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Dawn Ng: An Artist, A Zine, An Ad Agency
31 KINDS OF WONDERFUL is an art project comprising of thirty-one creative objects constructed by artist, Dawn Ng, over a period of thirty-one days / a month in Paris and sent to the Curious Teepee Gallery in Singapore. Each object is an entirely bespoke, handcrafted, one-of-one edition, made from unexpected but commonly gathered materials such […]
envoy enterprises Presents David Alexander Flinn
In These Tides Hide Times and Lost Lives, David Alexander Flinn employs symbolism and metaphor to explore a number of complex themes. Embodying part of a shipwreck, a 15-foot mast, installed as if washed ashore on a desert island, refers to lost nostalgic notions of pride and desperation.Throughout the work, concepts of religion, ignorance and […]
The Museum of Modern Art Announces Cindy Sherman Retrospective in 2012
This exhibition of Cindy Sherman will bring together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of the artist’s acclaimed bodies of work, for which she created myriad constructed characters and tableaus. The first comprehensive museum survey of Sherman’s career in the United States since 1997, it will draw widely from public and private collections, […]
Just Another Brick In The Wall
In his 1974 essay, Art as Collective Action, Howard Becker argues that art is created in a complex context of cooperating parties that together form the art system. He rejects the idea of the genius artist who is superior to all the supporting personnel that make his creations possible. If he were writing now, he […]
British Rubbish
Here, Rizzoli presents a a career retrospective that`s not only definitive, but aesthetically pleasing, with over 300 colour images, an introduction by Nick Cave and informative essays from Jeffrey Deitch and Michael Bracewell. The book opens with Noble and Webster’s first light sculpture Excessive Sensual Indulgence (1996), a fountain of fairground-style light bulbs that was […]
Ravi Paranjape
“I believe that the charm in my realism is accomplished by my constant efforts to make my creations beautiful” Courtesy of the artist. Ravi Paranjapewww.raviparanjape.com My natural endearment for Indian classical music, traditional Indian miniature paintings and ethnic crafts and folk arts, set me on the righteous path of ‘making the beautiful […]
Kristine Harper
“And that breeze was what kept me there…” Courtesy of the artist. Kristine Harper www.kristineharper.com The forest seemed blue that day, cold and dangerous. I could hear the blue leaves blowing in the wind, and the feel of the sharp blue air creeping through my jacket. But in the blue layers of leaves […]
Jean-Marc Schwaller
“the essence of his art being the interplay of color.” Courtesy of the artist. Jean-Marc Schwaller www.jmarcschwaller.com “Jean-Marc Schwaller’s monumental oil paintings are being shown at the MAHF: a magnificent exhibition. His paintings appear to be hewn and then smoothed as if with a knife but without the density of the material ever diminishing the […]
Home Within Home
Do Ho Suh is a wanderer. He is compelled to move but always wants to bring home with him. Since he has developed the ability to make a home wherever he is, things are starting to pile up. A case in point is Suh’s signature transportable fabric installation piece, Seoul Home… (1999), a diaphanous, ghostly […]
