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SUSAN BERGER in Monmouth Museum’s “Art From Found Objects” Show, and has been named Artist-in-Residence at Brydcliff Art Colony. Click HERE.

SUPERIOR INK:LOADING DOCK Panel 3- partial view 40 x 60 x 4 inches

Susan Berger’s above piece has been accepted for the Monmouth Museum show “More Art from Found Objects”- A Juried Exhibition, from June 1 – September 2, 2012. Monmouth Museum 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 732 747 2266 www.monmouthmuseum.org

Susan Berger has also been selected as an Artist in Residence at the Byrdcliff Art Colony, Woodstock, NY from July 3 – July 29, 2012 on a full fellowship from the Pollack Krasner Foundation.

Congratulations Susan!

GIL EVANS Centennial Celebration. Highline Ballroom on May 21, 2012

Gil Evans in the studio with Miles Davis, circa 1970. Michael Ochs Archives

ON 21 May 2012 at 7 pm at the Highline Ballroom, The Gil Evans Orchestra will perform for the final event of a week of Gil Evans Centennial Celebrations, all honoring the legendary jazz arranger and composer (1912-1988).

A seminal figure in the development of modal and cool jazz, as well as jazz fusion, Evans collaborated extensively with Miles Davis, notably on the trumpeter’s albums Birth of the Cool (1957), Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960). Over the course of his storied career, he also worked with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, Astrud Gilberto, Jaco Pastorius, Maria Schneider, and a host of other legendary musicians.

Gil Evans lived at Westbeth for many years and with his wife Anita raised their two sons here, Noah and Miles.

Read what DownBeat Magazine has written about Evans and his career here.
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The fabulous Gil Evans Orchestra, led by Miles Evans, Gil’s son, includes several musicians who were long-term members of Gil’s groups:

Saxophones: Chris Hunter, Billy Harper & Alex Foster
Trumpet: Lew Soloff, Jon Faddis & Miles Evans
French Horn: John Clark
Tuba: Howard Johnson & Bob Stewart
Trombone: Tom “Bones” Malone, David Bargeron, Dave Taylor & Conrad Herwig
Guitar: Ryo Kawasaki, Paul Metzke, Gabby Abularach & Oz Noy
Piano & Keyboards: Gil Goldstein
Keyboards: Delmar Brown
Bass: Mark Egan
Drums: Kenwood Dennard

In addition, the show tonight will feature performances by special guests Jimmy Cobb, Airto Moreira, Lenny White, Will Lee, John Simon, Matthew Garrison, and others. Paul Shaffer will act as the master of ceremonies for a program that will includes surprise speakers, vocalists, and music ranging from Hendrix and Jaco to the classics. Come join us for a historic night!

The Highline Ballroom is located at 431 West 16th St, Manhattan
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WESTFEST AT WESTBETH 2012: Take the 5 minute video highlight tour and/or watch videos of each site specific dance. Click here!

WestFest – site specific dance at Westbeth 2012 produced by Carol Nolte and Kirstin Kapustik comprised 14 innovative dance companies which were invited to choreograph dances for any space in Westbeth. Audiences wound their way through the building following tour guides to discover dance in unfolding space.

PEN / Westbeth Literary Safari 2012 – Photos and Reviews. See what the excitement was about! Click here.

Friday May 4, 2012, the PEN/Westbeth Literary Safari was sold out, one of two events in the whole week of PEN activities.

L Magazine

…the single most hippest event ever conceived…

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2012/05/08/pen-world-voices-2012-stalking-the-exotic-author-at-the-westbeth-literary-safari

Matthew Aaron Goodman Blog

http://penlive.tumblr.com/post/22465298450/matthew-aaron-goodman-a-literary-safari-westbeth

PEN check in table in the Westbeth Gallery. Photo Christina Maile

Ken Golden, Westbeth Gallery director and PEN associate at Westbeth check in table. Photo Roger Braimon.

Crowded hallways as PEN/Westbeth Literary Safari audiences visited apartments where readings were taking place. Photo Roger Braimon.

Westbeth lobby where BOOKMAN sculpture by Barry Sigel, and PEN parade sculpture by PAW welcomed participants. Photo Christina Maile.

Author ETGER KERET at Joan Hall's apartment/studio. Photo Roger Braimon

Author ELIAS KHOURY in Maile-Mohassel apartment/studio. Photo Christina Maile

LORRAINE O’GRADY – Portrait of the Artist , presented by the Performa Institute on April 25

Portrait of the Artist: Lorraine O’Grady
Presented by Performa Institute
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 6:30 pm

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York

Free event
rsvp@performa-arts.org

Portrait of the Artist: Lorraine O’Grady is the first in a new series of public events presented by the Performa Institute, a platform for the research and educational components of Performa that focuses on exploring the historical context and significance of artists who work across a broad range of disciplines, from the 1960s to the present. The inaugural event will examine the remarkable work and life of artist Lorraine O’Grady in the context of feminism, politics, and art of the 1980s and today. Kellie Jones, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, will present an in-depth look at the aritst followed by a conversation with O’Grady.

In addition to her work as a visual artist, OʼGrady has also made innovative contributions to cultural criticism with her writings, including the now canonical article, Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity. O’Grady’s work is included in La Triennale, “Intense Proximity,” curated by Okwui Enwezor (2012) in Paris, France. O’Grady was featured in 2011 in Rose O’Grady at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, and in the Prospect.2 New Orleans biennial and was selected for the 2010 Whitney Biennial as well as for that year’s Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain. In 2007, she was in the landmark exhibition, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, organized by Connie Butler for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and was a resident artist at Artpace San Antonio, TX. O’Grady has received numerous awards, most recently an Art Matters grant, and in 2011 was named a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow. Lorraine O’Grady is represented by Alexander Gray Associates, New York.

About Performa
Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Performa launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05, in 2005, followed by Performa 07 (2007), and Performa 09 (2009). In 2011, Performa presented its fourth biennial, Performa 11 (November 1–21, 2011).

Lorraine O’Grady Related Events
Apr 23, 2012: Performance with Adam Pendleton at Museum of Modern Art, New York
May 9, 2012: Performance with Adam Pendleton, in concert with the Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran installation, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
May 10, 2012: Conversation with Linda Goode-Bryant, in concurrence with the exhibition Shift, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Alexander Gray Associates is a contemporary art gallery based in New York. The gallery has established a profile for high-quality exhibitions focused on mid- career artists who emerged in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Influential in political, social and cultural spheres, these artists are notable for creating work that crosses geographic borders, generational contexts and artistic disciplines.

Alexander Gray Associates
508 West 26 Street #215, New York NY 10001
Telephone: 212 399 2636 Fax: 212 399 2684
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
www.alexandergray.com

Current Exhibition
Lorraine O’Grady: New Worlds: April 11 – May 19, 2012

Upcoming Exhibitions
Luis Camnitzer: September 5 – October 13, 2012
Melvin Edwards: October 24 – December 8, 2012

Upcoming Art Fairs
Frieze New York: May 4 – 7, 2012
Art 43 Basel: June 14 – 17, 2012