New Work from Greg Smith on View at Susan Inglett Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Susan Inglett presents “Bearded”, new work from GREG SMITH in his third solo exhibition with the gallery from 30 April to 29 May 2010. A reception for the artist will be held Friday evening 30 April from 6 to 8 PM.
The Universe is built from a simple form. That form is commonly understood to be an atom and the shape of that form is commonly understood to be a sphere. For my purposes, [...]

Video Art Premiere by Internationally Acclaimed Cleveland Institute of Art Professor Kasumi

CLEVELAND, OH.- The world debut of Quadrascope, a 21-minute video art piece created by Cleveland Institute of Art professor Kasumi was one of the major highlights in this year’s FusionFest. Quadrascope premiered in concert with Groundworks Dance Company and The Cleveland Orchestra on the Baxter Stage at The Cleveland Play House.
Both visually stimulating and psychologically spellbinding, Kasumi’s work is full of highly charged commentary on world politics and social issues. Innovative, avant-garde work is [...]

MoMA Exhibition Illuminates the Legacy of Visionary Experimental Filmmaker Maya

NEW YORK, NY.- The legacy of Maya Deren, considered America’s first prominent avant-garde filmmaker, film theorist, and visionary of experimental cinema, is explored in the exhibition Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film, a five-month film series and video installation in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and lobby galleries, from May 14 through October 4, 2010. Deren’s innovations—performing in front of the camera, using semi-autobiographical content, and meshing literary, psychological, and [...]

Palais des Beaux-Arts Opens a Room for Spanish Contemporary Art

BRUSSELS.- The exhibition El Ángel Exterminador (The Extermination Angel), presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts BOZAR in Brussels, takes as a starting point Buñel’s movie in order to suggest later –leaving aside stylistic or trend logics– an encounter between artists from different positions and perspectives.
As the curator, Fernando Castro, puts it, the exhibition would work as a “tableau vivant, a living picture in which the theatre dimension is vital, as well as the ability [...]

Maya Lin Presents a Series of Four Videos About Mass Extinction

NEW YORK, NY.- From April 15–30, Creative Time presents multidisciplinary artist Maya Lin’s What is Missing?, a series of four videos about mass extinction precipitated by the degradation of natural habitats At 44 1/2. There will be a special, expanded schedule of screenings on April 22 for Earth Day. Maya Lin is a participant in the Creative Time Global Residency Program, for which she has traveled to diverse parts of the world to connect [...]

Lombard-Freid Projects Transforms Main Gallery Space into a Cinema

NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard-Freid Projects presents the first solo exhibition of Amsterdam-based, American artist Nina Yuen. Yuen (b. 1981, Hawaii) approaches video as a tactile medium. Her seductively honest and visually striking narratives weave elements of her personal relationships with found stories and appropriated personae.
For this show, the main gallery space has become a cinema showcasing a selection of Yuen’s recent videos in sequence. The artist states, “My work as a filmmaker engages with [...]

Fellini Legacy Lives on through Singapore Retrospective

SINGAPORE.- Fifty years after the release of “La Dolce Vita,” Singapore’s National Museum marks the landmark film with a grand, nearly month-long retrospective of award-winning Italian film-maker Federico Fellini’s films.
The tribute to the five-time Oscar winner Fellini kicks off on Friday at the National Museum with a special screening of his classic and about 20 other films ranging from “8 1/2″ and “La Strada” to “Roma” and “Nights of Cabiria.”
It is Southeast Asia’s first [...]

Gasworks Presents Two Feature-Length Films by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

NEW YORK, NY.- Gasworks presents two feature-length films, both shown for the first time in a gallery setting: I Want to See (2008) by Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and Struggle in Jerash (2009) by London-based artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White.
Set in Jordan in 1957 (Struggle in Jerash) and in Lebanon in 2006 (I Want to See), both films lay strong emphasis on the potential of cinema to create [...]

Tribute to Malaysian Director Yasmin Ahmad Includes the Acclaimed Orked Trilogy

NEW YORK, NY.- “Filmmaker in Focus: Yasmin Ahmad”, a tribute to the late Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad (1958–2009), presents her critically acclaimed Orked trilogy in its entirety, and a weeklong run of Ahmed’s final film, Talentime (2009), from May 5 through 12, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. It is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, and William Phuan, independent curator.
Ahmed, who was a discovery in [...]

“On Stellar Rays” Presents Two New Videos by NY-Based Artist Alix Pearlstein

NEW YORK, NY.- On Stellar Rays presents two new videos by NY-based artist Alix Pearlstein, “Talent” and “Finale”. Together the works explore the perimeters of the performance score, related shifts in subjective and objective perception, and the subtle difference between being, acting and performing.
Both videos share the same set, a dance studio which doubles as a performance venue, and the same cast, comprised of 10 professional actors. “Talent” consists of a sharply structured and [...]

Barking Water by Native American Director Sterlin Harjo Has a Weeklong Run at MoMA

NEW YORK, NY.- Sterlin Harjo’s Barking Water (2009), which was a highlight of the 2009 New Directors/New Films festival organized by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, will have a weeklong engagement at MoMA in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from May 12 through 17, 2010. Native American filmmaker Harjo traces the impromptu journey taken by weathered, handsome couple Frankie and Irene as they visit the stations of [...]

New Work from Contemporary Chinese Artists Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili at Iniva

LONDON.- Iniva presents new work by two contemporary Chinese artists at Rivington Place, with the European premiere of a film by Lu Chunsheng who showed in the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at Battersea Power Station. This is also the first solo exhibition in Europe, “Make Believe…”, by emerging artist Jia Aili. Both artists reflect on industrial progress, social corrosion and the individual’s struggle in the machine age.
Lu Chunsheng’s film, “The first [...]

New Films from Germany at MoMA’s Survey of German Cinema

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art marks its 31st annual survey of recent German cinema with Kino! 2010: New Films from Germany, from April 21 through 30, 2010. Included in this year’s exhibition is a selection of 10 features and 14 short films. Features by three leading directors—Andreas Dresen (Whisky with Vodka, 2009), Hans-Christian Schmid (Wondrous World of Laundry, 2009), and Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, 2009)—are highlights of the exhibition. Making [...]

New Multichannel Video Installation by Alfredo Jaar on View at University of Connecticut

STORRS, CT.- On view from March 24 to April 22, the Contemporary Art Galleries at the University of Connecticut will present a new multichannel video installation titled “We wish to inform you that we didn’t know” by artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar.
Alfredo Jaar created The Rwanda Project, 1994-2000 as a response to the criminal indifference of the world community in the face of a genocide that claimed one million lives. This project lasted six [...]

Solo Show by John Smith Opens at the Royal College of Art

LONDON.- The Royal College of Art presents a survey exhibition of John Smith’s practice with supporting programme of talks and events.
For the first time in the 18-year history of the RCA Curating Contemporary Art MA programme, final year students have decided to present a solo exhibition as their graduate project. Opening on 19 March, this will be the largest UK show by the pioneering east London based artist and filmmaker John Smith.
Much loved for their wit, formal ingenuity and use [...]