Recession Art
Recession Art is an arts organization that serves emerging artists and aspiring collectors by providing an affordable and accessible alternative to the traditional art market. By showcasing top quality emerging artists and keeping prices low, Recession Art provides an unusually unpretentious place where art lovers of all incomes can participate in the appreciation and collection of original art by emerging artists. Recession Art’s mission is to open the art market to all art lovers regardless of their income, which will in turn help the careers of emerging artists by opening up a vast new market for their work.
Sara Bouchard & Careful Perform at Recession Art (9 Clinton St.) this Friday from 7-9pm!
ART + ANGER: Kenneth Anger Screening Party at RAC on August 11th!
ART + ANGER: a Kenneth Anger Screening Party
RAC hosts a night-long screening of Kenneth Anger’s short avant garde films
- by Erin Keane, RAC
August 11th 10pm to 1am, RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton Street NY, NY 10002
A prolific filmmaker of the 1960’s and 1970’s, Kenneth Anger created a body of the most influential avant garde films. Totaling at 3 hours, RAC will play nine of his most critically-acclaimed completed works in a relaxed ambiance with an informal seating area. Anger’s films center on and critique the dangerous allure of popular culture and Hollywood through their spectacle-based narrative structure. Visually, his pieces
Submit to Prolonged Exposure by RAC by Midnight, August 1st!
Submissions are now open for Prolonged Exposure curated by Kaegan Sparks.
Deadline Wednesday August 1, 11:59pm
Selections will be conducted by the Recession Art Jury led by Guest Curator Kaegan Sparks and Art Director Ani Katz. Prolonged Exposure will be held November 3-10 at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Accepting Work in All Media Including Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Performance, Installation, and Video.
About Prolonged Exposure
“I will not make any more boring art.”
–John Baldessari
Prolonged Exposure will ask how we can remain curious and speculative in a culture of desensitizing barrage and static. The exhibition will concentrate on artworks that plumb boredom’s latent energy, provoking a restlessness which precipitates a desire for change.
In scholar Sianne Ngai’s investigation of minor affects or ‘ugly feelings’– diffusive, non-cathartic states like irritation, paranoia, anxiety, or envy which seem increasingly endemic to contemporary culture and aesthetics– she posits a surprising parallel between shock and boredom. Though antithetical in intensity and duration (shock is immediate and staggering, while boredom is tedious and numbing), both emotions induce states of suspended agency: “both are responses that confront us with the limitations of our capacity for responding in general.”
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Reblog of the day: We love this glimse into the past in which a great artist and a great writer meet for the first and last time.
In the early 1980s, American poet Allen Ginsberg rediscovered negatives and drugstore prints he had taken over a period of 40 years and began to systematically reprint his old pictures and make new ones.
As Ginsberg inscribed the snapshots directly onto the photographic paper beneath the image, the camera gradually replaced his notebooks as a way of record keeping. Louise Nevelson, New York, November 9, 1986 invites a viewing experience that oscillates between reading and looking and produces the kind of self-conscious observation Ginsberg aimed to capture and foment through his poetry or, as he famously said, “to notice what we notice.” Ginsberg’s understanding of life as sacramental informed his vision of photography as a way to preserve a fleeting moment. This photograph, taken at the first—and last—time Ginsberg met the artist and captioned sometime after her death in 1988, is a poignant and powerful portrait that both records and memorializes their meeting.
Image:
Allen Ginsberg (American, 1926-1997)
Louise Nevelson, New York, November 9, 1986, 1986
Gelatin silver print
Charles Olney Fund, 2010.8
Chelsea Art Walk 2012
The annual Chelsea Art Walk is happening this evening! Galleries will be open until 8:00 p.m. hosting artist talks, receptions, and other special events, showcasing the vibrancy of Chelsea’s summer art exhibitions, galleries, and art spaces.
Chelsea Art Walk is free and open to the public, with festivities taking place from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
One of the feature songs of Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger. Come enjoy the film with friends and drinks on Aug. 11th from 10pm to 1am at Recession Art!
(Source: Spotify)
Nashalina examines the changing identity and scenescape of the Lower East Side. If you see a friendly blonde woman with a camera sitting outside on Clinton…
lower east side june 23 2012
nashalina photography
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Slightly jealous of Danny Ghitis’ excursions in Maine. Beautiful Instagram magic happening here.
#mainescapes 1 #beach #maine #landscape (Taken with Instagram at Popham Beach)
Submit to Prolonged Exposure, Recession Art’s Upcoming Show,by Midnight, August 1st!
Submissions are now open for Prolonged Exposure curated by Kaegan Sparks.
Deadline Wednesday August 1, 11:59pm
Selections will be conducted by the Recession Art Jury led by Guest Curator Kaegan Sparks and Art Director Ani Katz. Prolonged Exposure will be held November 3-10 at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Accepting Work in All Media Including Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Performance, Installation, and Video.
About Prolonged Exposure
“I will not make any more boring art.”
–John Baldessari
Prolonged Exposure will ask how we can remain curious and speculative in a culture of desensitizing barrage and static. The exhibition will concentrate on artworks that plumb boredom’s latent energy, provoking a restlessness which precipitates a desire for change.
In scholar Sianne Ngai’s investigation of minor affects or ‘ugly feelings’– diffusive, non-cathartic states like irritation, paranoia, anxiety, or envy which seem increasingly endemic to contemporary culture and aesthetics– she posits a surprising parallel between shock and boredom. Though antithetical in intensity and duration (shock is immediate and staggering, while boredom is tedious and numbing), both emotions induce states of suspended agency: “both are responses that confront us with the limitations of our capacity for responding in general.”
STREET FOOD WITH A SIDE OF POLITICS…
The Conflict Kitchen was started by three artists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh opened a take-out restaurant that only serves the national cuisines of the countries the United States is currently in conflict with. The food comes wrapped in paper covered with facts about the current country’s government, culture and the way the U.S. perceives it. It makes starting an interesting dinner conversation a breeze.
