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ARTS NEWS: February 09, 2009
 Top Stories Zineb Sedira: Floating Coffins
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK United Kingdom HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008: EMILY JACIR
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY USA The SCANZ Exhibition � Raranga Tangata
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa) Muses: New Works by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner
Black Maria, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America | | Zineb Sedira: Floating Coffins
New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK United Kingdom New Art Exchange (NAE) Nottingham, launches a major new exhibition by the internationally celebrated artist Zineb Sedira. Floating Coffins, commissioned by NAE, is a video and sound installation exploring a ship graveyard in Mauritania. This solo exhibition will also show Sedira's Saphir and MiddleSea. Floating Coffins (2009) is a multi-screen video installation shot in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. The area is known for its stunning habitat to migratory birds yet there is another sinister aspect to the location: the departure of sub-Saharan Africans to Europe, who often return, rejected by the system or the sea. The city is also renowned for its surreally epic cemetery of ships. Eroded and corroded by harsh weather conditions and plundered by local residents, there is a poignancy to the vision of these beaches filled with wrecks, unwanted objects, bodies, men transiting and and foreign birds visiting. In the artist's own words, 'Floating Coffins is a space where life, death, loss, escape, abandoned and shipwrecked journeys meet. It's both a toxic graveyard and a source of survival and hope.' - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008: EMILY JACIR
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY USA An exhibition of the work of artist Emily Jacir, winner of THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from February 6 through April 15, 2009. Jacir, who received the Golden Lion Award for an artist under 40 at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, is the seventh artist to win the prestigious HUGO BOSS PRIZE, a biennial award that was established by HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | The SCANZ Exhibition � Raranga Tangata
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ New Zealand (Aotearoa) The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in association with Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) presents the SCANZ exhibition � Raranga Tangata � opening 6 February 2009. SCANZ is a project-based residency and workshop for international and national artists, theorists and curators working at the intersection of art, culture and technology. This year�s theme is Raranga Tangata � The Weaving Together of People � a phrase originally given by Charlie Tawhiao and adopted by Sally Jane Norman and Sylvia Nagl to describe the internet. The aim is to fuse an enduring fabric of people and technology located in Taranaki. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Muses: New Works by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner
Black Maria, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America 'Muses' runs from 7 February - 28 February 2009 at Black Maria Gallery in Los Angeles. 'Muses' features new works by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner. The artists are exploring the notion of the muse in contemporary visual art. Their works are quite distinctive from one another and reference varying art movements. What brings them together is that they all explore the notion of the muse, investigating how and why a muse inspires. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: 2009 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL USA United States of America 2009 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM at the Atlantic Center for the Arts will take place MAY 18 - JUNE 7, 2009 (Application Deadline: February 13, 2009). RESIDENCY #133 features master artists WILL COTTON, visual arts, BRENDA HILLMAN, poetry, ALVIN LUCIER, music/composition. Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers' studio, and digital computer lab. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com | | | | Absolutearts subscribers save 10% at Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com: Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com is offering a 10% discount to Absolutearts subscribers who place orders through their online store today. Their innovative portfolio cases provide a convenient way to carry mounted, framed, and even oversized artwork. Enter coupon code ABSART1 at checkout to receive the discount. | | |  SPECIAL: Portfolio cases for mounted, framed, even oversized artwork! 10% Discount offered today for Absolutearts subscribers. Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com is offering a 10% discount to Absolutearts subscribers on all items ordered through their online store, including the X-PortTM line of Expandable Portfolios. These rugged yet lightweight cases expand to six inches of depth and load from the top, making it easy to transport a variety of artwork. Order today and enter coupon code ABSART1 at checkout to receive the 10% discount. www.Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com Artblogs - Art Blogs: 
KAREN SPERLING'S MAGICAL MYSTICAL TOUR
Michael Corbin
Karen Sperling is an artist I met outside the Bridge Art Fair at Art Basel Miami Beach this past December 2008. I stumble upon most of the artists I meet and Karen was no different. As she walked by, she introduced herself and handed me an invitation to her group show. I'm glad that she did. While viewing the exhibition, I was impressed by what I saw work that seemed gritty and edgy to me, yet warm and dreamlike. They were part of her Magical Mystical Tours series. She agreed to an email interview in which we chatted about her work, leaving New York for Los Angeles, the benefits of being a sociable artist and what it was like meeting the great Andy Warhol years ago. You can see some of her work at www.karensperling.com but first, take this tour. I think you'll enjoy the ride ... MICHAEL: Hi Karen. Now that some time has passed since Art Basel Miami Beach 2008, how are you feeling about your experience there?
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