ON VIEW AT 350 W BROADWAY FEB 26 THROUGH APR 12 WED – SUN, 12 – 6
ON VIEW AT RECESS (41 GRAND STREET) FEB 26 – MAR 20 WED, THURS 12 – 6; FRI, SAT 11 – 6
OPENING: FEB 25, 6PM – 2AM (MUSIC STARTS AT 9) / BRUCEFORMA: FEB 27, 6PM – MIDNIGHT
ON VIEW AT RECESS (41 GRAND STREET) FEB 26 – MAR 20 WED, THURS 12 – 6; FRI, SAT 11 – 6
OPENING: FEB 25, 6PM – 2AM (MUSIC STARTS AT 9) / BRUCEFORMA: FEB 27, 6PM – MIDNIGHT
Remembering Max
...Explaining who Max is has never been simple. After nearly three decades, current language still fails to describe my family. I have called him my stepfather but he was never married to my mother. I have called him my father’s long‐term lover, partner or companion, but these terms keep him in relation to my father alone and speak nothing of the relationship he had to me. For this, there is still no word. And so my brother and I are left approximating, scrambling to describe a family which current terminology hasn’t caught up to yet. Once, when my brother was little, he drew an accurate picture of us all: two grown men standing beside each other, next to a woman and two kids. When the teacher asked him who the extra man was, family lore has my young brother looking at her and saying simply: that’s my Max, as if everybody had one.
My parents divorced in 1982 when I was five years old. In February 1983, a freak snowstorm hit D.C. and shut the airport down. My father was supposed to be on his way to London that night but his flight was canceled and he wound up at a dinner where he met Max. There’s a picture of my dad reading a newspaper in winter sunshine on a dark blue sofa. He’s wearing a striped polo shirt with the collar turned up and khaki pants. Tan worker boots hang with the laces untied from the foot of his crossed legs. He looks butch and handsome. The hint of a smile plays at the corner of his mouth, as if he knows he’s being photographed. Max took that picture the morning after they’d met and two months later, they decided to make a life together. In July, they closed on the apartment on Columbia road and we all moved in that October. If Max had lived six weeks longer to the day, he would have celebrated his 27th anniversary with his love, my father. Instead, this February 11th, my dad will board a plane to Peru and bring Max, in ashes only, back to the family from which he came...
for more:
http://brooklynrail.org/2010/02/express/remembering-max
Amidst a general acceptance of the cash crisis afflicting the ICA as an accident of recession, and a headlong rush into ‘hairshirt' institutional self-critique as a way to deflect real scrutiny, JJ Charlesworth uncovers a catalogue of avoidable mistakes and the free-market, lifestyle thinking behind them
JJ Charlesworth
Alexander McQueen, the British fashion designer known for producing some of the most controversial collections of the last two decades, was found dead Thursday morning at his apartment in London, according to Ed Filipowski, a partner in the public relations firm KCD, which represented the designer. Mr. McQueen was 40.
Nilbar Güreş "Artists Beyond"
13 Şubat Cumartesi, 14:00
Garanti Han No: 115 Beyoğlu / İst.
Platform Garanti, 13 Şubat Cumartesi günü, 6. Berlin Bienali katılımcılarından Nilbar Güreş'i konuk edecek. Güreş, Haziran'da başlayacak Bienalin açılış etkinliklerinden "Artists Beyond" kapsamında gerçekleştirilecek sohbette, son dönemde ürettiği işlerini anlatacak.
Nilbar Güreş'in çalışmaları kadın kimliğini ve cinsel kimlik söylemlerini konu alıyor, kamusal alanda görünürlük taktiklerini inceliyor. Türkiye'de değişen cinsel rolleri arka plana yerleştiren Güreş, normalliğin, (hetero) cinselliğin ve cinsel sapkınlığın 18. yüzyılda icat edilmesinden bu yana yürürlükte olan, geleneksel ataerkil düzeni hedef alan çarpıcı görüntüler üretiyor.
Nilbar Güreş 1977 yılında İstanbul'da doğdu. Lisans eğitimini Marmara Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi'nde 2000 yılında, yüksek lisans eğitimini ise Academy of Fine Arts Vienna'da 2002'de tamamladı. Aralarında Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna; 11. İstanbul Bienali; Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt; TANAS, Berlin de bulunan birçok sergiye katıldı. Nilbar Güreş, çalışmalarını Viyana ve İstanbul'da sürdürüyor.
Let's Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity!
Kamu Art Museum, Tallinn
Opening on February 4th, at 6 p.m. Artist talks on February 4th, at 12 p.m. Exhibition catalogue (1.7MB) available here: www.publicpreparation.org/failid/hp/Kumu_A4_lores.pdf
February 4th – April 25th, 2010
Participating artists: Nanna Debois Buhl (Copenhagen / New York), Jens Haaning (Copenhagen), Raul Keller (Tallinn), Eva Labotkin (Tallinn/Tartu), Tanja Muravskaja (Tallinn), John Phillip Mäkinen (Helsinki), Csaba Nemes (Budapest), Audrius Novickas (Vilnius), Danilo Prnjat (Belgrade), Johannes Paul Raether (Berlin), Joanna Rajkowska (Warsaw), R.E.P. Group (Kiev), Twożywo (Warsaw), Shlomi Yaffe (Prague), Katarina Zdjelar (Rotterdam) and Artur Żmijewski (Warsaw)