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Being fashion-forward in a town that’s hardly so is one thing, being forward thinking is entirely another. A group of engaging young Omaha artists is using the city’s most experimental art venue to prove it’s both. Fabrication Sarah Baker Mannequins wearing designs by Peter Fankhauser and Alexia Madara, 2005. Being fashion-forward in a town that’s […]

The intense, sublimated eroticism of Jehan Legac’s art is based on a manipulation of the body induced by a synthesis of reality and fantasy. Seducing the Viewer Monica Colbert Jehan Legac, Hold the Grip. Courtesy of artist. The intense, sublimated eroticism of Jehan Legac’s art is based on a manipulation of the body induced by […]

What do women want? What does society want for women? As an advertising executive in Nuremberg and Munich, Leticia Cortez had to try to answer these questions in her campaign ads everyday. Female Inferno Elizabeth Daza Leticia Cortez, Female Inferno, 2005. Courtesy of http://www.sinnartistik.de/ What do women want? What does society want for women? As […]

On the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the Straits of Messina stands an ancient tower filled with contemporary art. The tower, which is of Medieval origin, was originally used as a light house for the treacherous seas here. Mediterranean Encounters D. Dominick Lombardi Image of Parco Horcynus Orca, 2005. On the coast of the […]

No one can deny this. We live in a society pregnant with raw desires and riotous with rigorous competition. Society generates anxiety, instils fear and brews exhaustion. Living in the World Zhang Zhaohui Zhang Zhaohui, Valentize Day, 2005. Courtesy of artist. No one can deny this. We live in a society pregnant with raw desires […]

Jim Lambie?s installation in the main concourse of the Dallas Museum of Art, Thirteenth Floor Elevator, continues his exploration of the use of modernist art tropes as a means to critique contemporary culture through the museum/gallery space. Specifically, Lambie’s art mobilizes the radicalism of 60s drug psychedelia and altered perceptual experience. Psychedelic Lines John Zotos […]

Ever since Edward Said deflated Orientalism, we have stealthily developed a new model for straddling several cultures. In the updated model, we stumble upon fused identities, not by pursuing shared fantasies of Tin-tin adventures, but by following kinks in fate. Shattering Ideas of Identity Dawn Chan Jeffrey Sarmiento, Sketchbook 2 (frontal view). Courtesy of artist. […]

Holy Skirts, Rene Steinke’s second novel, is about the life of an "avant-goddess," a proto-dada artist from Germany who went to live in Manhattan and died in Paris, and is based on the real-life story of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhofen. Elsa The Bohemian Baroness Valery Oisteanu Book cover. Holy Skirts, Rene Steinke’s second novel, is […]

A knot of Newburgh art patrons stood at the top of the gallery stairs, comparing notes on the old homes they?d recently bought in the handsome Hudson Valley town. Living History Dan Keane Siri Berg, installation view. Courtesy of artist. A knot of Newburgh art patrons stood at the top of the gallery stairs, comparing […]

Leaning between the doors on my uptown commute requires that I occasionally reach out to the vertical stanchions holding the seats on either side. Wow Factor Scott Weiland Santiago Calatrava, 80 South Street, New York, NY. East River skyline. Photo Credit: Santiago Calatrava Leaning between the doors on my uptown commute requires that I occasionally […]