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I'm starting to get excited about the next Atelier at SBMA. The guest artist is author Geoff Dyer and I am sorry to say that I haven't read his book - yet. However I have read about him and about his books and the more I read the more I want to know.
He will be at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on May 4th for the next iteration of Atelier. This is a smaller version of the famous/infamous NIGHTS event with more focus on the content and context and less on the party. May's event will be as follows:
Satire Meets Sincerity: An Alternative Look at the Venice Biennale
May 4, 5:30 - 7:30pm
On May 4 the Museum's galleries stand in for the dual watery worlds of Venice and Varanasi as embodied in Geoff Dyer's novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, hailed by The New York Times and The Guardian as a combination of "fiction, autobiography, travel writing, cultural criticism, literary theory, and a kind of comic English whining; a louche and canny delight."
Experience the wit of Dyer first hand as he reads from his novel in the galleries and leads us on an amusing and intellectual exploration that pierces the pretense of the contemporary scene of art fairs and biennials.
Listen to the critically acclaimed Sonus Quartet, led by Caroline Campbell in a sincere-meets-satirical send-up of the café orchestras of Venice's St. Mark's Square.
Play Pretense Meets Pilgrimage, an interactive performance art game where guests receive random cards, moving them closer to self-awareness - or is it self absorption? Come find out.
Seriously, this should be fun and I have to work and I still think it will be fun.
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Tickets to the event are $50 for members and $60 for non-members and includes cocktails and hors d' oeuvres. Available HERE
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"Almost all Nobel laureates in the sciences are actively engaged in arts as adults. They are twenty-five times as likely as average scientist to sing, dance, or act; seventeen times as likely to be an artist; twelve times more likely to write poetry and literature; eight times more likely to do woodworking or some other craft; four times as likely to be a musician; and twice as likely to be a photographer." - Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D., physiologist and MacArthur Fellow. (Via S.C. Kavassalis)
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A quick heads up about a great FREE program this Saturday at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
What wisdom, comfort or connection can we find in classical literature? What do the Ancient Greeks have to do with Modern Lives?
Peter Meineck, Director of Aquila Theatre and professor at NYU, brings his vision of the classics to the Museum's plaza in a staged reading from the Iliad, the Odyssey and other works that resonate with the art of Charles Garabedian.
Actors will read selections (in both Spanish and English), exploring the theme of "Stranger in a Strange Land: Encountering the Other." Following the performance, UCSB Classics professor, Dorata Dutsch, will lead a discussion with audience members.
Ancient Greeks / Modern Lives is part of the "Under the Influence" series of public programs offered in conjunction with the Charles Garabedian exhibition examining the literary, art historical, musical, and cinematic influences on the artist, and in turn, Garabedian's influence on his students and others.
Saturday, April 9, 2:30 pm
Plaza outside Museum's Park Wing entrance
Photo: September Song, 2001-04, acrylic on canvas, 156 x 300 in, Collection of the Artist, Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
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