George Spencer’s “Long Count” (Photo courtesy of Sarah Brozna). Art in Odd Places previewed 11 projects from its upcoming October festival NUMBER as part of this year’s IDEAS CITY StreetFest. For those of you who missed the event, presented by the New Museum, here’s a peek at those projects in action. You can always catch [...]
Art in Odd Places (AiOP), New York City’s annual public art and performance festival will preview eleven projects from its upcoming October festival NUMBER at the New Museum’s IDEA CITY festival StreetFest on Saturday, May 4 from 11am to 6pm. AiOP 2013: NUMBER takes up the pressures and provocations of the numerologies of our time. [...]
Ms. Bennett, Swoon. Photo by Evgeniy Luchinskiy. By Matthew Morowitz In September of 2012, a handful of American artists were invited to St. Petersburg, Russia to participate in the first ever large-scale festival for public art in the city, Art Prospect. Although there have been other public art festivals in the city, Art Prospect differs [...]
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February 12, 2013 – 2:38 pm
Nothing quite says romance like a performance art piece that recreates your own unique love story. Art in Odd Places presents Brooklyn-based artist Rory Golden’s Valentine’s Day Reenactments, a roving street performance that will inspire the public to share their love stories and adapt these narratives into mini movies. Golden’s Valentine’s Day public premiere will [...]
February 5, 2013 – 7:48 pm
A unique hybrid of pop culture overkill and avant-garde experimentalism, “Danza Did It” is a performance art project that aims to explore the talents of Tony Danza and inject the phrase “Danza Did It” into everyday lexicon. Online in origin, this phenomenon is meant to manifest into the real world and become a part of [...]
February 1, 2013 – 5:21 pm
OCTOBER 11–20, 2013 on 14th Street NYC CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS Deadline: March 1, 2013, Midnight EST AiOP invites imaginative proposals for its ninth annual public art and performance festival. This edition takes place October 11-20, 2013 along 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River in NYC. We welcome disciplinary diversity — visual/installation, performance, time-based media, [...]
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January 23, 2013 – 6:10 pm
By Matthew Morowitz In this series, “Guerrilla Academia,” Art in Odd Places will be highlighting different organizations and individuals who are offering innovative and engaging art education opportunities outside of the traditional venues of the university and the museum. Skillshare “Learnapalooza” (Photo courtesy of Skillshare) In our last two posts, AiOP featured an individual and [...]
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January 18, 2013 – 9:15 pm
Today’s guest: Lawrence Graham Brown (pictured above with assistant Leon Dozier) We’re wrapping up our coverage of other.explicit.bodies, which premiered last weekend at Dance New Amsterdam. Last week we spoke with the show’s curator, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko about his performance, other.explicit.body. Today we’re sitting down with Lawrence Graham Brown to discuss his performance Acute Case [...]
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January 15, 2013 – 12:11 am
Michael Neff is an artist, designer, and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He’s also pretty creative when it comes to figuring out what to do with your discarded Christmas tree. His installation, titled Suspended Forest, hung under the BQE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For those who missed it, here are a few photos courtesy of [...]
January 9, 2013 – 7:57 pm
Welcome to the very first Art in Odd Places podcast! Today we’re chatting with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko about his upcoming show, other.explicit.bodies. While we’re at it we discuss representations of the black male body in the media and everyday performances of race and gender. Plus we’ll have some tunes by Kepi Ghoulie and mr. Gnome. [...]
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