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In the past few years the New York Photo Festival came out of thin air to become the top hit on the Google Search for “Photography Festival” This years programming looks really diverse and engaging with interesting topics and speakers for everyone. Also, take a look at the Main Exhibitions and the Satellite Exhibitions. I will be covering the events on this blog as will as tweeting along. If you are there please introduce yourself – I would live to meet you.

Programming during NYPH ’10

Thursday, May 13

8:30-10pm:

New Waves and Documentations – An evening of special screenings at St. Ann’s Warehouse, featuring:

Lou Reed presents: Hidden Books, Hidden Stories – 15″

INSTITUTE presents: Where Storytelling Lives – 30”  (Featuring new works by Academy Award nominated filmmaker James Longley, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield, Gillian Laub, Guillaume Herbaut, Jehad Nga, Zed Nelson, Lorena Ros, and Jeff Jacobson).

Purpose Magazine presents: Desire – 35”

Friday, May 14

8:30-9:30pm: New York Photo Awards Ceremony at St. Ann’s Warehouse

9:30pm +: New York Photo Awards Ceremony After-Party at the powerHouse Arena

Saturday, May 15

Introducing the New York Photo Festival’s Night of Images, featuring:

Extended Exhibition Hours (all venues 8pm – 10pm)

Outdoor projections at the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza (8pm +)

World Visions: Emerging Photographers, curated by Michelle Bogre – 40″

Human Rights and Multimedia presented by Anthropographia – 100″

Slideluck Potshow XV at the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge (7pm +)

Sunday, May 16

This should be interesting. Especially in light of the all the technology talk I have been having – it will be interesting to here these artist’s perspective.

Open Cover Before Striking
Confounding Expectations. Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 8, 2010
7:00 pm

FREE

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York

Aperture and the photography department in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School present a panel discussion with artists Roe Ethridge, Collier Schorr, and James Hoff & Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information, to discuss the pressing question: As print faces the encroachment of digital technology and the mainstreaming of online culture, what is the viability of the printed and published form of photography—monographic, serial, underground, or otherwise—as a means of artistic production? This panel discussion will be moderated by Gil Blank, artist and founding editor of Influence magazine.

Roe Ethridge received a BFA in photography at the College of Art in Atlanta. Ethridge’s images emanate from his direct experience of the world. His focus is multiple and restless as he works to capture the vivid and intimate details of his various locales. In so doing, he moves freely among the classic genres of the photographic medium—portrait, landscape, and still life. Ethridge’s work has recently been exhibited at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: MOCA, Los Angeles: ICA, Boston and gallery exhibitions at Barbara Gladstone, Brussels and Rathole, Tokyo. His work has been featured in Vice magazine, Blind Spot, A magazine and i-D. Recent monographs include Rockaway, NY (2008) and Farewell Horse (2009). Ethridge will be included in the exhibition “New Photography 2010″ at MOMA, New York.

Collier Schorr attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr’s pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. Schorr’s work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial. Schorr has exhibited her work at venues such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Villa Romana; Florance, Italy, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany. Working with SteidlMack, Schorr has published the monographs Jens F., Neighbors, There I Was, and Blumen. In June 2010 Schorr’s work will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition titled “German Face” at the Museu Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon Portugal in conjunction with this summer’s PhotoEspana, and will travel to CoCA Kronika in Bytom, Poland for the Ars Cameralis Festival in November 2010.

Primary Information is a non-profit organization formed in 2006 by James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff with the mission to publish and distribute artists’ books and artists’ writings. It is the firm belief of the founders that publications are essential to contemporary and historic artistic practice as they are more accessible than the conventional museum or gallery exhibition, which can only reach a finite number of people.

Gil Blank is a photographer and a frequent writer on the social, political, and historical contexts of current photographic practices. He has served as a contributing editor of photographic criticism for Art On Paper, Issue, and Whitewall magazines, and was a founding editor of Influence, an independently published magazine devoted to contemporary image-making. His writing regularly appears in monographs, including Freischwimmer, by Wolfgang Tillmans (2005), and White Planet, Black Heart, by Torbjorn Rodland (2006), as well as in surveys such as In Numbers: Serial Artist Editions, 1955–2008 (2009) and Words Without Pictures, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Aperture, 2010).

Yesterday the one year experiment called the X INITIATIVE ended with a marathon 24 hour art show. BRING YOUR OWN ART (BYOA) began at 11 am on February 3rd and continued, doors open until February 4th officially closing at 11 am with all work left in the building would become trash if not picked up. This process reminded me of the closing event for the Miami space The House. They lost their lease to a group of condo developers and for their closing event everyone was asked to put a piece of art up that would be destroyed with the building.

I arrived at after dinner to put up a handful of my Black Sun Project images with a mini project called “10 Suns for 2010.” The space was a busy workshop with a mix of artists friends and viewers all roaming around and enjoying the spectacle. The first floor had a rotating open stage where bands and musicians could sign up for time slots. The second and third floors of the space were reserved for artwork.

I had learned of this event via Jerry Saltz and his popular Facebook page. During the evening the New York Magazine art critic roamed the floors of the gallery offering free on the spot critiques. After I walked through the two floors and installed my images I was able to talk with him. We discussed my work and the event itself. He was very approachable in person and you could tell he was enjoying the interaction and the event.

The diversity of work was amazing. It would have been very hard to curate a show like this but this event was more then sum of the work on its walls. It was a show for the ages. This crowd-sourced art / performance / Relational Aesthetic was an experiential tour-de-force.

I placed my Black Sun pictures in spaces next to work that I thought they worked well with. Take a look at the installation pictures below. Also, if your work is in any of the pictures please let me know and I will make a caption and link to your website.

Here is the aftermath of the event when I picked up my work:

Goodbye 2009 and good riddance!

Heres to the beginning of a new non-”lost decade” Let’s make this one count! Dust your shoulders off and let’s get down to work.

-best

h

Johanna Heldebro, “Night Watch chapter 4 excerpt,” 2009

2009 Fall Solo Show Artist
Johanna Heldebro Presents
To Come Within Reach of You
December 18, 7 to 10 p, Free Admission & Drinks

Johanna Heldebro presents images and video documenting the daily life of her father, who disappeared from her life two years prior. After searching his name on the internet, Heldebro travels to Stockholm, Sweden to obsessively follow him, creating a series that refigures comfortable notions of adult identity. Join us for this compelling body of work that is at time as coldly detached as it is uncomfortably personal.

Complimentary Bear Flag Wine & Colt 45. Music from DJ Tanner.

RSVP events@3rdward.com

On display through December 27.

More images from Johanna Heldebro’s series:

Johanna Heldebro, “Finding My Way Inside chapter 2 excerpt,” 2009

Johanna Heldebro, “Finding My Way Inside chapter 2 excerpt,” 2009

Johanna Heldebro, “Autonomy chapter 5 excerpt,” 2009

Tomorrow evening, December 15th, I’ll be moderating and chatting with Todd Walker for a chat about the future of the photobook. We’ll be online to talk the future of the photobook from 9-10 pm Eastern / 6-7 pm Pacific.

This will be the first in a series of regular Tuesday night tweetchats. Since this is the first time we’ve tried something like this it’s going to be experimental. I have borrowed this idea from the book / literature community, which holds weekly tweetchats. To see what they are talking about twitter search #litchat #yalitchat #kidlitchat and you’ll get and idea. I hope to get the entire photographic community involved with these tweetchats. The amazing part is the way the literature community has embraced this forum. Everyone from literary agents to authors to editors and readers and fans are able to join in to the conversations.

For our art photography chats anyone can join in or just read it live by using the hashtag #photoartchat on Twitter. One easier way to transform twitter into a chat room is Tweetchat.com and entering the photoartchat room here: http://tweetchat.com/room/photoartchat.

PS., you should follow OcularOctopus on Twitter, here:http://twitter.com/OcularOctopus and me here: http://twitter.com/harlanerskine

Here is what went down on the first big day of Art Basel Miami Beach. My day began with the opening of the main fair and ended with a bang O.H.W.O.W. and Max Fish in Miami.

The rush of people waiting to get into Art Basel Miami Beach’s opening night vernassage.

Dieter Applet (made 1977, printed 2007) at Kicken Berlin in their collection “Ninety years of Bauhaus.”

A huge Robert Longo forrest drawing at the Margo Leavin Gallery.

The irristable glow of a Dan Flavin at the Margo Leavin Gallery.

Roni Horn’s “Suite #4,” 1991-94 Suite of 4 offset lithographs at the Margo Leavin Gallery.

Ger van Elk’s “The Co-Founder of the Word O.K.-Hollywood,” 1971, Three color photographs at the Margo Leavin Gallery.

A huge Sterling Ruby peace “American Risk” 2009, dripping for your attention at Pace Wildenstein.

Evan Perry’s warped life-like sculptures are always a crowd draw are on exhibit at the Sperone Waterstone.

Fantastic Obama Inauguration photos by Mauro Restiffe at Galeria Fortes Vilaca made you wander what era they were produced in.

The sad 1980′s era bathrooms at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

“Welcom e Art Basel” announced the Days Inn on 20th and Collins Ave.

The other side said “Have a n ice day” like it always does.

The sculpture at Art Basel Miami Beach Oceanfront nights.

The entrance of the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

Aaron Young, “Locals Only,” Burnt rubber and resin on glass panel, 5′ x 7′, 2009 at IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

David Lynch and Danger Mouse project “Dark Night of the Soul” at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery. The LED light above the photographs would light up when the music playing was arranged for that group of images.

David Lynch and Danger Mouse project “Dark Night of the Soul” at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

Iggy Pop making an appearance at the David Lynch and Danger Mouse project “Dark Night of the Soul” at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

The rooftop performance by French composer Koudlam above outdoor screening of Cyprien Gaillard’s Crazy Horse accompanied by smoke and people waving flares at IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

an unannounced annonymous performance at IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 at the O.H.W.O.W. Gallery.

Funny storm troupers guarding(?) the Vagabond.

Max Fish invades the old PS 14 Space for the Fish’s 20 year anniversary.

Looking toward the front of the Bar at Max Fish in Miami.

Looking toward the stage of the Bar at Max Fish in Miami.

New York graff artists gave the Miami bathrooms of the remade Max Fish the New York treatment.

more bathroom views at Max Fish.

One last bathroom views at Max Fish.

Freegums Sky’s The Limit poster is installed across the street from the bar.

As I departed more posters were being installed.

I got into Miami yesterday afternoon under ideal flying conditions. Last night the Design District was buzzing with activity including the opening of the new Friends With You Boutique. Check out the pictures below.

For this year’s Basel I will be blogging / twittering as the fair goes on. I will be posting the highlights of the events and the standout art works that surprise or titillate me. I will also be updating my event lists as I learn more about them. Please send me any events I should know about.

There are so many great events this year for Miami’s Art Basel mayhem. I am whittling through all that’s happening and posting my picks to this post.

To jump to a specific date please click a date below:

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Please send me any suggestions for events and opening I don’t have listed.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

FriendsWithYou Boutique Launch Party!
Tuesday December 1, 2009 , 6:00pm – 10:00pm
3930 NE 2nd Ave, Suite 202
Miami, FL 33137

This Art Basel Miami 2009, we invite you to join us for the grand opening of the first FriendsWithYou boutique, where the philosophy is to “Shop Happy”! Created to be a place where fine art meets consumer products, the boutique will open accompanied by a new line of limited edition merchandise including apparel, fine art, sculptures, prints, collectible toys and everything FriendsWithYou! To celebrate, we will host a special launch event and artist signing Tuesday, December 1st from 6pm to 10pm. As a special gift, all attendees will receive a free Super Malfi with purchase of any FriendsWithYou product!

We are super excited to unveil our flagship boutique as a part of our brand-new headquarters located in the heart of Miami’s Design District. As the official Art Basel Miami location for FriendsWithYou, our boutique is a special portal into a wonderful world of happiness! Experience the Magic, Luck, and Friendship this Art Basel Miami 2009 and “Shop Happy” with FriendsWithYou!!!

“Opening Night Reception” at Photo Miami
Wynwood Art District: 3401 North Miami Avenue, VIP only, 6-10pm

Preview: “VIP Preview” at Art Miami (Art Miami Pavilion)
Wynwood Art District: NW 31st St and Midtown Blvd, (access for Art Miami VIP cardholders & Press), 7-10:30pm

“The Miami Poetry Collective” (Locust Projects courtyard) at Locust Projects
Design District: 155 NE 38th Street , suite 100, 6-10pm

Francesca DiMattio “Decollage” at Locust Projects
Design District: 155 NE 38th Street , suite 100, 6-10pm

“Vernissage” at Design Miami
Downtown Miami: NE 39th Street and 1st Court, By invitation only, 6-10pm

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Performance: “Opening Night with the annual Art Loves Music concert on the beach featuring Ebony Bones (UK), supported by Amanda Blank (USA)” in collaboration with Creative Time at Art Basel Miami Beach (Oceanfront Nights)
Miami Beach: Miami Beach Dr at 21st Street, (Oceanfront), 6pm-midnight

Aaron Young, Locals Only, Burnt rubber and resin on glass panel, 5′ x 7′, 2009

IT AIN’T FAIR 2009 Opening Wednesday 8 pm at O.H.W.O.W. Gallery
The second installment of It Ain’t Fair promises to be even more spectacular than our inaugural exhibition. Calling on our community for participation, we assembled an international group show comprised of over 30 artists that we feel are creating the most relevant work today including Rita Ackermann, Tim Barber, Lizzy Bougatsos, Scott Campbell, Julia Chiang, Barb Choit, Peter Chung, Brian Degraw, Ry Fyan, Cyprien Gaillard, Michael Genovese, Todd James, KAWS, Zak Kitnick, Terence Koh, Harmony Korine, Andrew Kuo, Nate Lowman, Ari Marcopoulos, Adam Marnie, Megan Marrin, Adam McEwen, Santiago Mostyn, Neck Face, Keiichi Nitta, Jose Parla, Erik Parker, Brad Phillips, Kenny Scharf, Aurel Schmidt, David Benjamin Sherry, Agathe Snow, Spencer Sweeney, Eric White, Bobbi Woods and Aaron Young.

Opening night will be highlighted by the screening of Cyprien Gaillard’s Cities of Gold and Mirrors accompanied by a performance by French symphonic composer Koudlam.

Special Rooftop Performance by French symphonic composer Koudlam at 10:30pm
Alongside a jumbo-sized outdoor screening of Cyprien Gaillard’s Crazy Horse accompanied by exposions and visual effects.

David Lynch, Gun, C-print, 40″ x 30″, 2009

DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE VISUALS BY DAVID LYNCH
OPENING RECEPTION DECEMBER 2, 2009 AT 8PM

Musical visionary Danger Mouse and iconoclastic filmmaker David Lynch pool their talents and reveal the stunning and haunting photographs from their groundbreaking project Dark Night of the Soul at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.

Dark Night of the Soul is a full-length album and illustrated book, combining the talents of Danger Mouse, David Lynch and celebrated rock recluse Sparklehorse. In addition to the hardcover book, the album includes vocals from the Flaming Lips, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega and many others.

The exhibition consists of over 50 original photographs by David Lynch which are displayed alongside the accompanying soundtrack by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse. Seven limited edition prints of each photograph will be available for purchase. The exhibition will open December 2, 2009 as the much anticipated kickoff to Art Basel week 2009.

The Brief Happy Life of Workshop Workshop, with Pooper and Pizza Dog
Thursday, December 3, 2009 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Design Miami, NE 39th Street & 1st Court

The Brief Happy Life of Workshop Workshop
Design Miami/ 2009

Workshop Workshop, a factory and salon created by artist Jim Drain, poet P. Scott Cunningham, and sculptor Graham Hudson, produces zines that respond to Design/Miami itself—its participants, objects, conversations, histories, narratives, belief systems and forms. Even the detritus of the tent’s construction has been put to use by Hudson, who is in the act of constructing the space using remnant lumber, rubber, plastic, furniture—anything the fair and the city (the larger fair) has cast off.

In Workshop Workshop, physical and metaphysical byproducts are recycled and put to use, creating an environment, a process, and a series of works that reflect the intense interchange that occurs in Miami each December, and creates a locus for collaboration.

Drain, Cunningham and Hudson will draw from a rotating—and ever-expanding—crew of local and international artists, designers and writers, in order to produce as many zines as it can during the length of fair, with as diverse a range of content as possible.

zine [zeen]
1. An abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine
2. A handmade journal, with small circulation and hyperlocal aesthetics, that maximizes the two-dimensional intersection of image and text, using both original and appropriated content.
3. Any self-published work of minority interest reproduced via photocopier.

Completed zines cost $5.00 each or can be bartered for intellectual property.

Proceeds will be donated to two local non-profits, Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist-run exhibition space, and the University of Wynwood, a literature advocacy organization.

Opening, Thursday December 3rd, 2009
NW 26th Street & 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL

AN OUTDOOR MURAL PROJECT PRODUCED BY DEITCH PROJECTS AND GOLDMAN PROPERTIES

Fifteen influential artists from Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States have been invited to create outdoor murals on the warehouse walls of Miami’s Wynwood Art District. Tony Goldman of Goldman Properties, one of the major property owners in Wynwood, has made available a group of walls and buildings for artists to work on, concentrated in the area between 2nd and 5th Avenues and NW 22nd and 28th Streets. The project also includes an indoor space at 2550 NW 2nd Avenue where paintings by several of the artists and documentary photographs by Martha Cooper will be exhibited.

The Wynwood Walls project will build on the tradition of street art already established in the neighborhood to create a more tightly curated outdoor exhibition. In addition to the twelve murals to be completed for the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2009, the intention is to commission another fifteen or more wall murals over the next two years. The goal is to sponsor the creation of a group of outdoor murals by the best artists in the field that will become an international street art museum.

The artists in the first phase of The Wynwood Walls are: Aiko from Japan, Os Gemeos and Nunca from Brazil, Stelios Faitakis from Greece, and Jim Drain, Shepard Fairey, Futura, Barry McGee, Ara Peterson, Clare Rojas, Kenny Scharf and the team of Swoon, David Ellis and Ben Wolf from the United States. Futura is one of the most influential street artists of all time, one of the originators of Wild Style in the early 1980s. Kenny Scharf’s work opened a new direction in art in the early 1980s and continues to influence a younger generation. Os Gemeos introduced a new approach to street art in Brazil in the 1990s and has influenced artists around the world. Os Gemeos will be bring several artist friends from Brazil including Nina and Finok who will collaborate on their mural, which will cover the building at the corner of NW 2nd Avenue and NW 26th Street. Barry McGee, from San Francisco, whose work will also cover an entire building, at 2390 NW 2nd Avenue, introduced a new artistic vocabulary mixing figuration and geometry that has also been widely influential. Shepard Fairey and Swoon have become among the best known American artists of their generation through their art on the street. Jim Drain and Ara Peterson, both formerly members of the influential Providence collective Forcefield, continue to develop new approaches to artistic media. Jim Drain is now living in Miami and has become central figure in the local art community. Clare Rojas is also a musician performing as Peggy Honeywell and brings a folk art sensibility to both her art and music. Aiko’s work encompasses the imagery of Japanese Pop.

The Wynwood Walls will also include a special project by Shepard Fairey at 2700 NW 2nd Avenue between NW 27th Street and NW 27th Terrace, produced by Christian Strike and Country Club, presented in conjunction with the Miami Art Museum and the Fountainhead Residency. Fairey will also unveil a banner project at the Miami Art Museum.

Wynwood Walls Exhibition Hours:
Friday, December 4th: 10am – 10pm
Saturday, December 5th: 10am – 10pm
Sunday, December 6th: 10am – 6pm
Ongoing Tuesday – Saturday 12 – 8pm

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MAX FISH
OPENING RECEPTION DECEMBER 2, 2009 AT 6PM
28 NE 14 Street
Miami, FL 33127
Daily 6pm – 4am

In celebration of the legendary New York City bar’s 20 year anniversary, Aaron Bondaroff, Al Moran and Ulli Rimkus bring the downtown institution Max Fish to Miami for the week of Art Basel. Taking over a functioning bar space in downtown Miami, the team will be recreating an art installation out of the core elements of the Lower East Side location and importing it’s colorful cast of characters for the week. With a prime location downtown Miami, it will most definitley be the common meeting point for Art Basel attendees and act as the main clubhouse for all of the creative community during the fair week. A full lineup of live bands and dj’s will be performing nightly during ther week as well as movie screenings in an outdoor space.

Featuring artwork by Scott Cambpell, Neckface, Kevin Long, Ako & Atiba, Jery Hsu, Theresa Dillon, Jesse Gold, Mr Kiji, Chris Yormick, Andrew Kou, Joaquin Stengleman, Andre Aimi, Judi Rosen, Patrick Graf, Pia Arrabio, Dave Aron, Jason Wright, Cycle, Ivan Rodriquez, Keeva, Isabel Asha Penzlien, Jonthan Meltring, Tony Cox, Alain Levitt, Bobby Puelo, Mark Gonzales, Olga Sophie Kapplen, Steve Powers, John A Grigley, Angela Boatwright, Sally Penn, Thomas Campbell, Scott Lenhart, Brian Deran / Baby Leg, Toben Yelland, Vanessa Salle, Josh Wildman, Wes Lang, Greg Woolard, Wierdo Dave, Brigette Engler, Mike Farmer, John Drury, Royce Meier, Jondra Nolan, Brent Richardson and Leo Fitzpatrick.

LIVE PERFORMANCES ALL WEEK

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009
I.U.D.
Silkflowers
Animals Of The Arctic

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009
BARR
Mike Bones
Wilder Zoby (Chin Chin)
Jaccuzzi Boys

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2009
Gang Gang Dance
Endless Boogie
Teepee

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2009
Special Secret Performance

Resident DJ’s Tim Barber, Leo Fitzpatrick, Benton

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Ed Ruscha, Vital to the Core, Acrylic on linen, 61cm x 89cm, 2009

STAGES
OPENING RECEPTION DECEMBER 3, 2009 AT 8PM
ADDRESS AND HOURS
888 Biscayne Blvd at Marina Blue
Miami, FL 33132
Daily noon – 8pm, Sunday noon – 6pm

We invite you to join Lance Armstrong and Nike at STAGES.

It’s a unique celebration of human potential inspired by Lance and dedicated to the fight against cancer. Over twenty renowned artists offered their time and creativity to express the LIVESTRONG message and raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation which is committed to inspire and empower people affected by cancer.

Artists included in the exhibition are Cai Guo-Qiang, Rosson Crow, Jules de Balincourt, Dzine, Shepard Fairey, Futura, Andreas Gursky, KAWS, Geoff McFetridge, Yoshitomo Nara, Catherine Opie, Os Gemeos, Erik Parker, Jose Parla, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, Eric White, Christopher Wool, Dustin Yellin and Aaron Young.

Join the fight.

Live Performance by ATLAS SOUND 8pm – midnight

Screening: Marc Horowitz, The Neistat Brothers, Tom Sachs “Video Art and Mainstream Distribution” curated by Creative Time at Art Basel Miami Beach (Oceanfront Nights), 6pm-midnight

Performance: The Vivian Girls In association with the Hostess Project at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (The Ice Palace)
Downtown Miami: 1400 North Miami Avenue, 7pm

Friday, December 4, 2009

Tour: “Miro & Noguchi: Masters of Surrealist Sculpture; 100 Years of Photography from 1909 – 2009; George Segal Depression Bread Line; Sculpture & Video: New additions to the Collection including Franz West, Sara Barker, Zilvinas Kempinas, Ivan Navarro & Bill Vi” at The Margulies Collection At The Warehouse
Wynwood Art District: 591 NW 27th Street, $10 (free with VIP card), 9am

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Screening: Jill Magid, Kon Trubkovich “The Watcher and the Watched” curated by Creative Time at Art Basel Miami Beach (Oceanfront Nights)
Miami Beach: Miami Beach Dr at 21st Street, (Oceanfront), 6pm-midnight

Performance: Khaela Maricich “The Blow” In association with the Hostess Project at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (The Ice Palace)
Downtown Miami: 1400 North Miami Avenue, 6pm

Saturday December 5th @ Electric Pickle (2826 North Miami Ave)
Freegums and Poplife bring you the Sky’s the Limit shot glass. Available with every shot you buy. This is a special shot glass release and there will be limited quantities.

SwingArt Party at NADA with performance of the TM sisters & Fashion show by Luis Valenzuela
Deauville Beach Resort, Collins & 67th Street
December 5, 7p-10p

Converse Presents ART IS FOR EVERYONE
Featuring:: LA MALA RODRIGUEZ, KINKY plus Lolo and Aramis Lorie
Installation by Mentalgassi
The Awarehouse, 550 NW 29th St., Miami. Show starts at 9 p.m.

On December 5th, Converse celebrates the creative spirit and artist in everyone with an evening of free music and art, open to all, in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Happening at the conclusion of Art Basel, it’s an open invitation — to be inspired and create.
The evening will feature live performances by renowned artists from Mexico and Spain, Kinky and Mala Rodriguez. Kinky energizes with their Latin alternative sounds and infectious dance rhythms. Mala Rodriguez is best known for her infusion of flamenco sounds into hip-hop music. Presenting their first-ever US installation, German street-artist Mentalgassi, will showcase their largest installation ever, a massive 95’ creation. For added inspiration, the event will also present a series of mini-documentaries that shine a light on everyday artists from around the world.
Cocktails courtesy of V Georgio Premium Spirits and Modelo Especial.
Special Guest DJs: Lolo, Aramis Lorie

Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party.
Saturday, December 5. 10 p.m.-5 a.m.
White Room. 1306 N. Miami Ave., Miami.
Ghostly takes its 10-year anniversary caravan to Miami for Art Basel.
Featuring a special live audio and visual performance by Audion from his Hecatomb tour.
Along with live performances by Solvent and Bodycode with DJ performances by Philipp from M.A.N.D.Y, Michna and Miami’s own Conway.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Screening: Kon Trubkovich “Double Entrance/Double Exit, 2009″ at Scope Miami Art Show (Soho Studios Miami)
Wynwood Art District: 2136 NW 1st Avenue, 11am-6pm

‘Worlds Without End Part I,’ 20 x 37 inches, ©2009 Harlan Erskine

I’m happy to announce that I will have the above print included in the BFI Portfolio. If you are in Miami please stop by the benefit this Thursday November 12th. Hope to see you there!

THE BAS FISHER INVITATIONAL CELEBRATES ITS 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH A BENEFIT AND PREMIERE OF THE PORTFOLIO “WOW WE HAVE COME THIS FAR”

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 7 – 10 p.m.
Tickets: $50 per person (cash or check only)

Location: The Bas Fisher Invitational
180 NE 39th Street, Suite 210
(inside the Buena Vista Building in Miami’s Design District)

Featured artists in portfolio “Wow We Have Come This Far”:

Kevin Arrow | Alex Cardenas | Clifton Childree | Jessica Dickinson | Harlan Erskine | “Freegums” aka Alvaro Ilizarbe | Frederico Nessi | Rebecca Schiffman | Francine Spiegel | Jen Stark | Mike Taylor | Jonathan Thomas

The Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI), an artist-run, alternative arts space in Miami’s Design District, is throwing a cupcakes and cocktails soiree to mark its 5-year anniversary and portfolio premiere on November 12, from 7-10 p.m. “Wow We Have Come This Far” features exclusive, limited-edition prints exploring silk-screen, giclée, photography and etching, among other mediums, by 12 BFI alumni artists.

Attendees will be treated to deejayed tunes by BFI organizers Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain and Kathryn Marks, with the added pleasure of knowing their $50 ticket goes toward future programming and events.

Founded in Summer 2004, the BFI has hosted 30 exhibitions, many of which have launched the careers of emerging artists: Francine Speigel went on to show with Deitch Projects in New York; Jessica Dickinson and Alejandro Cardenas are represented by James Fuentes, an edgy, downtown New York gallery; and Jen Stark, Alvaro Ilizarbe and Clifton Childree are among Miami’s most respected talent.

In gratitude for their success, these portfolio artists contributed to raise funds and ensure support for the next generation. All ticket and print sales go toward matching the Knight Arts Challenge grant awarded to the BFI from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This matching grant provides funds to maintain year-round programming including exhibitions, lectures, community outreach and artist residencies in association with the Fountainhead Residency, as a nonprofit, non-commercial venue under the umbrella of the Dade Community Foundation, a 501c3. The Knight Arts Challenge is a $40 million initiative to bring the South Florida community together through the arts.

About the Bas Fisher Invitational

For over five years, the Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI) has consistently maintained a presence in Miami as a thought-provoking artist-run gallery space. As a zero-profit, alternative venue for unrepresented artists the BFI has allowed artists to receive full benefit of their hard work and to make great professional connections. The BFI was created by Naomi Fisher and Hernan Bas (now managed by Fisher, Jim Drain, Agatha Wara and Kathryn Marks). Since 2009 the BFI has been under the umbrella of the Dade Community Foundation, a 501c3.

About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote community engagement and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.

The Bas Fisher Invitational is generously supported, in part, by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.