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Weekly Initiative News- 9/09/13

Image courtesy of the artist and Locust Projects

Grid’s World a collaborative exhibition by Alexandra Hopf (Berlin), Odalis Valdivieso (Miami), Marcos Valella (Miami), Siebren Versteeg (New York), Gabriel Vormstein (Berlin) opens at Locust Projects in Miami on Sept 19. There will be a conversation with the artists moderated by Zachary Cahill at 7pm immediately followed by an opening reception from 8-10pm:

http://www.locustprojects.org/exhibitions/

 

Interesting article about  De Esperanza y De Locura/Of Hope and Madness, the current exhibition at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. The exhibitionexplores issues of migration and immigration through the work of Latino artists:

http://artdaily.com/news/64927/Timely-immigration-exhibition-at-MACLA-Movimiento-de-Arte-y-Cultura-Latino-Americana#.UjCdWT8piE4

 

The Luggage Store Gallery will publicly unveil a newly commissioned public work by Osgemeos on Sept 28th:

http://www.luggagestoregallery.org/2013/09/3005/

 

The Still House Group opens +1 this month, a new artist run space in the heart of Chinatown as part of Art In General‘s New Commissions program:

http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/551

 

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Eva Franch i Gilabert, executive director and chief curator of the Storefront for Art and Architecture has been chosen as one of the curators for the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Eva will be working alongside Ana Miljački, an architecture professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ashley Schafer, editor of the architecture journal Praxis:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/curators-chosen-for-american-pavilion-at-architecture-biennale/