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In Holly Crawford’s site-specific installation and performance… Holly Crawford: Bursting New Bubbles By Tara Dennard Installation photo courtesy of Holly Crawford In Holly Crawford’s site-specific installation and performance, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, black latex balloons of different shape, size and volume, fill the gallery space–floating below the ceiling, piled together on the […]

Making kids creators of art rather than passive consumers of art is the goal of Gorilla Press. Here, children get excited about reading, writing and making art. By Kids: For Kids By Danielle Sonnenberg Out on Fire one of the many books made by Gorilla Press kids Making kids creators of art rather than passive […]

Imagine being a part of the artwork… a call to experience artwork from within. WHERE By Sneh Mehta and Keti Japaridze Video Still of “Being the Drawings” by Renate Moritz and Evewright Imagine being a part of the artwork… a call to experience artwork from within. Renate Moritz and Everton Wright, invited volunteers to participate […]

Peter Greaves is a young American artist, born in 1977 in Binghamton, New York. Peter Greaves By Harriet Zinnes Peter Greaves. “Tess #2”, 2004. Oil on tempered hardboard 10 3/4 x 8 inches. Peter Greaves is a young American artist, born in 1977 in Binghamton, New York. His show at the Forum Gallery (745 Fifth […]

Walter Robinson – Blowhard, Jerry Saltz – Hack, Mathew Barney – Fucker, Donald Rumsfeld – Cocksucker, John Ashcroft – Nazi, Takashi Murakami – Jap. The Bill of Wrongs: Will the Real William Powhida Please Stand Up By James Kalm   William Powhida, “Look”, 2004, Oil on vellum, 50 x 36 inches       Walter […]

Fallujah. Najaf. Mosul. Punta Gorda. Swift boats. Memorial. Memorializing. Safety Concerns. Guarded. Terror threat levels. Good for a Laugh By Tia Blassingame Fallujah. Najaf. Mosul. Punta Gorda. Swift boats. Memorial. Memorializing. Safety Concerns. Guarded. Terror threat levels. Questioning patriotism. Terror. Terrorists. Terrorism. Terrorizing. Flag-draped coffins. I find myself adrift in a swirling sea of depressing […]

In his latest work, Roaming: New Landscapes, presented at the Julie Saul Gallery up to October 16, Todd Hido brings the spectator into the photographer’s own perspective along the way as he travels .. The Existential Sense of Roaming By Cinzia Villanucci Todd Hido, Untitled #3223, 2003. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of Julie Saul Gallery In […]

Recently on view at Mixed Greens were two solo exhibitions that examined issues of home and place through the lenses of two artists whose aesthetics are informed by the simultaneous influence of East Coast and West. It’s An East Coast/West Coast Thing By Ann Tarantino Mary Temple, “yellowclapboardpolkadot”, 2004. Photo collage, 18 x 24 inches […]

Nouveau Techno: New Media Installations by Sylvie Blocher, Claude Closky, and Matthieu Laurette is an intriguing exhibition, despite its prosaic title. Who Are You, Really? By Donna McAlear Claude Closky, ‘+1’, 2000, video projector, computer, permanent Internet connexion (www.sittes.net/indice), table, 4 x 5,33 x 7 m minimum. Installation view, Rotterdam Biennial (March 14 – April […]

As part of the New Museum’s recent "Counter Culture" exhibit, artist Julianne Swartz was commissioned to do a site-specific work that would help introduce the museum to its new neighborhood–that segment of lower Manhattan formerly known as "skid row." Telephoning From Skid Row: A Conversation with Julianne Swartz By David Markus Julianne Swartz, Can You […]