Celebration of Freedom: Chelsea Art Museum
August 19, 2009
Filed under Causes & Charity, Fashion & Culture, Featured, Review
Join us in celebrating freedom at the Chelsea Art Museum for the exhibit, Iran Inside Out!
The museum is hosting two benefit days, the first this Thursday, August 20th, and the second on Thursday, September 3.
Festivities are from 6 – 11 pm. Come early and stay late!
The fundraiser ticket prices are as follows:
$20 general admission
$40 (includes a gift while supplies last)
$70 (includes a one year membership)
For your contribution at the door, you get an evening of Tanqueray open bar cocktails, live beats to make your buns shake and visual stimulants from VJ Pixalot.
For the culturally inclined, interviews with the curators and artists will be posted on our Arts and Culture web site after the event: http://www.smac.us/
The exhibition has been featured on online press, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Art Das Kunstmagazin.
The Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street @ 11th Avenue
Check out an article via Time Out:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/museums/76912/best-museum-parties
About the Exhibition:
The groundbreaking exhibition itself features 35 artists living and working in Iran, some exhibiting abroad for the first time, alongside 20 others from around the world living in the Diaspora. The result is a multifarious portrait of 55 contemporary Iranian artists challenging the conventional perceptions of Iran and Iranian art.
In Iran Inside Out, 210 contemporary works comprising of painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation come together, in a rare moment which allows visitors an intimate look into the people, both inside and outside a country that is more complex than images of veiled women, worn out calligraphy and what a handful of other emblematic images would suggest.
Image:
Pooneh Maghazehe, Hell’s Puerto Rico Performance Still, Digital C-print
2008 copyright artist and courtesy Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
See you at the benefit!
Yours,
Von
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