Inquiry Form for Grants to Organizations now available
Jan 10, 2011
Eligible organizations interested in applying for a grant from the Graham Foundation are invited to submit an Inquiry Form for the 2011 Grants to Organizations cycle. The Inquiry Form is the first stage of a two-stage application process. To access it and additional information about our grants to organizations, please see the grant programs section of our website. The Inquiry Form must be submitted online no later than February 25, 2011.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Jean Nouvel Opens 7/ 10
Jul 09, 2010
This year—the Serpentine's 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. The Pavilion will open on July 10 on the Serpentine Gallery lawn and operate as a public space, café, and venue for public talks and events. Jean Nouvel will be discussing the groundbreaking design of the Pavilion at a talk on Monday, July 12 at 5pm. The Pavilion will remain open through October.
This project was supported by a 2010 grant from the Graham Foundation.
Watch the video with commentary by the architect, Julia Peyton-Jones, and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce its partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music, sound art and intermedia projects. The Graham Foundation and Lampo will co-present performances by Sten Hanson and Lionel Mechetti. Visit the events page for more information.
To learn more about Lampo, and to add your name to the mailing list, contact info@lampo.org or visit www.lampo.org.
New Silk Roads Lecture By Kyong Park
Mar 02, 2010
New Silk Roads (NSR) is a multi-faceted urban research project that explores the nascent urban conditions emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions. Through a nomadic practice, Kyong Park has conducted a series of sequenced expeditions through transitional regions and cities between Istanbul and Tokyo, documenting his encounters of the people and landscape through photography, video, and audio/video interviews of local and international experts. The project is an examination of territorial conditions that constructs the interconnected system of the contemporary Asian landscape. Approaching urban cities as an ecology of built systems, structures and institutions, NSR presents alternate understandings of urban research and theory through artistic practice. NSR was first presented at Kyong Park: The New Silk Roads, at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in Spain (2009-10), and was undertaken with the support of the Graham Foundation, the Visual Arts Department, the Division of Humanities and Arts, Academic Senate Research Funds at University of California San Diego, and University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA).
Winy Maas, Principle, MVRDV, to Speak at UIC SoA Tonight
Mar 02, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 6pm Gallery 1100 A+A, 845 W Harrison St. Chicago, IL 60607
Performance and Panel Discussion funded by the Graham
Jan 20, 2010
January 26, 2010
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
Dance Performance + Panel Discussion at Miller Theatre No Fixed Points in Space: Transferring Form, Time, and Narrative between Architecture and Performance.
Performances by Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Repertory Understudy Group and Conversations with Trevor Carlson, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation; Michelle Fornabai, Ambo Infra Design; Paul Kaiser, Open Ended Group; Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), artist; composer; writer; Tere O'Connor, Tere O'Connor Dance; and Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects. Curated and moderated by Annie K. Kwon, Architect, Kwon Studio
For more information please email arts@columbia.edu Presented by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation and Barnard College Dance Department. GSAPP and School of the Arts, Columbia University
Graham Foundation Holiday Hours
Dec 21, 2009
The Madlener House Galleries will be closed for the holidays Thursday, December 24 through Saturday, January 2.
Join us for our winter public programs and stop in to see Actions: What You Can Do With the City in the New Year!
Cecil Balmond's "H_edge" Travels to Carnegie Museum of Art
Dec 16, 2009
Forum 64: Cecil Balmond On view through May 30, 2010 Forum Gallery
Cecil Balmond has transformed the role of the engineer in contemporary architecture with his unorthodox and visionary approach that challenges staid definitions of architecture and engineering. Forum 64 features his work H_edge, which consists of approximately 6,000 aluminum plates suspended between rigid stainless steel chains. What appears to hang like metallic ivy is revealed on closer inspection to stand from the floor. This “trick” allows for H_edge segments to turn at will and create a mazelike structure that is surprisingly sturdy. Interstitial gaps offer intriguing glimpses through a structure further animated by light and reflections. H_edge is supplemented by a suite of lightboxes that illustrate the principles used by Balmond to structure many of today's most innovative buildings.
Forum 64: Cecil Balmond is presented by the Heinz Architectural Center, made possible by the generosity of the Drue Heinz Trust. General support for museum’s exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional Asset District.
Process renderings of a farm installation for the P.S. 1 courtyard, WORKac, 2008.
WORKac to Speak at Graham Foundation
Oct 22, 2009
WORKac shapes ideas - inspired by difference and applying research, programmatic expansion and a surrealist's eye to translate concepts into new forms and experiences. We engage the world - with unprejudiced curiosity - to find within experience the grounds for meaningful practice. We embrace humor as a critical tool, allowing us to enter complex conditions with precision and insight. Our work strives to make 1 plus 1 equal 3, strategically shuffling given contexts, conditions and programs to reveal narratives and carve added public value. WORKac is an urban practice, for now is the time to re-address the city at all scales, building transdisciplinary networks of philosophers, scientists, artists, farmers? to better confront structures of power, create alternative universes and produce work that resonates with the contemporary condition.
