Phil Whitman, Battlefield Guides in Devil's Den, Gettysburg. 2008, graphite on paper, 12 x 13 inches. Courtesy the artist and iGavel.

Just received word from Alana Celii that iGavel Associates and Daniel Cooney Fine Art are calling for open submissions to their successful series of Emerging Artist Auctions, and are encouraging artists of all mediums (except installation) who do not have gallery or commercial representation to forward work for consideration by December 14th. The first Emerging Artist Auction curated from these submissions is slated to launch in early 2010.

iGavel is an international network of fine art and antiques professionals with regional networks that enable consignors to minimize handling and shipping expenses while reaching an international marketplace of buyers.

In participation with Daniel Cooney Fine Art and iGavel Associates, iGavel is pleased to present our Emerging Artists Auctions. These auctions include a curated selection of works of art by promising emerging talent. The auction is a showcase before an audience of collectors, dealers, museum professionals and gallery owners. To ensure equal and fair representation all works are presented with reserves set at $200.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. To submit you must meet the following requirements:

- Undergraduate student works will not be accepted
- All mediums are welcome besides installation works
- Artists cannot have gallery or commercial representation
- Some prior exhibition or publication experience is required

To submit, please go to iGavel’s submissions page to fill out an online form and upload images, or email submissions to EmergingArtists@iGavel.com.

Submit one image per work. Images must be at least 800 pixels on the longest side, jpeg saved for web, below 200kb in size, and SRGB color space. Each artist will be required to sign a contract with iGavel. Artists receive a 50% commission on all sold works. Shipping of accepted works to iGavel or the iGavel Associate is the responsibility of the artist, and the return shipment if not sold. After your submission is received, you will be contacted by email.

Tags: Alana Celii, auction, call for submissions, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, emerging artists, iGavel, open call.

Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, photo c. Stephen Kosloff, 2006

Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery is currently accepting submissions for:

“SUMMER SESSION 101″
Nurturing Emerging Artists in an Unsupportive Financial Time 
Curated by Leah Stuhltrager, Rebecca A. Layton & Paige King

“It is especially important at this moment to open dialogue that examines differences in funding pioneering art and artists, vs. sustaining, chasing or defining commercial interests.”

- Leah Stuhltrager 

In this moment, the art world (like the rest of the world) is prioritizing where and how funds are spent. From museums to galleries to artists, from organizations to publications, creative minds have had to recently reevaluate, refocus and reinvent their way of spending.

Instead of financing a summer of exhibiting produced artwork, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery will be funneling their funds directly back into artists creating. “SUMMER SESSION 101″ explores what happens when a gallery directs funds away from presentation and into artists themselves.

In “SUMMER SESSION 101″, two artists selected from an open call will be given the Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery to use as studio space for two months. The artists’ progression towards a finished work will be the gallery exhibit. In addition to exposure to the general public and a reception during the gallery’s regular business hours, the artists will also have 5 different VIP guest “visits” from professionals who have achieved success and have insight into what no one ever learns in school.

CALENDAR:
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2009
Artist Notification: May 15, 2009
“SUMMER SESSION” install: July 7 - 10
“SUMMER SESSION COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION”: July 11, 2009
“SUMMER SESSION”: July 11 - Aug 30
“SUMMER SESSION” deinstall: Aug 31 - Sept 3

ENTRY FORM / CHECKLIST:
All genres and mediums are encouraged to apply.
We ask artists avoid extremely caustic materials that would permanently damage the gallery space.

For consideration, submit the following materials:
___ Entry Form/Checklist
___ 7-10 images of work created within the last 2 yrs on CD (300dpi JPEGs) or DVD (No more than 5 min.)
___ Printed CD/DVD Image List w/thumbnails
___ Artist Statement
___ $25.00 submission fee (Check or Money Order. Payable to: Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery)
Materials will not be returned. Notification will be made by email.

Mail to: “SUMMER SESSION”
Attn. Rebecca A. Layton & Paige King
(c/o Dam, Stuhltrager, 38 Marcy Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211)

ARTIST CONTACT INFORMATION:
Artist Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email Address:
Email:
Website:

Tags: call for submissions, Dam Stuhltrager, Summer Session 101.

QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: IMMIGRATION JOURNEYS JUKEBOX PROJECT
DEADLINE: RECEIVE BY April 15, 2009

From April 17th - 23rd the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs presents Immigrant Heritage Week, a series of events throughout the five boroughs that celebrates the history and contributions of immigrants to New York City’s cultural and economic life. As part of its participation in the week, The Queens Museum of Art is sending out an open call for anyone to submit a mix CD that somehow tells your or your family’s immigration story. The mix CD can include songs, media clips, natural sounds, poems, and narration. It can be as straightforward or experimental as you like! 

The submitted CDs will be placed in a jukebox in the Queens Museum of Art Café during Immigrant Heritage Week, and will become part of the playlist we will use in our events for the week.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Create a mix CD at least 10 minutes long on the theme of immigration journeys (in cd audio format, not MP3) 

2. Label the CD with your name and title of the mix CD if any (no stickers please)

3. Include a playlist and/or short paragraph describing your mix CD, or if you prefer, original cover art. This will be displayed in the jukebox and must be no larger than typical CD jewelcase cover.

4. On the case/sleeve of the CD, include your name, last name, telephone and email address, so we can send you a thank you for your participation.

5. Mail your masterpiece to:

Att: Gabriel Roldós
Queens Museum of Art
NYC Bldg, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368

Please Note: CD’s will not be returned and will become the property of the Queens Museum of Art.
For more information contact groldos@queensmuseum.org or 718-592-9700 x140

We look forward to hearing your sonic creations and will invite you to a following event where we will showacase the Immigration Journeys Jukebox Project.

Tags: CD, Gabriel Roldos, Immigrant Heritage Week, Immigration Journeys Jukebox Project, open call, Queens Museum.

Lot #16, Mary Temple, Corner Light (Miami), 2008. Hand-cut translucent abaca on Arches, colored pencil on verso. Courtesy of Artist and Mixed Greens Gallery.

A week’s worth of heartfelt culture picks…

TONIGHT: Lower East Side Printshop benefit. Works donated include pieces by Jim Dine, Robert Longo, Dana Schutz, James Siena, Nancy Spero, among others. We love the Mary Temple piece being auctioned, above. 6-9pm.

Thursday, February 12th: Voting closes for Reel 13’s Valentine’s week short film competition for the NYC area. We’ll be casting our ballots for Gibson Frazier’s delightful taxicab/toreador romance, Yellow. Voting closes at 5pm.

Sound-art pioneer Bill Fontana’s Spiraling Echoes opens in San Francisco’s City Hall Rotunda. Spiraling Echoes uses echolocation via ultrasound beams to carry a soundtrack of contemporary and historic sounds from various San Francisco events and locations around the Rotunda’s space. Opening reception, 5:30-7:30pm. free

Friday, February 13th: Social Media Week closing party at Santos Party House. 7-10pm. free

Also tonight: Gregory de la Haba’s pagan horse installation, Equus Maximus, opens at Jack The Pelican. NSFW!

Saturday, February 14th: the last weekend to catch Tadashi Kawamata’s wooden “Tree Huts” at Madison Square Park. Grab a burger at Shake Shack with your date and imagine spending your Valentines day like the Swiss Family Robinson. Free (burger not included).

Two of Tadashi Kawabata's Tree Huts, 2008. (Madison Sq. Park Conservancy)

If you’re in a more literary mood, check out the Bushwick Reading Series every second Saturday of the month, co-curated by Bushwick residents Niina Pollari and Parker Phillips at the Bushwick library, housed in a beautiful 1908 Carnegie building. 3-5pm. Free

MoMA presents Third World Newsreel’s (TWN) New Work from New Filmmakers, including Lottie Porch and Vanara Taing’s Beyond the Music, about the Inspirational Choir of New York’s Riverside Church. TWN fosters independent film and video by and about diverse communities, with a focus on people of color and social justice issues. 8pm.

Monday and Tuesday, February 16th and 17th: Dan Graham (2/16) and Shirin Neshat (2/17) speak about their work as part of the San Francisco Art Institute’s Spring 2009 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. 7:30pm, Free.

Tuesday, February 17th: Don’t miss Chiara Clemente’s Our City Dreams, a love letter to New York City through the eyes of five generations of women artists. Today’s screening includes a Q&A with Clemente and Ghada Amer. At the Film Forum, 1:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm.

Additional: The Foundation Vevey Ville d’Images has opened their call for entries for its 7th Vevey International Photo Awards. Projects that receive the approximately $25,000 worth of awards will be completed and shown at the next edition of the festival Images in September 2010. Deadline for the submission of projects is April 30, 2009.

Tags: Bill Fontana, Bushwick Reading Series, City Hall rotunda, Dan Graham, documentary, Film, Lower East Side Printshop, Madison Square Park, MoMA, Reel 13, romance, Shake Shack, Shirin Neshat, Social Media Week, Tadashi Kawamata, Third World Newsreel, tree huts, Yellow.

Punxsutawney Phil says no. And so our collective cabin fever has led to a selection of culture choices that we hope will boost your optimistic side, and help stave off the winter blues for another six weeks:

Thursday, February 5th: Guild and Greyshkul has a huge hurrah of an exhibition planned during its last weekend before closing its doors. The gallery will be showing the work of 120 artists and many collaborators in rotation over the next four days, with a special bonfire performance on Sunday night that should serve as a kind of ritual exorcism for the economic demons plaguing the art world right now. 6-10pm

Also, literary laffs: New online magazine The Rumpus is hosting a launch party with readings by James Frey, Andrew Sean Greer, and Jonathan Ames, and music, comedy and more by the likes of Will Sheff, Michael Showalter, Kristin Schaal, and Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine. At Crash Mansion, 7pm.

A technological diversion, with money being given away: Rhizome.org has begun accepting proposals for their 2010 commissions cycle. Artists working in new media are invited to submit proposal applications for nine grants at up to $5000 each, that would support the creation of their artwork. Commission recipients will also be invited to speak at Rhizome’s affiliate, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and to archive their work in the ArtBase, a comprehensive online art collection. The submission deadline is midnight April 2, 2009.

Saturday, February 7th: San Franciscans dictate a script for performance art pieces by MTAA at the SF Museum of Modern Art, noon.

Allora & Calzadilla, Stop, Repair, Prepare, 2008. Image courtesy Gladstone Gallery.

Make a joyful noise: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have invited seven different pianists to play Beethoven’s Ode to Joy while standing in a hole cut into the center of an antique Bechstein. At Gladstone Gallery; hourly performances through February 21st.

Pre-empt Easter, go on an arts scavenger hunt: Wikipedia Loves Art, a collaboration initiated by the Brooklyn Museum between Wikipedia and 15 different museums and cultural institutions, challenges the public to visit each institution, shoot a number of images corresponding to specific themes, and upload them to a group Flickr pool. Selected submitted images will be used to illustrate Wikipedia articles, and teams with the most points will win prizes from participating organizations. Through the end of February.

Tags: Allora, ArtBase, Bechstein, Brooklyn Museum, Calzadilla, commissions, Crash Mansion, Flickr, Found Magazine, Gladstone Gallery, groundhog, Guild and Greyshkul, new media, New Museum, pianists, piano, Rhizome, scavenger hunt, spring, The Rumpus, Wikipedia Loves Art.

photograph by Peter Lindbergh, copyright Peter Lindbergh

Hearst, the publisher of Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire is holding a competition for new and emerging photographers, entitled The 8×10 Photography Biennial. Eight winners will be chosen by ten judges (hence, 8×10, a clever play on words). Judges include Peter Lindbergh, Donna Karan, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Mary Ellen Mark. All genres of photography are welcome. The chosen work will be shown at the Alexey Brodovitch Gallery and the Hearst Gallery at Hearst Tower in New York City and will be published in an accompanying catalog.

Deadline for entry is Jan. 1st, 2009.

www.hearst8×10.com

Tags: competition, Donna Karan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Hearst, Mary Ellen Mark, New York City, Peter Lindbergh, Photography, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

William Eggleston’s long-awaited retrospective Democratic Camera recently opened at the Whitney Museum of Art, and the number of works on display made me glad I packed a lunch.

"Untitled", c.1971-73, from "Troubled Waters", 1980. Dye transfer print, 15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in. (40.3 x 50.6 cm). Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., museum purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., a federal agency, and the Polaroid Corporation © Eggleston Artistic Trust

In fitting with its title, the exhibition is organized in a very egalitarian manner, with most of the color photographs similarly sized, framed and hung at the same level throughout the three large galleries they occupy. The curators may have decided to arrange the artist’s work in this way in order to complement Eggleston’s own reluctance to to impose hierarchies on his work.

However, because Eggleston’s keen eye for color and his odd compositions don’t waver in the selected prints, the order of the images makes it somewhat difficult to track changes in a career that spans over forty years. I found myself wishing for additional distinguishing elements in the presentation as I followed the image flow from room to room. Eggleston’s portfolio of 14 Pictures selected by Walter Hopps, hung in a small grouping by themselves, and his black and white prints and video, Stranded In Canton, were the notable exceptions.

Stills from Stranded in Canton, 1973. © William Eggleston

"Untitled", (Memphis, Tennessee), 1971, from "14 Pictures", 1974. Dye transfer print, 15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in. (40.3 x 50.6 cm). © Eggleston Artistic Trust

Whitney Museum of American Art

November 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009

P.S. The New Yorker and New York Magazine both published interesting profiles of the artist, but the International Herald Tribune’s review comes closest to how this longtime admirer sees Eggleston’s work.

Tags: Democratic Camera, New York, Photography, retrospective, video, Whitney, William Eggleston.