RVCA ANP QUARTERLY

Sister Corita in BERLIN!!!

2008-02-25T05:26:00.001-08:00

Information for the Italians...

2008-02-17T03:30:00.000-08:00

Information for the Italians or people rich enough to fly to Italy for art shows: Something Old, Something New, something Borrowed, Something Blue. at the Marella Gallery in Milan. It opens on the 21st.
Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Ed Templeton, Clare Rojas, Mike Mills, Phil Frost, Matt Leines, Raymond Pettibon, Deanna Templeton, and Ari Marcopoulos.

artscape aplication 08

2008-02-12T21:33:00.000-08:00

Last year I was invited to curate an exhibition for Baltimore's Artscape festival, which is an annual art festival that literally takes over the city, ala a giant county fair for one long weekend in July. I put together a show called Maximum Approach that featured dueling collectives, Paper Rad an Crystal Coven. It was an super fun, and the attendance was amazing. Everyone involved was epic. (there are some posts from that time here )
When I saw the list of projects that are happening this year, I asked Gary Kachadourian, the main dude at artscape (he is such a sweetheart and ass kicker), if I could post them on our blog. He said "yes and they are open to artists from anywhere in the world."
Below is a list of Artscape 08 exhibitions that you can apply for. Applications are at www.artscape.org (click on join us/applications... warning, their website is kind of corny looking.... but the thing itself is so so great). If you have trouble downloading please email them at at this address gkachadourian@promotionandarts.com

Artscape 2008; Visual Arts Exhibitions

PENNED: an exhibition of and about drawing with pens and markers
Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art
Application deadline, May 16, 2008
An exhibition of pen and marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them. Interested artists should submit a drawing, text on the pen(s) used and a photograph of the pen(s). This exhibition will travel to Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA and Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC and possible other galleries in the coming years.

Review Committee, Cynthia Connolly, artist, photographer, Director, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA; Bill Thelen, artist, Director, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC; Andrew Jeffrey Wright, artist, co-founder, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Wendy Yao, Owner/Director, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, CA; Staff Members, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Baltimore, MD

Midway
Charles Street Bridge
Application deadline, March 14, 2008
To inaugurate the expansion of the Artscape festival onto Charles Street Midway will present installations, performances, sculpture and other forms of art and performance to create an alternate carnival midway. Artists should submit proposals for 8x8 or 8x16 foot spaces. Honoraria between $200 and $800 will be provided for each project.

Curators, Ted Frankel, artist, art director, graphic designer, and owner of Sideshow at the American Visionary Art Museum; Chiara Giovando, musician, sound and video artist, and independent curator; Dina Kelberman, artist, comic book writer, fashion designer and founding member of Wham City collective; Melissa Webb, fiber artist specializing in costume, performance, and site-specific installation. (note; each curator will work independently on one section of the exhibition)

Outdoor Lounge: a public sculpture exhibition
Mt. Royal Ave. between Cathedral St. and Lafayette Ave.
Application deadline, March 14, 2008
Outdoor Lounge is a public sculpture project where all of the installed works must somehow provide seating for one or more persons. This includes seat designs, sculpture forms designed to be sat on and environments that include seating. Performance/Programing within your seating area will be considered, but not required. Interested artists may submit proposals. Between $500 and $3,000 will be available for each selected project.

Curator, Michael Benevento, artist, curator, and co-director of Current Gallery since 2005; an artist run gallery, studio, and performance space in downtown Baltimore. Recent curatorial projects include Under Construction, Automation Constipation, and Hacking Utopia(s) at Current Gallery; Antagonism, Hacks, and Hoaxes at Maryland Art Place; Stuttering at the Carroll Museum; and co-curated The Dilapidated Reanimated Expo at Artscape 2006.

Baltimore Sculpture Project
Multiple sites
Application deadline, March 14, 2008
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA), Artscape and the City of Baltimore present the second annual Baltimore Sculpture Project, an outdoor sculpture exhibition that will engage sites around the city. This exhibition will open in July 2008, and run through April 2009. This year’s show will concentrate on sites inside the Station North Arts & Entertainment District, at Mt. Royal Avenue and Cathedral Street on the Artscape site, Preston Gardens, and other possible locations yet to be finalized. Honoraria between $500 and $4,000 will be offered.

Baltimore Sculpture Project (continued)
Jurors, Bob Alholm, sculptor; Maren Hassinger, artist and Director, the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art; Irene Hoffman, Executive Director, Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum; Sam Holmes, artist and a member of Morgan State University’s Visual Arts Faculty; and Tim Scofield, artist and Sculpture Faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

City-County Exhibitions
Application deadline, March 14, 2008
These galleries will be reviewing submitted work for exhibitions during Artscape
Area 405 ~ The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville ~ Creative Alliance at the Patterson ~ Current Gallery ~ Eubie Blake Cultural Center ~ Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland ~ Load of Fun Gallery ~ Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College ~ School 33 Art Center ~ Sub-Basement Artists Studios ~ Theatre Project, John Fonda Gallery ~ Villa Julie College Gallery
(Note: not all spaces listed above will use this prospectus, some exhibitions will be invitational)

15th Annual Art Car and Other Wheeled Vehicle Show
Application deadline, March 14, 2008 and ongoing
Artscape and the American Visionary Art Museum invite art car artists and all artists to be part of the annual Art Car Show in Baltimore. This year, Artscape will be offering commissions for the creation of new cars, bikes and other wheeled vehicles. Limited travel stipends for out of the area cars will also be considered.
Curator, Harrod Blank, art car artist, historian and filmmaker.

Also check out;
Artists’ Market & Fashion at Artscape
Application deadline, March 30, 2008

DIY at Artscape
Application deadline, March 30, 2008

Demoscape
Application deadline, March 30, 2008

For more information contact Gary Kachadourian at 410-752-8632

gkachadourian@promotionandarts.com

www.promotionandarts.com

Artscape is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, Inc. on behalf of the Baltimore Festival of the Arts, Inc., Mayor Sheila Dixon

POLAROID R.I.P.

2008-02-11T10:53:00.001-08:00

STOCK UP ON FILM NOW!!!!

Polaroid shutters the Polaroid

The photography company long known for its self-developing film
cameras moves to focus on printers and digital technology.

BOSTON (AP) -- Polaroid is dropping the technology it pioneered long
before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a
few nostalgia buffs.

Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the
Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant
images focuses on ventures, such as a portable printer for images from
cell phones and Polaroid-branded digital cameras, televisions and DVD
players.

This year's closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its
Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of
Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in 1978.

The company stopped making instant cameras over the past two years.

"We're trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to
40 years," Tom Beaudoin, Polaroid's president, chief operating officer
and chief financial officer, said in a phone interview Friday, after
the company's plans were reported in The Boston Globe.

Polaroid failed to embrace the digital technology that has transformed
photography, instead sticking to its belief that many photographers
who didn't want to wait to get pictures developed would hold onto
their old Polaroid cameras.

Global sales of traditional camera film have been dropping about 25
percent to 30 percent per year, "and I've got to believe instant film
has been falling as fast if not faster," said Ed Lee, a digital
photography analyst at the research firm InfoTrends Inc.

"At some point in time, it had to reach the point where it was going
to be uneconomical to keep producing instant film," Lee said.

Privately held Polaroid doesn't disclose financial details about its
instant film business.

Polaroid instant film will be available in stores through next year,
the company said - after which, Lee said, Japan's Fujifilm (FUJI) will
be the only major maker of instant film.

Polaroid got its start making polarized sunglasses in the 1930s, and
introduced its first instant camera in 1948. Film packs contained the
chemicals for developing images inside the camera, and photos emerged
from the camera in less than a minute.

Polaroid's overall revenue from instant cameras, film and other
products peaked in 1991 at nearly $3 billion. The company went into
bankruptcy in 2001 and was bought four years later for $426 million by
Minnetonka, Minn.-based consumer products company Petters Group
Worldwide.

Polaroid's newly announced job cuts include 150 positions to be
eliminated over the next couple months at Massachusetts operations in
Norwood and Waltham, which make large-format films for technical and
industrial photography. Later this year, Polaroid will close plants
employing 300 workers in the Mexican state of Queretaro and in
Enschede, Netherlands.

Meanwhile, Polaroid is seeking a partner to acquire licensing rights
for its instant film, in hopes that another firm will continue making
the film to supply Polaroid enthusiasts.

As it seeks to gain a foothold in digital photography this year,
Polaroid plans to sell an 8-ounce photo printer slightly bigger than a
deck of cards that requires no ink and prints business card-sized
pictures. It uses thermal printing technology from Zink Imaging,
founded by private investors who bought technologies from Polaroid as
it was coming out of bankruptcy.

Polaroid also has its brand name on foreign-made TVs, DVD players,
digital photo frames, cameras and MP3 music players. Those products
generated nearly $1 billion in revenue last year for Polaroid's parent
firm, Beaudoin said.

David Horvitz

2008-02-10T23:01:00.000-08:00

Our friend David Horvitz is a pretty amazing artist and... schemer. If you are looking to invest in New Conceptual art, I would personally like to suggest that you invest it in David's work. It all offers some sort of very literal residual ephemera (which you could, of course, sell later— hello investment), his prices are still cheap, and in terms of art as speculative investment... I'll just direct you to some offers, below...

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The Sads in Italy!!

2008-02-10T00:18:00.000-08:00

Come See Us Play in Italy NEXT WEEK!! February 14th - Turin (detals coming!) February 15th - Secret Show in Milan (stay tuned!) February 17th - Rome @ Circolo Degli Artisti, Via Casalina Veccia 42, Rome (Show starts @ 10:00) February 21st - Milan @ Marella Gallery, Via Lepontina 8, 20159 Milan (Show starts @ 8:00) - This is part of an amazing group show...details to follow We’re also playing in BERLIN on Feb. 23rd, but that’s a different post. Come see us!!

Mister Lonely Stills in Tokyo

2008-02-03T01:39:00.000-08:00

Nashville local Brent Stewart, who shot the stills from Harmony Korine's new film Mister Lonely (and who graciously gave us a bunch to publish in our latest issue!) has an exhibition of his photos at the Agnes b. boutique in Tokyo. If anyone is going over there, please check them out. If you can't make it (we understand), here are some photos of the show.

re:wind—TRIP:OUT

2008-02-01T18:01:00.000-08:00

About This Video
featuring high places, car clutch, deathset, xbxrx, patty, the dogs, dan deacon, brendan fowler, rob barber, mary pearson, ethan swan, andrea longacre-white, paper rad, vice cooler, and hisham bharoocha

Thank you VC!!

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DistributedANPQTowerRecordsTokyo

2008-01-29T10:54:00.000-08:00

While ANPQ is free at many locations in the continental united states, we want people to be able to get it everywhere, even places where we can't afford to ship it ourselves, so in addition to selling subscriptions that just cover cost, we are starting to distribute it for international sale. If you are an amazing bookstore or gallery somewhere and would like to carry it, please email brendanfowler@rvcaanp.com

Our friends at Press Pop Japan have begun distributing ANPQ for us in Japan. We sent them a bunch of back issues, which ran out quickly, so the kind people at Tower Records Tokyo filled up the dead space in our display booth with books from friends and family.

While Tower Records went out of business in the US, Tower Records is still fully in effect in Japan, and their book/magazine store is one of the best book/magazine stores in a country of incredible book/magazine stores. And I'm not saying that to floss us out, but just on the level to say "trip out, not only is Tower NOT DEAD there, they are ruling there." I drive by closed Tower's here and then see this and get confused, but then remember that sometimes this world is big enough that alternate realities do exist in our vast mortal landscape.

This Charming Man

2008-01-25T17:22:00.000-08:00

DAVID SCOTT STONE PLAYS NY THIS WEEKEND.

Saturday January 26th, 2008 08:00 PM - at Death By Audio

49 S 2nd St (btwn Wythe & Ken)
BROOKLYN, New York 11211

Eric Copeland ---------> from Black Dice
David Scott Stone
Caguamas
Emmy ------------> from the Peppermints

Sunday January 27, 2008 - 9:00 PM at Starr Space(2 blocks from Jefferson L Train exit)

108 Starr St.
Brooklyn, New York 11237

David Scott Stone
Jim Lowman(ex-Cranium)
Legends(also ex-Cranium)
Busy from Telepathy dance troupe SKINT

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Beautifully Art Damaged

2008-01-25T00:52:00.000-08:00

After our night of digging through dumpsters, Chris took over my table and dumped a gallon of paint onto this piece of wood.
Why you ask?

He's curated the Jack Hanley booth at this weekends Art-LA fair and I was graciously asked to lend a hand with the install.
If you have a chance to get down there it's at the Santa Monica Civic all weekend. I don't usually recommend art fairs, but this one is actually quite good. Especially Chris' installation, which resembles some 1920s conceptual geometric salon, with a heavy punk damage element. Definitely worth a gander....

Plus...you can see what a beautiful thing that blob of paint has become!!

Shenanigans

2008-01-23T13:36:00.001-08:00

Why were Chris Johanson and I dumpster diving at 2AM last night?

Stay tuned...

Sydney Report II

2008-01-21T12:50:00.000-08:00

So when we left off last time we were installing the Sister Corita show at Monster Children Gallery in Sydney. The photo above of Rachael cutting up magazines is a bit redundant from the last post, but I thought it looked kind of cool and 1960ish. Almost like it was done back in the days when Corita was alive. This was on the day of the opening.

After all the images were cut to size, a crew of us including Campbell, Lucy, Joe, Dougie, and a girl I only ever knew as "the Polish girl" pasted them (heehee) to the sides of this box structure we made in the middle of the gallery. The installation was meant to mimic these big box structures Corita used to build. I guess it kind of worked, but we ripped it out the next day cause it was buggin' me. RIP box structure thing.

This is Joseph Allen, he's the director and all around get-it-done guy at Monster Children Gallery. He was great to work with. He's a "handle it" kind of dude...I respect that. He looks like an actor too. One day I want to go back to Sydney and put him in a movie. Start your acting lessons Joe. I'm not joking...

Here's what the show looked like when it was done.

Another view.

After the opening we walked over to Oxford Street, which is kind of a main drag of the area we were hanging. The street was filled with kids getting wasted and acting crazy. I took this photo cause it reminded me of the film Streetwise. There was a bunch of stuff in Sydney that reminds me of Streetwise. It's kind of a hectic town.

Ami, a very drunk girl, ran up to me on the street, told me I was sexy, gave me her phone number and proceeded to draw a lightning bolt on my face. That hasn't happened to me in a while!! Made me feel young. Didn't call her though...didn't want to ruin this magic moment on the street with small talk and sobriety.

This is Steve Pav. He's the guy responsible for bringing me down to Sydney the first time over 12 years ago! Back then he organized this rock tour called Summersault that I did the art component for. It was an amazing tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Beck, Bikini Kill, Breeders, Pavement, Foo Fighters and more. I rang in the new year 1996 on stage with all those bands! It was a big deal for a young kid. I hadn't seen him in 10 years, so we met for lunch. He's still kickin' ass with a rad record label MODULAR, organizing festivals, making clothing, etc. He's a super inspiring guy.

One night we went to a loft party in this messed up old building downtown. Up on the roof there's a busted garden with this totally tagged-up room next to it. Guess this is the "clubhouse" for a group of squatter/tweaker kids called SSR (can't remember what that means, but it's something dumb).

...anyway, as you can see they had a lot to say. Here's an example.

This dude is Sydney local Gary Trinh. He's a photographer. Remember his name. You'll hear it over and over again in the next few years. Serious.

On Saturday afternoon I did a curators talk in the gallery. Here's a nice photo of the crowd. Thanks to everybody who came out for this! I had a really good time. Awesome questions too! It was one of the longest Q&A sessions I've ever been a part of.

On my last day Joe took me over to see this barber. He gave me a shave while we did an interview. I cant remember his name or the name of the place, but it was seriously one of the coolest places I saw in Sydney. He sold awesome vinyl too...

I got Acid and Coke.

Sydney Report

2008-01-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

Been down in Sydney for the last few days installing a show of Sister Corita Kent's work at Monster Children Gallery. It was a fourteen hour flight from LA, but well worth it.

You may remember Corita from the feature we did on her work back in issue six. This is the first time I've been able to do an exhibition of her work, so it's super exciting for me. Especially since her work has never been down here before...and people are amped!

More to come...

Well Forked But Not Dead.

2008-01-12T09:16:00.000-08:00

I know I've written about Crass here before, but for some reason ever since Christmas time I've had their seminal double LP "Christ The Album" on heavy rotation. Maybe it's the election? Or just a feeling inside of needing to wake up (again!) and take notice (and act!) on things happening in our world at the moment. I consistently find it amazing that while we live in a time with one of the most powerful youth culture movements in over twenty years, a good majority of folks seem more interested in having the right jeans on than in actually doing something about their world.

"They began to suffocate...and their possessions multiplied"

So, for anyone who doesn't know already, Crass formed in England in late 1977. They planned to operate only until the symbolic year of 1984 – the totalitarian bogeyman year made famous by George Orwell. However, neither Crass nor Orwell had any way of predicting just how bleak Britain would become for many of it’s citizens under the spectre of then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and the final year of Crass as an active band came at a time of worsening social climate and what seemed to some to be imminent social collapse. The relationship between Crass and punk rock had always been one of convenience at best. Like Throbbing Gristle, the ethos of Crass had very little to do with rock’n’roll; sound was simply a medium to deliver the message at the heart of their mission, along with their film collages, propaganda, and seditious tape manipulations. The Crass sound was rudimentary, omitting such non-essential elements as melody and variance. In 1982, Crass released "Christ The Album" a boxed set double vinyl LP package, including one disk of new studio material and another, entitled "Well Forked.. But Not Dead", featuring a live recording of their June 1981 gig at the 100 Club in London along with other tracks and fragments. The album also included a book, "A Series Of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums". By 1983, the group switched their attack to become an attack on the very nature of music itself. Crass had shaken off being any sort of “punk band” at all. Their statement on the Falklands War, "Yes Sir I Will", was an hour of cacophonous free-noise with the vocals hammering home their political message in no uncertain terms. The album was perhaps intended to make the message the ONLY thing listeners would hear. And what a message it was.

I HIGHLY SUGGEST, dear readers, that you go buy, borrow or steal a Crass record. Any of them will do really. Looking at the year ahead of us, as well as the amazing changes that are possible if we can stick together, I promise Crass' music and message will be an inspiration for times when you might feel (as we all do sometimes) that you've lost the plot.

To read an incredible essay from Shock Slogans click HERE

We really should decorate floor more often.

2008-01-10T11:15:00.001-08:00

BTW: We had our editorial meeting for the next issue, and It's looking pretty kick-ass.

2008-01-05T18:17:00.000-08:00

If you are in LA on sunday the 6th (tomorrow), THIS this is pretty major

8:00 - 8:20 p.m. Hard Bop
8:35 - 8:55 p.m. David Scott Stone
9:10 - 9:30 p.m. Disaster
9:45 - 10:10 p.m. Silver Daggers
10:25 - 10:40 p.m. Fast Forward
10:55 - 11:25 p.m. Abe Vigoda
11:45 - 12:15 a.m. Mika Miko
12:35 - 1:05 a.m. No Age

www.thesmell.org

Tony Alva...

2008-01-05T12:04:00.001-08:00

...Being Tony Alva in Los Angeles.

Worth it...

2008-01-02T11:13:00.000-08:00

...Losing your life to a religious zealot.

You know what they say...

2008-01-01T10:35:00.000-08:00

Hot buttered buns always taste better than conflict.

2008-01-01T10:25:00.000-08:00

Hello!
Happy New Year!
I was away from the internet for over a week in rural MD, and thus no blog postings... I'm sorry for the lack I presented— but thank you Aaron for keeping it exciting! ... And what a new year to come back to! A new election in this country, more in others, the first year anniversary of the iPhone in June or July, no doubt crazy things that we can't even imagine happening.
Lets do this together!
I am truly honored to be here with Aaron and Ed and with you reading this!
Happy New Year!
-Brendan Fowler

PS: The blog that I am going to post after this one, with the insane Christmas Card was meant to go up on Christmas day, but as per the no-internet thing, I couldn't put it up until now... I fear that backtracking chronologically holiday-wise may lose some of the the punch, but I just had to put it up there!

Our Deepest Fear...

2007-12-30T16:55:00.000-08:00

This selection has been cited countless times over the years and may not be new to some of you readers, but it's something that I always come back to during times like these. It is often mistakenly credited to Nelson Mandela as he quoted it in one of his famous speeches, but it actually belongs to Marianne Williamson from her book Return to Love. From all of us here at ANP Quarterly, here's wishing you all a 2008 full of inspiration and success.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, whom am I
to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually,
who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people won’t
feel insecure around you.
You were born to make manifest
the glory of God.
That is within us.
It’s not just some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our light shine,
we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

A Good Sign.

2007-12-27T10:22:00.001-08:00

Things I Saw This Week

2007-12-24T00:16:00.001-08:00

Harmony and Marc Jacobs

2007-12-21T11:54:00.000-08:00

For all you pop-culture junkies that NEED to know what's happening before it's happening here's a sneak preview of the new Marc Jacobs campaign featuring our current cover boy Harmony Korine.