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Pop-cultural Immersion at Apex Cristina Colasanto Bringing the works of Roberto Cuoghi, John Dogg, Nate Lowman and Kaz Oshiro together in Apexart’s 2003 Summer Program is the result of a fortunate collaboration between art historian Katy Seigel and gallerists, Michele Maccarone and Mitchell Algus. Exhibiting four young artists bound by a common interest in popular […]

September Picks Christopher Chambers September Picks Despite the ups and downs of the economy new art spaces continue to open. Brooklyn and the Lower East Side are such vast subjects that I can’t even face starting a realistic survey, so we will have to settle for a selection of a few new enterprises in Chelsea […]

Zero and the Drop of Water: Mineo Rosanna Albertini Opening nights in Chinatown sometimes sink into a diffuse sense of displacement, with art galleries buzzing like hives in silent neighborhoods that blend into the fluid flatness of the freeways. Yet, in the dim light of Chung King Road, the model airplanes in the windows at […]

Michael Tracy: SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS Horace Brockington Michael Tracy remains one of the most distinctive sculptors/artists of his generation. Extremely private, but equally intense during the 80s and early 90s Michael Tracy created a body of sculpture that defied the minimalism and conceptual tendencies of the time. Tracy has lived in TRexas for much of […]

INTERVIEW SIRI BERG IN SWEDISH BY CATARINA ASTROM Datam�sskulor, kullager, delar av turbofl�ktar och bilr�cken. I konstn�rinnan Siri Bergs m�lningar v�cks gamla n�tta tr�tta bruksf�rem�l till nytt liv. Fascinationen f�r industriprodukter f�ddes redan i slutet p� 70-talet. Det var p� den tiden n�r man kunde inhandla det mesta av sm�delar f�r 5 cent och upp�t […]

A Time to Rebuild, Daniel Liebeskind in Exhibition at the Onisaburo Gallery Jill Conner Following World War II, the architectural designs of LeCorbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius flourished in America under the heading of the International Style. Best remembered as stripped-down, economical construction plans that sought to utilize vast amounts of open […]

Ana Busto’s Butterfly Swimmer 2002 at White Box Eduardo Costa Ana Busto presented in the Summer Butterfly Swimmer 2002 at White Box. The 8 x 5 Ft, color work is based on a photograph of Jesus Collado, a Spanish swimmer who won a gold medal at the most recent Olympic games in Sydney. Collado faces […]

Geoffrey Davis at Andre Zarre and The:Artist:Network Eduardo Costa “Instead of doing a lot of paintings, I did a lot of paint on one painting” says Geoff Davis. He is talking about his own work, about 30years of pigment accumulation on board, recently seen in New York City at The:Artist:Network and the Andr� Zarre Gallery, […]

William Fisk at the Forum Marlena Donohue Forum Gallery near Beverly Hills has brought to the Los Angeles art scene—a locale not historically open to figurative genres—some extremely convincing realistic art. It’s a style that’s been theoretically beleaguered in and outside L.A. The advent of the photograph, of technologies that copy the real world with […]

USI Theory Norman Douglas SPACELefebvre writes that architectural spaces represent a political use of knowledge, imply an ideology designed to conceal that use, and embody a technological simulation of the possible within the existing mode of production. Any theme proposed by any galerie or haus devoted to the presentation of art and architecture risks specialist […]