Notebook, 1993-

DIRECTORIES - A Representative Listing with Periodic Corrections and Additions.
Updated for March 2008 - In process of review for September 2008

EVENTS

NOTE: ** Indicates a year 2008 addition to the list

Selections will be featured for brief periods.


Christie's LIVE - See, hear, bid at live auctions . . . . (View the Video Demo and Sign up) . . . .

Improv Everywhere Freezes in Grand Central Station (video) . . . . Spontaneious Productions . . . . Fluid Associations . . . . Interventions . . . . Creative Time - "Creative Time presents the most innovative art in the public realm. From our base in New York, we work with artists who ignite the imagination and explore ideas that shape society. We initiate a dynamic conversation among artists, sites, and audiences, in projects that enliven public spaces with free and powerful expression" . . . . Art Production Fund - "To get contemporary art to as wide an audience as possible". . . . . . . . "Newsroom 1986-2000" at the Mary Boone Gallery (NYC) - "A new effort from the Polish-born artist Aleksandra Mir . . . . you can watch Ms. Mir working in the gallery almost every day at sizable sawhorse tables, assisted by a shifting cast of art students and buoyed by music pulsing from a boombox. Aptly for today's art market, the group has achieved a perfect overlap of production and distribution (each drawing carries a $10,000 price tag) . . . . (The works) redo the news, reminding us how soon we forget and exaggerating the ephemeral beauty — or at least boldness — of a genre of graphic design and language that we consume and discard on a daily basis. They achieve a goofy, graffiti energy, partly because Ms. Mir draws the outlines freehand and sometimes lets the letters balloon this way or that. Photographs are usually reduced to blurs. The filling-in is done with felt-tip pens in three thicknesses, and while a black-and-white palette is the given, Ms. Mir tolerates quite a bit of free-range texturing, crosshatching, scribbling and fine wavy lines. . . . . The black-and-white drawings produced in this hivelike project are monumental and emphatically handmade blowups of front pages from past issues of The New York Post and The Daily News. Ms. Mir, who lives in Palermo, Italy, selects and groups the pages, often on the spot, from a 14-year archive of tabloid covers currently stored in the gallery's back room.The jumpy drawings, nearly eight feet by five feet, revisit those years while paying homage to the overheated language and myopic focus of tabloid journalism -specifically its highly compressed, go-for-the-jugular headlines. These pithy summations of events both significant and trivial are a form of linguistic folk art. They also make up an essential part of city life: they shout from newsstands, peek out on subways or drop at front doors (along with more decorous daily publications, of course) . . . . . "

National Events Calendar . . . . Major International Art Exhibitions: Biennales - "For such events as the Biennale de Venezia; the São Paolo Bienal; the Cairo International Biennale; Dak'Art - The International Biennale of Dakar, Senegal; and the Cuenca Bienal, Cuenca, Ecuador, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs issues Open Calls for Proposals to all U.S. curators at non-profit arts organizations. Curators are invited to submit applications for artists and projects they wish to develop. On behalf of the Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts convenes an advisory committee known as the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions is to review these proposals and advise the Department of the project(s) they feel best represents the U.S. at specific exhibitions. The advisory committee is composed of curators, museum directors, artists and others with expert knowledge of American contemporary art and international exhibitions and exchange . . . . Through its participation in major international visual art exhibitions the United States presents contemporary American art in context with the work of artists from other countries. The Department of State supports and manages the official U.S. participation at selected international biennales and visual arts exhibitions. Organized through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Department's support ensures that the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the United States are prominently presented to international audiences. The Department's Cultural Programs Division manages these presentations, through two separate and distinct means. The first, Official Representation, offers opportunities for American curators at U.S. non-profit arts organizations to submit proposals for review by the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions. In the second, Host-Curated Representation, overseas exhibition organizers submit proposals to the Department through U.S. Missions around the world." - (US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs) --- ("WASHINGTON, DC. The US State Department and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have signed an agreement to establish a committee that will select US artists and curators for international exhibitions. An official with the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs told The Art Newspaper that the committee will comprise 'up to seven people', appointed by the NEA for terms of 'no more than three years'. They will include curators, artists, museum directors, specialists in American contemporary art, and perhaps persons from outside the field as well." - Jason Edward Kaufman for The Art Newspaper)

TED 2008 - Technology, Entertainment, Design. --- "Who are We? (the extraordinary tale of homo sapiens... Answers provided by a paleontologist, a historian, an evolutionary psychologist and a story-teller) . . . . . . . What is our place in the Universe? (answers from a theoretical physicist, an astronomer searching for extra-terrestrial life, a religious mystic and a humorist) . . . . . . . What is Art? -- is beauty just a human invention? (an anthropologist, a painter, a sculptor, and a museum curator) . . . . . . . What is Love -- and why are we so bad at it? (a neurologist, a musician, a novelist, and a sex therapist) . . . . . . . What is Evil? -- and how do we fight it? (a moral philosopher, a war-correspondent, a terrorism expert, and a human rights campaigner) . . . . . . . What are the most Gorgeous New Things being created in our world? (an architect, a boat builder, a windmill designer, a photographer, and a marine biologist) . . . . . . . Are we inadvertently creating New Forms of Life? (an AI researcher, a Web 2.0 pundit, a biochemist, a meme-theorist, a nano-technologist, and a transhumanist) . . . . . . . What are today's most significant Cultural Trends? (a fashion designer, a technology writer, a foreign correspondent, a video-game creator and an epidemiologist) . . . . . . . What will the Future be like? (a scenario planner, an inventor, an economist, and a science fiction author) . . . . . . . What are the Problems I should be most worried about? (an asteroid hunter, a climatologist, a psychiatrist, and a statistician) . . . . . . . Who will be the next President? (Yes, it's 2008. We'll invite the leading candidates) . . . . . . . What will be my Legacy? (a global business leader, an environmental designer, a billionaire philanthropist, a social entrepreneur and a mother) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For the past 20 years, members of the TED community have gathered together to share ideas and passions that are big enough to change the world. In this spirit, we created the TED Prize . . . . Each year we will honor a maximum of three individuals who have shown that they can, in some way, positively impact life on this planet. . . . . We are looking for inventors and entrepreneurs, designers and artists, visionaries and mavericks, protectors and persuaders. . . . . (TED) brings together more than 1000 thought-leaders, movers and shakers in Monterey, CA every year for four days of learning, laughter and inspiration. They hear not just the latest ideas in Technology, Entertainmetn and Design, but also Business, Science adn tThe Arts --in fact ANY subject area offering something fresh and i mportant. After four days you gain an understanding of how your own work fits into the larger web of knowledge. And you get the chance to connect with extraordinary individuals who are helping create a better future for us all."

"Art Handlers" - Toiling Behind the scenes of New York's museums and galleries. - (NYTimes 3/23/08)

"Shakers For Giant, Free, Contemporary Art Spaces with Matching Funds" - Ladies Who Launch . . . . Has helped artists take over city buses, the Anchorage under the Brooklyn Bridge, the Cyclone in Coney Island and, on multiple occasions, even the skies above Manhattan: in 2001 Vik Muniz "drew" clouds using a crop-dusting plane -- Collaboration with multiple artists on "Tribute in Light" - - - - "Partnership Philanthropy" - - - - A multitude of large-scale projects - - - - Cryptic manhole covers -- The "Electric Fountain" at Rockefeller Center -- Beach towels by artists as eminent as Elizabeth Peyton, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman - (Creative Link for the Arts, Art Production Fund, Creative Time, 'Works on Whatever" (or WOW).) - (NYTimes 3/23/08)



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New Gallery Guide - International listing of Museum and Gallery exhibitions.
http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide

Biennials and International Art Events
http://www.noteaccess.com/DIRECTORIES/RegLocGuideE.htm

Flavorpill - What's happening in Chicago, San Francisco, NYC, London . . . . and other major cities. Keep up to date.
http://flavorpill.net

Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
http://personal1.stthomas.edu/cdeliason/ahgttm.htm

The Danville Project - Collaboration between Artists, Engineers, and the Community . . . . "The Process is collaborative in nature and draws on time-honored Vermont traditions of public meetings, civil discourse and representative democracy. Participation by professional artistss infuses the process with a creative approach to problem solving and an openess to new solution. A Local Review Committee oversees the Project from conceptual design to construction and installation and through to maintenance. The Danville Project is currently scheduled for completion by 2006."
http://www.danvilleproject.com

2006 Art Collective Championship - North, East, West, South: Visual Revolution - sketch - Group Material - COBRA - people powered - WoosterCollective - hints - ArtGuys - More at: (LeisureArts) - "This is the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that none of the four teams seeded No. 1 reached the Final Four."

ArtGuide - Use the map and browse by Region, Country, City. (Phillips de Pury and ARTFORUM)

Architecture, Design, and a Changing World - Metropolis Events | Eastern | Central | Pacific/Mountain | International | Competitions | Conferences | Continuing Education. (Metropolis Home Magazine)
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/events.php

WorldWideLearn - Online courses, online learning and online education for adult learners worldwide.
http://www.worldwidelearn.com

European Portal of Public Art
http://www.sigap.net/art-public-com/english.php3

GoTour - Mapping the Performing Arts. "GoTour promotes cultural and information exchange among performing artists, arts administrators, venues, and audiences. We encourage you to explore, give feedback, submit new data, and add your own profiles --get involved in the national independent performing arts community."
http://www.gotour.org/?session_id=403cedc96d40b5d4_27968

Ticketmaster Online!
http://www.ticketmaster.com

Events Calendar - (Interior Design Collective - Dezignaré)
http://www.dezignare.com/calendar/index.html

Playbill On-Line
http://www.playbill.com

Global Collage - Empowering artists + audiences
http://www.globalcollage.com

Electronic Visualization Laboratory - Art and Events [Univ. of Chicago]
http://www.evl.uic.edu

WebTVList - The Premier Resource for Internet TV, online TV Guide & Pre-Recorded, Live TV Directory A - Z.
http://www.webtvlist.com

Chandra - Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center [operated for NASA]
http://xrtpub.harvard.edu/index.html

American Craft Council Calendar - By State
http://www.craftcouncil.org/html/calendar/main.shtml



- - - - - - - - - - A u c t i o n s - - - - - - - - - -

The Auction Houses include Calendars and Catalogues at their sites in addidtion to the Post-Auction Sale Results, Education, References, Advise & Resources for Collectors, Galleries [art, antiques, real estate, etc.], and Links to related sites on the World Wide Web.]

Bonham's - "Bonhams is not only the world's fastest growing auction house, it is also the world's oldest and largest auctioneer of fine art and antiques still run by auctioneers, and still in British ownership. The Bonhams name is recognised worldwide throughout all sectors of the fine art, antiques and collectors' market, and several of its departments are already established world leaders within their category. Bonhams also offers more sales worldwide than any of its rivals, through two salerooms in London at New Bond Street and Knightsbridge --and a further 11 regional salerooms throughout the UK. Regular Bonhams sales are also held in Switzerland, Monaco, Germany and Australia, while the acquisition of Butterfields - the principal auction house on the West Coast of America --now provides Bonhams with salerooms in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company also operates a network of offices and regional representatives providing sales advice and valuation services in 14 countries around the world. Bonhams, one of the few surviving Georgian London auction houses, was founded in 1793 by Thomas Dodd, a renowned antique print dealer, and Walter Bonham, a book specialist. It expanded during the 1850's to handle all categories of antiques including jewellery, porcelain, furniture, arms and armour and fine wines, and today is active in no fewer than 70 sectors embracing the entire spectrum of fine art, antiques and collectibles. We seek, by our commitment to client service and integrity, to establish Bonhams as the prime auction house of choice for buyers and sellers worldwide."
http://www.bonhams.com

Christie's and Christie's LIVE - See, hear, bid at live auctions . . . . (View the Video Demo and Sign up) . . . . - "Over its 234-year history, Christie's has grown and diversified into the world's preeminent auction house. Christie's currently offers sales in over 80 separate categories, which include all areas of the fine and decorative arts, collectibles, wine, stamps, motor cars, even sunken cargo. And while it is reputed for selling high priced works of art, in fact, many of the items offered at Christie's are affordable to even novice collectors. There are hundreds of auctions throughout the year selling objects of every description for aspiring collectors, homemakers and people simply looking to buy something distinctive and personal - Christie's sales are held in over 15 major cities around the world. From Amsterdam to Hong Kong, New York to London - Christie's has hundreds of specialists with years of experience evaluating and researching thousands of objects in their respective areas. Many are distinguished lecturers and authors; all have an in-depth knowledge of their collecting field. These specialists research, compile and produce more than 800 auction catalogues each year. A catalogue is a first-hand source of knowledge about your favorite subjects, or your introduction to new areas of interest. Lots within a catalogue are lavishly illustrated with beautiful photography and a detailed description, including provenance, exhibition history, literary reference notes and an estimated selling price."
http://www.christies.com

eBay and eBay LIVE - "eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis - On any given day, there are millions of items listed on eBay across thousands of categories. People come to eBay to buy and sell everything from the practical, unique, and interesting - such as automobiles, jewelry, musical instruments, photographic equipment, computers, furniture, and sporting goods - Founded in September 1995, eBay is a powerful marketplace for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and small businesses. Today, the eBay community includes 18.9 million registered users, and is the number one most popular shopping site on the Internet when measured by total user minutes according to the Media Metrix September 2000 web report - We help people trade practically anything on earth. eBay was founded with the belief that people are basically good. We believe that each of our customers, whether a buyer or a seller, is an individual who deserves to be treated with respect. We will continue to enhance the online trading experiences of all - collectors, hobbyists, dealers, small business, unique item seekers, bargain hunters, opportunistic sellers, and browsers. The growth of the eBay community comes from meeting and exceeding the expectations these special people - In 2000, the eBay community transacted over $5 billion in annualized gross merchandise sales (value of goods traded on the eBay site).
http://www.ebay.com

Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg - "Phillips was founded in 1796 by Harry Phillips. 204 years later it has become one of the world's largest international auction houses, owned by the world's leading luxury goods group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton - The company holds more than 800 auctions a year and has specialists with knowledge in over 100 subjects from old master paintings and fine furniture to sporting memorabilia and contemporary ceramics. Last year alone Phillips acted for over 80,000 vendors ranging from private individuals to large institutions."
http://www.phillips-dpl.com/home.html

Sotheby's - "From our origins in 1744 as a London book dealer to our expansion into art of all kinds in the 19th century and unrivalled international reach in the 20th, Sotheby's has always blended proud tradition with up-to-the-minute expertise - International Offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Geneva - and Amsterdam, Cape Town, Chicago, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, Monaco, Munich, Paris, Singapore, Sussex, Syndney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Zurich - with representatives in more than 50 other cities."
http://www.sothebys.com

Interactive Collector - "Auctions On-Line and LIVE - The independent connection to the world's auction houses - icollector.com is the independent connection to the world's Auction Houses. Founded in 1994, we were the first company dedicated to trading antiques, fine art and premium collectibles on the Internet. Today icollector.com represents more than 300 of the world's leading auction houses, and 650 of the world's most reputable dealers and galleries. Hundreds of thousands of collectors use icollector.com to search these auction houses, dealers and galleries, and place bids with the support of our extensive library of pricing and reference materials."
http://www.icollector.com



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ARTSmeet - National Events Calendar. "A searchable listing of the events of national, state, and local organizations serving their communities through the arts. Use this listing to find annual conventions, conferences, and other events' dates, locations, and descriptions. Please help us keep ARTSmeet up to date and useful by adding your organization's events." - (Americans for the ARTS)

CODART - "Multiple events focusing on art from the Netherlands" - Updated daily. CODART is an international council for curators of Dutch and Flemish art.
http://www.codart.nl/exhibitions/list/upcoming

Cultural Conference Diary - Euclid International. - "The CCD is a comprehensive listing of forthcoming seminars, conferences and other events of interest to those in the cultural sector, especially to managers, policy makers and researchers. Full contact details are provided for each event (on the Culture.Info database), usually including a direct link to the web-site for that event." - Sign up for eNewsletter Updates
http://www.labforculture.org/en/news_letters/events_calendars/euclid_cultural_conference_diary_ccd

Conference Listings [Center for Arts and Culture, Washington, DC - Join the Listserve for Updates]
http://www.culturalcommons.org/events.cfm

Stanford University Presidential Lecutures and Symposia in the Humanities and Arts
http://prelectur.stanford.edu

American Institute of Graphic Arts Conferences - "The National Design Conference is a celebration of American and international design and speaks directly to the issues facing designers today. It brings together a stellar group of culture-shaping critical thinkers and visual practitioners debating the moral, social and political dimensions to their work."
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/conferences

Archives & Museum Informatics Conferences - "Cultural heritage professionals have much to learn from each other. To facilitate the sharing of information between museums, archives and other cultural heritage institutions, Archives & Museum Informatics organises a series of national and international conferences. Each has a highly focused agenda, and offers an excellent opportunity to stay up-to-date on the developments in your field."
http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/conferences.html



- - - - - - - - - - Forums, Chat Sites, and Bulletin Boards - - - - - - - - - -

Review Panel at artcritical.com with National Academy/Museum and School of Fine Arts. Listen to past review panels.
http://www.artcritical.com/REVIEWPANEL/index.htm

ArtForum - News, Picks, Diary, In Print, Museums, Links, Talk Back, BookForum. This site is a provider --not a 'forum' of exchange or necessarily responsive to input.
http://www.artforum.com

Egg Tempera Forum - "The Society of Tempera Painters was founded in 1997 and is an official non profit international organization inspired by the original Society of Painters in Tempera.The society is dedicated to the greater understanding and promotion of tempera painting."
http://www.eggtempera.com/forum/index.php

Green Arts Web - "The Green Arts Web is a resource for those who want to be more informed about the practices and theories of environmental art. We envision an expansive role for artists as catalysts in valuing the interrelationships between human and non-human nature in our daily lives."
http://www.greenarts.org

Wei Ming Forum - "An online forum for Chinese arts and culture . . . . . hundreds of photos of paintings, prints and sculptures of traditional, contemporary and folk art works from China."
http://www.louisville.edu/journal/weiming/galleries.html

EDGE: To Arrive At The EDGE of The World's Knowledge
http://www.edge.org/

Anthology of Art - "In the Context of Contemporary Art, What is your Vision of a Yet Unknown Art? - The Anthology of Art offers an Internet-based platform for dialogue between artists and art theorists from all over the world. Its theme is the vision of art in art and its relationship to theoretical discourse."
http://www.anthology-of-art.net

Design Forum - (American Institute of Graphic Arts) - "AIGA is the oldest and largest membership association for professionals engaged in the discipline, practice and culture of designing."
http://designforum.aiga.org

Flavorpill - "An email magazine covering a handpicked selection of music, art, and cultural events delivered each Tuesday afternoon. Subscription is free, and all listings are pure editorial, written by local flavorpill writers. Spread it. . . . "
http://flavorpill.net

Artists Talk On Art Panel Series - "Critical Dialog in the Visual Arts." - NYC
http://www.atoa.ws

The Sociable Media Group - "Located at MIT, the Sociable Media Group is interested in questions concerning society and identity in the networked world. Some of the group's research questions include: How do we perceive other people on-line?, What does a virtual world look like?, and How do social conventions develop in the networked world? Visitors can learn about the most recent research projects, along with taking a look at the thought provoking blog. As with most research institutes or think-tanks, the Sociable Media group has seen fit to put a number of its working papers on the site for general consideration. The papers include such titles as, "Scale, Form, and Time: Creating Connected Sociable Spaces" and "A Semantic Approach to Visualizing Online Conversations." [KMG] <#team> (The Scout Report)
http://smg.media.mit.edu

Webster's World of Cultural Democracy - "A virtual think-tank -- an online information, networking and conference center -- established by The Institute for Cultural Democracy (ICD) to encourage study and exchange of ideas about cultural policy and cultural development practice."
http://www.wwcd.org

Virtual Space Debate - Critical Reviews of Artist Online Projects and a Chat Room for Discussion. [2001]
http://www.msu.edu/user/borcilar/

The WELL
http://www.well.com/

H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine [Discussion Neworks - Michigan State Univ. & Nat. Endowment for the Humanities]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu

Creative Spotlite - Creataive Café, Art Business & Marketing, Fine Art Forums, Art & Crafat Product Reviews, Home Decorating, Forums by Subject.
http://www.creativespotlite.com/art-forum/index.php

d'ART - "Here you can network with other art enthusiasts, dealers and artists."
http://dart.fine-art.com/community.asp

Artists Network - "The Artist's Magazine, Watercolor Artist, The Pastel Journal, Fine Art Book Club, Fine Art Bookstore."
http://forum.artistsnetwork.com

Arts & Crafts Society: Discussion Forum
http://forum.arts-crafts.com/6/ubb.x

nettime - "Mailing lists for networked cultures, politics, and tactics . . . . Not just a mailing list but an effort to formulate an international, networked discourse that neither promotes a dominant euphoria (to sell products) nor continues the cynical pessimism, spread by journalists and intellectuals in the 'old' media who generalize about 'new' media with no clear understanding of their communication aspects. we have produced, and will continue to produce books, readers, and web sites in various languages so an 'immanent' net critique will circulate both on- and offline. is slightly moderated."
http://www.nettime.org

Salon - Salon is a gathering for International decorative artists to study each others work, to watch and to discuss old and new techniques as well as materials, and to exchange new information and techniques. It is a unique opportunity to follow demonstrations and lectures of famous and talented decorators.
http://www.salonforever.com


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