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Bozidar Brazda
Bozidar Brazda (born 1972 in Cambridge, Canada) is an artist. He lives and works in New York City. Biography Brazda is a Canadian-born, New York-based artist. He is the son of folk musician Andrew Brazda and the grandson of the award-winning journalist Andrej Brázda-Jankovský. Brazda plays in the post-punk band Diet Choke with model and singer Ruby Aldridge and artist Shawn Kuruneru. Work and Exhibitions Brazda's work consists of silk screens, wall texts, and audio recordings. In recent years the artist has moved away from his earlier East/West "narrative-driven" installations to a minimalist, Pop Art that reflects his interest in the 'edges of popular culture'.Bozidar Brazda catalogue Bozidar Brazda has exhibited at international museums and galleries including Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), MoMA PS1 (NY), The Kitchen (NY), David Zwirner Gallery, Reena Spaulings (NY), and Martos Martos is a city in the province of Jaén in the autonomous community of Andal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bozidar Brazda
Bozidar Brazda (born 1972 in Cambridge, Canada) is an artist. He lives and works in New York City. Biography Brazda is a Canadian-born, New York-based artist. He is the son of folk musician Andrew Brazda and the grandson of the award-winning journalist Andrej Brázda-Jankovský. Brazda plays in the post-punk band Diet Choke with model and singer Ruby Aldridge and artist Shawn Kuruneru. Work and Exhibitions Brazda's work consists of silk screens, wall texts, and audio recordings. In recent years the artist has moved away from his earlier East/West "narrative-driven" installations to a minimalist, Pop Art that reflects his interest in the 'edges of popular culture'.Bozidar Brazda catalogue Bozidar Brazda has exhibited at international museums and galleries including Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), MoMA PS1 (NY), The Kitchen (NY), David Zwirner Gallery, Reena Spaulings (NY), and Martos Martos is a city in the province of Jaén in the autonomous community of Andal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Brázda-Jankovský
Andrej Brázda-Jankovský (or Andrej Brázda) (26 July 1915 – 2008) was a Canadian-based writer who wrote in Slovak. Early life Andrej Brázda-Jankovský was born in 1915 in what is present-day Slovakia. Career He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he lived and worked as a novelist and journalist. Personal life He was the father of Canadian folk musicians Bystrik and Andrew Brazda. He was the grandfather of artist Bozidar Brazda Bozidar Brazda (born 1972 in Cambridge, Canada) is an artist. He lives and works in New York City. Biography Brazda is a Canadian-born, New York-based artist. He is the son of folk musician Andrew Brazda and the grandson of the award-winni .... Death He died in 2008 at the age of 93. Work All of Brázda's works were written in Slovak. These included ''Vzbúrenec'' (The Rebel), ''Svedok Antónia'' (The Witness Antonia) and ''Kanadský Slovák'' (The Canadian Slovak).The Canadian Slovak References External links Biography {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Aldridge
Ruby Rose Aldridge (born August 26, 1991) is an American fashion model and singer. During the years of 2008 - 2012, Ruby Aldridge was the "face" of brands such as Coach, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Valentino, and Calvin Klein. During the 2011 fall fashion week, Aldridge opened four fashion shows which placed her, at that time, 7th in terms of the number of these appearances in a given fashion week. As of this date, she has walked in nearly 200 fashion shows, including for top designers such as Alberta Ferretti, Missoni, Sonia Rykiel, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, and others, and has appeared on the covers of '' Harper's Bazaar'', '' L'Express Styles'', and ''L'Officiel'', and in major magazine spreads in ''The New York Times'', '' Vanity Fair'', and in the ''Vogue'' editions of several countries (e.g., Italy, the U.S., China, Russia, and Latin America). Ruby Aldridge is the daughter of former Playboy playmate Laura Lyons and artist and graphic designer Alan Aldridge, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Museum Of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named. The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection, spanning the late-19th century to the present, comprises more than 25,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,500 artists. It places particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists as well as maintaining an extensive permanent collection of important pieces from the first half of the last century. The museum's Annual and Biennial exhibitions have long been a venue for younger and lesser-known artists whose work is showcased there. From 1966 to 2014, the Whitney was at 945 Mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the Young Architects Program with the Museum of Modern Art. MoMA PS1 has been affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art since January 2000 and, , attracts about 200,000 visitors a year. History Founding What would become MoMA PS1 was founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss as the Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc., an organization with the mission of turning abandoned, underutilized buildings in New York City into artist studios and exhibition spaces. Recognizing that New York was a worldwide magnet for contemporary artists, and believing that traditional museums were not providing adequate exhibition opportunities for site-specific art, in 1971 Heiss established a formal, alternative arts organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in Greenwich Village in 1971 by Steina and Woody Vasulka, who were frustrated at the lack of an outlet for video art. The space takes its name from the original location, the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center which was the only available place for the artists to screen their video pieces. Although first intended as a location for the exhibition of video art, The Kitchen soon expanded its mission to include other forms of art and performance. In 1974, The Kitchen relocated to a building at the corner of Wooster and Broome Streets in SoHo, and incorporated as a not-for-profit arts organization. In 1987 it moved to its current location. The first music director of The Kitchen was composer Rhys Chatham. The venue became known as a place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reena Spaulings
Reena Spaulings is a collective project in the medium of a novel, artist persona, and institutional art gallery active from 2005 to present in New York City. The Gallery's Co-founders and Co-Directors include Carissa Rodriguez, John Kelsey and Emily Sundblad. The Reena Spaulings novel and persona remains an anonymous collective organization. The Spaulings initiative speaks to ideas of collectivity, anonymity, and artistic categorization through literature and artistic production. Reena Spaulings is a branch of the Bernadette Corporation, also based in New York City. Novel Process The novel of Reena Spaulings begins as a branch of the Bernadette Corporation under John Kelsey, under the publishing company Semiotext(e) in New York in 2004. To dismantle categorization around the artist's name, the Bernadette Corporation brought together novelists, artists, and anonymous contributors to write a collective novel under the pseudonym of Reena Spaulings. The contributors would write i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
