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ART AND INFRASTRUCTURE: PATRICIA JOHANSON AND THE PETALUMA WETLANDS PARK

WILLIAM L. FOX NAMED DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ART + ENVIRONMENT AT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART

ADVISORY GROUP NAMED TO THE CENTER FOR ART + ENVIRONMENT AT THE NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART

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William L. Fox

This September I was in Albuquerque to give several talks as part of the six-month-long celebration of art & environment in New Mexico. More than two dozen venues, ranging from the small but exquisite The Land Gallery to the cavernous SITE Santa Fe, collaborated to “explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book.” The idea was both to shed light on how land art “seeks to address our changing rel…

Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Part II, Latrobe Valley

William L. Fox

Photograph by David Leece
The Australian painter Mandy Martin and I ended our July trip through the industrial sites she’s painted in New South Wales and Victoria with a swing through the Latrobe Valley, which hosts some of the larger deposits of brown coal in the world, as well as several hu…

Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, Part I

William L. Fox

Mandy Martin
Wanderers in the Desert of the
Real; Wallerawang Powerhouse, 2009
Oil/Pigment/ on Linen
70.9 x 106.3 inches
Courtesy Australian Galleries Melbourne
www.australiangalleries.com.au

During each of the last th…

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Artist Jean-Claude Passes Away

Half of the famous husband-and-wife duo, one of the artists behind "The Gates," has passed away at the age of 74, of complications arising from a brain aneurysm. " Jean-Claude will be remembered wide…

Lordy Rodriguez on Surface Depth

The Nevada Museum of Art exhibition Lordy Rodriguez: Surface Depth features beautiful and fanciful maps meticulously drawn by artist Lordy Rodriguez. On Sunday, July 19, Rodriguez spoke with me about the work installed in the exhibition. Listen to the artist's comments about his work here.…

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SPIRAL JETTY IN NEW YORK TIMES

Eppich, Esmay and Tang: Collection of Dia Art Foundation, reproduced in NY TIMES

RANDY KENNEDY authored an article in the NY Times this week discussing the challenges of conserving Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. Read the full article here.

Ryder Jon Piotrs at Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery

Ryder Jon Piotrs

"Mercurial Imagination"
Oct. 23- Nov 13, 2009

Closing Reception and Artist Talk
Nov. 13, 2009, 5:00 p.m.

Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery
Hardin Simmons University,
Abilene, Texas, 79698.
(325) 670-1000

HSU's Ira M. Taylor Memorial Gallery Gallery presents "Mercurial Imagination," featuring the work of Ryder Jon Piotrs members Piotr Chizinski, Ryder Richards, Sue Anne Rische and Jonathan Whitfill. The work ranges from altered books and shredded text to gunpowder drawings and cast bomb forms. The work questions social class systems, the intangible form of knowledge, and violence in a modern world. The exhibition will take place from Oct 26-Nov 13, 2009. The gallery will host a closing reception featuring an artist talk and question/answer session on November 13, 5:00-6:30.

UPDATES FROM LAND/ART 2009

UPCOMING LAND/ART Speakers

	Thursday, November 12, 6pm De/Briefing: Land Art, Public Art & Planning for the Future of Albuquerque Lecture by joni m. palmer at the Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, 505-243-7255 www.cabq.gov/museum This event is a presentation by joni m palmer to explore the future of land art projects through the City of Albuquerque's Percent for Art Program and other collaborative approaches. Current discussions about public art and land art tend to suggest either an all inclusive or oppositional attitude. This talk is intended to provoke a deeper conversation between the two, exploring the gray areas, questioning intentionality, audience, and collaboration as they are relevant to the future efforts of the city's Public Art Program. Presented by the City of Albuquerque Public Art Program

	Friday, November 13, 2pm Dwelling Lecture by Ann Reynolds at the Center for the Arts on the UNM campus, room 2018, 505-277-2868, www.unm.edu/~artmuse Ann Reynolds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research, publications, and teaching focus on U.S. and European art, architecture, and visual culture after 1930; feminist theory, gender, and sexuality studies; the historiography of exhibition practice; and film. She is the author of Robert Smithson: Learning From New Jersy and Elsewhere(MIT Press, 2003) and is currently working on a new book Home Movies: Creativity, Community, and Publics in New York, 1940-1970. More details Presented by the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico

	Monday, November 16, 5:30pm Re-Cognising the Land– ILIRI, the Creative Laboratory and the Sacred Tree Lecture by Louise Fowler-Smith at Dane Smith Hall, room 127 (on the UNM campus, map) for more info contact the UNM Art Museum, 505-277-2868, www.unm.edu/~artmuse Louise Fowler-Smith is an artist and Senior Lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW in Sydney, Australia. She is also the Director of the Imaging the Land International Research Initiative (ILIRI), which aims to promote new ways of perceiving the land in the 21st century and which offers residencies for artists in the Australian desert. Louise has recently established the ILIRI 'Creative Laboratory', a large area of land where artists, architects, scientists – people concerned with the environment– can collaborate on projects that explore new ways of perceiving, interacting and living in a land starved of water. More details Presented by the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico

	Tuesday, November 17, 6pm Politics: Peter Fend / Ocean Earth Development Corporation and Center for Land Use Interpretation Lecture by Janet Dees at SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe for ticket info: 505-989-1199, www.sitesantafe.org This is the third in a series of lectures titled The Three P's of Land Art: Principles, Poetics and Politics,as part of SITE Santa Fe's Contemporary Art in Context program aimed at grounding the art of today in art history. Janet Dees is currently the Thaw Curatorial Fellow at SITE Santa Fe. A Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware, she received her BA in Art History and African/African American Studies from Fordham University and her MA in Art History from the University of Delaware. Before pursuing graduate work, Dees worked as a museum educator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York African Burial Ground Project and as assistant director for a contemporary art gallery in New York. Presented by SITE Santa Fe