July 2012
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Sara Bouchard & Careful Perform at Recession Art...
Sara Bouchard and Careful - once fellow artists-in-residence, sometimes collaborators and always kindred song-spinners - bring their solo projects together for an evening of eclectic, avant-garde folk.[[MORE]] Careful – 7pm Careful has played a blend of electronics and experimental folk aroundNYC for about 4 years, and releases its third album August 21st. Sadder and more broken than Sufjan...
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One of the feature songs of Scorpio Rising by...
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ART + ANGER: Kenneth Anger Screening Party at RAC...
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...
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Submit to Prolonged Exposure, Recession Art's...
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,...
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Submit to Prolonged Exposure by RAC by Midnight,...
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,...
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Mark Your Calendars! Come to the Kenneth Anger...
RAC presents a screening of Kenneth Anger’s Short Films Come party with us at Recession Art at Culturefix and enjoy the films of an artist who defined american avant garde!
Kenneth Anger, making films since 1947 and working primarily in the 1960’s and 1970’s, created a body of some of the most influential avant garde films. Totaling at 3 hours, RAC will play nine of his most...
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Man Bartlett, Social Media Artist
If the role of the artist is to respond to the society and the times they live in, Man Bartlett is probably on the right track. The young Brooklyn-based artist carries out much of his work through social media platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. These days, we spend a lot of our lives on our computers or smartphones, and we interact more...
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The Wassaic Project Arts Festival, Aug. 3rd-5th!...
The Wassaic Project Arts Festival Aug 3rd-5th
What is the best way to beat the August city heat? Get out!
Join RAC upstate in the scenic hamlet of Wassaic for a weekend of FREE arts events, including concerts, dance performances and exhibitions from the artists in residence.
By Erin Keane, RAC Intern
Watch a video about the festival
This project is particularly close to my heart because I...
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Sara Bouchard & Careful Perform at Recession Art...
Sara Bouchard and Careful - once fellow artists-in-residence, sometimes collaborators and always kindred song-spinners - bring their solo projects together for an evening of eclectic, avant-garde folk. Careful – 7pm Careful has played a blend of electronics and experimental folk aroundNYC for about 4 years, and releases its third album August 21st. Sadder and more broken than Sufjan Stevens,...
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A Soundtrack for Recession Art, Please?
Mussorgsky composed “Pictures at an Exhibition” after he the death of his beloved artist friend Viktor Hartmann. After putting on an exhibition of his close friend’s work, Mussorgsky was so inspired that he composed “Pictures at an Exhibition” in 6 weeks. If you were going to make a soundtrack for Recession Art, what songs would you send to us?
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Texts and Images: An Interview with Tate Foley
–Madeleine Dahl, RAC Intern
Your work synthesizes text with images to restructure and reframe specific ideas and experiences. It usually carries a political edge and addresses intense issues of American identity: race, expansionism (historical and present), and the consumption of tangible objects (such as oil) and relevant ideologies (such as supporting “big oil”). What brings your interest to...
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Ways to Hang Three Dimensional Art
by Erin Keane, RAC Intern
I’ve been inspired by the way that Kate Wadkins has displayed the Brainwaves collection at RAC. Lots of three dimensional art is really beautiful and interesting, but you have to get creative with ways to display it. So I looked around RAC and thought about ways that I would display our three dimensional pieces in my home.
First and foremost of course is the...
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RAC Presents Still Figuring Out: a feminist...
An exhibition and event curated by Ana Cecilia Alvarez
Opening August 9th 7: 00 pm, Screening at 8:00 pm and Performance at 9:00 pm
On view Aug. 9 – Aug. 12, 2012
RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton Street NY, NY 10002
“One thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists they have to live up to being...
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ART + ANGER: a Kenneth Anger Screening Party at...
On Saturday August 11th, RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix presents
ART + ANGER: a Kenneth Anger Screening Party
August 11th 10pm to 1am, RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix, 9 Clinton Street NY, NY 10002
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...
June 2012
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Yayoi Kusama At The Whitney
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Yayoi Kusama’s “Fireflies on the Water,” which explores the concept of infinity, is now on view. Our Kusama retrospective opens July 12.
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