2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Saturday April 24

* Simon & Garfunkel * My Morning Jacket * Drake * Better Than Ezra * Ledisi * Sam Bush * the funky Meters * Campbell Brothers * Smokie Norful * COWBOY MOUTH * Red Stick Ramblers * Big Sam’s Funky Nation * Walter ‘Wolfman’ Wahington & the Roadmasters * Papa Grows Funk * Tab Benoit * Sax For Stax Featuring Gerald Albright, Jeff Lorber, Kirk Whalum * Kirk Whalum * Jeff Lorber * Preservation Hall with special guests Jim James and Terence Blanchard * Davell Crawford and One Foot in the Blues with special guests Dr. John and Jon Cleary * Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians * Golden Comanche and Seminoles Mardi Gras Indians * New Orleans Bingo! Show * Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters * Terence Blanchard * Wild Mohicans, and Red, White & Blue Mardi Gras Indians * Savoy Center of Eunice Saturday Cajun Jam * Bonerama * Bounce Extravanganza feat. Big Freedia Sissy Nobby, Katey Red, and Magnolia Shorty with DJ Poppa * The Wiseguys * Jewel Brown with the Heritage Hall Band * Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Thais Clark * The New Orleans Bingo! Show * Treme Brass Band * Bill Summers & Jazalsa * George French & the Original Storyville Jazz Band * Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes * Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band * Guitar Woodshed feat. Steve Masakowski, Todd Duke, and Jake Eckert * Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars * Midnite Disturbers * Kirk Joseph & the Sousaphone Symphony Parade honoring Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen * Tin Men * Judy Spellman * Mahogany Brass Band * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * D.L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces * Rockie Charles & the Staxx of Love * Kirk Joseph & Tuba Tuba * Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble * Andrew Duhon & the Lonesome Crows * Panorama Jazz Band * The Red Stick Ramblers * Blessed * Patrice Fisher & Arpa and the Honduran Connection * Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble * Chris Clifton * Bleu Orleans * Tonia Scott & the Anointed Voices * Leo Jackson & the Melody Clouds * N.O.C.C.A. Jazz Ensemble * Black Feathers * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Da Souljas Brass Band * Culu Children’s Traditional African Dance Ensemble * Loyola University Jazz Ensemble * Resurrection Mass Choir * Greater Antioch Full Baptist Church Mass Choir * Betsy McGovern & Patrick O’Flaherty * Lindsay Mendez * Ladies of Unity * Dumaine Gang, and Divine Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Johnette Downing * Archdiocese of New Orleans Mass Gospel Choir * Golden Voices Community Choir * Curtis Pierre & Samba Kids * RRAAMS Drum and Dance * Single Men and Nine Times Men Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

[Cross-posted to The Data Stream.. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. 'Photo by NealyBob.]

Below are links to “Umm Kulthum: ‘The Lady’ Of Cairo,” a feature on National Public Radio by Neda Ulaby. The March 15, 2010 report is part of the U.S. radio network’s “50 Great Voices” series.

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[Cross-posted to The Data Stream. Graphic from Google image search for "Umm Kulthum"]

Root Division Gallery
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.863.766

Security

Marisa Aragona | Andrea Chung | Gary Duehr | Oasa duVerney | Benjamin Echeverria | Stephanie Ellis | Pete Hickok | Glenn Hirsch | Yu-Hang Huang | iiiahh Collective | Jeremiah Jenkins | Suzanne Kehr | JP Kelly | Lee Lee | Alma Leiva | Paula Levine | Lesley Louden | Lisa Martin | Masako Miki | Randall Miller | Robert Minervini | Nancy Popp | Renée Rhodes | Paulina Velazquez | Serena Wellen | Doug Williams | Kathryn Williamson

Guest Curators: Stephanie Ellis & Serena Wellen

“Security means simply, the provision of safety. Security is related to the oldest meaning of curate: to care for souls. Today, the business of security is a global and corporate phenomenon. Its primary agenda is the production of fear; its ideal consumer is immobilized by dread.

Security (the exhibition) seeks to address this pivot between asylum and alarm. We are painfully aware of the brutality that so-called professional security may engender. Unspeakable ugliness appears when protector and protected warp into perpetrator and victim, but the curators of the exhibition seek to upturn rather than reproduce the fear, uncertainty, and mistrust already so pervasive in our everyday. To that end, they looked for humor, gentleness, and a light touch as well as acuity, provocation, and gravity in the works selected.

The artists chosen for the exhibition touch on the care or solicitude necessary for collective wellbeing as well as artists who tackle the charms or fetishes necessary for security’s sell. How we define security for our communities and our world will determine how we get there and where we arrive.”

Reception: Saturday, March 13, 7 to 10 pm

Through March 27

[Text and graphic courtesy of the gallery and curators. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Outpost for Contemporary Art
1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, March 13, 2010 7 – 10pm

“T-shirt Revival Night” with Kiki Johnson

“For a minimal charge ($3 for one, $5 for two), Kiki will “revive” your old T-shirt, canvas bag or whatever other clothing you bring in by silk-screening one of five designs onto it.

Titled “Umpiring Under the Amateur Code of Rules” Kiki Johnson will use drawings inspired by spring training and the approaching baseball season for the silk-screening event.

Johnson redraws historical images, not as duplications or copies, but as reenactments of the images. Subjects such as sailors and witches are placed side by side, revealing how these two apparently dissimilar subjects are in fact treated as equals within historical discourse. By collecting images from history books, rather than history itself, Johnson creates delicate and eerie images that collapse the languages of maritime history and superstition. As Johnson’s drawings are more performative then representational, her work also expands into performances in which she reenacts historical rituals such as baking a Great Depression era recipe or burning a Christmas tree to fry pancakes over the fire on Shrove Tuesday. Whether images or performances, her work confronts viewers with the results of history, stripped of its supporting context. The viewer must justify these images and actions as they exist now, and also question the meaning of the word “yesteryear.” Replacing the authoritative voice of history with her own voice brings cause to question the accuracy, authenticity, and truth of history as it is presented.

In conjunction with NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night.”

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[Text from Outpost FB invitation. Graphic from Kiki Johnson's website. Caption: "Baseball Crest, ink on paper, 8.5”x11”, 2010." Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Tipitina’s Uptown
501 Napoleon Avenue
New Orleans, LA
ph. 1.504.895-TIPS

February 28 | 1 – 3:30 pm
Sunday Music Workshop Series
Featuring The Johnny Vidacovich Trio

“Resurrecting a program that was popular in the early ’90s, the Tipitina’s Foundation proudly announces the Sunday Music Workshop Series, the brainchild of Stanton Moore and Johnny and Deborah Vidacovich. These free workshops take place every other Sunday fro, when students have the opportunity to play with and learn from the best musicians in the city.

Sunday Music Workshops offer young, aspiring musicians from all walks of life the unique opportunity to play with and learn from some of the area’s most experienced and celebrated musicians. Each workshop offers students a hands-on, improvisational approach to music education. Students should bring their instruments! Each child will have their own chance play with the veteran musicians or solo on the famed Tipitina’s Uptown stage. Usually, workshops close with a jam session mixing students and veteran musicians together for a real Tip’s concert experience! As many of the city’s various music programs have been put on hold since the storm, these workshops are serving a vital need in the rebuilding process: passing on the musical traditions to a younger generation. Featured artists so far have included Stanton Moore, Johnny Vidacovich, Kirk Joseph, and Theresa Anderson. The free on-stage workshops are only for students, but all members of the public are welcome to attend.”

[Text from Tipitina's website. Photo from NolaFunkNYC. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

EFA Project Space
323 W 39 Street, 2nd Floor
New York, New York

Tuesday March 2, 2010 | 6:30pm

A Video Serenade:
Selected works by artists from Norway, Serbia, Russia, and the UK

Recent works selected by ArtVideoExchange (AVE) and Format Network.

A VIDEO SERENADE presents a wide range of contemporary video, from the performative to the personal to the fictive and the documentary. The program aims to reflect the unique mix of themes and approaches to video as exemplified by the artists supported by these two groups.

AVE – Serbia
Program selection by Bojana Romi?

Big Bang / Bojana Romi? / 2009 / 2:30 min.
Never Gonna Give You Up / Goran Micevski / 2006 / 4:00 min.
Exhaustion of Europe / Jovan ?eki? / 2005 / 8:07 min.
Clay Pigeon / Milos Tomi?, 2005 / 6:41 min.
Atomic Watch / Nenad Kosti? / 2006 / 1:13 min.
FPS (First Person Shooters or Frames Per Second) / Wim Janssen / 2006 / 3:08 min.

Format Network, UK
Song Archive / Yvonne Buchheim / 2009 / 5:00 min.
Weightless / Matt White / 2008 / 7:55 min.
A Hard Place / Ronnie Close / 2009 / 4:54 min.
Curtain / Peter Bobby / 2009 / 4.52 min. (extract, HD Video)

AVE–Russia
Program selection by Vika Ilyushkina, CYLAND Media Lab

Son of King / Julia Zastava / 2008 / 4:29 min.
Little Black / Nikolay Kurbatsky / 2008 / 1:51 min.
I want to live through your death / Olga Jitlina / 2009 / 5:44 min.
Storage / Anton Hlabov / 2009 / 2:20 min.
Expulsion from the Paradise / Andrey Ustinov / 2003 / 2:01 min.
Vertigo / Kirill Shuvalov / 2003 / 1:43 min.
Never ending / Masha Sha / 2005 / 2:12 min.
Mom / Yuri Vasiliev / 2002 / 0:55 min.
Feedback / Maksim Svishev / 2009 / 5:42 min.
Purification / Veronica Rudyeva-Ryazantseva / 2008 / 4:30 min.

AVE – Norway
Program selection by Mona Bentzen

Amerika / Ane Lan / 2003 / 3:15 min.
Che Guevara’s Rolex / Birgitte Sigmundstad / 2009 / 4:40 min.
Par Hasard / BULL.MILETIC / 2009 / 5:15 min.
Opacity / Farhad Kalantary / 2005 / 5:30 min.
Erase / Margarida Paiva / 2009 / 3:30 min.
Felix Culpa, A Handmade Massacre / Martin Skauen / 2007 / 5:06 min.
RUR / Mona Bentzen / 2010 / 2:16 min.

A VIDEO SERENADE is organized by Madeline Djerejian, AVE-USA, in cooperation with ArtVideoExchange and Format Network, with support from the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), CYLAND Media Art Laboratory (St. Petersburg, Russia), and the St. Petersburg branch of the National Center of Contemporary, Art (NCCA).

AVE is an international exchange program and initiative between artists and curators that promotes the production and circulation of video programming worldwide. Format Network is an artists’ group based in Bristol, UK that focuses on staging activities of exchange and engagement, including screenings and exhibitions, lectures by invited artists, critics and theorists, and open-mic performance evenings.

[Text and graphic from EFA website. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Ohio State University Libararies
The Literary Map of Africa

“The Literary Map of Africa is a bio-bibliographical database, designed to be a comprehensive research and information tool on African literature. It does not focus on selected authors or national / regional literatures, nor does it follow the sometimes rigid North – sub-Saharan Africa divide; instead, the database seeks to cover the whole continent. This wider scope makes it possible for writers from different regions and countries, with varied histories and cultures, and who produce works in diverse African and European languages to be represented in one project. One objective this project hopes to fulfill is to include as many emerging writers as possible, especially those based in Africa. Many in this category of creative writers do not have a readership beyond their national boundaries and are therefore hardly represented in many bibliographies and encyclopedias.”

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[Text and graphic from Ohio State University Libararies website. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Mardi Gras 2010

February 13 | 6:30 pm
Metairie, Jefferson Parish
Krewe of Isis

“Isis was the mother of Horus and the sister and wife of Osiris in the mythology of ancient Egypt. She was honored as the goddess of the earth and the moon, a symbol of motherhood and fertility. Isis was also worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires. She was traditionally represented as a woman wearing a cow’s horns with a solar disk between them.

In 1973 this all-female organization was charted in the city of Kenner, and the women held their first 7 processions there before adopting the standardized veterans Memorial Boulevard parade route, which more than a dozen Jefferson krewes share.”

Krewe of Isis Facebook Fan Page

[text and graphic from Mardi Gras Parade Schedule website. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Centro de Arte y Naturaleza
Fundación Beulas
C/ Doctor Artero, s/n
Huesca
Spain 22004
t. +34 974 239 893

Exhibition:
Rummaging in the garbage: Waste and recycling in the contemporary art

“The first notions that usually come to mind when considering garbage, waste and deterioration are generally negative, when not outright nauseating. We are aware of the physical and chemical processes of the matter around us, beginning with the cycles of nature itself, including industrial processes, technical constructions and manufactured consumer items, and ending with the very materiality of the human being as a living organism. This crisscrossing of elements and activities-which, after all, is what makes the human being civilized and cultural, negotiating and struggling to domesticate and exploit the landscape and the ecosystem, the planet, in short-generates endless reactions, overpopulation and overproduction, upsets and imbalances, and therefore waste, before which we often do not know how to react or that, metaphorically, but also in the practical reality, we end up sweeping under the rug and looking the other way.”

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[text from Centro website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Chris Jordan,' participating artist Caption: "Recycling Yard #6." Cross-posted to The Data Stream..]

NBC Universal Presents Bravo Reality Series “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”NBC Universal Presents Bravo Reality Series “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”

PASADENA, CA.- Bravo’s latest stroke on the reality canvas brings Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker and her production company, Pretty Matches, together with the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves (”Top Chef,” “Project Runway”) and Eli Holzman, to produce “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” an hour-long creative competition series among contemporary artists. “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” will bring together 14 aspiring artists to compete for a solo show at a nationally recognized museum and a generous cash prize.

Hosting this colorful new series is art enthusiast China Chow, alongside world-renowned art auctioneer, Simon de Pury. Joining them on the judging panel are experts Bill Powers, a New York Gallery owner and literary art contributor, Jerry Saltz, current art critic for New York Magazine, and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, esteemed curator and owner of Salon94 gallery.

In each episode, contestants are faced with the challenge of creating unique pieces in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, photography, collage and industrial design. The weekly assignments are exciting, original and will challenge the artists to push the limits of their technical skills and creative boundaries. Completed works of art will be appraised by the panel of top art world figures alongside a new celebrated guest judge every week. Through a gallery showing at the end of each challenge, the industry luminaries dictate which artists have successfully mastered the subject matter and creation of their piece, as well as whose concept leaves the greatest impact.

“Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” is produced by Pretty Matches and Magical Elves for Bravo. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alison Benson and Eli Holzman serve as executive producers.

Coming Summer 2010.

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[Text from artdaily.org. Graphic from tv.com. Thanks to DLP in IC fo the tip. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]