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Friday notePad: 11.14.2014

By Peggy Roalf   Friday November 14, 2014


Live, In Person

Monday, November 17, 7 pm PhilipGefter | Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, a conversation with Edmund White. SVA Theater, 333 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Live Screening NYC
Friday, November 14, 10 am-Saturday, November 15, 5:40 pm Creative Time Summit Stockholm. Live screening, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. Information. Live streamanywhere.

In a collaboration between the New York City-based Creative Time and Public Art Agency Sweden, the 2014 Creative Time Summit will take place in Stockholm.

Summit: Stockholm—the first iteration of the annual conference to take place outside of New York—will focus on expanded public practice, investigating uses and potentialities of art in the public sphere, with a focus on practices with social and political implications.

Art from the Creative Time Summit Stockholm website.

This year, with the Summit taking place in Stockholm and reflecting the larger context of Europe, it will investigate the challenges of migration, the growth of extreme nationalism and xenophobia, the uses of the public sphere, the fluid line between surveillance and our interpersonal selves, and, finally, how these challenges are met by artists who are re-imagining the public realm.Information

 

Looking Ahead

Thursday, November 20-Saturday, November 22 The City Lost and Found Symposium  The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL.

Keynote Lecture | Thursday November 20, 6:30 p.m. Newsprint Assemblage: Los AngelesRoberto Tejada, Hugh Roys and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Houston. Information

Panels and Reception | Friday, November 21, 9 am-6 pm. Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts915 E 60th St., ChicagoInformation

The City Lost? Bus Tour | Saturday, November 22, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.Meet at Hyatt Place Chicago-South, 5225 S Harper Ave., ChicagoInformation


Art from The City Lost and Found website

The American city of the 1960s and 1970s experienced seismic physical changes and social transformations, from urban decay and political protests to massive highways that threatened vibrant neighborhoods. Nowhere was this sense of crisis more evident than in the country’s three largest cities: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Yet in this climate of uncertainty and upheaval, the streets and neighborhoods of these cities offered places where a host of different actors—photographers, artists, filmmakers, planners, and activists—could transform these conditions of crisis into opportunities for civic discourse and creative expression.

The City Lost and Found is the first exhibition to explore this seminal period through the emergence of new photographic and cinematic practices that reached from the art world to the pages of Life magazine. Photographers and filmmakers turned to in-depth studies of streets, pedestrian life, neighborhoods, and seminal urban events, like Bruce Davidson’s two-year study of a single block in Harlem, East 100th Street (1966–68). These new forms of photography offered the public a complex image of urban life and experience while also allowing architects, planners, and journalists to imagine and propose new futures for American cities.

The City Lost and Found showcases important bodies of work by renowned photographers and photojournalists such as Thomas Struth, Martha Rosler, and Barton Silverman, along with artists known for their profound connections to place, such as Romare Bearden in New York and ASCO in Los Angeles. In addition, projects like artist Allan Kaprow’s Chicago happening, Moving, and architect Shadrach Wood’s hybrid plan for SoHo demonstrate how photography and film were used in unconventional ways to make critical statements about the stakes of urban change. Blurring traditional boundaries between artists, activists, planners, and journalists, The City Lost and Found offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the deep interconnections between art practices and the political, social, and geographic realities of American cities in the 1960s and 1970s.

The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Princeton University Art Museum. Continues through January 12, 2015.Information.


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