Grand Re-opening of the NEW Expanded Courtyard Gallery
May 5th 6pm-9pm
Simultaneous Openings at the Pump and Flood Galleries
Four weeks only!
Art 21 Screenings
at Courtyard Gallery
Part of “Art21 Access '12”, a celebration of contemporary art sponsored by Art21. "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season Six includes 13 profiles of artists from five continents gathered into four, one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Balance, History and Boundaries. Spanning the globe from Nigeria to New York City, from Beijing to Brazil, the programs reveal the artists at work and speaking in their own words as they demonstrate the power of art to alter perception, challenge convention, and change how we see the world around us. Courtyard Gallery is proud to show this series. In the Railroad Library, Phil Mechanic Studios.
Sponsored by Art21. Visit art21.org for more information.
April 18 • 7pm-9pm
“Change”
Featured Artists: Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, Catherine Opie
The first hour of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 6 features artists who bear witness, through their work, to transformation—cultural, material, and aesthetic—and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects.
April 25 • 7pm-9pm
“Boundaries”
Featured Artists: David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, Lynda Benglis, Tabaimo
This episode of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" presents artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure.
May 2 • 7pm-9pm
“History”
Featured Artists: Marina Abramovic,
Mary Reid Kelley, Glenn Ligon
In this episode of "Art in the Twenty-First Century", artists play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic “truth”, and create narratives based on personal experiences.
May 9 • 7pm-9pm
“Balance”
Featured Artists: Rackstraw Downes,
Robert Mangold, Sarah Sze
Through sculpture, paintings, and installations, the artists in this hour of In this episode of "Art in the Twenty-First Century", grapple with equilibrium and disequilibrium as they create highly structured works that challenge conventional notions of perception and representation.
Every Friday
Foreign Film Series • 8pm each Friday night
upstairs in the Railroad Library
109 Roberts St, Phil Mechanic Studios
River Arts District, Asheville
See Review of This Weeks Film
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May 2012 Schedule
April 27
“Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe”
by Ted Kotcheff
(USA | Italy | France | West Germany 1978)
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared.
May 4th
"Persepolis"
by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
(France 2007)
Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.
May 11th
“Cronos”
by Guillermo del Toro
(Mexico 1993)
In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997, when it shows up with an antiques dealer.
May 18th
“Crash”
by David Cronenberg
(Canada 1996)
IAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
May 25th-27th
“Twin Rivers Media Festival Winners”
50 World Premiers from around the World
25th 8pm--Feature Film Winner
26th & 27th Animation, Documentary, Short Drama Winners
Doors open at 7:45 pm and close at 8:15, so get there on time!
This is a free event, but donations are appreciated.
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Thanks for a great show!
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