The 34th Annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, is a juried exhibition and retail sale, which serves as the Museum’s largest yearly fundraising event and is devoted to bringing wide public attention to the field of craft art. The 2010 show will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from November 11 -14, 2010. A preview party will be held on November 10.  The jurors will accept 195 craft artists.

At the 2009 show, 23,000 visitors attended.  Out of the 195 artists exhibiting, 56 were new to the show.  Ten (10) of the 56 artists new to the show were juried in under the emerging artist category. To encourage participation from emerging artists who are at the beginning of their career, the show has an Emerging Artist category is available. Emerging artists are categorized as those who have been working at their craft for six (6) years or less and who have never exhibited at the Show.

art jewelry by Kiwon Wang

ELIGIBILITY

The Show is open to all craft artists who are residents of and working in the United States. All work, whether one of a kind pieces or limited editions, should be well conceived and expertly executed without technical faults; works should be made by hand or with the use of appropriate tools, showing imagination and the mark of the craft artist’s individuality.

Categories: basketry, ceramics, fiber, furniture (includes all media), glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, handmade paper, wearables and wood.

AWARDS
In addition to the Best of Show award ($1,500), there are eight (8) cash awards ($1,000 each) for excellence selected and sponsored by foundations and corporations. These awards are presented at the preview party.

APPLICATION DEADLINES AND FEES

The non-refundable processing fee for applying electronically by April 1, 2010 is $40.00, payable online at the time you fill out the application. The non-refundable processing fee for applying electronically between April 2, 2010 and April 12, 2010 is $75, payable online at the time you fill out the application. If you prefer to pay by check, please make check payable to PMA CRAFT SHOW and mail to PMA CRAFT SHOW, PO BOX 7646, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19101.

For more information, and to apply on line, visit Juried Art Services

Broken Americas: The Cool World and The Exiles is a survey of Shirley Clarke’s 1964 documentary about the complex history of Harlem’s street life and Kent McKenzie’s independent film, which follows 12 hours in the lives of Native Americans living in the low-rent and long-since demolished downtown Los Angeles enclave of Bunker Hill. Via Afterall.org

A Brief History of Vandalism via Flash Art

The artist-in-residence program at the Nordic Artists’ Centre Dalsåsen is available for Nordic and international artists, designers, architects and curators by invitation and also through individual applications submitted by artists throughout the year. There is no deadline. Professional artists, designers, architects and curators are eligible to apply for residencies from 2 to 4 months.

Conceptual Coverings is a show of body-related artwork, installation, and performance by students from the fiber and textile arts, sculpture, jewelry and metalsmithing, fashion design, and printmaking programs at Syracuse University in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art and Design.  Exhibit on view Dec. 5-10. Opening, December 5, 6-8 p.m.; performances at 7 p.m.

Over at Art Basel Miami Beach, people are buzzing about Santiago Serra’s video Los penetrados, a vivid portrayal of anal sex, actor Sylvester Stallone’s reportedly bad paintings at Gallery Gmurzynska (one of which was bought by Steve Wynn for $40,000), Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Michael Jackson as King Phillip II, and of course the arrival of the U.S. Marshals who came at the behest of Asher Edelman to seize several works from Gmurzynska’s booth as payment for a 1985 Robert Ryman painting, which, Edelman alleges, the gallery had damaged. Via ArtObserved

Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon
Art Basel Miami Beach, December 3 – 6, 2009

Daily from Thursday, December 3,
until Sunday, December 6, 2009
10 – 11 a.m. | Panel Discussion
11 – 11.30 p.m. | Meet the Panelists
Location | Oceanfront at Collins Park, between 21st and 22nd Streets

Thursday, December 3 | Premiere | Artist Talk: Ai Weiwei
Speaker | Ai Weiwei, Artist, Beijing
Moderator | Philip Tinari, Director, Office for Discourse Engineering, Beijing

Friday, December 4 | Public / Private | Change in Generation
Speakers | Marc Mayer, Director, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Timothy Rub, The George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Osvaldo Sánchez, Director, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Philippe Vergne, Director, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Moderator | András Szántó, author, consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York

Saturday, December 5 | Collector Focus | Latin America
Speakers | César Cervantes, Collector, Mexico City
Jay Khalifeh, Collector, São Paulo
Juan Vergez and Patricia Pearson-Vergez, Collectors, Buenos Aires
Moderator | Adriano Pedrosa, Curator, Writer, Editor, São Paulo

Sunday, December 6 | The Future of the Museum | The Portable Museum
Speakers | Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Artist, New Jersey
Pedro Reyes, Artist, Mexico City
Peter Saville, Artist, London
Kateřina Šedá, Artist, Prague/Líšeň
Moderator | Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London

http://www.artbasel.com/conversations

Art Salon

Daily from Thursday, December 3, until Sunday, December 6, 2009
Location | Central Area of the Miami Beach Convention Center

Thursday | Dec 3
1 p.m. | Artist Talk: Pae White with Meredith Johnson and Anne Pasternak

2 p.m. | Panel | New Market Dynamics: Five Perspectives on the Global Art Scene
Lindsay Pollock, Suzanne Gyorgy, Charles Stainback, Judd Tully and Renee Vara

3 p.m. | Panel | Gender, Wars and Chadors, Part III
Ghada Amer, Kader Attia, Akram Zaatari and Hans Ulrich Obrist

4 p.m. | Artist Talk: Shepard Fairy with Pedro H. Alonzo

5 p.m. Artist Talk: Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Eduardo Abaroa with Patrick Charpenel

5.30 p.m. Presentation | Cecilia Alemani on No Soul For Sale. Independent Spaces at X Initiative

6 p.m. Pecha Kucha | Contemporary Art & Social Media = Network & Networth
Ben Davis, Joey Hernandez, Lori Faye Fischler, Leyden Rodriguez, Kristin Taylor, [dNASAb], Jody Turner and Carl Hildebrand

Friday | Dec 4
1 p.m. | Book Launch| | “You and Me or the Art of Give and Take”
Allen Ruppersberg and Lionel Bovier

2 p.m. | Artist Talk: Claire Fontaine with Jens Hoffmann

3 p.m. Book Launch| “Fred Tomaselli”
Fred Tomaselli, Ian Berry and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

4 p.m. | Special Talk | Mark Rosenthal about William Kentridge’s Evolving Career

5 p.m. | Book Launch | “Forest and Fields. Volume 2. Blumen” with Collier Schorr

Saturday | Dec 5
1 p.m. | Book Launch| “Painting Below Zero. Notes on a Life in Art”
With James Rosenquist, introduction by Samuel Keller

2 p.m. | Artist Talk: Marilyn Minter with Richard Flood

3 p.m. | Book Launch | “Henry Darger” with Klaus Biesenbach

4 p.m. | Market Talk | Judgment Call: Committing to Buy with Michael Danoff

5 p.m. | Market Talk | 10 Things You Should Know About Buying Art with Josh Baer

6 p.m. | Artist Talk | Conversation with Ryan McGinley

Sunday | Dec 6

1 p.m. | Panel | Art Conservation: The Future
Brian Frasca, Gloria Velandia and Ray Ellen Yarkin

2 p.m. | Special Talk
Peter Eleey and Anthony Huberman

3 p.m. | Book Launch | “Leo & His Circle. The Life of Leo Castelli” with Annie Cohen – Solal

http://www.artbasel.com/lobby

Neckpiece by Rebecca Myers

The 26th annual American Craft Exposition (ACE) is a juried exhibition and sale of fine American crafts. ACE will be held August 27-29, 2010 in Evanston, Illinois. 150 professional artists, designers, artisans, and craftspeople will be selected for this event sponsored by the Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) at Evanston & Glenbrook Hospitals. The event supports breast and ovarian cancer research at NorthShore.  Application deadline is March 12, 2010. Application fee is $50. For further information, visit www.americancraftexpo.org

Donald Judd, Son of Gone Fishing, 1981, Watercolor on paper

Though he vigorously disavowed attempts to contextualize his work as minimalist, Donald Judd was a major figure in the Minimalist art movement in the 1960s when he and others explored the physical properties of space, scale, and materials as phenomena of interest on their own. Judd’s use of color in three print series dating from 1988 to 1993 are on view along with a recent acquisition, Untitled (1993). Judd’s prints are compared and contrasted with prints by his peer, Sol LeWitt. Although identified as a Minimalist artist, LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism as one of the dominant movements of the postwar era. LeWitt’s prints from the early 1970s, made at Kathan Brown’s then-fledgling Crown Point Press, are included as well as his color woodcut, Arcs from Four Corners (1986).

At the de Young Museum Oct 17, 2009 – Feb 20, 2010

Alexandra Peers (of Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine fame) takes a swipe at the upstart Art Dubai Fair: “Take superstar art dealers and their wares, a wealthy clientele, a beachside palace, a couple of cutting-edge curators and voila: instant art world”. via Art In America

Pope Benedict XVI conveys papal blessing on 260 international artists from architect Zaha Hadid to video artist Bill Viola via ArtForum

Editors’ pick faves at Art Basel Miami Beach preview via ArtInfo

Pros & Cons of the Doctorate in Art and Does the Bologna Process lead to a homogenization of European education? Via e-Flux

Ben Davis’s Defense of Conceptual Art via ArtNet

Holiday gift guides: books on Art and Architecture suggested by New York Times art critics

Former Mike Weiss gallery registrar Meghann Snow uses the power of social media to defend her reputation and expose questionable employment practices via Art Fag City

Art HK (Hong Kong International Art Fair), which first debuted in 2008, is the third largest art market in the world after New York and London. Last year Art HK invited 110 galleries from 24 countries and attracted 19,000 visitors. Hong Kong, with its lack of tax on the import or export of art and its sophisticated transport network (of trains, subways, trams, buses, ferries, taxis and private cars for hire), makes the city an attractive location for art dealers and collectors. As a result, Hong Kong has quickly become the hub in Asia for contemporary art auctions and dealers specializing in emerging artists, heavyweight artists (Warhol, Picasso, Hirst, etc.), and superstar Chinese artists ( Zhang Xiaogang, Xu Bing, etc.)

This year Art HK’s founding director, Magnus Renfrew (whose past endeavors include stints at Phillips de Pury and Bonhams) expects Art HK 2010 to be even bigger, thanks in part to its new sponsor Deutsche Bank, who filled in the gap left by the vacating sponsor Lehman Brothers. At the 2010 fair, Renfrew has planned guided tours in English and Cantonese, an extensive program of talks by leading curators, collectors, and artists, and other events throughout the fair’s four days (May 27-30, 2010).

Leonor Hipólito, Untitled, silver and cotton brooch

Otro Diseño, Foundation for Cultural Exchange and Development and the Dutch agency Design Flux, in partnership with a large number of cultural organizations from Latin America and Europe have the pleasure to invite you to take part in Gray Area: Encounter of Contemporary Jewellery between Latin America and Europe.

This extensive, multinational event includes a five day symposium, 8 exhibitions, and an array of social activities that bring together jewelry artists, visual artists, designers, academics,  researchers and promoters from Latin America and Europe in an environment that fosters friendly, creative, and engaging discussions, where participants can engage in critical discourse on interdisciplinary practices in the global art arena.

In an era of globalization, cultural reciprocity is fundamental to growth and survival. Learning about others does not only help us to understand and appreciate from what we considered as foreign, but also to learn about ourselves. This symposium aims to promote understanding and appreciation of the diverse ways to view, experience, and create jewellery, to encourage cultural exchange among jewellery makers in Latin America and Europe and to combine forces to expand the audience and market for this exciting discipline.

From April 12th to 16th 2010, the symposium Gray Area will take place in Mexico City’s Historic Center. The lectures will take place at Ex Tersa Arte Actual, Center for Experimental Arts, while the exhibitions will be hosted by museums, galleries, cultural centers and public venues, such as Ex Teresa, Galeria 100M3, Galeria Mexicana de Diseño, Dulceria de Celaya, Ex-Galeria, La Refaccionaria Galeria,
Casa Vecina, among others.

Participants from all over the world are welcomed to attend.  Visit the Gray Area Symposium website to learn more about this exciting event and register to attend the symposium.

www.grayareasymposium.org

Tiffany Parbs, Extension, 2008. Hair & digital print

When contemporary studio jeweler Tiffany Parbs explores eyelash extensions, it’s art.

When Funny or Die explores the same theme, it’s comedy.

Pink Moon, 2008 Jantje Fleischhut

Contemporary studio jewelers often discuss the intimate relationship between jewelry and the body. Lately I’ve been thinking about how conceptual jewelry sometimes subverts that relationship with jewelry that rests uneasily, awkwardly, or painfully on the body.  More recently I’ve been focusing on the relationship between jewelry objects–how disparate materials suggest an exploration/refutation of cultural values. What, for example, is Jantje Fleischhut communicating through her brooch, Pink Moon?   The very idea of a pink moon, as opposed to the greyish-white moon of our physical reality, suggests a playful, childlike, alternate reality where whimsy and imagination rather than empirical knowledge is the driving force of rationality.  Fleishchhut’s juxtaposition of “low” value  industrial materials and “high” value precious materials suggests an interrogation of binary values of worth and desirability in a consumerist society. The stag figure represents the relationship between nature and the built environment; while the pastel colors clashing with the earthy brown colors represent the dualistic symbiosis of feminine/masculine and the hierarchical colonial relationship between “civilized” (European) nations and “uncivilized”  (non-European) nations.

When artists such as Fleischhut aptly employ the use of layered meanings through an awareness of material consciousness, with skill and subtlety, they broaden the discourse on the location of jewelry in the contemporary art world and the role of the conceptual jeweler as object maker and commentarian.