, 76 - 20156 Milan, Italy

For more information go to: http://www.miart.it

SCOPE NEW YORK

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 with a glass facade 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. To rsvp, please email preview@scope-art.com.

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.

Scope New York Exhibitors
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), 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 Emrich (NYC), MARCdePUECHREDON (Basel), Marlborough Chelsea (NYC), Mike Weiss Gallery (NYC), Moti Hasson Gallery (NYC), Other Gallery (Winnipeg), RARE (NYC), Regis Krampf (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)

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 Basel
FreeView: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 from 10am-4pm
Daily Entry: Wednesday, June 13th – Sunday, June 17th, 2007 from 10am-8pm
Location: E-Halle, Erlenstrasse 15, CH-4058 Basel, http://www.e-halle.ch

Building on the success of its international art fair program, Scope is delighted to announce the launch of the first SCOPE Basel, June 13 – June 16, 2007, with a FreeView for VIPs and Press on Tuesday, 10am-4pm. Located in a 27,000 square-foot, post-industrial warehouse within walking distance of Art Basel 38, Scope will present its most international fair to-date with emerging galleries from all over the world.

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

OPEN SPACE

A SPRINGTIME REVOLUTION
OPEN SPACE AT ART COLOGNE
18 – 22 April 2007

http://www.openspace06.com
http://www.artcologne.de

Changing dates might not make a big difference for the ennuied art traveller, but the 41st ART COLOGNE has decided to move to April - for a revolution never better times but springtime. The third edition of OPEN SPACE will make it from the very heart of ART COLOGNE with a joint presentation of international galleries, artists and projects of contemporary art.

OPEN SPACE 2007 continues to explore the borders of an art fair, connecting contemporary art projects and solo shows of more than 40 international galleries to a project-oriented, spacious overall art presentation. Due to an intrinsic correlation between the selected art projects and the spatial set, OPEN SPACE has defined its own rules for the game to develop a novel almost urban quality of presence, presentation and perception of art – facing the demands of an informed, international public by carefully reflecting the contemporary contexts of artistic production and professional mediation.

OPEN SPACE is also about platforms for art related projects. This year, along the gallery presentations OPEN SPACE has invited various projects from Berlin, such as “Bless” as one of the advanced positions of conceptual fashion and the thematic bookstore “pro qm”. The “Berlin Posterverlag” will publish a special poster edition of one of the OPEN SPACE artists and “Texte zur Kunst” will be there to present their new magazine and all their artists’ editions.

GALLERIES, ARTISTS Adamski, Joel Tauber / Aschenbach & Hofland, Jan van der Plog / Laura Bartlett, Cyprien Gaillard / Daniel Buchholz & NEU, Dirk von Lotzow & Cosima von Bonin, Michael Krebber, Sergej Jensen / Sandra Bürgel, Raphael Danke / BQ, Dirk Bell / Gisela Capitain, Maria Brunner / COMA, Michael Müller / Sorcha Dallas, Charlie Hammond / Thomas Erben, Haeri Yoo / Fahnemann Projects, Kai Schiemenz / Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Django Gonzales / Häusler Contemporary, Keith Sonnier / Kai Hilgemann, David Medella / Hohenlohe & Cora Hölzl, Simon Wachsmuth / Hotel, Agnieszka Brzezanska & Richard Kern, Peter Saville, Steven Claydon / Johnen & Schöttle, Francesco Gennari / Iris Kadel, Katja Davar / Johann König, Johannes Wohnseifer / Linn Lühn, William N. Copley / Mary Mary, Karla Black / Christine Mayer, Klaus Auderer & Michael Hackel, Emanuel Seitz, Lorenz Strassl / Mirko Mayer, Daniela Brahm / Meyer Kainer, Mart
ina Steckholzer / The Modern Institute, Scott Myles / Christian Nagel, Heimo Zobernig / Alexander Ochs, Yin Xiuzhen / Program, Agata Michowska / Parisa Kind, Lucas Ajemian & Julien Bismuth / Thomas Rehbein, Johannes Spehr / André Schlechtriem, Carla Arocha / Micky Schubert, Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz / Gabriele Senn, Barbara Mungenast / Sprüth Magers, Martin Wöhrl / Olaf Stüber, Marc Aschenbrenner / Thoman, Florian Kompatscher / Vamiali’s, Sam Herbert / van Horn, Manuel Graf / Vartai, Ugnius Gelguda / PROJECTS Berlin Posterverlag / Bless / European Kunsthalle / pro qm / Texte zur Kunst

COMMITTEE Sorcha Dallas (Glasgow), Gregor Jansen (ZKM Karlsruhe), Joanna Kamm (Berlin), André Schlechtriem (New York), Adam Szymczyk (Kunsthalle Basel), Christina Végh (Bonner Kunstverein)
PROJECT MANAGEMENT meyer voggenreiter projekte (Cologne) with Adelheid Teuber
PROJECT CONSULTING Christian Nagel (Cologne, Berlin)
ARCHITECTURE meyer voggenreiter projekte and Sebastian Hauser
Commissioned by ART COLOGNE/Koelnmesse
PROJECT IDEA by Neumann Luz, Cologne (2005)
LOCATION Hall 4 (lower level) A10 E11
DATES 18 – 22 April 2007 OPENING together with ART COLOGNE on Tuesday, 17 April 2007 at 12 am PROFESSIONAL PREVIEW and VERNISSAGE at 5 pm
CONTACT office@openspace-cologne.com
INTERNET http://www.openspace-cologne.com, http://www.artcologne.de

For more information go to: http://www.openspace06.com

PHotoEspaña

Campus PHE07
Photography Workshops and Master Classes
PHotoEspaña
Madrid, Spain
June 18-29, 2007
http://www.phedigital.com

CAMPUS PHE07, an initiative of the Consejería de Cultura y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid and PHotoEspaña, celebrates its fourth edition with 10 workshops and master classes given by international photographers in Aranjuez, Spain. The workshops, directed towards photographers, artists and university students, offer an opportunity to work with professionals specialized in different areas of the field. The master classes are conferences, which allow the participants and general public to learn about the trajectory of each instructor. This year we are pleased to host workshops by the following photographers:

Anders Petersen (Sweden, 1944). He has sought to portray a human essence with social images since publication of his first book, the legendary Café Lehmitz.

Gilles Peress (France, 1946). Member and twice president of Magnum, he has undertaken in-depth documentary projects on Iran, Rwanda, Bosnia and North Ireland.

Antoine D´Agata (France, 1961). Member of Magnum and author of Stigma, Insomnia and Vortex he has seduced the public with an intimate and intense portrayal of nightlife and street life.

Eugenio Recuenco (Spain, 1969). Fashion photographer, his sophisticated images with cinematographic ambiances are entrusted to him by prestigious labels and magazines such as Vogue.

Daniel Canogar (Spain, 1964). Using digital technologies, he seeks to alter photographic formats by exploring the possibilities of images in installations and projections that submerge the public in them.

Peter Beard (United States, 1938). His true passion is Africa, subject of most his books. In New York he has collaborated with creators as influential as Truman Capote, Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon.

Eikoh Hosoe (Japan, 1933). One of the most celebrated Modern photographers in Japan, he is a university professor and museum director in Tokyo.

Sylvia Plachy (United States, b. Hungry, 1943) A regular contributor to the Village Voice, she creates mysterious images of everyday life that set her work apart from conventional photojournalism.

Andres Serrano (United States, 1953) Internationally known for the polemic piece entitled Piss Christ, his conceptual photographs reflect upon the ironies of our society.

Isabel Muñoz (Spain, 1951) Using old photographic processes, she portrays corporal expression, from traditional dances to African rituals and circus acrobats.

PHotoEspaña2007, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts in Madrid, celebrates its 10th anniversary from May 30 to July 22, 2007. In addition to over 50 exhibitions presented in museums, art centres and galleries, the Festival also organizes diverse activities, including portfolio reviews, conferences, nocturnal projections and workshops.

Campus PHE is PHotoEspaña´s program of workshops and master classes, now in its fourth edition. In 2007 we are pleased to count on the participation of: Anders Petersen, Gilles Peress, Antoine D´Agata, Eugenio Recuenco, Daniel Canogar, Peter Beard, Eikoh Hosoe, Sylvia Plachy, Andres Serrano and Isabel Muñoz.

Location
This activity is hosted in Aranjuez, a small city just 45 minutes from Madrid by train. It is home to the historic royal summer palace and gardens recognized by the UNESCO as world heritage. The workshops are held in the CES Felipe II, a public university sited within the walls of a recently restored 18th-century building.

Schedule
The workshops and master classes are programmed for June 18 - 29. Five workshops are given each week from Monday to Friday. The workshop schedule is: 10.00 am - 2.30 pm and 5.00 pm - 7.30 pm Monday to Friday. The master classes are held nightly from 9.00 pm - 10.00 pm.
Language
All workshops have simultaneous Spanish – English interpretation.

How to participate
Go to http://www.phedigital.com/campus_en and choose the workshop that interests you.
Fill out the registration form on the web page and upload images of your work for the selection of students.

Due to the great number of applicants, PHotoEspaña will select the students of each workshop based on their curriculum and portfolio. The selection for the early registration will be announced on May 1 in the PHE webpage. A second selection will be announced on June 11.

If you are among the selected participants, you will have two weeks to make out the payment to confirm your space in the workshop. Payments may be made through the web page.

Master Classes are open to the general public and it’s not necessary to register in advance. We’ll wait for you in the Casa del Gobernador of Aranjuez from Monday to Friday at 9:00 pm.

For more information
http://www.phedigital.com/campus_en
actividades@phedigital.com
TEL: + 34 91 360 13 20

Campus PHE is sponsored by the Consejería de Cultura y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, with the support of Ayuntamiento de Aranjuez, CES Felipe II, EPSON.

For more information go to: http://www.phedigital.com/campus_en