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Sumi Ink Club
Sumi Ink Club
Sarah Anderson
The Suntory Museum in Tokyo recently exhibited the Choju-Giga scrolls, an official Japanese national treasure. Known to have been created during the 12th and 13th centuries but otherwise murky in origin, the scrolls comprise large-scale, whimsical ink drawings by many hands, depicting frolicking anthropomorphic animals. The images anticipate numerous modern art genres—not only comics and animation, but also the new, psychedelic, collective drawing projects of artists like LA-based Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck. In the spirit of the Choju-Giga scrolls, Anderson and Fischbeck’s Sumi Ink Club invites all comers to assist in creating a large cooperative piece of art in ink. When the drawing's done, Anderson and Fischbeck -- as Lucky Dragons -- will perform an updated version of their Make a Baby, in which sound is created and altered by participants touching conductive sections of a knit textile and then touching one another to create new electrical circuits.  Sun 8/31, 12:30 PM, Golden Age, 12:30 PM, 1744 W. 18th, 312-850-2574, goldenagestore.com. --Bert Stabler
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angry art goer at 12:15 PM on 8/28/2008
The arts listings are a mess. If you click on the "Show only openings" option, it gives a ton of false hits of galleries with no receptions listed.
It also doesn't list them in chronological order.
This is very frustrating, it's a simple easy to spot database flaw, which has been there for two weeks. Why wasn't this caught before going live?
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Kiki at 1:38 PM on 8/28/2008
They appear to be chronological order when I pull it up, but there was some human error involved: "openings" link was directed to a general "galleries" search, instead of a search for "openings" under "galleries." Sorry about that--it's being corrected as I write.
Also, please note that you can take the whole galleries and museums database and make your own sort using the tools on the lefthand side of the events listings page--e.g., if you want only openings, or only openings within a certain date range, or only openings within a certain date range in a certain neighborhood.
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Key Glitches with Tools at 10:10 AM on 8/29/2008
I like the new tools but they has two key glitches:
1. Saved event lists don't include the addresses of venues.
2. If a saved event is connected to an ongoing event, it won't display the specific date, just a date range.
I.e. Openings display in custom lists with the dates for the whole exhibit. An entry for a specific reading displays as the date range for all months the reading takes place.
These two bugs make the events list not useful.
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Tagging Problem at 10:22 AM on 8/29/2008
Kiki-
It seems to be a tagging problem as well.
I just narrowed the search by "Galleries & Museums" and "Opening" and found 15 false hits. All of them are Galleries tagged with openings (the little O graphic) despite having no event listed.
Some of them are galleries which had openings recently, some may have openings coming up.
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Still doesn't work at 10:51 AM on 8/29/2008
Kiki,
Also, if you use the openings filter then click on "Today" you will get openings from other dates and galleries without openings.
In short, the filters don't work.
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JoJo at 11:12 AM on 8/29/2008
eek! whatever happened to user friendly?!?
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Kiki at 6:09 PM on 8/30/2008
The "filter" bug should be fixed shortly if it hasn't been already.
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belen at 10:58 PM on 8/30/2008
i would like to inform you that in september 12 in gallery Rachmacher will be opening-reception-cocktail with a woman from Spain with a great show with her collages (paintings).
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