WORKS SHOULD BE DELIVERED STARTING NOW TILL APRIL 30, 2001 - EXHIBITION OPENS MAY 7, 2001 - NO RETURNS I received a request today from a NEW ART museum trying to open its doors in Detroit (see below for details). It would be a nice statement to see artists flood the museum with art works, signed CDs, mailart, documentation, etc as a form of support and at the same time flesh out the museum's collection, I will be! Please read the following opportunity. This is mainly for an auction so BE SURE TO STATE THE RESERVE VALUE. "That work which doesn't sell at its reserve, will enter the museum's permanent collection." Jef didn't ask for it but why not send a file on yourself as well for their museum records (resume, slides or photos, articles, whatever you have on yourself in the form of documentation. It makes good material for curators to use when looking for artists to fill in the exhibition schedule. Remember, its a New Art museum so that means raw art is good too! And there is nothing newer than the international internet community of artists. There is no entry fee but why not send a tax deductible cash donation also, even $5.00 or $10.00 bucks helps a lot! Please forward this to other lists you are on but DON'T HIT THE FORWARD BUTTON! Copy and paste into a new email. Cecil Touchon, Director The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction Cuernavaca, Mexico http://ipdg.org/museum/collage/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cecil, Here's the plea, Thanks for all your help, - Jef @ MONA There is no other major city in the nation that does not have a contemporary art museum. The founding of a second art museum in a one-museum city is an event of the greatest importance for the entire art community. Detroit is about to test that proposition for the first time. The Museum of New Art (MONA) is currently working on renovations and will officially open its doors to contemporary art this September. To help fulfill this promise, we are organizing an art auction to be held May 19. The intent of the auction is to, yes, bring in well-needed funds for renovation and continued exhibitions, but also to create an awareness of the museum and its efforts to bring new art and artists into the region. The Museum of New Art (MONA) can be another of those two-way bridges to the world which any vital community must continue to build. Detroit has always had the great potential to become a major art center. With MONA�s addition to the existing cultural �architecture� of institutions, schools, galleries, collectors and working artists, Detroit now has the opportunity to meet this challenge. So, we would like to ask you to become part of an important beginning for art in Detroit and send an artwork for the upcoming auction. We need to put together a list of participating artists as soon as we can for PR and the invitation. Also, for the preceding two weeks (beginning May 7), the donated works will be hung in the new galleries as an exhibition in itself. This will allow the participating artists to be exposed to a greater Midwest audience and to add the exhibition itself to their resumes. That work which doesn't sell at its reserve, will enter the museum's permanent collection. If you know of any other artists who might be sympathetic, we'd appreciate their involvement as well. Warmest regards, Jef Bourgeau Director Museum of New Art Send art, reserve value of art (art should not be auctioned below this value), cover letter, and any other documentory materials to: Jef Bourgeau c/o MONA 327 West Second St. Rochester, MI 48307 USA Telephone: 248-210-7560 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .............................................................................. About MONA The Museum of New Art (MONA) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. MONA�s exhibitions, programming, and operations are member-supported and privately funded through contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Trustees of our own time and place, the Museum of New Art (MONA) will present and examine current art. It will accomplish this as a collective of all the active arts: performance, installation, music, dance, text, painting, sculpture, film, happening, documentary, new tech, video and theater. Mission Statement: A contemporary museum is critical to the understanding of all art. It does this by creating its own space within the given museum �architecture,� not to usurp or compete, but to complete that �architecture.� It is a place to exhibit our own time. It is a resource for and expression of the present culture, not a reposi- tory for the next. Such a museum accepts and embraces our own historical moment, only then can art have any lasting importance. This is an ever-evolving society and culture, therefore, any contemporary museum must be true to that culture�s most vital expression: its art. MONA will attempt to explore and to reveal this art with an innovative eye, unbiased yet comprehensive; but always, with a museum�s high standard of complexity, singularity, and integrity of aesthetic practice. March 4, 2001 'The Wrong Show' BY KERI GUTEN COHEN Special to the Free Press "The Wrong Show," at the Museum of New Art in Pontiac through March 31, features more than 100 high-resolution digital printouts of art that might be considered wrong -- for any reason. You'll see blurred images, politically incorrect images, old and overweight nudes, nude children, religion treated irreverently, sexual taboos. Curator-director Jef Bourgeau even includes music and films that were considered wrong in their day. He adds a liberal sprinkling of provocative quotations on the walls, and guests are asked to sign a mock legal paper releasing the museum from responsibility for the hazards of viewing the exhibition. Culled from Web sites across the world, the assembled images -- mostly photographs -- are divided into categories of incorrectness. Some images are graceful, beautiful and meaningful. Others are meant to shock; some are difficult to view, and some in a back gallery border on offensive. No labels guide viewers through the images, though Bourgeau -- whose own art was considered wrong enough for the Detroit Institute of Arts to shut down a show of his in 1999 -- is there to provide dialogue. The featured artist is Jeremy Weiss, a Los Angeles artist and Internet disc jockey. His images combine a sense of humanity with an aloof, isolated edge. In one piece, titled "Hiroshima," he captures an Asian girl in mid-scream. The terror is there on her face, but as we look more closely at the background we see that she is falling at an ice rink rather than fleeing nuclear devastation. Bourgeau says this is MoNA's last show at 19 N. Saginaw in Pontiac before he moves into a 10,000-square-foot space in the Book Building at 1249 Washington Blvd. in downtown Detroit. He plans a fund-raising auction in the new space May 19 and an official opening in September. For information, call 248-210-7560. -- <.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.0.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.> Join the Collage Poetry group mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] a list for posting and reading poetry created in a constructive manor like a collage. See some collage poems at http://ipdg.org/museum/lingo/cp/ also visit http://ipdg.org/flux.mex.us/ - http://www.ipdg.org/massurrealist/ Cecil Touchon's online portfolio - http://touchon.com/cot/ <.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.<.0.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>.>
