ODDSAC is a film collaboration between Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. Starring the band members, the film layers audio and visual elements without a narrative, creating what looks to be a tripped-out and immersive form of spectacle. →

The Bloggomist: Why I Love D.C.
Cultural Opinion

Last year, I read an interesting article written by William Norwich that referenced DC as the new social capital. Norwich wrote, “Sorry to break this news to any Manhattanites still in denial, but Washington, D.C., is the new New York. Even under the heavy blanket of recession, whether you are Democrat or Republican, there is energy in our nation’s capital that you used to feel only in New York, the blissful to the bumptious all in a D.C. minute now, a kind of youthquake, or “youthfulquake,” if you want to be generous about the ages”. →

Lola
Corey Helford Gallery-Culver City, CA
03/27-04/14

This March Los Angeles artist Lola unveils her magic at Corey Helford Gallery with a new collection of works entitled ” Ipsum Factum.” Lola’s second solo exhibition at the gallery is her most highly anticipated to date. →

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
3/25/10

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. →

Big City Forum #13
Honor Fraser Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
3/20/10

Big City Forum invites you to a conversation with poets, writers, and seers about literal vs. metaphoric space, inscape/landscape, the visible/invisible world, liminality — “betwixt and between” — & proximity in motion… →

Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design are proud to present Barbara Probst, internationally recognized visual artist as a speaker to stimulate and encourage us to take a closer look at the possibilities of variations when it comes to photography and the involvement of technological techniques. She uses a radio-controlled release system which simultaneously triggers the shutters of several cameras pointed at the same scene from various angles and perspectives, pretty spiffy, no? The sequence of images allow the camera to capture that specific moment in time and →

The final line-up and times for MtyMx: All Ages Festival of Art and Music are set and ready to go. The festival is going down in Monterrey, Mexico from March 20-22 and is organized by Todd P & Yo Garage with Ric Leichtung, Fiona Campbell, and Jesse Hlebo. The festival will feature up to 25 bands a day (over a third of which are from Mexico) for three consecutive days on two outdoor stages in a drive-in theater set alongside the mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental. For those art enthusiasts out there, we’ve got →

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman asked his friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become “historic” before it had even taken place. He collected footage from a combination of passionate amateurs and acclaimed independent filmmakers, including Henry Joost (Catfish), Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths), Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last) and Benh Zeitlin (Glory At Sea). →

As a means of bringing creative pursuits into an experiential environment, Arkitip and Incase have partnered to open Project Space, a unique setting for exhibitions, performances and installations. Along with original artwork, Project Space will support a limited range of curated products that will rotate based on availability. This will include all special project endeavors from each brand. Project Space stays true to Arkitip’s founding principles: supporting the arts, promoting freedom of expression and making art affordable and accessible. →

Charitybuzz will be putting together an online charity with nearly 200 works that were donated from the exhibit Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, which presented artworks from a wide range of artists including Alice Aycock, FAKE DESIGN (Ai Weiwei), Anish Kapoor, Sarah Morris and designers such as N55, West 8, and Humberto Campana. These artists were invited commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum building. →