When I was a kid, my father owned a tape recorder onto which, one day, to amuse me, he placed some small, multicolored round stickers. Once the tape recorder was on, the stickers on the big wheels would create the most amazing visual and sound effects. A true carousel. This is one of my fondest […]

“When you and the sound become one,” wrote Zen master Seung Sahn, “you don’t hear the sound; you are the sound.” I sit with my instrument, the Iranian hand-drum called zarb or tombak. It’s a simple instrument: wooden, goblet-shaped, with a skin covering the larger end. Its technique is the opposite of simple: a complex […]

By far, the most powerful characteristic of photography for me is its unbreakable bond with reality. "Painting can feign reality without seeing it," explains Roland Barthes, but he also admits; "in photography I can never deny that the thing has been there." I take photographs to make my fantasies come true. A painter can conjure […]

This exhibition is simply about taking risks. As an emerging artist, I am well aware of the frustrations involved in trying make art while trying to survive in New York City. I found myself in the unique position of being "behind the scenes" as the Archivist at P.P.O.W, when I came up with idea for […]

Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco, California. Striking a delicate balance between acoustic and electronic sounds and systems, Christopher manages to defy genre distinctions while still defining a “sound” of his own. His numerous solo releases and collaborations cover a broad spectrum of musical styles and include one main […]

If the idea of swinging back to the psychedelic 60s while holding tight to the high gloss, rainbow-colored aesthetic of Japanese anime of the late 90s sounds at all appealing, Deitch Projects may have a purple and black striped shag rug with your name on it. The heavily layered, multimedia show “After the Reality” curated […]

I have been making sounds with a laptop computer, field recordings and things around me for years. Although I deal with field recordings (often natural sounds), I’m not a stoic naturalist. I need electricity to live. I am the kind of person who sits in front of a computer screen for over ten hours per […]

The convergence of light and space takes on new meaning in the transparent surfaces of Tatyana Stepanova. A native of Siberia with a background steeped in Russian folklore and world travel, her return to her homeland with “Light and Space” at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art this fall is marked by transcendent personal narrative […]

Christine Flok: What is it about the art of drag that enticed you to use it to compose much of your work?Derek Jackson: I have never met someone who didn’t like to play dress up. Fashion is—from child warriors in the Congo to Madison Avenue—it’s a basic human impulse to express yourself through clothing and […]

Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra, 34, is the hottest ticket in appropriation art. Founded by Mr. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), also famously explored by artists Elaine Sturtevant, Mike Bidlo, Sherrie Levine and Richard Pettibone. Sandra uses painting approximately 90% of the time to reflect on cultural utopia and the necessity of questioning contemporary art. Sculpture and video, […]