One of artblog’s favorite artists, Randall Sellers, he of the magical teensy-kingdom drawings who was discovered by Shelley Spector at the Bean Cafe on South Street, is participating in a slide slam at MoMA today at 12:30 pm. The slide lecture includes 6 artists whose work is in the Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection show at the museum now through Jan. 4. In an email, Randall said that one of the drawings he’s going to show in his slide presentation (20 slides, 20 seconds each) is a pre-swine flu outbreak work that’s about pandemic bird flu!
Randall Sellers, Raven. Drawing the artist is including in his slide lecture today at MoMA.
Tickets are $5 at the door or online here.
Speaking of virus, slide slams have gone viral– two in Philadelphia in the last month and now here. Who knew they had a name, Pecha Kuchu, and are based on a Japanese slide lecture phenom. More here.
Here’s who’s also on the slide lecture program with Sellers:
Kurt Kauper
Tamara Gayer
Rachel Selekman
Dave Muller
Gerry Hayes
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This just in from artblog buddy, artist and poet Ditta Baron Hoeber:
Yo Roberta and Libby. If you check the entire schedule you will see that on May 7 — Julian (Hoeber), who also has work in the Rothschild Foundation collection, was one of the lunchtime presenters. We went up to NY to hear him. Of course we were thrilled to see Julian at the podium at MOMA but we found all the artists and the art interesting and engaging. Pecha Kucha puts a lot of pressure on the artists (they all said it was difficult!) to achieve concision but the result was quite rewarding. Thought you’d like to know. Ditta.
Hi Roberta, I went to the first of the Pecha Kucha series as well and blogged about it for Time Out NY. Pecha Kucha is a fantastic forum to stimulate conversation, and to get artists away from their studios and computers.
http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/2009/05/pecha-kucha-at-moma-yeah-that-rhymes-sort-of/