2012 Armory Arts Week Schedule of Events:
Tuesday, March 6 - Uptown and Museum Mile
Wednesday, March 7 - The Armory Show Opening Preview Benefit at MoMA
Thursday, March 8 - Bronx Day & SoHo Night
Friday, March 9 - Long Island City Night
Saturday, March 10 - Chelsea Day and Brooklyn Night
Sunday, March 11 - Lower East Side / Downtown
Ongoing Events during Armory Arts Week
Thursday, March 8 - Bronx Day & SoHo Night
BRONX DAY
South Bronx Arts | Cultural Express: An Alliance of Bronx Artists & Arts Organizations
Join Partners The Bronx River Art Center, Bronx Art Space, The Bronx Council on the Arts, No Longer Empty as they host an Afternoon of Visual Art, Food & Drink:
South Bronx Arts | Cultural Express: Afternoon Activities Open Artists’ Studio Tours (self-guided)Studio Building I
Artists include: Daze (Painting/Mural/Graffiti); Juanita Lanzo (Painting); Matthew Burcaw (Mixed Media); John Ahearn (Sculpture)
Time: 1:30—4:00pm
Access: Free, open to the public
Location: 250 East 139th street (off the corner of East 139th Street and Morris Avenue), Building, 2nd floor walk up, Bronx, NY 10451
South Bronx Arts | Cultural Express: Studio Building II presents Group Exhibition: Vital Signs
Detailed, sensuous, bold, generative imagery painting and installation. Participating artists include Matthew Burcaw, Barbara Korman, Juanita Lanzo, Alexis Mendoza, Luis Stephenberg, Tammy Wolfsey. Curated by Linda Cunningham.
Time: 1:30—4:00pm
Access: Free, open to the public
Location: 305 East 140th St #’s 1A(Bronx Art Space) & 1B (Linda Cunningham Studio), Bronx, NY 10454
South Bronx Arts | Cultural Express: Studio Building III
Artists include: Edwin Gonzalez Ojeda (Mixed Media), Aristides Logothetis (Mixed Media)
Location: 220 East 134th Street Bronx,#2B and #4B, 2nd Floor, stairs,NY 10451
South Bronx Arts | Cultural Express: BxArts Happy Hour at Bruckner Bar and Grill
Group Exhibition: We Are Here: Art IN the Bronx
A collection of work from artists affiliated with cultural institutions across the Bronx. Curated by Bronx River Art Center.*Commemorative cup available to take home with purchase of drink at the bar. Music provided by DJ Lightbolt (http://lightbolt.net/) and DJ Q-Raider (Facebook fanpage: Q-Raider)
Time: 4-6pm
Access: Free, open to the public
Location: 1 Bruckner Boulevard Bronx, NY 10454
South Bronx Arts | Cultural Express: Longwood Art GalleryPresents Toys & Games with a Twist
Toys & Games with a Twist is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and board and video games that investigates and comments on issues of construction of gender roles and stereotypes, consumerism, hierarchies of power, globalization, migration, memory and loss, fantasy, the environment, love, war, violence, urban and popular culture. Toys & Games with a Twist includes a variety of Interactive Games in the Gallery so you can enjoy the exhibition and get your game on! An additional component to Toys is an Online Exhibition of Digital Media, an online interactive game room at www.bronxarts.org/lag_gameroom.asp where you can actually play a half dozen games on two computers set up in the gallery. The Game Room is an online portal and archive created to synergize videos, games, images, and other forms of digital media with the work exhibited in the Longwood Art Gallery. The Game Room is a continuation of BCA’s commitment to the digitally-based artist through the Digital Matrix and BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) programs.
Time: 10am-6pm
Access: Free, open to the public
Location: Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street) (entrance under the bridge) Bronx, NY 10454
Website: www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp
Longwood Art GalleryProject Room: Stations of the Lost
A Mixed-Media Installation by Sean Paul Gallegos, Stations of the Lost explores the growing disconnect from traditional religious iconography and belief systems in modern culture. Inspired by the biblical Stations of the Cross, Gallegos' fourteen stations become interactive meditations on our obsessions with material goods and commercial icons. He explores and unpacks how the traditional 'sacred' is being replaced with kitsch, toys and profit icons elevating them as objects of adoration and desire.
Time: 10am-6pm
Access: Free, open to the public
Location: Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street) (entrance under the bridge) Bronx, NY 10454
Website: www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Exhibition: Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect
Organized in collaboration with the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect is the first U.S. survey of this pioneering video artist and brings together more than one hundred works, including drawings, artist's notebooks, paintings, video and photographic installations spanning from early experimental work with art and technology to the groundbreaking video installations from the 1970s through the 1990s. Formally trained as an architect, Downey began experimenting with different art forms when he moved from Paris to Washington DC in 1965. He developed a strong interest in the concept of invisible energy and shifted from object-based artistic practice to an experiential approach, seeking to combine interactive performance with sculpture and video, a transition the exhibition explores. Downey quickly established himself as an avant-garde pioneer of video and technology art and for the next two decades began to explore invisible forms of energy and communication, describing himself as a "cultural communicant" and an "activating anthropologist." Organized by the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the MIT List Visual Arts Center
Time: 11am-6pm
Access: Complimentary access with VIP card; $5 admission for Adults; $3 for seniors and students
Location: 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10454
Website: www.bronxmuseum.org
SOHO NIGHT
Anonymous Gallery Presents Casa de Empeño NYC
Anonymous Gallery recently opened a group exhibition at its Mexico City location titled, Casa de Empeño (HOUSE OF PAWN).The show is a group exhibition based conceptually on the function of a pawnshop and serves to examine current systems of economy, currency and exchange. In New York during Armory Arts Week, Anonymous Gallery will again re-examine the same concept; providing unique opportunities for collectors to purchase distinctive works of art through sale, loan or even trade. However, taking the concept one step further, the gallery will literally be creating a house of pawn. Using a 24ft 1964 Vintage Airstream trailer, Anonymous Gallery has re-constructed the original mobile-home interior to serve a retail purpose; stocking it full of distinctive art objects. Throughout the week, this house of pawn will be traveling to various Armory Art Week locations and opening its doors to customers who seek a unique experience with art and commerce.
Time:2-8pm
Access: Free, open to the public (3-4 people will be allowed inside the trailer at a time)
Location: Various points around the City, check www.anonymousgallery.com/art/projects/current/cde-nyc for addresses.
Phaidon Celebrates Armory Arts Week
Join Phaidon to celebrate Armory Arts Week 2012 with a special sneak preview of our Collectors Editions from Pawel Althamer and Wilhelm Sasnal. Raise a glass to the artists and galleries of The Armory Show and receive 30% off all purchases during the night of the event.
Time: 7-9pm
Access: RSVP required
RSVP: “Armory” to store.soho@phaidon.com
Location: 83 Wooster Street (between Spring and Broome), Soho NYC
Website: www.phaidon.com/retail-stores
Rob Pruitt: The Andy Monument
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed at the northwest corner of Union Square just outside the building that housed his final Factory in the 1970s and early 80s. Adopting the visual language of formal statuary, the sculpture is nearly ten feet tall and celebrates Warhol's artistic and cultural legacy in the neighborhood and city he helped define.
Time: On view daily
Access: free to the public
Location: Union Square, 17th Street and Broadway
Website: www.publicartfund.org
Artists Space: DUOX4Larkin
DUOX4Larkin is the first exhibirion in New York City by DUOX, a collaborative formed in 2009 by Baltimore based artists Malcolm Lomas and Daniel Wickerham. Through functional as well as metaphorical aspects of repurposed objects, fragments of video, sculpture, digital images and printed matter, DUOX affects a vivid speculation on individual identity, and its self-conscious “design” through visual codes, physical possessions, and forms of labor.
Time: 6pm-9pm
Access: Public, No RSVP required
Location: 38 Greene Street, 3rd floor
Website: www.artistsspace.org
Walter De Maria: The New York Earth Room
The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany in 1974. The first two works no longer exist. The New York Earth Room has been on long-term view to the public since 1980. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, noon–6pm (closed from 3–3:30)
Access: Free
Location: 141 Wooster Street, between Prince Street and Houston Street
Contact: 212.989.5566 or www.diaart.org
Walter De Maria: The Broken Kilometer at the Dia
The Broken Kilometer, 1979, by Walter De Maria is composed of 500 solid brass rods placed in five parallel rows of 100 rods each.The sculpture weighs 18 3/4 tons and would measure 3,280 feet if all the elements were laid end-to-end. This work is the companion piece to De Maria's 1977 Vertical Earth Kilometer at Kassel, Germany. The Broken Kilometerhas been on long-term view to the public since 1979. This work was commissioned and is maintained by Dia Art Foundation.
Time: Wednesday–Sunday, noon–6pm (closed from 3–3:30)
Access: Free; open to the Public
Location: 393 West Broadway
Contact: 212.989.5566 or www.diaart.org
MTA Arts for Transit – Janet Zweig and Edward Del Rosario
Download a free podcast to learn more about Carrying On, found on the platform walls of the Prince Street station. Two hundred waterjet-cut steel and marble figures, each 6’ high, are cut into the tiles, forming a modern frieze. These are people we see every day traveling by subway, bearing loads, both heavy and light.
Time: Open Daily
Access: Self Guided
Location: Prince St station, N R train
Website: www.mta.info/art
CITYarts Mural: Tributes to Kusama: Art Infinity-Net
Executive and Creative Director, Tsipi Ben-Haim and artist Jessica Diamond present:Tributes to Kusama: Art Infinity-Net, produced and created by CITYarts. This event celebrates the mural by Jessica Diamond and New York CITY youth at the Thompson Street Playground between Spring & Prince and Thompson & Sullivan Streets. Tsipi Ben-Haim and Jessica Diamond plan to be at the mural, along with a representative from CITYartsTsipi Ben-Haim, Excutive and Creative Director, CITYarts and Jessica Diamond, Artist.
Time: 6-8pm
Access: RSVP required
RSVP: tsipi@cityarts.org
Location: Thompson Street Playground between Spring & Prince and Thompson & Sullivan Streets
Website: http://www.cityarts.org
José y José (California Dreamin’)
José y José (California Dreamin’) is the final work in Mary Ellen Carroll’s exhibition at Third Streaming—Federal, State, County and City (California Dreamin’), on view from March 7-May 26, 2012.For José y José (California Dreamin‘), Carroll takes José Feliciano’s cover of “Light My Fire,” as a point of departure. The eight-minute, twenty-second version was recorded live at the Palladium in London and appears on the double album Alive Alive-O!, issued by RCA records in 1969. José y José by Carroll is a photo-based work featuring Feliciano sitting on a stool playing his guitar, which is also reproduced on the inside cover of the original album. To complete the work José y José, Carroll has invited the singer/songwriter José Feliciano to perform a live cover of the Doors’ song “Touch Me” initially scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in 2008. José Feliciano’s version will then be covered later the same evening by a special guest to be announced. The ‘cover version’ is the conceptual basis for a group of works by Carroll that involve José Feliciano and is the final project in Carroll’s stream of consciousness/Rube Goldberg series, My death is pending because, that began in 1983.
Time: 6-8pm
Access: Free; Open to the Public
Location:10 Greene Street, 2nd Floor between Grand and Canal Streets
Website: www.thirdstreaming.com
ARTLOG presents SHOW & TELL at SPRING/BREAK Art Show
ARTLOG presents a series of talks, performances and interviews during SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Located in Old School, Manhattan's newest cultural multi-purpose space, the forum will include performances by Artliars, installation work by Miky Fabrega, and a signature look into the perspectives of curators and artists contributing to Armory Arts Week's latest week-long event. Performances will be taking place throughout the week, for a full schedule visit www.springbreakartshow.com/
Time: 6-8pm
Access: RSVP to rsvp@springbreakartshow.com or present your VIP Card for FREE admission or $5 suggested donation at the door
Location: The Old School, 233 Mott Street, New York City 10012
Website: www.springbreakartshow.com
SPRING/BREAK Art Show
Join us for the inaugural launch of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, a curator-driven art fair featuring curatorial perspectives from the city’s five boroughs. Located in Old School, Manhattan's newest cultural center, the art fair will repurpose old classroom spaces as exhibition platforms within the historic building's 4-story expanse. Touting exhibitions by 23 curators - SPRING/BREAK Art Show will feature the work of over 40 artists centered around a single exhibition theme. Curators include Curação Calymayor, Angela Conant, Miky Fabrega, Robert O. Fitzpatrick, Alex Freedman, Andrew Gori, Ambre Kelly, Sean Kinney, Natalie Kovacs, Patrick Meagher, Yunhee Min, Helene Necroto, PJ Monte, Lisa Pomares, Amanda Schmitt, Jamie Sterns, Cecelia Stucker, Maureen Sullivan, Eve Sussman, Chen Tamir, Helen Toomer-Labzda, Tom Weinrich and Manish Vora. Daily Show Hours, March 8-10, 2012, 12-9pm; March 11, 2012,12pm-6pm.
Time: 6pm-9pm
Access: Present your VIP card at the door. Complimentary to Armory Arts Week guests. $5 suggested donation at the door (Proceeds will support after school children's program at The Old School)
RSVP: Not required
Location: The Old School, 233 Mott Street, New York City 10012
Website: www.springbreakartshow.com
Tribeca Loft Perspective
Enjoy a rare glimpse at a surviving TriBeCa arts artelier with a visit to a loft exhibit and a short video screening of “TriBeCa: Looking at the Gentrification from the Artist’s Perspective,” a documentary in progress that focuses on the evolution of the predominantly artist’s working loft neighborhood. The artist community moved into the neighborhood’s large empty loft spaces that they transformed into live and work studios, making TriBeCa more habitable and ultimately desirable for real estate developers. This creative atmosphere is documented in the video piece by Gigi and Rodrigo Salomon, highlighting the “pioneer artist” who came to TriBeca between 1960 and 1980. The event, including a loft exhibit installation co-curated by Frank Gerard Godlewski, a lecture by historian Oliver Allen and a performance art piece, is presented at the historic Shields/Salomon loft on Leonard Street.
Time: March 8 from 4-9pm - March 9 − 11 open from 2-6pm
Access: Free, No RSVP Required
Location: Salomon Arts, 83 Leonard Street, 4th Floor
Website: www.salomonarts.com
