Monday, October 28, 2013

Narcissus at Light Speed

"You're going to reap just what you sow..."
---Lou Reed, Perfect Day

New York City lost two controversial giants this past week: Lou Reed, whose song Perfect Day is perhaps the quintessential expression of what it means to cling to your basic humanity in this concrete jungle, even when you otherwise work overtime suppressing its significance in the service of your ambitions, and of course Arthur Danto, who gave hefty critical license to contemporary artists to make the art of our time look any damn way they thought it should, with an emphasis on "thought" that still chafes the necks of many to this day.

It's a sad day in New York because it's difficult to imagine their equals coming along any time soon. In the case of Mr. Danto, it's even sadder because it's becoming difficult to even imagine a platform in which his equal might be recognized moving forward.

I know it's only an entertaining and (in this era) understandable money-making feature of the otherwise rising star among arts magazines, but I wasn't the only one to notice a glaring omission in Art Review's Power 100 for 2013. Other than Liam Gillick (who's mostly there as an artist), there's not a single art critic on the list. A few years back, the list had included renown critics like Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith, but they've been displaced by, among others, Forrest Nash, the 20-something founder of the wildly popular site Contemporary Art Daily, which as Art Review notes "posts images of, rather than text about, exhibitions" and has over one million page views a month.

It's tempting to read this as a sign of our times and possibly even an advance. What is more important: text about visual art or actual images of that visual art? There's an elegance to the notion that supplying your audience with as direct a line to the artist's intentions as possible over the Internet is indeed more respectful and efficient than the often picture-less translations traditionally found in art criticism. Let the audience decide for themselves directly, no?

Well, only if you completely disagree with Mr. Danto. Which you're free to do, of course, but I'm reminded again of the cautionary tale in Alfred Bester's short story "The Disappearing Act," in which a nation so committed to the efficient, productive purpose of each member of society, that they left no time or room for poets to dream and thereby contextualize or make sense of the world, finds itself wholly and fatally unprepared to cope with the ultimate existential crisis. 


I'm as confused by what it ultimately means that no critics made the list as the next guy. The only clarity I have on how things should move forward is to remember Mr. Reed's refrain that we're going to reap just what we sow. Personally, I'd like to reap a rich legacy, supported by a critical discourse that provides evidence that even as quickly as we were all moving these days we still valued the poet's role in reflecting and connecting. There's value to me in being narcissistic enough to slow down, look deeply at ourselves in that mirror, and record what we see. Traveling only at light speed, all we'll see (or be able to record) is a blur. And while that may accurately reflect the high we're clearing getting from our never-ending joy ride, it will leave our posterity thinking we were a bunch of flakes.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Julie Evan's "Mylar Constructions" @ Winkleman Gallery & in the Curatorial Research Lab, "Three Turkish Video Artists" | October 24 - November 27, 2013

Julie Evans
Mylar Constructions

October 24 - November 27, 2013
Opening: Thursday, October 24, 6-8 PM

Winkleman Gallery is very pleased to present Mylar Constructions, a solo exhibition of new work by New York artist Julie Evans, featuring works mounted on panel, on paper, and directly on the walls. These works continue to address Evans’ ongoing interest in process and perception, combining the materiality and surface occupations of abstraction with the spatial illusions of representation.

In two parallel series, Evans continues to look to the natural world to construct painted forms – as body, as growth. She cuts countless shapes from painted mylar sheets, created by random pours and gravitational pools, which she then re-configures and seams together into unknowable mash-ups. While the cut shapes themselves are abstract, they contain within them details that allude to light and weight. This imparts a strange, almost creepy reality to the resulting aggregate forms which suggest the atmospheric, the geological, the aquatic, the biological, and the corporeal simultaneously. They remain indefinable and evocative, and possess the tension of an elusive familiarity. In a state of flux, these floating forms actively shift between whole and part, material surface and pictorial space, transparent liquid and solid form, amorphous fields of color and fine detail, evolution and decay. The many formal and conceptual collisions in these works bring both materiality and representation into question, confounding our immediate perception and challenging our assumptions of how we construct image and meaning.

Julie Evans is a visual artist from New York City, currently based in Hudson, NY. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited extensively in both the US and abroad. Her recent exhibition, Cowdust – a collaboration of works done in India with the traditional miniature painter Ajay Sharma – was shown at Julie Saul Gallery in Chelsea and was reviewed in both ARTFORUM and Art in America. Other recent exhibitions include solo shows at John Davis Gallery and The Baum Museum at Central Arkansas University, and group shows at Danese Gallery, Brattleboro Museum of Art, Lesley Heller Workspace, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, and McKenzie Fine Art. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, Art on Paper, Flash Art, Art In America, TimeOut New York, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to India, as well as residency fellowships to MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, Millay, and Tamarind Institute. Her work is included in over 200 international public and private collections, including The Rubin Museum of Art, US Art in Embassies Program, Microsoft, Progressive Corporation, JP Morgan-Chase, and Pfizer Inc. 

Julie Evan's "Mylar Construdctions" @ Winkleman Gallery & in the Curatorial Research Lab, "Three Turkish Video Artists" | October 24 - November 27, 2013

For more information please contact Edward Winkleman at 212.643.3152 or info@winkleman.com

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Three Turkish Video Artists

Nezaket Ekici, Gülsün Karamustafa, Şükran Moral
Organized by Murat Orozobekov


October 24 - November 27, 2013
Opening: Thursday, October 24, 6-8 PM



In the Curatorial Research Lab, we are very pleased to present "Three Turish Video Artists," the first curatorial project organized by Murat Orozobekov. Having lived in Turkey for 9 years, and returning regularly to visit friends and family there, Orozobekov has become increasingly familiar and supportive of the burgeoning contemporary art scene in Istanbul, and in particular of the artists there working in film and video (via his organizing the Moving Image art fair).

For this exhibition, Orozobekov has selected videos by three of his favorite Turkish artists (who just happen to all be women), including Şükran Moral's “Bordello” (1997, single-channel video, courtesy the artist and Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey); Nezaket Ekici's “Atropos” (2006, single-channel video, courtesy the artist and PIartworks gallery, Istanbul/London); and Gülsün Karamustafa's “Anti-Hamam Confessions” (2010, single-channel video, courtesy the artist).

Image above: Still from Şükran Moral's “Bordello,” 1997, single-channel video, courtesy the artist and Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey.

For more information, contact Ed Winkleman at 212.643.3152 or info@winkleman.com

Friday, October 11, 2013

The Growing Proasic Perils of Immodest Museum Patronage

The Sarah Jane Worthington-Krause and Howard F. Krause, III, Family Foundation and Charitable Trust Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Amy Lee, was smoking a cigarette just out beyond the David F. Crouchen Sculpture Garden and Pavilion, enjoying a well-deserved break from editing the catalog copy for her upcoming exhibition "Currency and Fluency in Contemporary Conceptualism: An Exhibition made possible in part by the Caren and Roland Livingston Memorial Fund," when she was approached by her colleague, Friends of the Department of the Old Masters and Renaissance Studies Senior Curator, Rod Tan, who asked to bum a cigarette.

"Sure," answered The Sarah Jane Worthington-Krause and Howard F. Krause, III, Family Foundation and Charitable Trust Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Amy Lee.

"Thanks," responded Friends of the Department of the Old Masters and Renaissance Studies Senior Curator, Rod Tan.

"Looks like rain," noted The Sarah Jane Worthington-Krause and Howard F. Krause, III, Family Foundation and Charitable Trust Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Amy Lee. "Which is too bad, because I'm supposed to go on a bike ride with The Australia Foundation, The Roger and Ruth Simpson Fund for Australian Art, and Kevin W. Vanton Family Trust Curator of Contemporary Art, Stu Daniels, later."

"I thought Stu was promoted to Thomas D. and Sarah E. Lewiss Charitable Trust Senior Curator of Contemporary Art last month, no?" asked Friends of the Department of the Old Masters and Renaissance Studies Senior Curator, Rod Tan.

"Not yet," answered The Sarah Jane Worthington-Krause and Howard F. Krause, III, Family Foundation and Charitable Trust Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Amy Lee. "Apparently the previous Thomas D. and Sarah E. Lewiss Charitable Trust Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Marie Sand, had a change of heart about taking The Walter L. Fallon Foundation, the Harriet P. and Patrica B. Urkel Fund, The Starbuck Foundation, Ltd., and the Kringeworthyyet Foundation Director's position and begged them to let her stay."

"Ah, too bad," said Friends of the Department of the Old Masters and Renaissance Studies Senior Curator, Rod Tan. And he went back inside.

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Moving Image London 2013 Opens Thursday, October 17

Events, Special Projects and New Additions
Moving Image art fair returns to London, October 17-20, 2013,  with a presentation of artwork by 34 artists, represented by 27 galleries and non-profit institutions from Europe, South America, the Middle East, North America, and Asia. Moving Image was conceived to offer a unique viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms.




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                          October 8th, 2013

Sylvie Blocher
Series : THE SPEECHES. A More Perfect Day, 2010; A More Perfect Revolution, 2012; A More Perfect Society, 2012; A More Perfect World, 2012; A More Perfect Country, 2012
Nosbaum & Reding
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Miia Rinne
“Sea,” 2013
AV-arkki
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Milica Tomić
I am Milica Tomic, 1999
z2o Galleria | Sara Zanin
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Ewa Partum
Tautological Cinema, 1973-1974
M+R Fricke
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Lauren Kelley
Big Gurl, 2006
Schroeder Romero
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Cliff Evans
Flag, 2012
Curator’s Office
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Karim Al Husseini

Dew Not (2012)Maraya Art Centre
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Josh Azzarella
UNTITLED #160 (BALCOMBE), 2011-2013
Mark Moore Gallery
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Jasmina Cibic
Fruits of our Land, 2013
LMAKprojects
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Constant Dullaart
Niagara Falls, Special Economic Zone PRC, 1994. HD video
Xpo gallery
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Luiz Duva
I N N E R S E L F, 2012
Galeria Pilar
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Alaa Edris
Kharareef, 2011
Maraya Art Centre
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Jessica Faiss
Exhale, 2010
Galleri Flach
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Zilla Leutenegger
UP UP & AWAY, 2012
STAMPA
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Noora Geagea
Match Me, 2012
Galleria Huuto
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Nermine Hammam
Metanoia, 2010
Maraya Art Centre
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Sara Ludy
“Spheres 1-20,” 2013
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
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Heta Kuchka
“Portrait of A Young Man,” 2010
AV-arkki
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Rollin Leonard
360º / 18 Lilia, 2013
TRANSFER
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Annika Larsson
“Animal (In 14 Movements),” 2011
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
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Simone Lueck
“ELDORADO,” 2013
Kopeikin Gallery
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Adam Putnam
Setpieces (reclaimed empire), 2008-2013
P·P·O·W
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Maya Zack
Black & White Rule, 2011
Galleria Marie Laure Fleisch
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Anahita Razmi
Replays/Replace, 2013
Carbon 12
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Aza Shade
The Disappearing City, 2011
Moving Image Presents
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Eve Sussman and
Simon Lee
Seitenflügel, 2012
Winkleman Gallery
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Leslie Thornton
SNAP: Oil/Air/Water, 2013
Winkleman Gallery
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Gil Yefman
In-Between, 2013
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
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Timotheus Tomicek
Swing, 2013
Jenkins Johnson
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Moving Image London 2013
Heather Cassils
Fast Twitch// Slow Twitch, 2011
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts


Moving Image art fair returns to London, October 17-20, 2013,  with a presentation of artwork by 34 artists, represented by 27 galleries and non-profit institutions from Europe, South America, the Middle East, North America, and Asia. Moving Image was conceived to offer a unique viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms.

Highlights of Moving Image London 2013 include five installations or single-channel videos making their world premiere, including works by Simone Lueck (Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles); Janet Biggs (Winkleman Gallery, New York); Sheila Gallagher (DODGE Gallery, New York, NY), Rollin Leonard (Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY), and Jonathan Monaghan (Curator’s Office, Washington, DC). Among the historical works in the fair is Ewa Partum's Tautological Cinema (1973-1974), presented by M+R Fricke (Berlin). Highlights also include videos by two artists currently participating in the 55th Venice Biennale, including Jasmina Cibic (presented by LMAK Projects, New York) and Aza Shade (Moving Image Presents, New York/London).


Janet Biggs
Point of No Return, 2013
Courtesy Winkleman Gallery

Participating Artists/Galleries and non-profit institutions
Karim Al Husseini / Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Josh Azzarella / Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Janet Biggs / Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
Sylvie Blocher / Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
Heather Cassils / Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Shen Chaofang / Y&M Space, Guangzhou, China
Jasmina Cibic / LMAKprojects, New York, NY
Constant Dullaart / Xpo Gallery, Paris, France
Luiz Duva / Galeria Pilar, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alaa Edris / Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Cliff Evans / Curator’s Office, Washington, DC
Jessica Faiss / Galleri Flach, Stockholm, Sweden
Sheila Gallagher / DODGE Gallery, New York, NY
Noora Geagea / Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
Nermine Hammam / Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Lauren Kelley / Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
Heta Kuchka / AV-Arkki, Helsinki, Finland
Rollin Leonard / TRANSFER, Brooklyn, NY
Annika Larsson /Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
Zilla Leutenegger / STAMPA, Basel, Switzerland
Sara Ludy / Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
Simone Lueck / Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jonathan Monaghan / Curator’s Office, Washington, DC
Ewa Partum / Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
Adam Putnam / P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Anahita Razmi / Carbon 12, Dubai, UAE
Miia Rinne / AV-Arkki, Helsinki, Finland
Aza Shade / Moving Image Presents, London, UK
Eve Sussman and Rufus Corporation / Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
Leslie Thornton / Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
Milica Tomi
ć / z2o Galleria | Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy
Timotheus Tomicek / Jenkins Johnson, San Francisco, New York
Gil Yefman / Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Maya Zack / Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy


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Jonathan Monaghan
Mothership, 2013
Courtesy Curator’s Office

Curatorial Advisory Committee

Sabin Bors
Founder, curator, and editor
Anti-Utopias Contemporary Art Platform
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Olesya Turkina
Senior Research Fellow in the Contemporary Art Department, Russian Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia

Julia Draganovic
Independent Curator, LaRete Art Projects
Modena, Italy

Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
Writer and Curator
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alia Swastika
Curator and writer
Yogyarkarta, Indonesia

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Shen Chaofang
Framed, 2011
Courtesy Y&M Space

Events, Special Projects and New Additions


Moving Image Award
Sponsored by Qiongbo Li,
founder of Guangdong Wanpin Culture &
Art Development Co.

Moving Image is delighted to include the second annual Moving Image Award to be presented October 17, 2013, the opening day of the London fair. This year, the Moving Image Award will fund the acquisition of an artwork from the fair for the permanent collection of 53 Art Museum in Guangzhou, China. The award is sponsored by Qiongbo Li, founder of Guangdong Wanpin Culture & Art Development Co., Ltd, in Guangzhou, China.


53 Art Museum is located in Guangzhou City, China, situated in a modern construction designed from repurposed rail car hangars, the site combines the history of the old industrial atmosphere of Guangzhou and the modern art pavilion aesthetic. Featuring 53 galleries within its walls, the museum is dedicated to the experimental, pioneering, cross-border nature of international contemporary art. Under the slogan of "Standing in Guangdong, with eyes on the world", 53 Art Museum devotes itself to promoting contemporary art, especially video art.

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Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 6-8PM

For the third year running Clare Holden and Joao Laia will host their popular Bring Your Own Beamer event (BYOB) in the attic of the iconic Bargehouse on OXO Tower Wharf during the Moving Image art fair. 

This collective showcase is open to the participation of all those interested. Electricity will be supplied but artists will be responsible for bringing their own display materials (laptop, dvd player, projector, etc). We would like as many artists and 
filmmakers to come along and make the most of theopportunity to have your work shown as part of Moving Image art fair in London, transforming the attic’s black canvas into an immense screen of moving image work.

Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) is an international movement started by the visual artist Rafael Rozedaal, an open source DIY curatorial format of one-night-exhibitions where artists collaborate on site to create a moving image performance. BYOB events have been held in over 40 
international cities.

You can still register to take part in BYOB London 2013. Just send your name and confirmation of the work you will be showing to info@filmcolab.org

http://byoblondon2013.tumblr.com/
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Curators Kyle Chayka and Marina Galperina will present National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, an installation of 16 emerging artists from the EU and the US who have created short-form videos engaging with the medium and concept of the “selfie,” the omnipresent slang for the digital self-portraits found across all social networks.

National #Selfie Portrait Gallery explores the range of performativity, personality, authenticity, and expression inherent in the #selfie form, from the instant gratification of its creation to the popularity contests of its publication. The #selfie is as omnipresent as the smartphone and as diverse as humanity itself.

The artist videos will be sold in editions of five for $500 each for the duration of the fair. Visitors will also be encouraged to contribute to the discussion by taking their own Instagram or Vine selfies and tagging them #NationalSelfiePortraitGallery


Full Artist List:
United States
Anthony Antonellis
Yung Jake
Rollin Leonard
Jayson Musson
Alexander Porter
Bunny Rogers
Angela Washko
Jennifer Chan    
Europe
Kim Asendorf
Rhys Coren
Jesse Darling
Leslie Kulesh
Carlos Sáez
Daniel Swan
Addie Wagenknecht
Saoirse Wall 


Contact information:
Moving Image: murat@moving-image.info
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Moving Image London 2013 will feature our first AV Bar
Staffed by audio-video experts, the AV Bar is designed to help answer the technical and logistical questions you may have about collecting or presenting video art.

The staffers can provide sample contracts and certificates of authenticity, a range of the latest models of projectors and monitors, and will be ready to assist with any issue you may have experienced, whether related to file formats, hardware issues, or aesthetics.

The Moving Image AV Bar is designed to help make collecting film and video art more relaxing and enjoyable.

Appointments for the AV Bar can be requested in person at the Moving Image London 2013 front desk during regular fair hours. The AV Bar is open each day of the fair from 12 - 4 PM.

For more information visit: http://www.moving-image.info/moving-image-av-bar/
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Moving Image London 2013:
Online Exclusively at Artsy.net


The exclusive online preview of Moving Image London will launch on Artsy on October 10th, one week prior to the fair opening. The fair coverage on Artsy will serve as a dedicated online resource for collectors to browse artists, works, and exhibitors, explore editorial coverage and top picks from art world insiders, and inquire about artworks remotely.

Artsy is an online platform for discovering, discussing, and collecting art, featuring 50,000+ works by 11,000+ artists sourced from over 400 leading galleries and 100 nonprofit institutions worldwide. In addition to serving as the go-to online destination to browse artwork listings and exhibitions from the world's best galleries, Artsy offers comprehensive coverage of top international art fairs. For example, Artsy’s partnership with The Armory Show this past March received over 250,000 visits from 170+ countries, generating an audience 5X larger than in-person visitors to the fair.

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Nitehawk's Art Seen and Moving Image London

Moving Image and Nitehawk Cinema are happy to announce their continued partnership for the Moving Image Art Fair. Once again three videos from the 2013 London edition of the fair will be selected to screen in the cinema this fall. 

Nitehawk programmer, Caryn Coleman, has launched a screening program called Art Seen, formed to cultivate the relationship between artist moving images and the cinematic space. She will choose three works from Moving Image London to be screened throughout the program. 

Art Seen is a monthly art-focused program showing artist documentaries, the art world in film, and artist-directed features that also includes a guest-curated artist moving image program pre-show. 

Nitehawk Cinema is an independent movie house with a selective approach to film, food, and drink. Located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Nitehawk offers audiences an unparalleled cinematic experience by combining first-run, repertory film programming, and signature programming such as Live Sound Cinema, The Works, and Music Driven, along with tableside food and beverage service in all theaters.

For more information on Nitehawk Cinema please visit nitehawkcinema.com.




Moving Image London 2013
October 17-20, 2013

Online Exclusively at Artsy.net


Moving Image gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our sponors and media partners:

                           


                            

             
                                  
                          



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About Moving Image Art Fair

Moving Image will return to The Bargehouse, October 17-20, 2013, during Frieze Art Fair in London. Located within short walking distance of Tate Modern, the Bargehouse is just behind the Oxo Tower on the South Bank.

Entry to Moving Image is free to the public and open Thursday, October 17, 2-6pm, with opening reception 6 - 8 pm. –Friday and Saturday, October 18 – 19, 11 am – 7 pm, and on Sunday, October 20, 11 am – 6 pm.
Moving Image was conceived to offer a unique viewing experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and appreciated on their own terms. Moving Image London 2013 will feature a selection of international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions presenting single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, and other larger video installations.

Founded by Murat Orozobekov and Edward Winkleman of New York's Winkleman Gallery, Moving Image takes place each year in New York and London.

Moving Image
October 17–20, 2013

Hours Thursday, October 17, 2013: 2 pm – 6 pm
Opening reception: Thursday, October 17, 2013: 6-8 pm

Friday – Saturday, October 18-19, 2013: 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, October 20, 2013: 11 am – 6 pm


Bargehouse
Oxo Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
South Bank
London SE1 9PH, UK


Bargehouse is owned and managed
by Coin Street Community Builders
www.coinstreet.org