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Opening this past weekend and running through the 27th of September, Everywhere is War (and rumours of war) is a group show including artist Sara Rahbar, who spoke here at the museum earlier this summer with the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. This exhibition will be held at Bodhi Art in Kalaghoda, Mumbai, and should be a great opportunity to see this amazing photographer and textile artist’s work.

(Sara Rahbar, Flag#30, 64×34, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.)

Patty Chang, a daring video artist who resides here in Brooklyn, is showing her most recent work at the Arrow Factory in Beijing. Chang’s body of work spans the last decade. Both Eels, 2001, a performance video in which Chang traps an eel inside her blouse, and In Love, 2001, in which Chang passes onions from her mouth into the mouths of her parents, remain vivid in this blogger’s mind (and, Losing Ground, 2000 is favorite of Sarah’s!) Touch Would will be available for viewing by the public at the Arrow Factory until the 29th of September.

(Touch Would exhibition announcement. Courtesy of The Arrow Factory.)

Allyson Mitchell is participating in a show at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. The exhibition, Close to You, which runs through October 12th, takes a closer look at contemporary social and sexual customs via pop culture and through the mediums of knitting, crochet, embroidery and appliqué.

(Allyson Mitchell. Big Trubs, 2004. Courtesy of the artist.)

Printmaker and installation artist, swoon, has taken her work to the Hudson River this month with her most recent project Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea. This performance/conceptual/just-plain-rad project consists of an armada of eco-friendly ships made from recycled materials which will make their way down the Hudson from Troy, NY, where they launched earlier this month. The fleet will be docking at Beacon, Croton-on-Hudson, and Nyack next week for music and performances before they reach their final destination at Deitch Projects in Long Island City, Queens on September 7th for the opening of swoon’s latest installation.

(Portion of Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea exhibition poster. Courtesy Deitch Projects.)

Sabina Baumann’s death of cool opens at Galerie Mark Muller in Zurich next Thursday, the 28th of August. This show runs until September 27th, so stop on over if you happen to be in the area!

(Sabina Baumann, aus der lumpenserie, 2007. Pencil on paper, 60 x 40 cm. Courtesy of Galerie Mark Muller.)

The Percipient Eye, opened last Friday, August 22nd at The Gallery at Mansion in Manhattan, and features photography by Jennifer Maeve. This exhibition was curated by a former graduate intern here at the Center, Saisha Grayson. Good luck with the show and congrats Saisha!

(The Percipient Eye exhibition announcement. Courtesy of Saisha Grayson.)