Earlier this year, Emirates redesigned its Skywards frequent flyer membership cards by featuring works of art from renowned contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst, Christopher Ries and Simone Cenedese.

Now, with the launch of a global art competition*, we are furthering our commitment to the art world by giving new and undiscovered talent the unique opportunity to enjoy global exposure and have their artwork adorn our membership cards in 2011.

* Terms & conditions apply

Emerging artists are invited to respond to any or all of our three briefs: Gold, Silver and Blue. Each brief asks for an interpretation of a different mood or quality.

If you’re one of our talented winners, you’ll not only receive a commission of US$5,000, your work will also enjoy global recognition. In addition, you’ll have the chance to fly to Dubai and display your artwork and portfolio at Art Dubai, the leading contemporary art fair in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region in March 2011, attended by art critics, collectors and gallery owners from around the world.

Start preparing your entry now – the closing date for entries is 31 August 2010.

A CALL TO ARTISTS – MIAMI, BROWARD AND PALM BEACH
juried exhibition to be held in the month of October, 2010.

jurors: art dealer Richard Arregui (from Fredric Snitzer Gallery,) Lou Anne Colodny (artist and director of the late CoCa museum and Mathew Snitzer, art historian.
All work will be anonymous to jurors.
Send e-mail with five pics of your work attached or a URL where your work samples reside. Youtube URLs welcome.

All mediums – artists must provide own equipment and installation of pieces.

We encourage video art, conceptual art installations.

Three spaces in one building: “The Not-Rented Yet” space, the newly created ZONA VERDE vegan and vegeterian restaurant and the also new THE CONTAINER alternative space. The spaces reside in the building located on SW 12th Avenue and 6th Street.

Special thanks to the City of Miami

Dealine: August 15, 2010

e-mail address for submitting work:
artista126@g-mail.com

“These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the…:

“‘These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD as part of a test conducted by the US government in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject was the medic.’ 

via earlyfrost, on3saycheese, lemonmines, nola-darling, ryking, lowfrequencies, xi-theta, sneakystratus, sofapizza.”

(Via obia, the 3rd.)

The digital era is being embraced by the art world, and now YouTube users have the chance to have their work featured among the likes of Warhol, van Gogh and Picasso at one of the world’s most renowned art establishments, the Guggenheim Museum. While the curatorial process can take years to result in Guggenheim exposure, winners of YouTube Play’s contest will be displayed at the Guggenheim in October this year. We’d love to have your readership submit their work!

Guggenheim and YouTube Play’s partnership was developed to uncover the “most creative video content in the world.” The Guggenheim will select a shortlist of submissions to be evaluated by an international jury of experts and celebrities from the worlds of art, design, film and video, with the final 20 videos on display at the Museum.

There are less than 48 hours left for your readership to submit their creative digital videos for the YouTube Play Biennial, as the deadline for submissions is July 31, 2010.

To date more than 8,600 videos from 69 countries have been submitted by artists who aspire to have their work displayed alongside Picasso and van Gogh as part of YouTube Play, a biennial of creative video.

For more information about the project and submission parameters, you can visit youtube.com/play. We also have additional materials available, if you would like extra visual content.

Last week, YouTube and the Guggenheim unveiled a jury of international, celebrated figures from the worlds of art, design, film and music that will select the 20 videos showcased in Guggenheim museums. Jurors include artist Laurie Anderson; musical group Animal Collective; visual artists Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter and Takashi Murakami; artists and filmmakers Shirin Neshat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Darren Aronofsky; and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, and Guggenheim Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nancy Spector serving as jury chairperson.

This unprecedented project has drawn some remarkable talent, and we’re looking forward to seeing Miami Art Exchange readers’ submissions in our quest to find the most creative videos in the world.

Since I have my own garden to play with, it gives me the opportunity to experiment with some ideas. My next door neighbors, who left their vegetable garden to me, did a good job of bringing in soil, making their own compost, and really using it as a teaching tool for their son, now 5 yrs. old, and daughter, soon to be 3 yrs. old.

The thing that’s really great about the 5 yr. old is that he really knows plants, and how to take care of them. He grew, for instance, tomatoes and carrots, then had them for his dinner. Yes, my neighbor’s kids eat vegetables, and lots of them. That’s a real education that is not easy to teach in a regular classroom situation. They don’t have junk food in their house so the kids don’t have the opportunity to eat it. That’s a lesson to other parents, don’t provide junk food, the kids won’t eat it. Grow what you eat and it provides greater appreciation for what’s good.

Garden for a Nursing Home by Caballero+Colón de Carvajal:

“Spanish architects Paula Caballero and Diego Colón de Carvajal have designed a garden for a nursing home in Madrid.

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Garden for a Nursing Home by Caballero+Colón de Carvajal

At first, the assignment was the demolition of the cellars of the Madrid Regional Service of Health’s Old Building. However, the possibility of using this ground as a part of the nursing home ‘La Paz’ led to the accomplishment of a small garden with the minimum possible elements and at a very low cost.

In our view, the garden, as nature manipulated by man, finds its beauty in a strange balance between the diffuse and diverse character of the nature, and the clearness and unity of the artifice. In designing the distribution of plants and paths, we looked for an intelligible organization in order to enhance that contrast. As a kind of enlarged graffitti, a series of blotches in different colors with winding shapes establishes in a clear way the three types of grounds: plantation, drainage and paths.

The plants were chosen in consideration of their strength (given the inclemencies of the weather and the urban contamination) and their low water consumption. For this reason our choice was: lavandula angustifolia, salvia officinalis, callistemon viminalis and festuca.

With the same purpose of fighting the deterioration of our natural enviroment, we tried to use as much as possible recycled materials. Thus, instead of the usual gravel under the reinforced concrete we used crushed recycled concrete; the necessary rugosity to prevent slippery surfaces when it rains was obtained by mixing the resin with recycled glass (which produces unexpected brightness and iridescence under the sunlight), and the dark gravel for drainage between the paths and plantation areas is crushed material of demolished roads.”

Visit the Caballero+Colón de Carvajal website – here.

Photography by Miguel de Guzmán

(Via CONTEMPORIST.)