Sequins in the Sand: 20 Years of Miss Exotic World photography show in Vegas 

Sequins in the Sand invite with Kitten deVille, image copyright Lisa Kereszi

If you are in Vegas, please join in celebrating the start of Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend 2010-and a thrilling new chapter in the Hall of Fame's history: the grand opening of the new E. Fremont mini-museum and gift shop. Photographs by yours truly and many others. As part of the Weekend's many exciting festivities and performances, on exhibit will be  "SEQUINS IN THE SAND: Celebrating 20 Years of Miss Exotic World," the inaugural exhibit iof the Burlesque hall of Fame at Emergency Arts, a downtown adaptive re-use of the former Fremont Medical Center. The center has plans to be an artists' collective with with artwork even in old exam rooms. From their facebook page: "The aim is to bring working artists, writers, photographers, clothing designers, musicians, film-makers, artisans, graphic designers, dancers, retailers, actors, and start-up non-profit organizations together to synergize as a creative collective or co-op.

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"The Secret Museum" show closes June 6th in Brooklyn 

image by Joanna Ebenstein-The Secret Museum

In case you can't make it to Haarlem or Florence or even Philadelphia to see anatomical figures and specimens in "person," take an hour or two to head to Atlantic Avenue this week to view some documentary-style photos in the exhbition, "The Secret Museum," an exhibition exploring the poetics of hidden, untouched and curious collections from around the world in photographs and artifacts, by Joanna Ebenstein, co-founder of Observatory and creator of Morbid Anatomy.

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Stranger than Fiction: Yale 2010 MFA installation now in NYC 

Yale MFA invite 2010

On June 4th 2010, from 6-9pm, Helac & Wirth Art Advisory will be presenting the opening reception for the artwork from the Yale Photography MFA Thesis Show at the artist-run gallery space, 25CPW, located at 25 Central Park West at 62nd St., $5 suggested donation to support the gallery. Exhibit continues from June 2nd through June 14th, open 12-5pm. Rsvp by June 3rd to info@cpw.org.

The Yale MFA Photography program is directed by Tod Papageorge, and is taught by artists Gregory Crewdson and Richard Benson, along with Phillip Lorca diCorcia and Collier Schorr, and others. This year, the nine students graduating are: David Bush, Lucas Foglia, Kate Greene, Tatiana Grigorenko, Curran Hatleberg, Tiffani Hooper, Rory Mulligan, Hrvoje Slovenc and Monika Sziladi.

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Don't Die: Justin James Reed 

Opening reception: Friday, June 4th 7pm - 10pm

Don't Die | Justin James Reed
June 4th - July 31st

Stockbridge Fine Art
319 N 11th St | 4th Floor
Philadelphia, Pa
Tuesday - Friday 10 - 4 | or by appointment
215-629-4040
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The Artist Is Absent 

The Artist Is Absent

The Artist Is Absent Honors Performance Art Pioneer as MoMA Show Closes

Curated by Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Ariel Speedwagon & Quito Ziegler

May 29th, 2010 – 10:00 am to 1:00 am

25CPW Gallery – 25 Central Park West, Manhattan

For more information email: curators@theartistisabsent.com
 

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Ping Pong with Joerg Colberg, Round 3 

Round three of the ping-pong chats with Joerg Colberg of Conscientious centers on what comes - or might come - out of the impact of technology, the web and the Great Recession on photography. (image courtesy Douglas Ljungkvist)

Joerg Colberg: In our last conversation you brought up that SFMoMA panel asking "Is Photography Over?" I've never understood how that question makes even any sense - photography seems more alive than ever to me - so maybe I can find out from you why photography might be over or dead?

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Brazilian Photographer Bruno Cals at 1500 Gallery 

Brazilian Photographer Bruno Cals at 1500 Gallery

May 6-July 31, 2010

NEW YORK – Horizons, a series of architectural photographs by Brazilian photographer Bruno Cals, will be on view at 1500 Gallery from May 6-July 31, 2010. The six photographs in the exhibition are part of a personal artistic project that Cals, a well-known fashion/advertising photographer based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been working on since 2008. There will be an opening reception at the gallery on May 13 from 6-8 pm.

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The People are Present 

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present Photo by Marco Anelli. © 2010

I took my undergraduate photography class recently to see The Artist is Present show at Moma, the work of Marina Abramovic. As a straight photographer, and an artist who was not entirely convinced with most performance art that I had seen, I had some trouble explaining to them just what they were seeing and experiencing. It was more new to them, though, than it was new to me. I think I was a bit better equipped for some of the intensity and spectacle.

Well, it's performance art. Well, it's living sculpture. Well, it's like theatre. A diorama, a spectacular, a tableau, like the living panoramas just before the prior turn of the century. It's also a challenge, a threat. An intervention. It's entertainment?

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Miyako Ishiuchi at Andrew Roth Gallery 

Miyako Ishiuchi, Sweet Home Yokosuka

If you are in New York City, go see this current exhibition, Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980, of one of Japan's best photographers, Ishiuchi Miyako at Andrew Roth Gallery, May 13 - June 25, 2010. In conjunction with the exhibition PPP Editions has published Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980 - printing over 200 tri-tone photographs with a bilingual essay by the contemporary Japanese writer and filmmaker Nishikawa Miwa.

http://www.andrewroth.com/

From the Andrew Roth Gallery website: Roth gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of vintage black-and-white photographs by the Japanese artist Ishiuchi Miyako. The images on view were selected from Ishiuchi’s three earliest series published as: Apartment (1978), Yokosuka Story (1979) and Endless Nights (1981). In conjunction with the exhibition PPP Editions has published Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980 printing over 200 tri-tone photographs with a bilingual essay by the contemporary Japanese writer and filmmaker Nishikawa Miwa.

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The New York Photo Festival 2010: Last Day 

Sunday, May 16,

4:30 pm: Aperture Presents: Time Frames: An Artist’s Talk with Jowhara AlSaud

3:00pm: Use Me, Abuse Me: at Smack Mellon Gallery

Use Me, Abuse Me begins with Kessels’ a posteriori observation that easy access to photography tools and software results in quicker, more facile modes of image production, consumption and disposal. Perhaps a condition of this state, a plethora of photographers and image-makers are experimenting with pre-existing images and using them within their own work on an unprecedented scale. Photographs are variously collected, reinterpreted, cut, copied, pasted and generally abused.

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