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If you thumb through Liang Yue?s oeuvre, the first thing you?ll notice is her fascination with light; such as the uncountable small lights that give a fairy-like character to the Chinese megalopolis at night, or the bright blue daylight on a busy street corner. Liang Yue, In a Chinese Daze Pauline Doutreluingne Liang Yue, Stop […]

I have known Linda Gall’s work for ten years. What is always appealing is her overwhelming sense of nostalgia, family and place. The four distinct bodies of work in her recent exhibition, "New paintings, drawings and books," only confirmed my feeling. Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Ron Johnson Linda Gall, On the Rocks, 2005. Colored […]

Since September, Gary Baseman has had four openings: one in New York at the Jonathan Levine Gallery entitled "The Garden of Unearthly Delights," two in LA and one in Barcelona, besides his lectures and book signings in Taiwan, Delaware, Beverly Hills and Charlottesville. Gary Baseman, The Lowdown on Lowbrow Emilie Trice Gary Baseman, 200 Tobys. […]

Further proof of Director of the Studio Museum of Harlem and Chief Curator Thelma Golden’s masterful eye, "Frequency" presents us with yet another set of young black artists set to launch into superstardom. Thelma Golden, Freq It Steven Psyllos Hank Willis Thomas, Winter in America. Video still. Courtesy of Studio Museum of Harlem. Further proof […]

With peripheral vision I noted a Murray exhibition currently at the Museum of Modern Art. I might have made an effort to visit during a recent weekend in New York. But it wasn’t a priority. Elizabeth Murray; Deconstructing the Reviews / Shaping Up at MoMA Charles Giuliano courtesy of the artist With peripheral vision I […]

Last night, the California based artist, Ed Ruscha, spoke to an overflow audience at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University about the exhibition "Course of Empire" which represented the United States at the Venice Bienalle. Ed Ruscha at Harvard / Venice Show Opens at Whitney Charles Giuliano Last night, the California […]

Nadine Robinson and Camille Norment, like Aretha, invite you into her sound, but not the expected range of artists playing with music. Both artists explore the semiotic nature of language as sound in a post-postmodernist context. Their objects and installations, while addressing a history of women playing with music or sound, give sound more a […]

"The secret organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio–rippling arpeggios of thyme, lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and new-mown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord–a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig’s […]

Shortly after exhibiting the installation between forms of representation and interpretation in the Medienturm, I was invited by one of the curators from the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria to develop a project for the BIX façade–a light and media installation designed by the Berlin-based architecture group realities:united that covers the entire front of the museum […]

I am crouched in front of a piece of paper hanging no more than a foot from the ground. At the bottom of the page, written in cursive is the phrase, "I still have a gift certificate to linens and things on my birthday." Beth Campbell, Looking At Words Rebecca Lossin “Looking at Words: The […]