Art Out of Anything: Rauschenberg in Retrospect

Robert Rauschenberg
Originally uploaded by Adriane Little.

Art Out of Anything: Rauschenberg in Retrospect
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: December 23, 2005

IT is largely, if not exclusively, thanks to Robert Rauschenberg that Americans since the 1950's have come to think that art can be made out of anything, exist anywhere, last forever or just for a moment and serve almost any purpose or no purpose at all except to suggest that the stuff of life and the stuff of art are ultimately one and the same.

Stuff, in Mr. Rauschenberg's case, could mean a stuffed angora goat, like the one he picked up for $35 one day from a failing office-supply store on Eighth Avenue and girdled with an automobile tire. Originally despised, the "combines," as he called works like the shaggy "Monogram," gradually became fixed in the public imagination along with Warhol's Marilyns and Jasper Johns' flags as the classic symbols of what's American in American art.

read more ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/design/23raus.html

Half Way There

Congratulations Everyone.
We are half way there.

We will regroup at the start of the spring semester.
Have a great winter break.

Jacob Kassay @ Kitchen Distribution

New Paintings:
Jacob Kassay

dialogue: December 10th - January 1st
In upper/Main Gallery
by appointment only
716.622.6738

Opening December 10th 7-10pm

Kitchen Distribution
20 Auburn Street
Buffalo

Come support one of your senior thesis classmates.
Congrats Jacob!

Sculpture Show

UB Sculpture Show
Basement Level @ Kitchen Distribution
One Night Only
December 9th 7-9pm

Kitchen Distribution
20 Auburn Street
Buffalo

Venice Italy -- live conference stream

This is an unusual opportunity to be able to hear the goings on at a conference of this magnitude

It is possible to attend the Symposium live through talk_saver which covers four days (dec 9-12) of debate and discussion.

Where Art Worlds Meet:... Multiple Modernities and the Global Salon... International Symposium

There are leading theorists/thinkers/artists (that were in the Venice Biennale in 2005) speaking at the conference; including Jolene Rickard who teaches at UB in Art and Art History.

go to:

http://www.labiennale.org/en/index.html
then go to talk serve on the right side of the screen

For a list of speakers go to:

http://www.nmai.si.edu/
then click on the Venice Symposium Global Perspectives
then got to the botton of that page until you see:

For an overview of the NMAI Vision, Space, Desire symposium, please click here.
For a detailed schedule and list of speakers for the NMAI Vision, Space, Desire symposium, please click here.

Image from Tomie Arai @ CEPA

Tomie Arai
Originally uploaded by Adriane Little.

Untelling
A Mid-Career Retrospective
the work of Tomie Arai
Curated by Millie Chen

November 18 - January 14, 2006

In her constant crossing of boundaries, be it racial, curltural, class, Tomie Arai disclaims any positions of authority. By conveying the stories of others, she acts not as expert, informant, representative, enothographer or neutral observer; in fact she un-tells the versions that we expect in order to recontruct and repair society's understanding of history.

http://www.cepagallery.com/cepa/index.html

12/5 Meredith Davis

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

Meredith Davis is professor and director of graduate programs in the College of Design at NC State University. Her previous positions include director of the graduate program in Communication Arts and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and president of a communication design firm in Richmond, Virginia. Her design work has received more than 50 international and national awards and has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Meredith is a member of the AIGA national board of directors, founding president of the Graphic Design Education Association, president of the American Center for Design, and a member of the accreditation commission of the NASAD. She has also served on the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service. Her book, Design as a Catalyst for Learning, won the 1999 Choice Award from the Association for College and Research Libraries. She is currently writing and editing five textbooks on graphic design for Thames and Hudson Publishers, London.

The Power Plant - Toronto

Friday 9 December, 8-10 pm
Exhibition Openings:
On Kawara / The Cold City Years / Javier Téllez

On Kawara
A major retrospective exhibition of Japanese born and New York based artist On Kawara, one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work addresses the passage of time, the nature of consciousness and ultimately human mortality.

Exhibition organized by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK and Le Consortium, Dijon, France. Support for the exhibition provided by Steven and Lynda Latner. Additional support provided by Donna and Bob Poile.

The Cold City Years
An exhibition drawn from the archives of the Cold City Gallery, a seminal Toronto artist run/commercial gallery hybrid.

Curated by Nancy Campbell, Marlene Klassen and Pamela Meredith.

Javier Téllez
The first exhibition in Canada for Téllez, showcasing this Venezuelan artist's ambitious collaboration with Australian psychiatric patients.

www.thepowerplant.org