Projects 2007
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25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General
ExhibitionAlejandro Cesarco, Kianga Ford, Chitra Ganesh, Mariam Ghani, Sharon Hayes, Timothy Hutchings, Surasi Kusolwong, Bik Van der Pol, Ana Prvacki, Jirí Skála, Lee Walton -
Second Life
Artist ResidencyPiotr Lutyński, Denise Markonish, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Diana Dyjak Montes de Oca -
Fine Art Adoption Network
New CommissionsAdam Simon, Arthouse, Artspace, Delta Axis, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Transformer -
Horizon
ExhibitionJan Van Woensel, Vanessa Albury, Eric Van Hove, Paulus Kapteyn, Sufjan Stevens, Stephen Apicella-Hitchcock -
Ninth Annual Video Marathon: VALUES
Video MarathonSadie Benning, Anthony Marcellini, Josh Kline, Klara Liden, Pepo Salazar, Forcefield, Anne McGuire, Slater Bradley, Yacht, Devin Flynn, Martha Colburn, Stephen G. Rhodes, Ryan Trecartin, Alex Bag -
Pomerio Grandstand/Labyrinth with Stage
Artist ResidencyKarin Schneider, Branko Franceschi, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka -
Written in Light
ExhibitionZeljka Himbele, Trevor Stafford, Iván Navarro, Alyson Shotz, Lisi Raskin, Jude Tallichet
Press
NYRemezcla.com, http://www.nyremezcla.com/n...
The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, Calendar of Events http://www.lavitrina.com/ar....
BusyTonight.com, http://newyork.busytonight.....
ARTCAL http://www.artcal.net/event....
Ersoy, Ozge. 2007. “Camping and Campaigning.” So Spoke the Semicolon (accessed March 15, 2007).
Amado, Miguel. 2007. “Camp Campaign.” ARTFORUM March 13, 2007. artforum.com.
Love, Lynn. “Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri.” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007, www.brooklynrail.org.
Amado, Miguel. 2007. “Camp Campaign.” Rhizome News rhizome.org (accessed July 24, 2007).
Flavorpill NYC, http://nyc.flavorpill.net/m..., January 23-29, 2007, Art:Openings.
Dean, Jason. “International Airport Montello: A Travelogue (Part Two).” Big, RED, and Shiny, no. 50, http://www.bigredandshiny.com.
Dean, Jason. “International Airport Montello: A Travelogue (Part One).” Big, RED, and Shiny, no. 48, http://www.bigredandshiny.com.
Dean, Jason. “Eteam: Montello International Airport, Montello, Nv” Big, RED, and Shiny, no. 46, http://www.bigredandshiny.com.
Vagner, Kris. “Gate Crashing.” Nevada Today, September 28, 2006, www.nvtoday.com.
Wang, Michael. “Project Runway.” Artforum.com, September 22, 2006, http://artforum.com/diary/a...
http://www.artcal.net/event...
Katz, Miriam. “Felt Lox and Plaster Tomato Sauce: The Ethics of Sculpture” MUSEO Contemporary Art Magazine, no. 8 (March, 2008), http://www.museomagazine.com/8/katz/. Hyperlink
Susannah Edelbaum, “Everything Must Go!” Gen Art Pulse, January 22, 2008. http://www.genartpulse.com/...
Harding, Robert J., Jr., “Objects as Wellspring of Human Heritage.” Tribeca Trib, March 1, 2008. http://www.tribecatrib.com/...
Tova Carlin, “Review: Judi Werthein, Corporate Logo.” Time Out New York / Issue 632 : Nov 8–14, 2007. http://www.timeout.com/newy...
Elwyn Palmerton, “Corporate Logo.” Frieze Magazine, 05, September, 2007. http://www.frieze.com/shows...
“Venture Culturalists.” Newcurator.com 30 April 2009.
http://newcurator.com/2009/....
Sharon Butler, " Adopt some fine art today", Two Coats of Paint, October 13, 2009, http://www.twocoatsofpaint...
Austin Thomas, “Adam Simon: Fine Art Adoption Network”, AT World, July 02, 2009, http://tr.im/rtaL
Ayers, Robert. 2006. “On Collecting: Acquiring Art on the Internet, Part I.” www.artinfo.com (accessed July 24, 2007).
2006. “Best Idea Ever: Adopt Fine Art Free.” gothamist.com (accessed July 24, 2007).
Schneider, Karen. “Early Adoption.” New York Press 19, no.33 (2006), http://www.nypress.com.
Stangalino, Chiara. “A Site for the Adoption of Art.” Italian Vogue, July 2006, 64, http://www.artsjournal.com.
Rosenbaum, Lee. “Adopt an Artwork—-For Free.” CultureGrrl, January 4, 2007, http://culturegrrl.blogspot....
Lawrence, Lee. “Backstory: Adoption for Art lovers.” Christian Science Monitor, January 4, 2007, http://www.csmonitor.com/20...
Johnston, Garth. “Best Idea Ever: Adopt Fine Art Free.” Gothamist, July 29, 2006, http://www.gothamist.com.
Garnett, Joy. “Fine Art Adoption Network: Conversation with Adam Simon.” NEWSgrist, July 31, 2006, http://www.newsgrist.typepa....
Garnett, Joy. “Fine Art Adoption Network @ Art in General.” NEWSgrist, May 19, 2006, http://newsgrist.typepad.co....
Certain invigorating ideas about creativity as an inherently selfless, gift-giving practice seem to inhabit the Zeitgeist lately (If you’re stumped, see Lewis Hyde’s The Gift, or Marcel Mauss’s seminal and hard to find essay of the same title, ca.1924). In any case, if you’re of a mind to investigate alternatives to the market-driven art ethos of the day, check out artist Adam Simon’s amazing ongoing project, Fine Art Adoption Network, commissioned by Art in General, which launched in early April ’06.
Don’t forget to check back for a forthcoming conversation with Adam on NEWSgrist…
from FAAN’s front page:
Welcome to the Fine Art Adoption Network (FAAN). FAAN functions as an online posting board for artwork and as a network for artists and potential collectors. Feel free to browse these pages to view contemporary art. All of the artwork on view is available for adoption. The goals of FAAN are to place artworks by committed artists into homes and institutions and to engage people who may never have thought of themselves as art collectors. By putting more art into more homes, we hope to increase and diversify the population of art owners, re-imagining the ways in which art can be experienced and shared. As a website catalyzing the exchange of art for trust, FAAN is based on a gift economy between an artist, who generously gives their artwork, and an individual who commits to own and care for the artwork. […]Read Adam Simon on the story beh...:
[…] This was not the first time I had found myself thinking about the art market and what it could or couldn’t provide. In 1984, I had founded Four Walls with Michele Araujo. Four Walls was an exhibition space intended to promote dialogue about, or really around, art. It ran for about 15 years with almost no outside funding and no sales of art. We asked for a two-dollar donation at the door. Michele and I ran it for four years in Hoboken, New Jersey, and then, in 1990, I met an artist named Mike Ballou and he and I ran it out of his home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mike brought a slightly different flavor, more playful, more project based. We had one-evening monthly exhibitions that started out like traditional gallery art openings but halfway into the evening turned into brainstorming, theatrical artist forums that sometimes included over 100 people in Mike’s not so big former garage. At Four Walls, the artwork became a point of departure for dialogue that often left the art behind […]more on FAAN from the blogosphere via Artists Unite, May 3, 2006:
collecting for the rest of us I always love collecting art, but it seems my collecting to date has relied largely on the generosity of my extremely talented friends (lucky me that they have been equally generous and talented!). For would-be collectors, the circle of the generous has been growing in fascinating ways lately. First, JT Kirkland’s latest project bARTer (See his April 17 post for full description) offers an opportunity for artists to trade their work for another piece that was offered previously. Now Art in General has launched an amazing commission project by Adam Simon called Fine Art Adoption Network that aims to help ordinary Janes and Joes to start collecting work they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. The FAAN idea is straightforward: 1) you look at the site and pick work you want; 2) you fill out a form that emails the artist whose work you want; 3) the artist decides who gets to adopt the work; 4) one lucky person gets the work (and gets to care for the adopted treasure).Ayers, Robert. “On Collecting: Acquiring Art on the Internet, Part I” Artinfo, August 14, 2006, News & Features, http://www.artinfo.com/News....
























