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Demetrius Manouselis: Towards an Architectonics of Painting Raul Zamudio Whenever paintingpurportedly dies, it seems to always return with a vengeance. Its most recent“fatality” concerns its possible eclipse with what has been fashionablytermed new media; for the supposed waning of painting has been the curatorialimpetus of recent painting exhibitions. With titles such as Trouble Spot Painting, […]

THE ROCKAWAYS Richard Kostelanetz Scarcely a greatenthusiast for photography in general, I’ve never collected photographsor books about photography and don’t often use my 35-mm. camera. Since mydisinterests don’t much concern me, I’m not sure why I ignore photographs.Perhaps I find them limited, much like newspapers, which I don’t often readeither. Nonetheless, I’verecently begun a rich […]

A Trip To Germany Robert Reitzfeld While in Germanyfor my own exhibition at the Berliner Kunstprojekt, I spent (as most artistsdo) quite a bit of time looking at art. Here then are some of the artists andthe art that touched and excited me.   Thomas Zitzwitz A young painter from Cologne, and some of the […]

SPLIT DREAMS Roberto Juarez The recent group show Split Dreams included artists from the San Francisco collectiveVERN. Terminal One included Tony Brown’s printed contours of enlarged typewritercartridges on rough looking plywood screwed to the wall in a long line; DanielRothbart’s elongated metal floor sculpture which looked like handmade spacejunk that fell into place with the […]

Francisco Infante and Nonna Goriunova – The Space of Time Selma Stern The series ‘The Space of Time’ was exhibited by Francisco Infante andhis wife Nonna Gorionova in Moscow this year. It constituted a series of photoworks created last summer in the Italian provinces of Reggio, Badalucco and Imperia.The exhibition contained 13 installed artefacts on […]

The Adult Game: Interview with Fabiola Naldi Stefano Pasquini SP: Thisbook has a particular chapter about Glam Rock. In this case we don’t havethe artist on the other side of the lens, we have a photographer called MickRock. FN: Thiscan be seen as a provocative choice. This whole scene starts in 1974, when Jean-ChristopeAmman organizes […]

Those Who Could Have Ted Taylor Teachers, as a rule, don’t like George Bernard Shaw. They have been strugglingsince college to overcome his libelous dicta: “Those who can, do; thosewho can’t, teach.” The indictment hangs heavy on them, suggesting thattheir entire careers are only small consolation prizes for the better lives theycouldn’t quite achieve. One […]

Peter Wayne Lewis “Strings” @ Rosenberg + Kaufman Veerle Poupeye Should I startthis review by mentioning that Peter Wayne Lewis is a Jamaican, who came to theUSA many years ago after living in Panama? Doing so may impose a particular setof readings on his work, shaped by common – and usually very narrow –assumptions about […]

WORKING CLASS HEROES? Aaron Zimmerman It’s takenme 4 years but I’ve finally come to terms with it. Being an art handlerthat is. I used to hate it so much. Art school conditioned me to think that I was worth more in the world with an MFA than simply moving things for a living.Yea right. MFA’s […]

Glass: Interpretations on A Vision Amy M. Schaefer and Merrily Orsini When first discoveredin the Middle Ages, glass was considered such a mystery that its creators wereoften called magicians. Today, contemporary glass artists continue this magicaltradition with bold and beautiful works of art. The ways to manipulate glassare limitless, and a closer examination of the […]