Top 10 Art World Announcements of 2010

What a year. Time for A&O to reflect on all that was, and look forward to all that will be in 2011. Here’s our pick of the litter, our top ten art world announcements from 2010. What are yours? 2010 Marked the Death of the Following 20th century Luminaries: Dennis Hopper Louise Bourgeois Harvey Pekar [...]

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White Walls Gallery Presents Dan Witz: “What the %$#@? (WTF)”

Dan Witz’s integrity in expressing beauty through subversion and an enduring interest in realism has sustained the artist a copious 30-year career. Known for his hyper-realistic paintings, Witz challenges himself to keep representational painting relevant in the postmodern era and digital age.  This challenge commands that the artist must continually grow and experiment in his [...]

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Food in Plastic: Paintings by Victoria Mimiaga

Through the traditional style of still life painting, Victoria Mimiaga explores the abundant and sometimes superfluous use of plastic packaging in the food industry. On December 30th, the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery at Caffe Museo will host an exhibition Mimiaga’s work entitled “Food in Plastic”. In this body of work, Mimiaga captures the ephemeral nature of [...]

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Donald Sultan to Give First AFA ArtTalk of 2011

The American Federation of Arts is pleased to announce that artist Donald Sultan will be giving the first ArtTalk of 2011, to be held at Christie’s, located at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, on Tuesday, January 18, at 6:30 p.m. ArtTalks, the AFA’s lecture series, features notable figures in the art world. Following Sultan’s lecture, audience members [...]

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David Wojnarowicz Video Now Live on Vimeo

I just learned from @paddyjohnson Twitter feed that the controversial video by David Wojnarowicz is now live on Vimeo. Thanks to P.P.O.W. Gallery for publishing and standing up against censorship.

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Hide/Seek: A Curator’s Comment on the National Portrait Gallery’s Censorship of David Wojnarowicz

“Bottom line, if people don’t say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.” – David Wojnarowicz This quote is from the website of David Wojnarowicz; a posthumous warning that foreshadows the recent ethical plight between the National Portrait Gallery and “A [...]

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Call For Submissions: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces Public Art Opportunity

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts invites submissions from Bay Area artists for a new commission for a public art project at YBCA. One artist will be selected to create a large-scale artwork on the glass exterior walls of the forum/galleries building. This is one of two buildings that make up YBCA’s campus, the forum/galleries [...]

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Coming Soon: “The Ruins of Detroit” by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Over the past generation Detroit has suffered economically worse than any other of the major American cities and its rampant urban decay is now glaringly apparent during this current recession. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre documented this disintegration, showcasing structures that were formerly a source of civic pride, and which now stand as monuments to [...]

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Edward Burtynsky: OIL

Edward Burtynsky is, in my opinion, one of the most important photographers of our generation. Stark, beautiful, and poignant, Burtynsky’s images capture man’s impact on his environment. Unaltered, Burtynsky’s photographs do not reply on tricks of the eye and digital enhancements to make some overt commentary. Instead, Burtynsky captures beauty in the difficult subject matter [...]

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Banksy Simpsons Episode

UPDATE: Fox pulled The Simpsons Banksy intro from Youtube for copyright infringement but you can still see it here. Everyone is talking about The Simpsons intro Banksy directed, and those of us here at Argot & Ochre are no different. The intro is brilliant: poignant without being too serious and a true act of covert [...]

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