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Like a New Orleans jazz funeral, the "Spin" show at CVB Space in the Meatpacking District combines the notion of demise with buoyant brass music for a jarring effect. Spin at CVB Space Kate Lowenstein Cynthia von Buhler, Shake Hands With Uncle Sam, Interaction view. Like a New Orleans jazz funeral, the "Spin" show at […]

John Geraci is on the verge, but of what even he is not sure. Though graffiti has been popular since the 1960s, it wasn’t until the early 80s and Fab Five Freddy’s rendering of an Andy Warhol soup can on a subway train, Basquiat’s SAMO musings and Haring’s cartoon-like tags that the mainstream art world […]

Americans are aware of what happened in Vietnam 30 years ago, but not so many know as much about what happened in Cambodia as a result of that war.

Nursing his elbow agonizingly, Forest Whitaker’s deep red shirt matches his face. But a "Ghost Dog" swordfight gone sour didn’t cause this injury; instead, his portrait by Sam Taylor-Wood inhabits "Getting Emotional"–a multi-media exhibit at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA).

When I first moved to New York, a friend took me to the Odessa Caf� on Avenue A in the East Village. At the time, I saw the rundown caf� through the lens of sardonic hipsterdom?as a self-consciously authentically grubby hangout to wet the palates of bobos searching for a genuine experience.

Solvent Space has quickly become Richmond, Virginia?s hot new venue because of its experimental nature and overtly industrial feel. For its first show, installation artist James Hyde transformed the main gallery space

Termed interventionists, social art, or a run-off of the heavier handed 1980’s political art, art collectives practicing non-commodity based art models today are not easily categorized under one umbrella term. The popularity of art collectives practicing non-commodity based art models, as the economic divide drastically grows in America causing a cultural keep away, has found […]

To look at the work of Carlos Gallardo is to witness memories of the past, questioning of the present, and a glimpse into the future. His works embody a history that is at once personal and universal.

Emily Lodish: Your Geograffiti [1] project enables users to annotate space in a similar way they’d apply traditional graffiti (an anonymous message left in the public domain for public access), but Geograffiti also translates and modifies the process and the result (using new forms of technology–like GPS, cell phones, and text messaging–and limiting accessibility).  Annotating […]

A year ago, I guest edited a section titled, ‘War and Peace: Artists’ Voices’ (vol. 8 no. 6-8; June 2003. pp. 22-23). war.art Tina La Porta A year ago, I guest edited a section titled, ‘War and Peace: Artists’ Voices’ (vol. 8 no. 6-8; June 2003. pp. 22-23). At that time 23 artists and curators […]