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Stephen DiRado, Fellow in Photography, 2012

This Narrow Distance, curated by Louie Despres, opens January 17 and will run through February 9. The work of Stephen DiRado will be featured in this group exhibition. Follow the link below to view the notice for this event.

Jane Ira Bloom, Fellow in Music Composition, 2007

On Sunday, January 27, Jane Ira Bloom will be offering an evening of ballads—both American standards and ones of her own composing—at the Cornelia Street Café. Pianist Dominic Fallacaro, bassist Cameron Brown, and drummer Matt Wilson will be performing with her. Then, on February 2, the Jane Ira Bloom Trio (Ms. Bloom, Bobby Previte, and Dean Johnson) will be featured at The Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space.

Llyn Foulkes, Fellow in Fine Arts, 1977

A career retrospective of the paintings of Llyn Foulkes will be on view at UCLA’s Hammer Museum from February 3 through March 19. Curated by Ali Subotnick, the exhibition will feature about 140 artworks by Foulkes, ranging from his early cartoons and drawings, to his rock and postcard paintings and his “bloody head” series, to his more recent paintings dealing with corporate America. The accompanying fully illustrated catalog features essays by Jim Lewis, Jason Weiss, and Ali Subotnick. The exhibition will then travel to the New Museum in New York City and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve in Germany.

Paul Laffoley, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2009

From January 4 through March 9, works by Paul Laffoley will be on exhibit at Kent Fine Art in New York City.
Mr. Laffoley is well known as the founder of The Boston Visionary Cell, a kind of modern-day artists’ guild. As the gallery’s press release explains, the exhibition “extrapolates on the mission of the Boston Visionary Cell as it has related to Laffoley’s production over the past forty years.”

Kasumi, Fellow in Film & Video, 2011

Brief excerpts from Kasumi’s forthcoming film Shockwaves will be featured in The Anatomy of Emotion, an exhibition of prints at the Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, which opens on November 16.

Panel Discussions Feature Guggenheim Fellows

To kickoff its upcoming exhibition of the work of Cindy Sherman, a Fellow in Photography (1983), the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will be hosting a discussion of her work, featuring four panelists, each a celebrated practitioner of a different creative art. In addition to Eva Respini, the exhibition’s curator and an Associate Curator in MoMA’s photography department, artist Malik Gaines and Guggenheim Fellows Tom Kalin (Film-Video, 2011) and novelist Lynne Tillman (Fiction, 2006) will offer their unique perspectives on the levels of meaning in Ms. Sherman’s oeuvre. Follow this link for more information about this event.

The exhibition will run from November 10 through February 17, and the discussion will be held on the show’s opening night.

Five days later at Columbia University’s Maison Francaise, Helen Molesworth will lead a panel featuring Gran Fury members Tom Kalin, Marlene McCarty (Fine Arts, 2002), Avram Finkelstein, and Robert Vazquez-Pacheco in a discussion of the role of language and speech in the public sphere, using as its jumping-off point the themes of This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, an exhibition that runs from November 15 through March 3 at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Follow the link below for more information.

Juan William Chávez, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2012

Laumeier sculpture park is pleased to present "Juan William Chávez: Living Proposal Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary," October 27 through January 20. The galleries at Laumeier will restage Chávez’s methodology from conception to its current state as a “living proposal” exploring the empty lot where the infamous and immense Pruitt-Igoe tower blocks in north central St. Louis were built and demolished between 1956-73. Follow this link for more information about the Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary. Follow the link below for more information about the exhibition at Laumeier sculpture park.

Molissa Fenley, Fellow in Choreography, 2008

A guest performance with Mills College Repertory Dance Group, a trip to Sweden to dance to Cosmati Variations and Found Objects at a festival honoring John Cage, a residency at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, and preparation of her new work, Cross Bridge, in collaboration with a number of artists, including fellow Fellow John Jesurun (Drama & Performance Art, 1990), for its premiere at La MaMa in December are just a few of the events on Molissa Fenley’s autumn calendar.

Two Fellows in Group Show at 601 Artspace

John Baldessari (Fine Arts) and John Divola (Photography), both Fellows in the class of 1986, are among the sixteen artists featured in the exhibition The Unspecific Index, which will be on view at 601Artspace from November 8, 2012, through February 2, 2013.

Jered Sprecher, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2009

One of Jered Sprecher's drawings will be included in the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s Art on Paper 2012 exhibition. Follow the link for more information about this group exhibition. For more information about Jered Sprecher, visit his website.

Esteban Benzecry, Fellow in Music Composition, 2008

Once again, award-winning Argentinean composer Esteban Benzecry has a full schedule of concerts in the coming months, with performances in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Buenos Aires, among other cities. For more information about these concerts and Mr. Benzecry, visit his website.

Timothy and Stephen Quay, Fellows in Film, 2004

The Museum of Modern Art is featuring the work of Timothy and Stephen Quay, Guggenheim Fellows in Film. The exhibition and film retrospective opened on August 12 and will run through January 7. Follow the link to for more information.

Guggenheim Relatives

Over the years, a number of Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to people from the same family, sometimes in the same year, sometimes decades apart. Follow the link for a sampling.

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