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The new issue of Flaneur art zine is now available. Artists and writers from around the world have contributed to the latest issue, which has grown and is now Europe’s newest arts newspaper!
Please check it out and consider contributing to the next issue.
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By The Flaneur magazine on 2010 03 07
Call for Entries
The Annual Cork Street Open Art Exhibition for Charity is an International Open Exhibition of contemporary fine art held to showcase both emerging and established artists while raising funds and increasing the profile of a selected charity.
Prizes in excess of £10,000 GBP plus an exhibition in the heart of London’s West End.
The 2010 selected charity is Children with Leukaemia, the UK’s leading charity dedicated to fighting Britain’s biggest childhood cancer.
Any artist living anywhere in the world may enter. All work must be original, conceived and executed solely by the artist, and completed within the past 18 months, without instructional assistance.
David Palliser’s most recent paintings focus in on making rich, bright monuments from spare and simple gestures. Beginning from loose gouache sketches on paper made during a residency in Paris, each painting becomes a celebration in a manner that the artist compares to ‘a grand ceremony for a flea in a cage.’
Anna Pappas Gallery
2-4 Carlton St
Prahran Vic 3181
03 8598 9915 (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) http://www.annapappasgallery.com
Tues-Fri 10-6 Sat 12-6
By Anna Pappas Gallery on 2010 02 24
Dark, enigmatic, cryptic, ambiguous; words often used to describe the works of John Currin, those manifestations of an artist on the peripheries of artistic vision. Currin describes his work as an intuitive process, by which the subject and medium of each piece slowly morph and accumulate into the surreal.
By their very nature Currins works are sullied by the elements, their subjects emerging through the textures of time. They reference things we may consider unworthy, like rust or graffiti, like decrepit walls and shattered glass. Here the elements of our neglect, the residues of subversive acts or violence, become the underpainting upon which the works are built. Those undercurrents coexist with classic form and sweeping vistas; the decrepit and the ‘beautiful,’ their boundaries shadowy and vague.
In this way Currin perverts the thickness of history, relocating it and its mesh of references. Here he creates a carnivalesque world where the rational and the irrational, the celebrated and the obscure, the beautiful and the grotesque, are brought together in a vigorous state of play.
“I Slept With Joey Ramone” book reading and signing
Featuring Mickey Leigh, Alan Arkush, P.J. Soles, Howie Pyro and other surprise guests
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 6 - 9 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243 http://www.laluzdejesus.com
I SLEPT WITH
JOEY RAMONE
A Family Memoir
by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
“While the Ramones remained an underground band, they are regarded today as a huge influence on the entire punk rock movement. Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh . . . recreates that electric era, striking all the right chords in this dynamic biography. With skillful writing, he finds Joey’s musical roots in their dysfunctional family life . . . Leigh’s and Legs’s mashup of memories with solid research makes for revelatory reading in this compelling portrait of a musical misfit who evolved into a countercultural icon.” —Publishers Weekly
“Joey Ramone is feted with tough love in these cradle-to-grave memories
from his kid brother Mickey Leigh.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Funny, sad, shocking, surprising, and best of all, brutally honest.” —John Holmstrom, cofounder of Punk magazine
“Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Rockaway Beach,” “I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Sheena is a Punk Rocker,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.” With humor spiked lyrics, a shockingly unique delivery, and backed by the fast, frenetic music of his band, Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties while defining punk rock in America. I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE: A Family Memoir (Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster; December 1, 2009; Hardcover/$26; 978-0-7432-5216-4) is the story of the turbulent life of one of America’s greatest rock icons, revealed for the first time by Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, with “Resident Punk” Legs McNeil.
Mickey tells his fascinating, though sometimes troubling, tale of growing up with a rock star with honesty, humor, and grace. Before Joey Ramone’s signature sunglasses, face obscured by a mop of hair, and towering height became the personification of punk’s early image, he was simply Jeffry Hyman, born on May 19, 1951 in Forest Hills, New York. Rock ‘n’ roll gave the lanky, awkward teen a sanity-saving outlet for his anti-social behaviors—which included the crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that plagued him throughout his life.
In 1974 Jeff co-founded the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin. “Joey,” “Johnny,” “Tommy” and “Dee Dee Ramone” were soon regulars at CBGB’s, honing the brief, rapid-fire concert style that would soon become the stuff of legend. The Ramones’ 1976 debut album, replete with hooky, three-chord songwriting, cheerfully dumb humor, and boundless energy, heralded the true birth of punk rock and created the blueprint that countless bands would follow to the top of the charts.
Despite their enormous musical and cultural influence, a career spanning two decades, and a handful of undisputedly classic albums, the uppermost levels of fame were always just out of reach for the Ramones. The infighting, romantic betrayals, and addictions that tormented the band also strained personal relationships along the way. As these pressures peaked, Mickey saw them take their toll on the kind, caring boy he once shared his bedroom with in Queens, who began to periodically display an uncharacteristically malicious persona. After forty years of extreme closeness, the two brothers engaged in a conflict that had them pushing and pulling at each other throughout much of the 1990’s, though, in the end it was Mickey who was again closest with his brother during Joey’s battle with lymphatic cancer that ultimately ended his life in 2001.
To ensure the story was balanced, complete, and told fairly, Mickey and Legs interviewed dozens of family, friends, colleagues, and industry professionals who were there as Joey’s life unfolded. Both a tribute to the rise of punk in America and an intimate look at a journey filled with music and challenges, I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE is an enduring portrait of a man who struggled to find his voice and of the brother who loved him.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MICKEY LEIGH has been an influential player in the rock & roll world since the late seventies. After forming Birdland with Lester Bangs in 1977 he became the lead singer/guitarist/songwriter for the Rattlers and Stop and was a contributor to the music of the Ramones. He has written the monthly column My Guitar is Pregnant for the Lower East Side-based newspaper the New York Waste since 1996; created and published the Coney Island High Times, a monthly magazine for famed rock club Coney Island High; and written reviews for magazines including Audio Review and Time Out New York. This is his first book. He lives in New York City.
LEGS MCNEIL is the coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, a book widely hailed as the definitive work on the subject. The cofounder of the seminal magazine that gave punk its name, he is a former editor at Spin and editor in chief of Nerve. He divides his time between New York City and his home in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania.
I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE: A Family Memoir
By Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
On-sale December 1, 2009
$26.00 / hardcover
ISBN 978-0-7432-5216-4
Publicity contact for “I Slept With Joey Ramone”
Jessica Roth
212-698-4665 (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
###
La Luz de Jesus is located at the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm. For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), p (818) 848-2698
By Lee Joseph Publicity on 2010 02 10
Dave McKean Book Signing
Friday, February 12, 2010
6 pm – 9 pm
LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243 http://www.laluzdejesus.com
Dave McKean will be appearing at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, on Friday, Feb. 12, the day before his opening at Billy Shire Fine Arts, to sign his books and comics, from 6pm - 9pm. Join us for an intamate evening with the artist. The gallery will have numerous McKean titles avalible and the artist will sign all purchases.
Dave McKean lives and works in Kent, England. His style has become inescapable to anyone cognizant of pop culture: he has illustrated and designed covers for the most respected comics of the late 20th century (The Sandman, Arkham Asylum) designed, illustrated, and photographed over 150 CD covers (The Rolling Stones, Tori Amos, Alice Cooper) and created imagery and designs for ad campaigns (Nike, Kodak, BMW) and magazines (The New Yorker, Mojo, Playboy). He has illustrated children’s books written by acclaimed writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline, The Graveyard Book), has worked on film and book projects with John Cale, Jonathan Carroll and Stephen King. He was a conceptual artist on the “Harry Potter” films, and developed and directed the film MirrorMask for the Jim Henson Company.
By Lee Joseph Publicity on 2010 02 05
FIFA World Cup & Largest Fine Art Collaboration in History
Leading contemporary Australian artist Chris Wake has been commissioned to do a painting for the 2010 Fine Art Project to celebrate the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa. According to 2010 Fine Art the official license holder for world cup fine art “ It is one of the largest and most ambitious art collaborations in history.” Adelaide Hills artist Chris Wake a Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist, has finished the painting titled “Cockatoo At The Great Debate” . The painting includes a strange raft of characters from different countries with Nolanesque eyes debating the football match. Wake says “The brief was to incorporate Australia`s national pride, African heritage and the enthusiasm of the football – not an easy task to include all of this in one painting” Chris Wake says “I like to include animals in my paintings, usually birds, to remind us that we belong as part of the natural world and mankind needs to live a life that is far more respectful and sensitive to other flora and fauna species. My exhibition in Hong Kong last year was called “Global Rescue” and was a satirical comment depicting animals saving humans from the rising waterlevels.” Born in 1960 Wake has had more than 12 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions some of which have been sell out shows. Chris Wake studied Fine Art at Adelaide Central School of Art and has been painting since 1976. Wake`s paintings are now much sought after by corporate and private collectors in Australia and internationally
In a few months South Africa will host the FIFA world cup South Africa – the biggest and most-watched sporting event in the world. “ In the eighty years of the FIFA World Cup fine art has never been licensed by FIFA until now. Artists from each of the 32 countries that qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa have been invited to participate in this ground-breaking global exhibition.” says 2010 Fine Art. Brands United, a German art marketing company will publish limited edition signed prints from the paintings and sold around the world. The paintings will be exhibited in London, Munich, Tokyo, Barcelona and USA. The original paintings will then be Auctioned by FIFA later this year.
The painting can be viewed online at http://www.artcw.com.au or http://www.2010fineart.comhttp://www.youtube.com/user/MMXArt
http://www.flaneur.me.uk
The new issue of Flaneur art zine is now available. Artists and writers from around the world have contributed to the latest issue, which has grown and is now Europe’s newest arts newspaper!
Please check it out and consider contributing to the next issue.
Thanks
By The Flaneur magazine on 2010 03 07
Call for Entries
The Annual Cork Street Open Art Exhibition for Charity is an International Open Exhibition of contemporary fine art held to showcase both emerging and established artists while raising funds and increasing the profile of a selected charity.
Prizes in excess of £10,000 GBP plus an exhibition in the heart of London’s West End.
The 2010 selected charity is Children with Leukaemia, the UK’s leading charity dedicated to fighting Britain’s biggest childhood cancer.
Any artist living anywhere in the world may enter. All work must be original, conceived and executed solely by the artist, and completed within the past 18 months, without instructional assistance.
Go to http://www.corkstreetopenexhibition.com for full details and submission form.
By CorkStreetOpen on 2010 03 06
Feb. 25th & 26th
Ron Brejtfus: More Than An Art Show, Art Show.
From 7-10Pm
@: 421 Market Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Questions: Call Brianna 619.813.6972
Check out some of his photography:
http://www.Brejtfus.com
By Brejtfus on 2010 02 26
‘Nerve Bangle’
David Palliser
4 March - 10 April 2010
David Palliser’s most recent paintings focus in on making rich, bright monuments from spare and simple gestures. Beginning from loose gouache sketches on paper made during a residency in Paris, each painting becomes a celebration in a manner that the artist compares to ‘a grand ceremony for a flea in a cage.’
Anna Pappas Gallery
2-4 Carlton St
Prahran Vic 3181
03 8598 9915
(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
http://www.annapappasgallery.com
Tues-Fri 10-6 Sat 12-6
By Anna Pappas Gallery on 2010 02 24
Dark, enigmatic, cryptic, ambiguous; words often used to describe the works of John Currin, those manifestations of an artist on the peripheries of artistic vision. Currin describes his work as an intuitive process, by which the subject and medium of each piece slowly morph and accumulate into the surreal.
By their very nature Currins works are sullied by the elements, their subjects emerging through the textures of time. They reference things we may consider unworthy, like rust or graffiti, like decrepit walls and shattered glass. Here the elements of our neglect, the residues of subversive acts or violence, become the underpainting upon which the works are built. Those undercurrents coexist with classic form and sweeping vistas; the decrepit and the ‘beautiful,’ their boundaries shadowy and vague.
In this way Currin perverts the thickness of history, relocating it and its mesh of references. Here he creates a carnivalesque world where the rational and the irrational, the celebrated and the obscure, the beautiful and the grotesque, are brought together in a vigorous state of play.
http://www.obscuregallery.com
By John Currin on 2010 02 14
“I Slept With Joey Ramone” book reading and signing
Featuring Mickey Leigh, Alan Arkush, P.J. Soles, Howie Pyro and other surprise guests
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 6 - 9 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
http://www.laluzdejesus.com
I SLEPT WITH
JOEY RAMONE
A Family Memoir
by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
“While the Ramones remained an underground band, they are regarded today as a huge influence on the entire punk rock movement. Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh . . . recreates that electric era, striking all the right chords in this dynamic biography. With skillful writing, he finds Joey’s musical roots in their dysfunctional family life . . . Leigh’s and Legs’s mashup of memories with solid research makes for revelatory reading in this compelling portrait of a musical misfit who evolved into a countercultural icon.” —Publishers Weekly
“Joey Ramone is feted with tough love in these cradle-to-grave memories
from his kid brother Mickey Leigh.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Funny, sad, shocking, surprising, and best of all, brutally honest.” —John Holmstrom, cofounder of Punk magazine
“Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Rockaway Beach,” “I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Sheena is a Punk Rocker,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School.” With humor spiked lyrics, a shockingly unique delivery, and backed by the fast, frenetic music of his band, Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties while defining punk rock in America. I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE: A Family Memoir (Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster; December 1, 2009; Hardcover/$26; 978-0-7432-5216-4) is the story of the turbulent life of one of America’s greatest rock icons, revealed for the first time by Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, with “Resident Punk” Legs McNeil.
Mickey tells his fascinating, though sometimes troubling, tale of growing up with a rock star with honesty, humor, and grace. Before Joey Ramone’s signature sunglasses, face obscured by a mop of hair, and towering height became the personification of punk’s early image, he was simply Jeffry Hyman, born on May 19, 1951 in Forest Hills, New York. Rock ‘n’ roll gave the lanky, awkward teen a sanity-saving outlet for his anti-social behaviors—which included the crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that plagued him throughout his life.
In 1974 Jeff co-founded the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin. “Joey,” “Johnny,” “Tommy” and “Dee Dee Ramone” were soon regulars at CBGB’s, honing the brief, rapid-fire concert style that would soon become the stuff of legend. The Ramones’ 1976 debut album, replete with hooky, three-chord songwriting, cheerfully dumb humor, and boundless energy, heralded the true birth of punk rock and created the blueprint that countless bands would follow to the top of the charts.
Despite their enormous musical and cultural influence, a career spanning two decades, and a handful of undisputedly classic albums, the uppermost levels of fame were always just out of reach for the Ramones. The infighting, romantic betrayals, and addictions that tormented the band also strained personal relationships along the way. As these pressures peaked, Mickey saw them take their toll on the kind, caring boy he once shared his bedroom with in Queens, who began to periodically display an uncharacteristically malicious persona. After forty years of extreme closeness, the two brothers engaged in a conflict that had them pushing and pulling at each other throughout much of the 1990’s, though, in the end it was Mickey who was again closest with his brother during Joey’s battle with lymphatic cancer that ultimately ended his life in 2001.
To ensure the story was balanced, complete, and told fairly, Mickey and Legs interviewed dozens of family, friends, colleagues, and industry professionals who were there as Joey’s life unfolded. Both a tribute to the rise of punk in America and an intimate look at a journey filled with music and challenges, I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE is an enduring portrait of a man who struggled to find his voice and of the brother who loved him.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
MICKEY LEIGH has been an influential player in the rock & roll world since the late seventies. After forming Birdland with Lester Bangs in 1977 he became the lead singer/guitarist/songwriter for the Rattlers and Stop and was a contributor to the music of the Ramones. He has written the monthly column My Guitar is Pregnant for the Lower East Side-based newspaper the New York Waste since 1996; created and published the Coney Island High Times, a monthly magazine for famed rock club Coney Island High; and written reviews for magazines including Audio Review and Time Out New York. This is his first book. He lives in New York City.
LEGS MCNEIL is the coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, a book widely hailed as the definitive work on the subject. The cofounder of the seminal magazine that gave punk its name, he is a former editor at Spin and editor in chief of Nerve. He divides his time between New York City and his home in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania.
Los Angeles Times review: http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book28-2010jan28,0,3973540.story
I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE: A Family Memoir
By Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
On-sale December 1, 2009
$26.00 / hardcover
ISBN 978-0-7432-5216-4
Publicity contact for “I Slept With Joey Ramone”
Jessica Roth
212-698-4665
(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
###
La Luz de Jesus is located at the Soap Plant/Wacko building, in Los Feliz at 4633 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday: 11am – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 9pm and Sunday 12-6pm. For high resolution jpegs, interview requests and more information contact: Lee Joseph Publicity, (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), p (818) 848-2698
By Lee Joseph Publicity on 2010 02 10
Dave McKean Book Signing
Friday, February 12, 2010
6 pm – 9 pm
LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
4633 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-666-7667 Fax: 323-663-0243
http://www.laluzdejesus.com
Online press release with images:
http://leejosephpublicity.com/show/davemckean_signing
Dave McKean will be appearing at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, on Friday, Feb. 12, the day before his opening at Billy Shire Fine Arts, to sign his books and comics, from 6pm - 9pm. Join us for an intamate evening with the artist. The gallery will have numerous McKean titles avalible and the artist will sign all purchases.
Dave McKean lives and works in Kent, England. His style has become inescapable to anyone cognizant of pop culture: he has illustrated and designed covers for the most respected comics of the late 20th century (The Sandman, Arkham Asylum) designed, illustrated, and photographed over 150 CD covers (The Rolling Stones, Tori Amos, Alice Cooper) and created imagery and designs for ad campaigns (Nike, Kodak, BMW) and magazines (The New Yorker, Mojo, Playboy). He has illustrated children’s books written by acclaimed writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline, The Graveyard Book), has worked on film and book projects with John Cale, Jonathan Carroll and Stephen King. He was a conceptual artist on the “Harry Potter” films, and developed and directed the film MirrorMask for the Jim Henson Company.
By Lee Joseph Publicity on 2010 02 05
FIFA World Cup & Largest Fine Art Collaboration in History
Leading contemporary Australian artist Chris Wake has been commissioned to do a painting for the 2010 Fine Art Project to celebrate the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa. According to 2010 Fine Art the official license holder for world cup fine art “ It is one of the largest and most ambitious art collaborations in history.” Adelaide Hills artist Chris Wake a Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist, has finished the painting titled “Cockatoo At The Great Debate” . The painting includes a strange raft of characters from different countries with Nolanesque eyes debating the football match. Wake says “The brief was to incorporate Australia`s national pride, African heritage and the enthusiasm of the football – not an easy task to include all of this in one painting” Chris Wake says “I like to include animals in my paintings, usually birds, to remind us that we belong as part of the natural world and mankind needs to live a life that is far more respectful and sensitive to other flora and fauna species. My exhibition in Hong Kong last year was called “Global Rescue” and was a satirical comment depicting animals saving humans from the rising waterlevels.” Born in 1960 Wake has had more than 12 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions some of which have been sell out shows. Chris Wake studied Fine Art at Adelaide Central School of Art and has been painting since 1976. Wake`s paintings are now much sought after by corporate and private collectors in Australia and internationally
In a few months South Africa will host the FIFA world cup South Africa – the biggest and most-watched sporting event in the world. “ In the eighty years of the FIFA World Cup fine art has never been licensed by FIFA until now. Artists from each of the 32 countries that qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa have been invited to participate in this ground-breaking global exhibition.” says 2010 Fine Art. Brands United, a German art marketing company will publish limited edition signed prints from the paintings and sold around the world. The paintings will be exhibited in London, Munich, Tokyo, Barcelona and USA. The original paintings will then be Auctioned by FIFA later this year.
The painting can be viewed online at http://www.artcw.com.au or http://www.2010fineart.com http://www.youtube.com/user/MMXArt
http://www.artcw.com.au
By artcw on 2010 02 05
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