Thursday, July 31, 2008
Paper Kingdom
Paper Kingdom Book Release Party!
Cass McCombs
Beach House
and
Viking Moses
play music.
August 10th
Creative Alliance12 dollars / Doors at 8 / Show at 9
Hosted by Paper State!
There will be a limited edition pressing of Paper Kingdom at the opening!
But whoever can't get one at the opening can purchase at this link.
You can even by one today if you want and it will be shipped directly to your door!
http://www. lulu. com/content/3324221
More info here:
paperkingdom. blogspot. com
Monday, July 28, 2008
Pants Ramp Re-Opens
Thanks to everyone who came out to support the ramp!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The Shining playing at The Charles this week!
Head over to The Charles Theatre this week for a chance to see The Shining on the big screen!
Monday July 28th at 7pm and Thursday August 1st at 9pm
Next weeks movie will be Dr Strangelove with showings on Saturday at noon, Monday at 7pm, and Thursday at 9pm.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
PLANS TO PATCH THE PANTS and RE-OPENING
BALTIMORE MD (July 23rd 2008) – On Monday, July 21st between the hours of 12am and 7am, a Baltimore City forklift razed “The Pants Skate Ramp”, one of the Artscape sculptural pieces, which was a part of the “Outdoor Lounge”, a collection of experimental public furnishings installed throughout the grassy areas on Mt. Royal Avenue.
The Pants Skate Ramp was set to stay at its Mt. Royal location for a year as part of a winning design chosen to be built for Artscape by curator Michael Benevento of the Current Gallery. The Pants Skate Ramp selected out of a handful of projects to be erected for this year's Artscape the ramp was a created by Jordan Bernier and Steve Santillan, and was built by a team of six artists, including Alex Ebstein, John Bohl, Sara Seidman, and Elie Sollins.
The City has claimed that the removal of the ramp was accidental but the arts community, skateboarding community and especially the artists who built the ramp are upset about the destruction of their piece.
“I'm confident that the partial destruction was an accident, and while that doesn't fix the problem, the challenge of putting the pants back together has generated a huge amount of support from the community.” - Jordan Bernier
Regardless of whether this was an unfortunate accident or a City grudge against skateboarding enthusiasts in
The Skatepark of Baltimore a local non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the construction of a public, concrete, destination skatepark in
RAMP RE-OPENING 6PM SUNDAY JULY 27TH!
Friday, July 25, 2008
Call For Performance Artists
Infinity's Kitchen is a graphic literary journal seeking visual and performance artists to feature in our publication, online and in print. We're an arts and letters publication with a focus on the experimental and the avant-garde. To give you an idea of what we're looking for, our influences include: Dada publications, Futurism, Early Modernist journals, UbuWeb … and the avant-garde in general. Each issue, we'd like to devote a feature article to one artist's work, but we're also looking for news about shows and performances, interviews with artists, etc. If you are interested in experimental print design, we would love to discuss a collaboration.
If your work is published, you'll be paid in the form of contributor's copies, and of course the rights to your work would remain your own.
Visit http://infinityskitchen.com/ for more information, including back issues. Feel free to reply with examples of your work, questions, etc.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Plea to the Public, Help Us Catch the Art Smashers
Help us out guys.
Thanks,
Team Pants Ramp
UPDATE: we kind of, sort of know what happened. It was a mistake, carried out at the suspect hour of apx 3 am. Apparently there is footage...we are looking to get our hands on it.
We plan to rebuild. Stay strong.
The Art Department Featured in Gutter
Check out the write-up and photos at Gutter's website.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Photos from the Penned Exhibit @ MICA
Penned, an open exhibition for penned art made by local and regional artists opened in conjunction with Artscape at MICA. Hung salon-style, the show is an interesting, though maybe a little congested, mix of styles, sizes and subject matter.
Along with each drawing, the artists were asked to submit photos of the pens they used to complete their work. The photos are displayed with the artists' names per each section of the exhibition.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Artscape at the Midway
Catch these exhibits while they're there, this is a short-lived installation!