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NY Art Book Fair Updates

For regular updates on everything #NYABF follow us on Twitter @golden_age! We'll be hyping books, talking shit and reporting on any notable art world characters that we encounter. And if you're already our Twitter friend, stop by booth SY21 and say hello! Get @ us. 

Submitted by Marco on September 30, 2011 - 8:28am  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

A RAY ARRAY


A RAY ARRAY is a new video directed by Sarah Rara (of Lucky Dragons) that examines visual and aural interference. Structured like a collection of short stories, the piece is composed of 15 video chapters that deal with different forms of interference: from the failure of a message to be discernable, sudden interruptions, visual disturbance, the interaction of 2 sound signals, instability, and optical effects. The piece explores the subject of interference using simple sets, everyday objects, and subtle special effects.

A RAY ARRAY will be screening twice in New York this weekend as part of the Bring to Light Festival located on the waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Screening times are 8:30 and 12:50 with live soundtrack interruptions & additions by Lucky Dragons. Location: Studio D at West & Nobel, Brooklyn, NY, 11222 We'll see you there!

Submitted by Marco on September 30, 2011 - 8:20am  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

SUKIYAKI



Originally titled "Ue o Muite Aruko" (literally "[I] shall walk looking up") this song from Kyu Sakatmoto was put out by Toshiba in 1961. Following the release of an instrumental version in 1963 by British label Pye Records the song was retitled Sukiyaki (a Japanese hot pot dish) so as to be more easily remembered by an American audience. Outside of it's content this song's commercial transfiguration is a comical example of the not-so precise mechanisms of global culture at work.  

Submitted by Marco on September 25, 2011 - 10:13am  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

Dossier: Ettore Sottsass















Furniture and objects from Ettore Sottsass.

Books by Ettore Sottsass (directly above) is an incredible collection of his publishing output from 1962 to 2006.   




Submitted by Marco on September 24, 2011 - 12:16pm  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

GOLDEN AGE AT THE NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR

 


Golden Age is pleased to participate in the 2011 NY Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Visit us at booth SY 21 in the area affectionately dubbed "The Schoolyard".  

A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors from 20 countries, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from more than twenty countries.

HOURS AND LOCATION:
The NY Art Book Fair is free and open to the public.

Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6 pm–9 pm
Friday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, October 1, 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, October 2, 11 am–7 pm

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 

 

Submitted by Martine on September 23, 2011 - 3:14pm  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

Social Climbers Extras

We just received copies of the SOLD OUT self-titled Social Climbers LP reissued by Drag City and Yoga Records. While working on the layout for the record, the Drag City team found some strange artifacts left by this curious band including a list of 100 covers in their repetoire (titled "World of Pop Classics"), musical notations for some of their songs, lyrics and a hilarious band biography written by the Social Climbers. 

Download Social Climbers Artifacts! Buy Social Climbers LP!  


Submitted by Martine on September 22, 2011 - 11:15am  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  1 Comments

Shrigley and Matter

Columbia College Chicago is ruling today! Tonight there is a lecture from Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley and a screening of The Visual Language of Herbert Matter with Q&A from filmmaker Reto Caduff. The events are at different times, so if you want to be an art junkie, you CAN go to both.  

Click here for info about the David Shrigley lecture!

Click here for info about The Visual Language of Herbert Matter!


Submitted by Martine on September 21, 2011 - 1:05pm  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

DOSSIER: ROBBINS/WATT


David Robbins


David Robbins


David Robbins


Oli Watt


Oli Watt


Oli Watt and David Robbins


Oli Watt and David Robbins

All images from David Robbins and Oli Watt. The last two images are the oversized bookmark (larger than the book) included with the first 50 copies of Concrete Comedy purchased from Golden Age.  As expected, these are going quickly.  

Submitted by Marco on September 16, 2011 - 2:54pm  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

Object Exchange



Tomorrow, visit Andrew Rafacz Gallery for Carson Fisk-Vittori's Object Exchange. Guests are invited to bring objects to contribute/offer, and take other objects from the space. These discarded/refound/chance objects will be arranged on the staircase pyramid, converting the space into a store display, chance arrangement, and object exchange for two hours. The flux of arranged objects will be photographed as a series of chance still life arrangements.

Object Exchange
September 17th, 1pm-3pm
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd.
Chicago, IL, 60607
USA 

Submitted by Martine on September 16, 2011 - 2:12pm  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments

Hand-in-Glove Conference

Hand-in-Glove is a new conference for independent imaginations who are working at the crossroads of creative administration and studio practice. Hand-in-Glove welcomes spaces and projects that are self-organized, independent, noncommercial, and currently operate with an annual budget around or less than $500,000.

This includes, but is not limited to, artist-run exhibition spaces, independent programming series, unconventional residency programs, and artist-run pedagogical experiments. This conference is a way to start a national conversation on grassroots creative activity happening outside of traditional institutions and spread the word about innovative organizing models that could be useful to artists and organizers.

Nato Thompson, chief curator at Creative Time, is the keynote speaker for Hand-in-Glove, and I'm very excited for the Archiving Artist-Run History, Fundraising and Organizational Strategies panel discussions.

REGISTER FOR HAND-IN-GLOVE TODAY! 

Submitted by Martine on September 15, 2011 - 2:18pm  /  Share This  /  Permalink  /  0 Comments