Art Lab News

ALEXANDRIA, VA(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2014) - The finest artists in the country will color historic King Street with vibrant booths on September 13th and 14th for the city's premier art gathering, the King Street Art Festival. Ranked 17th in the United States by Sunshine Artist, the nation's leading publication for art and craft shows, this highly-anticipated event features a wide array of original handcrafted art across a number of mediums. Along the waterfront at the world famous Torpedo Factory Art Center, visitors can participate in special interactive art activities and peruse 82 working artists' studios. Located in beautiful Old Town, the King Street Art Festival is produced by national festival promoter Howard Alan Events and hosted by the City of Alexandria. Admission is free and open to the public.

The South Florida arts and cultural scene is enhanced with talent through three innovative, high quality art projects this Season, provided by Funding Arts Broward's FAB/Knight New Work Award. The three winners are The Coral Springs Museum of Art ($50,000) for a CSMART Digital Art Lab and Symposium; The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood ($20,000) for the exhibition Dave Muller: Too Old to Rock 'n Roll with Three Day Weekend; and NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ($20,000) for the exhibition, Research and Development: Concerning Belonging.

From June 13 through October 1, 2014, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present the exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, which, along with in-depth education programs and online learning tools, inaugurates the second phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Organized by Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, the exhibition features contemporary works by 40 artists and collaborative duos representing 15 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico (United States), Uruguay, and Venezuela. Following its presentation in New York, Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today will travel to Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM) and Museo Jumex in Mexico City.

With a suggestive title and a fascinating premise, Mike Bartlett's COCK is making a stir in Houston. Produced by Theater LaB Houston at Obsidian Art Space, the 90-minute one-act play that took London by storm in 2009 and received glowing reviews in New York City in 2012, lives up to its in-town and out-of-town hype. Be warned though, this show is for adults only, and patrons under the age of 18 will not be admitted.

Spring programs for families, kids, and teens are presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video and Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe.

The Guggenheim Museum has announced its Fall 2013 Family Programs. Fall programs for families, kids, and teens are presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Robert Motherwell: Early Collages on view now and Christopher Wool, opening on October 25.

The Guggenheim Museum has announced its Fall 2013 Family Programs. Fall programs for families, kids, and teens are presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Robert Motherwell: Early Collages on view now and Christopher Wool, opening on October 25.

Connecting Cities is a network that includes such top-name facilities as the Ars Electronica Futurelab, Medialab-Prado in Madrid, Berlin's Public Art Lab, and FACT in Liverpool. It's an endeavor to build up connected worldwide infrastructure of media facades, urban screens and projection sites to circulate artistic and social content, and thus create real-time interaction possibilities among geographically distant cities. Participatory City 2014 is a Connecting Cities initiative to investigate the extent to which urban screens and LED façades can serve as catalysts for encounter and platforms for urban activism, and whether they can help to impart the network's bold expectations and visions to its European neighbors. Now, artists are invited to submit project proposals tohttp://submissions.amberplatform.org. Entry deadline is October 20, 2013.

The Museum of Modern Art revealed their exhibitions and schedule for October today. It includes Sound and Space, Designing Modern Women and various performances and galleries to visit.

The Museum of Modern Art revealed their exhibitions and schedule for October today. It includes Sound and Space, Designing Modern Women and various performances and galleries to visit.

As the political races throughout New York City reach their peak, candidates, thought leaders, businesses, organizations, and prominent New Yorkers are showing their support for the One Percent for Culture campaign that seeks to increase funding to the city's 1,300-plus non-profit cultural organizations.

Founded by artists in the wake of the first D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival in 1997, DAC was the first non-profit arts organization in Dumbo, Brooklyn

Summer 2012 programs at the Guggenheim Museum for families, kids, and teens are presented in conjunction with current exhibitions Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, on view through September 12, and Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, on view June 29-October 8. See below for full details on all of the museum's family offerings.

The Museum of Modern Art introduces theMoMA Art Lab app for the Apple iPad, the Museum's first art-making app. Inspired by MoMA Art Labs, a series of interactive spaces at the Museum where kids and adults can engage with art through hands-on activities, the app offers an open-ended exploration of the various ways in which simple shapes and lines can be transformed into art. Through diverse activities and prompts for creative ideas, the Art Lab app encourages kids ages seven and up to think about artistic processes and experiment with shapes, lines, and colors-inspiring digital play.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today that Touchstone Theatre is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Touchstone Theatre is recommended for a $20,000.00 grant to support the art educational components of the Young Playwrights Lab. The 788 Art Works grants total $24.81 million and support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts.

Student representatives from two New York City youth organizations--the Young People's Chorus of New York City under Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Núñez, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History--will be presented with a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House ceremony today.

The Six Betweens Art Collective announces a month-long new multidisciplinary arts festival. Death-Birth-Freedom REVELRY runs through October 29, 2011.

Acclaimed pop/punk/folk rocker Bess Rogers returns on October 4th with her second full-length album, ‘Out of the Ocean,' and a major U.S. tour.

Staten Island's Art Lab is welcoming art work from children ages 3 - 18 to be displayed for our community to view and enjoy during the 7th Annual Kidz Open exhibition. Any young artist is welcome; you do not have to be a student at the Art Lab or in any art class at all.