March 25-28, 2010.. Invest in yourself! Come to Albany, NY...

March 2010 Conference--you have until midnight to register with discount!!!

You still have time - Closes at Midnight tonight!

Don't forget, you have until January 31st to save on the registration price,
then goes up $50.00!

THIS IS IT! LAST DAY TO GET YOUR DISCOUNT REGISTER NOW!

DAY RATE TICKETS JUST ANNOUNCED!

Conference DAY RATES are now available on the registration site. PPSNYS/PPANJ/PPA member rate is the only $75.00. Non-member Day Rate fee is $100.00.

Register at http://northeast2010.eventbrite.com

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PPA Show in Nashville...Your Views and Best New Idea!

Who is at the show? What can you report?

Take a minute to share some new ideas with your NJ colleagues.

The blog is a great forum for you!

Look at the LOOK magazine show..

Plenty of time to see the LOOK magazine show in NYC. Maybe you were a bigger fan of LIFE, but definitely worth looking at!!




Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine
Nov 17 through Apr 10

"Exploring New York City from the mid-1940s until the early 1960s, the exhibition Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine accompanies the publication of the first-ever book devoted to the museum's extraordinary LOOK photography collection. To LOOK's editors and photographers, among them Stanley Kubrick, New York was both a newly emergent international capital of world-class museums and glamorous nightclubs as well as a hometown for millions who rode its subways and thrilled to its baseball teams. The exhibition features images from the book and historic LOOK magazines, which demonstrate how LOOK used images to tell its national readership about the city they called "the world's most exciting."

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
New York, NY 10029
212.534.1672 Phone
212.423.0758 Fax
info@mcny.org E-mail

Museum Hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Closed Mondays (except holiday Mondays)

A new year and new shows...

Happy and Healthy New Year to you and your family!!

A new show is coming up in Woodstock, NY. Looks interesting especially if you like Dutch painting.

"In conjunction with the exterior landscapes on view in the main gallery, The Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to present the interior tableaux that comprise VANITAS, a series of photographs by JUSTINE REYES.

Reyes’ work is inspired by the Dutch paintings of the same name, which were most popular during the 16th and 17th centuries. Vanitas paintings, while possibly containing lovely objects, usually incorporated some visual reference to mortality (often a human skull, but also with burning candles, soap bubbles, or decaying flowers). The purpose of such works was not solely aesthetic; they were meant to convey a deeply metaphysical message about the transience of earthly life.

Working off of the tradition of these still lifes, Reyes juxtaposes personal heirlooms and seemingly banal, everyday objects alongside symbols which hint at the passage of time. Her use of photography adds an additional layer of nostalgia and irony when looked at within the art historical framework of Vanitas, since we know that even these supposedly indelible images eventually fade. Reyes’ work primarily examines issues of familial legacy and the longing to hold onto things that are ephemeral and transitory by nature. Though the books, paintbrushes, and teacups in her images seem to have weathered the ravages of time, even they (along with the rotting fruit and wilting flowers) convey a sense of nostalgia and speak its inevitable passage.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Justine Reyes recieved her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her BFA from Syracuse University in 2000. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, participating in Provecto Circo at the 8th Havana Biennial in Cuba and Contemporary Istanbul in Turkey. In 2008, Reyes was an artist in residence at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, where the series VANITAS began. She was recently awarded the Individual Artist Initiative (IAI) from the Queens Council on the Arts and a workspace residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for 2009-2010. To learn more about Justine Reyes, visit her website at www.justinereyes.com

VANITAS will be on view in CPW’s Kodak gallery from January 9 through February 28, 2010.

The opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 9th from 5-7pm.