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Beautiful work up for auction from Last Rites Gallery collaborating artists. All at a steal (so far) and for a good cause.

About The Project:

Believing that creativity is a vital force for all of humanity, Last Rites Gallery supports ICAF in funding art programs for children across the world. Last Rites owner, Paul Booth, has raised thousands of dollars for ICAF since his first involvement with them in 2008, and founded The Art Fusion Experiment as a means of benefitting charities and connecting artists worldwide. The Art Fusion Experiment demonstrates through collaborative painting, contemporary artist’s ability to work together as a community.

In this spirit of sharing & global community, Last Rites is has hosted a large-scale collaborative painting project, the results of which are being auctioned off for charity.

Fifteen artists around the world received 24” x 30” canvas panels to sketch using pencil/ charcoal/ ink in order to design and lay the groundwork for a finished painting. The panels were then sent back to Last Rites for a select group of artists to collaboratively paint & finalize.

The project is a mash-up of the heaviest hitters in the realms of fine art, tattooing and illustration some of them familiar faces at Last Rites, as well as special guests. The event has enabled some of the most talented artists around globe to work together for the first time… and for a good cause!

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We are pleased to announce, The Week/Weekend, an inclusive list of shows and events going on around NYC and Brooklyn has returned and is better than ever.

How so? For starters, we’ve got a brand new input page. This means that folks have direct access to getting their event listed. While we will still retain the right to editorial discretion, the process is now easier than ever. You also have the option to submit your event for review, or to be an “editor’s pick.” Events will be listed on the blog as usual on Monday’s and Friday’s.

To get your event listed for The Week you must submit by midnight Friday.
To get your event listed for The Weekend you must submit by midnight Wednesday.

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Inception Park (Buenos Aires).
London Bus Tour.

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Thanks again to everyone who particpated in this past weekend’s first incarnation of C.O.N.C.H., the newly formed collective between 22 editor and artist, Cat Gilbert, musician and curator, Valerie Kuehne, and performance artist and curator Esther Neff. These beautiful photos were taken by Rijard Daniel Bergeron. Check out his blog to see Matthew Silver’s pics in motion! 

About: C.O.N.C.H. is a curatorial collective newly formed by Cat Gilbert of the 22 Magazine, Esther Neff of Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), and Valerie Kuehne of The Super Coda. We investigate the various distinctions–and lack thereof–defining our respective mediums of curatorial focus: visual art/installation, performance art/experimental theatre, and creative/experimental music.

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Performers:
DARA MALINA/INVERTED HERMIT
MATTHEW SILVER
PENDULUM SWINGS
ADRIENNE ANEMONE
HELVETICA TRIO 

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From left to right: Bryan Olson, Ventral is Golden, Jesse Treece
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About the project (from Ventral is Golden):

I was inspired to start the project after reading a three part essay by F Scott Fitzgerald entitled ‘The Crack Up’ (which can be read here) Focussing more specifically on the second essay ‘Pasting it Together’, where the quote “in a dark night of the soul it is always 3 o’clock in the morning. day after day.” was taken. By imposing an unsociable hour of production onto all three artists, I wanted to explore the relationship between sensory depravation and collage making. I also found interesting the fact that I am geographically distanced from both Jesse and Bryan, that to impose a restriction of time would create a curious correlation between us. As opposed to using visual source material to link the artwork together, and considering that you can’t hold or see ‘three o’clock’, using something as intangible as time created a stronger resonance between all of the collages created.

I think the project doesn’t necessarily have to have an end point. I just hope that we exhaust our materials before we exhaust ourselves.