Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY

March 1–31, 2018

"George Widener: Magic Circles" presents Widener's mixed-media works on paper featuring bold palettes and patterning. His oeuvre represents a visual exploration of possible numerical systems or mind games based on historical events and dates.

Widener has been exploring combining calendrical dates with magic squares for more than 25 years. His resulting “Magic Circles” series reflects his interest in the future development of artificial intelligence. In a non-dystopian future, Widener believes people and machines will have prodigious memory and calculation capabilities—via biological or technical improvements. Machines will become a new species with higher creative intelligence and humans will be enhanced with skills that seem implausible today. He envisions these magic circles as a form of recreation, because they allow the user to “programme” them; to choose a specific theme and then fit the provided days of the week with appropriate dates. When artificial intelligence occurs, these “crossdate” or “crosstime” puzzles will become feasible games.

Ricco/Maresca Gallery
529 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011
www.riccomaresca.com

Elena Rossi

NIAD Art Center

March 3, 2018

"Win Win 6", NIAD Art Center’s annual benefit exhibition and party, takes place on Saturday, March 3 from 4.00-6.00 pm at Clif Bar & Company in Emeryville. Everyone with an admission ticket will take home a randomly chosen piece of art. Tickets are available now.

Clif Bar Headquarters, 1451 63rd Street in Emeryville,California 94608-1004
www.niadart.org

La Maison Rouge, Paris

until May 20

Ceija Stojka was the first Roma woman to have survived three concentration camps and use her experience to raise a voice against Austria’s far right and nationalist parties.

The exhibition shows over 130 works, recounting Stojka's life in a thematic and chronological hanging. 

la maison rouge
Fondation Antoine de Galbert 10 bd de la Bastille 75012 Paris, France
​www.lamaisonrouge.org