A Little Woodblock Print From William Evertson [240]

William Evertson's woodblock print - 4 x 6" (for the exhibition A Book About Death, Australia)
http://abadaustralia.blogspot.com/
 
More from Bill Evertson: Here.http://www.williamevertson.net/

Besos de la Muerte (Kisses of Death) : Photographs By Rubén C. Córdova at Texas A&M University in San Antonio [239]

Besos de la Muerte (Kisses of Death) an exhibition of photographs from Mexico City by ABAD artist Rubén C. Córdova opened on 30 October and runs through  Feb. 1, 2015 at Texas A&M University in San Antonio, Texas. 

The exhibition features large and small scale photographs, both color and black-and-white, taken during Day of the Dead in and around Mexico City from 2001 to 2013.  The photographer and author will give a lecture at the gallery at 3:00 pm on November 15, 2014. All are welcome.

Córdova participated in several ABAD exhibitions including the most recent show at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Wales, and the New South Wales, Australia as well as the Treviso, Italy show, and several exhibitions in the US.   

Rubén C. Córdova is an art historian, curator, and photographer. He holds a BA from Brown University and a PhD from UC Berkeley. He has taught at UC Berkeley, UT Pan American, UT San Antonio, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Houston. 

Córdova has written or contributed to 11 books and catalogs, as well as encyclopedia entries and journal articles. He has curated 18 exhibitions, including shows dedicated to Day of the Dead and he served as an advisor and on-air interviewee for the Travel Channel program on Day of the Dead in Mexico that first aired in 2007. 

Córdova travels widely and has taken 250,000 pictures in the last 5 years. His work has been featured in 38 exhibitions. Many of the photographs in this exhibition will be included in a book he is writing about Day of the Dead.  He is also the author of Con Safo: The Chicano Art Group and the Politics of South Texas.  Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2009, as well as Arte Caliente: Selections from the Joe A. Diaz Collection. Corpus Christi: South Texas Institute for the Arts, 2004.  Córdova's Amazon author page is here.

More information about the exhibition and lecture here.

FaceBook page for the event.    Photos from the exhibition and event.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH WALES - PRESS RELEASE, POSTER & EXHIBITION LAUNCHES SATURDAY 18 OCT 2014 [238]

A Book About Death Wales launches 18 October 2014 at the Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales.

To help prepare, a press release in PDF is now available for download.  Please download the ABAD WALES PR HERE.

And please send it to a local journalist in your city.

UK artist and illustrator Rob White produced a poster for the exhibition.

Please use the Twitter and FB and other social media buttons below to send his poster across the planet and help generate interest and awareness of the exhibition, the 30th in the ABAD canon.  

To see the catalog and other details about ABAD Wales or to connect with curator Sonja Benskin Mesher please visit: http://abookaboutdeathwales.wordpress.com/

And while we have your attention, consider donating some money to support Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in their front line efforts to fight ebola.  We are all together in this fight, pitch in... Donate here.

ABAD WALES Set to Launch 18 October 2014 at The RCA Wales; Rob White Poster Created For The 30th ABAD Exhibition [237]

All information on the exhibition, catalog, downloads, press plese visit: ABAD WALES.

Satao, Great Kenyan Elephant, Killed By Poachers [236]

Satao was a rare elephant with tusks so big they almost touched the ground.  Killed by a poisoned arrow for his ivory tusks. 

Kenya's great elephant, Satao, killed by poachers. [NPR STORY].

Garbriel Garcia Marquez 1927 - 2014 [235]

Photograph by Helmut Newton.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (1927 - 2014), the Nobel Prize winning novelist, lit the world with his magic realism glowing from the fictional town of Macando.  He wrote about love and death in a way no one ever has before or since. If you haven't dipped into Garcia-Marquez's world, begin here: One Hundred Years of Solitude or here, Love in the Time of Cholera.  RIP master story teller.  

Gary A. Bibb's Prelude : Point Gallery, Denver - 4 April 2014 [234]

"Coup de Pinceau - Rouge"  (Red Brush Stroke)  mixed media w/ collage on canvas  20" x 16" © 2011 Gary A. Bibb 


A survey of nearly two dozen artworks by artist Gary A. Bibb are featured at POINT Gallery - Denver, Colorado - USA in the exhibit entitled: Prelude. Gary A. Bibb produced 500 numbered and signed drawings for the 2009 ABAD exhibition in New York City.  

See more of Gary's work here: Gary A. Bibb.

Exhibition from : April 4 - May 14, 2014

POINT Gallery  765 Santa Fe Drive   Denver, CO 80204 USA

Shirley Temple Black : April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014 [233]

Shirley Temple : April 23, 1928 - February 10, 2014. 

Photo: Courtesy AP.  From November 1938.

The New York Times Obituary: Shirley Temple

Breaking The Frame: A film by Marielle Nitoslawska with Carolee Schneemann [232]

Carolee Schneeman, an artist who exhibited at the opening of A Book About Death at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in NYC, in September 2009 is presenting Breaking the Frame, and will do so in person on Thurdsay 6 February 2014 in New York City.

All details: Breaking the Frame


U.S. Theatrical Premiere Run -- LAST NEW YORK SHOWINGS

Breaking The Frame  a film by Marielle Nitoslawska with Carolee Schneemann

*** **  *   * **  February 4, 5, 6 at 7:00P & 9:15P nightly ** *  * *  * ***

Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003

Carolee Schneemann present on Thursday the 6th.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/programs/premieres

thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux, A Possible Movements Production

To learn more about the film, and to watch the trailer, please visit      

www.breakingtheframe.com

Bookings: btfscreenings@gmail.com


Tickets are available at Anthology's box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales. Reservations are available to Anthology members only.

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014) [231]

Philip Seymour Hoffman Wiki

ART CALL: ABAD RCA WALES: [230]

The Royal Cambrian Academy                                         

Academi Frenhinol Gymreig Open Call: A Book About Death

An International Art Project exhibiting at the RCA
Organised by Sonja Benskin Mesher RCA UA
A Book About Death Wales Website (online catalog)


A BOOK ABOUT DEATH was launched as an underground, global art project in September 2009 at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City, New York. It was conceived and curated by American artist Matthew Rose as an open, unbound book on the subject of death. Taking the name, A Book About Death from the artist Ray Johnson, Rose paid homage to the founder of mail art and at the same time offered artists to explore the theme of death through post card sized works in an edition of 500; thus the “book.” The NYC exhibition was extremely well attended and set off a series of exhibitions around the world – ABAD – numbering thus far, 27, the most recent taking place in Australia. With an archival set of the New York ABAD show (487 works) new exhibitions touch upon particular, local themes but draw from a growing and global well of artists. All exhibitions invite artists to mail in their works, usually in post card format.

How to Enter:
Open call for art work from visual artists and writers etc to create a postcard size artwork 4 x 6 inches based on the theme of Death.

All work will be exhibited and archived and the artwork will not be returned but become part of the project.

Please post your artwork to address below by 30th September 2014

Work in the first instance to be sent to:
Sonja Benskin Mesher, Y Stiwdio, Tynllan, Llanelltyd, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 2SU
sonja@sonja-benskin-mesher.com

Please, send your works well-packed and write NO COMMERCIAL VALUE on the envelope. The organisers are not responsible for any damage during the transportation.
There is no participation fee and the work may be exhibited in the future.

An online “live” archive will record the work and other details of the exhibition as the works come in.

Exhibition dates: October 18th to November 15th 2014
The Royal Cambrian Academy ABAD show in Wales will be the 28th ‘A Book about Death’ exhibition. Included will be the work from the initial New York exhibition, as well as works from from ABAD Wales, at MOMA Machynlleth.

PLEASE USE THE BUTTONS BELOW TO SHARE THIS ARTIST CALL VIA TWITTER / FB / AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA.... Thank You! 

Ray Johnson by Stephen Lack : January 13, 1995 [229]

Ray Johnson by Stephen Lack.  The artist produced a small, 9 x 9 inch painting about Ray Johnson's suicide drowning in Sag Harbor, New York in 1995 based upon a photograph in a newspaper.  Ray Johnson died on January 13, 1995.   The photograph was probably taken on Saturday January 14, 1995 after Ray's body had been recovered from the water in Sag Harbor.

More Stephen Lack art work here: http://www.stephenlackart.com/

BENOIT DAVID: SANS REPOS [228]

Montreal-based artist Benoît David launches his exhibition of people trying to get some sleep, one of the most surrealist artists working today.  Benoît was was of the New York ABAD arists.  See more for his opening in Montreal on 4  February by clicking the link below.

Infos: http://licencedartiste.com/2014/01/09/benoit-david-sans-repos/

Peter Schyuff, The Whitney & The Woodwards II - New Album [227]

Peter Schuyff, artist who exhibited in the New York ABAD exhibition, will release his second album, The Woodwards II.  And there is a tour to England as well.  See the whole set up, pick up his album and get a ticket, check out his "bail out" video, and give him a hand for the tour : http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-woodwards-european-tour

And Peter was just selected for inclusion in The Whitney Biennial.

Peter writes from Amsterdam: "hey matthew, how is everything? here all systems go. i heard yesterday that i'm going to be in the 2014 whitney biennial. that made me happy except they're showing my pencils instead of paintings. whatever.  this new album is getting a lot of attention. i think this dog might hunt. anyway, we're doing a crowd funding thing to finance the tour. the motivation was more just to get some attention and make a clever little video. we can use the money but we're going wether we get it or not. turns out to be a brilliant way to tell stories. and we have a funny new tour poster." 

William Evertson: Photobooth Kabuki in Chelsea [226]

William Evertson, ABAD artist, has launched a weekend show in Chelsea's art district focusing on his recent prints including Photobooth Kabuki.  Exhibition: October 18 - October 20, 2013.

Photos of the installation on FaceBook.

Open all day Sunday October 20.  Details: http://www.highlineopenstudios.org/artists.htm

Address: Suite 304 (Ayn S. Choi/ASC Project Space) … 526 West 26th Street - West Chelsea Arts Building – New York City, NY.

ABAD AUSTRALIA OPENS [225]

See photographs of the installation and listen to an interview with Heather Matthew, co-curator with Julie Barratt, of the ABAD OZ show.  http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/10/17/3870941.htm

Installation views of ABAD OZ: http://abadaustralia.blogspot.fr/2013/10/are-you-ready-we-are.html

Danielle Voirin: DesCollages In The Streets Of Paris [224]

ABAD OZ: OPENING NIGHT [223]

Opening Night ABADOZ. Details: http://abadaustralia.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_2.html

Kim Triedman's: THE OTHER ROOM [222]

ABAD artist/poet Kim Triedman will be launching her debut novel, THE OTHER ROOM, at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA on Thursday October 10 at 7 pm. 

Publishers Weekly says "Triedman conveys a sense of inexorable emptiness that accompanies great loss," and the the book has been called "a vsiceral sensuous read" and "the true work of a poet enriching every possibility of narrative."

You can find out more about the book and the author at www.kimtriedman.net, and other upcoming readings/events in Boston and New York can be found on her events page. 

Her first official review was posted today at lifebycandlelight.com.

ABAD SEATTLE - THE BOOK [221]

QUETZALCOATL GALLERY: A BOOK ABOUT DEATH by ALMENDRA SANDOVAL.

View, download, the book from ABAD Seattle, via the hp magcloud site:  ABAD SEATTLE.  

Specs:  Standard, 8.25" x 10.75"  - 230 pages; perfect bound.

Buy/print the book for $57.00; purchase a digital copy for $5.00 (download); the digital copy is free with purchase of the print copy.