For Illustrators: Opportunity Knocks
Earlier this week, Julian Knapp, Creative Director of the Legatum Institute, reached out to DART with a view towards expanding the global talent pool available to this London-based organization. He wrote, “We are calling on illustrators to submit their visual take on what it means to be ‘genuinely prosperous'.

“Our aim is for the winning entry to become the cover illustration for the 2013 Legatum Prosperity Index—our annual signature publication, which reaches an influential and rapidly growing global audience and is widely covered in leading media outlets, globally, regionally, and on a national level. Last year’s coverage," he added, "included CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Guardian, Forbes, Time Magazine, and the Huffington Post, to name only a few.” The top three entries, he said, will receive generous cash prizes in addition to international exposure and creative acknowledgement. CFE. Deadline: May 31, 2013.

This Just In from David Zwirmer
Saturday, April 20, 11:30 AM: Guided tour of the exhibition, Gordon Matta-Clark: Above and Below, with curator Jessamyn Fiore. This exhibition of late works by Matta-Clark (1943-1978) focuses on his activities as a filmmaker and features the artist’s explorations in subterranean New York and Paris alongside building cuts and projects involving aerial elevation.David Zwirner | 519 West 19th Street, New York. Free and open to the public. RSVP to Jill Smith 212-727-2070 x100 or jill@davidzwirner.com

Sunday, April 21, 7:30 PM at Anthology Film Archives | 32 Second Avenue, New York
Films of Gordon Matta-Clark explores the connections between the work of Matta-Clark and a circle of contemporaneous New York artists and filmmakers working with subjects and materials that influenced and inspired one another. This program features the very first screening with English subtitles of Matta-Clark’s Sous-sols de Paris (1977), followed by a Q&A with Jessamyn Fiore and filmmakers Jane Crawford and Robert Fiore.

Other films in the program: Matta-Clark’s Splitting (1974); Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt’s Swamp (1971); Landscape for Fire and Landscape for White Squares (both 1972), Anthony McCall’s sculptural performances in a landscape grid; Ken Jacobs’s training in spatial disorientation, Airshaft (1967) and Let There Be Whistleblowers (2005); and the gravity and entropy of Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed, as documented by Jane Crawford and Robert Fiore (2004); and Joseph Cornell’s early work, Gnir Rednow (1955) about NYC’s elevated subway train and subway systems (above and below).
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In Philadelphia
ICA presents the fourth and final Excursis project, which invites artists, designers, publishers, and others to delve into ICA’s archive and use what they find as a starting point for an installation (and also an online residency). The program was started by Alex Klein when she came to ICA as Program Curator in 2011; since then she has organized Reference Library, East of Borneo, Ooga Booga, and now Primary Information. Public programs this Sunday and next are backgrounded by the extraordinary painted linen “curtain” (above) created by Sarah Crowner as the centerpiece of Primary Information. Blog.

In New York City
Book signing, Friday, April 19, 6-7:30 pm: Erika Larsen | Sámi: Walking with Reindeer (below). ICP Bookstore, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY. NY.Information.

In Berkeley
Book signing and discussion, Monday, April 22, 6 pm and 7-8:30 pm: Marc Asnin | Uncle Charlie. U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Photography. 121 North Gate Hall, Berkeley, CA. Directions. 

In La Jolla
Opening recepiton, 6-8 pm: Amanda Means | Glass + Light. Joseph Bellows Gallery, 7661 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, CA.

This just in from Camera Club of NY
The Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce an open call for applications for its Annual Juried Photography Competition with juror Justine Kurland. Photographers and photo-based artists working in any genre are eligible to apply. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a cohesive body of work. The deadline is Monday, May 13, 2-13, 11:59 pm EST. Exhibitions/cash award. Information.