Lost In Your Eyes

Lost In Your EyesLe Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New YorkOpens November 23, 2008 at 6pm
“Lost In Your Eyes” is a collaborative exhibition that aims to comment on how authorship, mutability, subjectivity and fabrication destabilize simple representation, allowing fiction to take on the appearance of fact and vice versa. The exhibition title “Lost In […]

Beyond the Barrelman

Roberto Jamora. Perfect Lovers (Sundials), oil on canvas, 48 x 54, 2008
The latest Beyond the Barrelman exhibition opened on September 5th in Chicago. It includes 40 Filipino/Fil-Am artists. Our friend Roberto Jamora’s beautiful homage to Felix Gonzales-Torres (above) is featured in the exhibition.
The barrel man has also been identified as a part of Philippine culture […]

3 Designers to watch!

CUSP interviews Ivy Kirzhner of Dolce Vita. Interview here.
Melissa Dizon uses only natural fibers, like 100 percent organic cotton jersey that’s dyed by hand with tree bark and spices like turmeric and cardamom, then hand-stitched and hand-embroidered in Dizon’s native Philippines. [ source: dailycandy ]
Fashion designer Michelle Mangiliman opened her dream boutique five years ahead […]

Art In Site

Art In Site will be the Filipino magazine for artists, by artists, about artists.
For their 1st issue, they are giving artists the cover of the magazine to use as canvas, a blank sheet, a bullhorn, however you want to use it. With a print run of 3,000 copies, each magazine will have its own unique […]

Smile Project by Bren Bataclan

Bren Bataclan goes to New York City with 115 paintings for folks to take for free in New York City next week. This is his most extensive Smile Project to date (30 paintings in Boston on Oct. 2003 was his previous max).
“the painting is yours if you promise to smile at random people more […]

April 20 in Queens: LYFE, Kasama, Action: FAHSI Cultural Showcase

at The Queens Museum of Art
www. queensmuseum. org
Sunday, April 20, 5:30 - 8 pm
Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Immigrant Heritage Week: LYFE, Kasama, Action: FAHSI Cultural Showcase
Each spring, the Filipino American Human Services, Inc. (FAHSI) sponsors an event that invites various community based organizations and community members to commemorate the various experiences and contributions of […]

April 17, 18 NYU Symposium: Philippines: Colonial Cultural Perspectives + film screenings

Thursday, April 17, 6:15 p.m.
Symposium: Philippines: Colonial Cultural Perspectives
With the participation of Edward Sullivan (NYU Professor of Fine Arts and Dean for the Humanities), Nina Capistrano Baker (Director, International Exhibitions, Ayala Museum), and Vicente Rafael (Professor of History, University of Washington).
Lectures as follow:
“The Afterlife of Empire” by Vicente Rafael
“Lost in Translation: Juan Luna between Europe […]

Paolo Javier & Ernest Concepcion in Poets of the Unreeled, curated by Walter K. Lew

POETS OF […]

The Center for Book Arts: Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers

The Center for Book Arts invites applications for our Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers. The next section of this seminar is scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, March 13th through 16th. The seminar is tuition free for participants and includes the cost of materials. Those selected must attend the entire four-day […]

NYFA 2008 Immigrant Artist Outreach Initiative

New York’s Immigrant Artists Get Needed Boost from New York Foundation for the Arts’ Mentoring Initiative
New York, NY (January, 22, 2008) – To help bolster New York’s immigrant artists, New York Foundation for the Arts has announced the launch of the 2008 Immigrant Artist Outreach Initiative.A year-long effort to support New York’s immigrant artists currently […]

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