Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Craft + Design Show
Opens Friday, Nov. 21, at 12 pm
Celebrating its 44th year, the 2008 Craft + Design Show showcases the high-quality, one-of-a-kind work of 73 unforgettable artists from across the country. Meet these talented makers from 19 states at the Science Museum of Virginia next weekend.

Hours
Friday, November 21:  noon - 9 pm
Saturday, November 22:  10 am - 6 pm
Sunday, November 23:  11 am - 4 pm

Admission
Members $10
Public $12
Three-day pass $15

Volunteers Still Needed
If you’re interested in helping some time next weekend, we could still use a few more volunteers. You’ll get free admission to the show that  day, as well as a $10 coupon good for credit towards a future VisArts class.

Visual Arts Center of Ricmond
1812 W. Main Street
Richmond, Virginia

Friday, November 7— January 29, 2009
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
New York City, New York

 http://www.aperture.org/gallery/

Hartmut Bitomsky’s latest film opens in New York’s Film Forum for one week.

Wednesday, December 3 – Tuesday, December 9
 http://www.filmforum.org/films/dust.html

All of the Parts, None of the Pieces
23 October – 16 November 2008
Opening: Thursday 23 October 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Wednesday – Saturday 12pm – 6pm
Keith Talent Gallery
Unit 1, 266 Cambridge Heath Road
 London

Contemporary art in the heart of Paris
In Paris during FIAC, french and international actors of the art world suggest you a selection of exhibitions and openings, national museum, parisian institutions, foundations, art parallel fairs to FIAC…

“You don’t know what you’re in for. It’s a surprise that tells you something about yourself that you already know, but are not aware of. You experience what being human is all about.”
-Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran

“Kick off your shoes (literally) and step into a universe like none other. Informed by the monumental discovery of mirror neurons and created alongside world-renowned neuroscientists, (according to neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, “The discovery of mirror neurons is the most important unpublicized story of the decade,” doing for psychology what DNA has done for biology), Amy Caron’s beautifully complex two-room installation-performance drives multidisciplinary art headlong into new territory. Her warped lab/lecture/experiment gives a nod and a wink to hard science while cleverly activating her “test subjects” to cheer, cringe, and discover through experience, a new awareness of the profundity of our interpersonal world.

The Waves of Mu experience will offer a unique multidimensional education, demonstrating the scientific and empirical integrity of mirror neurons. It will also present thought-provoking connections between mirror neuron deficiencies and autism spectrum disorders, thereby challenging our cultural concept of normality and its effect on human evolution.

Waves of Mu is presented as part of Room, a commissioning program created by Performance Space 122 to encourage artists to collaborate with experts outside the traditional performing disciplines.

 from performance space 122

6th September - 28th September 2008

For its fifth exhibition Supplement presents a new work by Rob Lye. For The Hand You Have Been Dealt Lye has explored the workings of an artist led gallery space. Lye’s practice involves the use of non-linear narratives, he is interested in the stunting or fragmentation of the act of art making.
Lye’s proposal for the show involved building a second gallery space behind the original gallery and then offering the show back to the curators of Supplement. Lye’s exhibition becomes a mirror reflecting the curator’s decisions and making them central to the exhibition. In blurring boundaries between roles Lye makes the curators overt collaborators in the work. The Hand You Have Been Dealt exposes the mechanics of exhibition making.
In line with the challenge of Lye’s proposal Supplement chose to refuse to make a complete show, instead staging a series of conversations with the artist and using this as a basis for their response. The end result is a show suspended between two positions, it becomes a collaboration in which meaning is generated through the interaction of its various elements.
The second gallery space behind the original is the artist’s edition, in an edition of 1.

31 Temple Street
Bethnal Green
London E2 6QQ
 www.supplementgallery.co.uk

  ShContemporary 08 returning for the second year to the spectacular Shanghai Exhibition Center promises to create an intriguing dialogue between the Orient and Occident art scenes. 150 world class galleries representing over 20 countries will participate in THE Asia Pacific Art Fair - the best galleries from the East will be juxtaposed with the top Western galleries.”Best of Discovery” a unique curated section featuring over 30 of the most interesting emerging artists from the entire Asia Pacific region will be presented in a unique museum style sales exhibition to the global audience for the first time. ShContemporary is cooperating with 11 specialized curators from the Asia Pacific region which guarantees an in depth research and strong artistic content of newly discovered talent never presented in an art fair.The new matchpoint of the international art scene comes from Asia. ShContemporary is the only international art show that provides a comprehensive, top quality overview of the artistic scene in Asia and creates a cultural cross over with the works of Western artists.ShContemporary 08 coincides with the opening of the Shanghai Biennale; offering art collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts an unparallel art extravaganza!

Exhibition Opening and Book Signing

Thursday, September 4, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Exhibition on View:Thursday, September 04, 2008 — Saturday, October 04, 2008Danziger Projects521 West 26th StreetNew York, New York 212-629-6778

As a staff photographer for Look magazine in 1968, Fusco was commissioned to document all the events surrounding the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy. In addition to capturing the thousands of Americans who stood by the railroad tracks to greet the funeral train carrying Kennedy¹s coffin, he also photographed the mourners gathered at St. Patrick¹s Cathedral in New York, as well as the dramatic night burial in Arlington National Cemetery.Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy¹s assassination, and just prior to the publication of the Aperture book RFK, James Danziger Projects presents an exhibition of this extraordinary body of work by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, including many never before seen or published images selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress¹s Look magazine collection.This exhibition, and the Aperture book, collectively provide a new perspective on this legendary photographer¹s singular achievement. It also helps solidify the status of this classic body of work as one of the great efforts in photographic reportage and an incomparable document of this pivotal moment in U.S. history.

August 9 – October 19, 2008

Works by Sanford Biggers, Anne Collier, Jesper Just, Tim Lee, Euan Macdonald, Susan Philipsz, Ugo Rondinone, Melanie Schiff, Wilhelm Sasnal explore connection between music and melancholy 

Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street, Aspen CO 

www.aspenartmuseum.org