Preview: The AIPAD Photography Show
Matthew Brandt, Mary’s Lake MT 2; C-print soaked in Marys Lake Water, 2011; featured at The AIPAD Photography Show, Yossi Milo Gallery, Booth 203.
The AIPAD Photography Show at The Park Avenue Armory runs from Thursday, March 29 through Sunday, April 1. Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. Information. Stay tuned for DART updates from the floor.
AIPAD 2012 will present four new member exhibitors: David Zwirner, New York; Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York; Paul Cava Fine Art Photographs, Bala Cynwyd, PA; and 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing.The Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street, NY, NY.
This just in: Tickets are still available for the Opening Night Gala Preview, Wednesday, March 28, 5 to 9 pm. The AIPAD Opening Night Gala will benefit inMotion, a non-profit organization providing legal services for low-income women. Information.
This year, AIPAD’s panel discussions will be held on Saturday, March 31, at Hunter College, the Hunter West Building, located at Lexington Avenue, corner of East 68th Street, room HW615. Tickets, $10 for each panel, are available only at The Park Avenue Armory during show hours.
10 a.m. | A Conversation
with Rineke Dijkstra
This interview with the internationally recognized Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra will offer a rare opportunity to hear about her inspirations
and thoughts before her upcoming retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in June 2012. The interview will be conducted by Jennifer Blessing, curator of photography, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York.
12 p.m. | Curator's Choice: Emerging Artists in Photography
Two major exhibitions in New York City during the run of The AIPAD Photography Show New York are of note -- the Whitney Biennial 2012 at the Whitney Museum and Perspectives 2012 at the International Center for Photography. Panelists will include: Sarah Meister, curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art; Christopher Phillips, curator, International Center for Photography, New York; and Joshua Chuang, assistant curator, photography, Yale University Art Gallery. The moderator will be Lindsay Pollock, editor in chief, Art in America.
2 p.m. | How to Collect Photographs: What Collectors Need to Know Now
Speakers will include Kenneth Montague, director, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, and Joseph Baio, collector, New York. The moderator will be Steven Kasher, StevenKasher Gallery.
4 p.m. | A Celebration of Francesca Woodman
Panelists will include Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor, art history, University of California, Berkeley; Sloan Keck, a designer and friend of Francesca Woodman; and Elisabeth Subrin, artist, and assistant professor, film and media arts, Temple University, Philadelphia. The moderator will be Robert Klein, Robert Klein Gallery.
6 p.m. | Italian Contemporary Photography
During the run of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, an important exhibition will be on view at Hunter Art Gallery, New York. Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s – Present. The moderator will be Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Speakers will include Maria AntonellaPelizzari, exhibition curator and Professor in the History of Photography at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY; Yancey Richardson, Yancey Richardson Gallery; Julie Saul, Julie Saul Gallery; and Olivo Barbieri, artist.
Didier Massard, The Tower, 2012, at Julie Saul Gallery, Booth 435. Right: Nadine Rovner, Julie, 2007, at Gallery
339, Booth 417.
Also this week:
Tuesday, March 27
Book launch, 6:30-8:30: Champ by Thomas Hoepker. Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY.
Wednesday, March 28
Curator's talk, 7-8:30 pm: With Brian Curtain, curator of On the Threshold of the Senses | New Art from Southeast Asia. Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street, NY, NY. Drinks will be served.
Thursday, March 29
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Ron Gorchov. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Master and Apprentice:Hippolyte-Alexandre Michallon (1849-1930) &Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938), curated by Mark Beard. ClampArt Gallery, 521-531 West 25th Street, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Rudy Shepherd | Psychic Death. Mixed Greens, 531 West 26th Street, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Impossible Project | Group Show. Impossible Project Space, 425 Broadway, 5th Floor, NY, NY.
Book launch, 6:30-8:30: Roots of Style by Isabel Toledo and a conversation between Isabel Toledo and her friend Nina García, Fashion Director of Marie Claire. El Museodel Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.
Sunday, April 1
Sunday Sessions presents, 1-7 pm: Liz Magic Laser and Doug Aitkin, including launch of Aitkin’s Sleepwalkers box with DFA Records, and M. Wells cooking in the courtyard. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave | Long Island City, NY.
Monday, April 2
Book Launch Party, 7-9 pm: The Social Media Reader | featuring Michael Mandiberg, David Horvitz and Ceci Moss to discuss social media and its relationship to art on and off the web and articulating a theory of post-internet art; creating and replicating a few memes in the process. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP. Drinks are served.
This Week’s DART Picks:
Thursday, March 29, opening reception, 6-8 pm: The San Francisco Chapter of AIGA, Chronicle Books and The San Francisco Center for the Book present Fifty Books | Fifty Covers. Chronicle Books, 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA. Information. 50|50 in DART.
Saturday, March 31, opening reception 6 to 8 pm: Urban Exposure | India Ink Paintings by Mario M. Muller will run from March 31 thru June 30, 2012. Cero Space, 676 S. Avenue 21, Unit 33 (2nd floor), Los Angeles, CA. The opening coincides with the Brewery Art Walk’s 30th year anniversary and the gallery’s inaugural exhibiton.