Learning to Love You More, a groundbreaking participatory art website hatched in 2002 from the minds of artist friends Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July and run by Yuri Ono, has gathered its multi-disciplinary projects submitted by the public into a collection by the same name. The book, edited by Fletcher and July, will be available in the U.S. this month.
Arts
Gogol Bordello Inspires Immigrant Punk Exhibit
Black Maria Art Gallery, located in Los Angeles and dedicated to promoting non-mainstream art, will host a group exhibition featuring work from fourteen different artists in late October. The purpose of the show, entitled Immigrant Punk, is to pay homage to immigrants in America who, rather than lose their identity in assimilation, maintain their cultural roots with pride.
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years
Marking the 30th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen, Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar present a visual account of the art surrounding the American and British mid-’70s punk scene.
Al Columbia to Resurface in Floating Word Comics Exhibit
Enigmatic comic book artist Al Columbia, who has been the subject of many rants and raves since he dropped out of the public eye in in 1999, has returned. On September 6, Portland’s Floating World Comics is hosting the first exhibition of Columbia’s work in nearly a decade.
Jackie Tileston Brings Brilliant Colors to Chicago
Jackie Tileston, Philadelphia-based painter and winner of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, will debut her latest work at Chicago’s Zg Gallery starting the second week of September. Adventures of Semionauts features work that further explores Tileston‘s interest in the linguistic ability of painting to bridge the gaps between disparate elements.
Jamisen Ogg Deconstructs Kitsch for Sawbuck
Sawbuck art gallery, located in Seattle, Washington, will host a one-night exhibition of new work by Jamisen Ogg this Saturday. Ogg‘s work sculpts the mundane kitsch of middle class existence into high-concept oddities, often extending images into the third dimension.
Plock and Tunstall Collaborate on Subterranea
Subterranea, the collaboration between ALARM illustrator Ferris Plock and his girlfriend Kelly Tunstall, opens this Saturday at Fuse Gallery in New York City. Though the couple lives in San Francisco, it used the network of New York City subways, tunnels, and sewers to inspire a body of work depicting the lives of creatures inhabiting a mythical underground world.
11th Hour Picks Up Where Gore’s Truth Left Off
The commercial success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth broadened mainstream discussion of environmental issues. The 11th Hour, a documentary produced and narrated by green poster boy Leonardo DiCaprio, continues where the former vice president ended, but further leans on the crisis button.
Destroy All Music to Showcase Vital Punk Imagery
Dawn Wirth, one of only a handful of photographers to document the first wave of LA punk, is set to exhibit her body of work from the era for the first time ever. Wirth, who spent her youth being pummeled at the front of crowds to get the now-historic up-close live shots of bands like The Weirdos and The Germs, is credited with capturing the essence of ’70s punk.
For our summer issue, ALARM Arts Editor Buck Austin examined the role of artistic expression in the rehabilitation of inmates at San Quentin State Prison. His findings, to say the least, were compelling.ALARM Hosts Fundraising Exhibition This Friday
To aid New Global Citizens‘ efforts to end world poverty, ALARM is sponsoring an art and music exhibition titled Who is Mr. Brown? at San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery this Friday, August 10.
Haruki Murakami: After Dark
There was music and silence, companionship and alienation, activity and stillness, violence and peace. It was the best of nights and the worst of nights. Basically, it was just a typical night in author Haruki Murakami’s world.