DISPATCH – November 29, 2011 (7:08 p.m.) North Fork, NY and Miami, FL Waving a flag to draw attention is a time-tested tradition. Hoisting a sail to encourage tolerance and embrace differences may be on the way to becoming one. The fifth incarnation of “The Ship of Tolerance” takes to the waterways of Miami this week in [...]
Archive for November, 2011
“The Ship of Tolerance” Rises in Miami
Posted: November 29, 2011 in Art Fairs, Greenport, North Fork (other than Greenport), Public InstallationTags: Art, Art Basel Miami Beach, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Miami Children's Museum, The Ship of Tolerance
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Arts Flash – Jeff Muhs Painting Acquired by Guild Hall
Posted: November 25, 2011 in Art News, East Hampton / Springs, SouthamptonTags: Art, Jeff Muhs, Painting
DISPATCH – November 25, 2011 (Friday; 10:00 a.m.) East Hampton, NY Jeff Muhs has joined the select ranks of artists collected by Guild Hall Museum. The artist’s abstract landscape, “The Measure of the Fish,” is currently displayed in the museum’s lobby so visitors can see the latest addition to Guild Hall’s permanent collection. Christina Mossaides Strassfield, museum director and chief curator for Guild Hall, has been following Muhs’s art [...]
Sound as Artistic Medium
Posted: November 23, 2011 in Brooklyn, Film, Performance ArtTags: biennial, Christine Sun Kim, Todd Selby
DISPATCH – Nov 23, 2011 (Wednesday; 9:24 a.m.) BROOKLYN and NEW YORK, NY I was exploring the Internet for art and discovered the performance artist Christine Sun Kim through a video on Nowness.com. Photographer-filmmaker Todd Selby had visited Kim in her Brooklyn studio and made a film of the deaf performance artist. Further exploration revealed that Kim appeared at [...]
Secret Lives of Birds
Posted: November 19, 2011 in Etchings, Exhibitions, GreenportTags: Art, birds, Conrad J. Obregon, Dianne Martin, nature, Photography
DISPATCH – November 19, 2011 (Saturday; 1:30 p.m.) Greenport, NY Ever wonder what birds are up to when nobody’s watching? While revealing the habits of birds isn’t the point of the art, a new exhibition at The Sirens’ Song Gallery in Greenport manages to portray our feathered friends in a new light. “All A Twitter” presents works by [...]
Greenport Gallery Walk’s Last Hurrah for 2011
Posted: November 19, 2011 in Event, Exhibitions, Greenport, Painting, WoodTags: Art, Painting
DISPATCH – November 19, 2011 (Saturday; 1:30 p.m.) Greenport, NY This is it–the last Greenport Gallery Walk of 2011 takes place this evening (Nov 18) from 6 to 9 p.m. As Greenport’s art season winds down, it seems apropos to provide a glimpse of what gallery walkers can expect. But don’t worry: art in Greenport doesn’t disappear after today. Exhibitions typically remain [...]