Birch Forest Art Project

The goal of Birch Forest Art Project is to help making the world more humane, just, beautiful and prosperous by creating exhibitions that

1. Bring together artists in all stages of their carriers, unknown artists and famous, old and young, of all nationalities and from all walks of life

2. Use as many innovative styles and art concepts, as possible

3. Encourage every art media that brings interaction between spectators and art

4. Travel around the globe

News

The Birch Forest Project is a rotating exhibition that was first mounted at White Box from July 8, 2010 to September 7, 2010. It consisted of a centralized installation by Tatyana Stepanova titled Birch Forest. (Read more) http://whiteboxny.org/projectbirchforest/

Brucennial 2012

By KEN JOHNSON | New York Times | Arts | March 1, 2012

What is the Brucennial? The announcement on the Web site of its organizers, the anonymous members of the Bruce High Quality Foundation and Vito Schnabel, calls it: “The single most important art exhibition in the history of the world. Ever.” (Read More)

A Survey of a Different Color, 2012 Whitney Biennial

By ROBERTA SMITH | New York Times | Arts | March 1, 2012

One of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory may or may not contain a lot more outstanding art than its predecessors, but that’s not the point. The 2012 incarnation is a new and exhilarating species of exhibition, an emerging curatorial life form, at least for New York. (Read More)

Quiet Disobedience

By HOLLAND COTTER | New York Times | Arts | February 16, 2012

The debut edition of the New Museum Triennial in 2009 was called “Younger Than Jesus,” signaling that the show was very much about age: Everyone in it was under 33. The title of the 2012 Triennial, “The Ungovernables,” shifts the emphasis to attitude. The artists are not only young, the idea is, but they’re also disobedient, mutinous enfants terribles. (Read More)

The Armory’s Ambitions Expand to Match Its Hall

By DANIEL J. WAKIN | New York Times | Arts |December 22, 2011

Rapist Santas in the brutalist opera “Die Soldaten.” The Royal Shakespeare Company performing in a life-size reproduction of its theater. A five-story crane continuously plucking at 30 tons of salvaged clothing. A three-dimensional re-creation of Leonardo’s “Last Supper.” In the last five years audiences have experienced all of these images inside a vast hangar of a hall on the Upper East Side. It is the Park Avenue Armory, which has arrived as the most important new cultural institution in New York City. (Read More)

A Griot for a Global Village

By HOLLAND COTTER | New York Times | Arts |December 8, 2011

Across the country institutions large and small, art-specific and otherwise, are celebrating the Romare Bearden centennial year. There’s a reason for this. In Bearden’s embracing art all borders are down — between personal and universal, town and country, history and myth. Africa, Europe and the Americas too are borderless. Bearden is artist in chief of the modern cosmopolis, griot in residence of the global village. All hail. (Read More)

Where to Party at Art Basel Miami Beach

By BEE-SHYUAN CHANG | New York Times | Arts | November 27, 2011

HAS it been a decade? Art Basel Miami Beach marks its 10th edition this week, no longer the new kid on the collector circuit, but a mandatory stop for any self-respecting art player. In some very social circles, it even overshadows the original in Switzerland, as far as the partying, the opulent dinners and the unbridled hobnobbing are concerned. (Read More)

Six Named as Finalists for Hugo Boss Prize

By CAROL VOGEL | New York Times | Arts | November 25, 2011

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has announced six finalists for its 2012 Hugo Boss Prize. The $100,000 prize, named for the German men’s wear company that sponsors it, is given every two years to an individual who has made an important contribution in contemporary art. In addition to cash, the winner is awarded an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Read More)

A Career Provocateur

By GUY TREBAY | New York Times | Arts | November 20, 2011

“OH, my God. Oh, my God!” the arts patron Wallis Annenberg said as she sought a seat at a Platinum Table she had bought for a benefit gala where a naked human “centerpiece” was slowly revolving atop a lazy susan. As a model lying dead-still on the tabletop — a fake human skeleton draped across her body — began circulating clockwise in Ms. Annenberg’s direction, a fellow guest leaned toward the hostess and muttered, “Full Brazilian at 6 o’clock.” (Read More)

The Arts Bloom in Greece’s Second City

By CHARLY WILDER| New York Times | Arts | November 6, 2011

IT was early August, and clouds of tear gas drifted through much of Athens, the remnants of protests against austerity measures. But the country’s financial woes seemed far from the minds of the smartly disheveled young Greeks packed onto the roof terrace of the newly opened Fragile bar in Salonika, about 320 miles north of the capital. T-shirt-clad art students shouted over a mix of vintage doo-wop and ’90s alt-rock, or ducked into the covered bar area, which evoked a vaguely postal theme, its corkboard-lined walls cross-hatched with packing tape. (Read More)

The Girl With the Butterfly Tattoo Cover: Dasha Zhukova on Her New Garage Magazine

By Andrew M. Goldstein | New York Times | Arts | September 6, 2011

"Welcome to the world of Garage magazine" is how Dasha Zhukova ends the preface to the first issue of her new publishing venture, and what an unusual world it is. Imagine a zine put out by a creative art and fashion fan and her clique of friends — only the zine is on the finest magazine stock, the fan is a beautiful Russian heiress (and girlfriend of one of the world's richest men), and her friends include the kin of the rich and famous (Barbara Bush, Peter Brant III, Max Snow), the girlfriend of Larry Gagosian, and some of the best-known artists of their time. The advertisers, then, include fashion brands like Prada and Balenciaga along with Christie's and Pace Beijing. And yet the magazine is clearly the work of a let's-put-on-a-show enthusiast — an amateuse, as the French would say. (Read More)

Culture, Rolling Into Towns on Big Rigs

By RANDY KENNEDY | New York Times | Arts | March 31, 2011

Trucks transport 70 percent of the freight in the United States, according to the Department of Transportation. And if a prominent New York artist and his friends have their way, a tiny fraction of that total — six 18-wheelers full, to be exact — will soon be a variety of cargo not usually found barreling down the interstate: art, fresh from painters’ studios; poets’, playwrights’ and songwriters’ pens; and filmmakers’ cameras. (Read More)

The Engine Institute, Inc.

Art, Music, Science and Genius The Engine Institute’s programs operate along three sectors: Community Support, Education and Public Awareness. (Read More) http://theengineinstitute.org/

‘Decadent’ Russian Art, Still Under the Boot’s Shadow

By ELLEN BARRY | New York Times | Arts | March 8, 2011

The Igor V. Savitsky collection of Russian avant-garde art, virtually hidden from wide public view at a museum in Nukus, Uzbekistan, is the subject of a documentary opening this week in New York. (Read More)