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New Music: Bear in Heaven: “Bag of Bags” 

[...]Bear in Heaven opened a Philadelphia gig for the National this summer. I don’t know whether it’s due to the popularity of groups like Animal Collective, or whether “Bear” is the new “Deer” is the new “Wolf”, but I like the idea that audiences (or at least promoters) are starting not to see a difference between the U2-informed elegance of a group like 2007 Best New Music honorees the National and the helter-skelter psych-rock of these fellow Brooklyners. Bear in Heaven even come with an avant-garde pedigree: Founder Jon Philpot has played in experimental group Presocratics and Scott Herren’s Savath and Savalas, plus two of the band members are in Rhys Chatham’s Essentialist.[...] Read more >

Art Center presents:2 Collections of Photographs by Cheryl Dunn“Lost Gold Earring” & “Sleeping Men”About the artist:Cheryl Dunn is a New York-based photographer, filmmaker and sociologist. Upon graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in art history, Dunn moved to Europe to pursue fashion photography. After traveling and shooting extensively for two years, she moved back to New York where she became a successful photographer shooting for magazines such as Spin, Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar and Dazed and Confused. In the mid 1990s, Dunn began to focus much more on filmmaking, first creating small pieces for herself and eventually shooting and directing some of the most classic films of this generation. Her first film, Sped (1997), was created as a series of vignettes on young artists from the worlds of skateboarding and graffiti. Produced originally as a promotional film for a snowboard company and for a very small audience, the film went on to be featured in film festivals worldwide. Her second film, Backworlds for Words (1999), is a documentation of a skateboard ballet, choreographed by artist/professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales for the Stadtisches Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany. The film includes footage of the actual performance as well as candid interviews and documentation of Gonzales performing poetry readings around Germany. In 2000, her photos were included in the Widely Unknown show at Deitch Projects in New York. Other projects with Deitch include co-curating shows entitled Starstruck and Session the Bowl in 2002 which featured her two-channel video installation Social Security. In 2002, she was awarded a residency at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, where she was commissioned to make a film in conjunction with the design exhibit, Mood River. Come Mute is an autobiographical fable representing the life of a young New Jersey girl as she tries to figure out how to bring creativity to her working class existence.Cheryl Dunn was one of the original artists of the underground skateboard art movement which developed from Aaron Rose’s influential Alleged Galleries in NYC and was included in Rose’s book, “Young Sleek and Full of Hell”. Her work has also toured with Rose’s “Beautiful Losers” exhibition which showed in Cincinnati at the Contemporary Arts Center, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Orange County Museum of Art, and The Contemporary in Baltimore.More info:Art Center is a virtual exhibition space showing the work of selective contemporary artists, based in the metaverse Second Life. http://virb.com/artcenterSLurl

This touching project was constructed in Second Life by Odin Liam Wright of The V3 Group for the World Trade Center sim for the September 11th Memorial Competition set up by Winfried Ferraris and Sundra Petrov.

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