In 1972, a year before his death in a plane crash at 35, the artist Robert Smithson wrote, “I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day.” And with the creation of his greatest work — “Spiral Jetty,” the huge counterclockwise curlicue of black basalt rock that juts into the Great Salt Lake in rural Utah — he certainly put that conviction to the test.

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A children’s book illustration from the early part of Andy Warhol’s career is to go on sale in New York next month.

The delicate drawings of four story book animals are expected to fetch $600 (£355) at auction on 9 December.

The US artist, who became famous for his pop art creations including silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, was a book illustrator from 1957-61.

At a recent sale of contemporary art, a Warhol print of a series of one dollar bills was sold for $43.8m (£26m).

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FLIP-FLOPS//JOURNEYS//PERSPECTIVES
Michael Tan in collaboration with Caroline Knowles
An Art-Sociology Investigation

6 November 2009 — 21 March 2010. NUS Museum

OPENING: Friday 6th November 2009, 6 pm

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Migrant Ecologies Project | Lucy Davis
5-22 November. The Substation Gallery

OPENING:  Thursday 5th November 2009, 7.30 pm

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A Tokyo university is planning to open a library to promote serious study of Japanese manga comics.

The proposed Tokyo International Manga Library will house two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artefacts.

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Paul Kohl

Paul received his BA in Fine Arts Degree from the San Francisco Art
Institute, and his MA from Purdue University. Paul is a recipient
of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Photography, Maryland
State arts Council Grants and Baltimore City Artist Grants.

He did an Artist-in-Residence at Awagami Paper in Japan to develop a
handmade paper that could be used to print photographs on with a
large-format ink-jet printer.

He exhibits and publishes his work frequently and internationally. His
primary interest is in the emerging interface between photography and
the ink-jet printer.

He has published a monograph of his photographic series “Two Fish,
Out of Water” and it is currently available in ADM Libary.

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Nancy Spero

“Ms. Spero, who always viewed art as inseparable from life, developed a distinctive kind of political work. Polemical but symbolic, it combined drawing and painting as well as craft-based techniques like collage and printmaking seldom associated with traditional Western notions of high art and mastery.”

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Michael is a visual artist who had produced a body of photo and video installation works about urban culture and spatial practices that were exhibited both locally and abroad. His creative practice lies at the intersection of Design, Art and Humanities. His work contemplates on the social role of creativity. He is interested in possibilities arising from interactions when design thinking interfaces with knowledge and concerns from the field of humanities; the affects of such interaction on human at multifarious level. He studied in The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received his MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Michael currently teaches in Foundation 4D Design & Time Workshop and in Visual Communication in the School of Art, Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University.

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Date/Time     : Wed 30 Sep 09, 7pm
Venue             : Block F Level 2 #F208
                          LASALLE College of the Arts

Admission is free.

Please refer to attached brochure for details.

Email events@lasalle.edu.sg to reserve a seat
For enquiries, call 64965222