It’s as if San Francisco-based artist Kota Ezawa has taken a cleaver and hacked away at a fundamental axiom in Debord’s seminal publication. Momentous occasions, such as Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s hotel protest, have faded from the forefront of the American public only for a burgeoning artist to reinvigorate their significance. Ab initio, Ezawa […]

In an inexplicable and continuously violent world where men make history through wars and count them as statistics, Rosana Palazyan has been showing us, for almost two decades, that “God lives in the details.” No statistics for her, deaths are as they should be; a loss or a salvation of a human soul. Praise for […]

Susan Weil’s retrospective show at the Sundaram Tagore gallery opened on April 20th, 2006 in New York. This particular exhibition presented 50 years of Ms. Weil’s work in various mediums; paintings, limited-edition art books and collages et cetera. The gallery has published a catalogue to accompany the exhibition. The catalogue measures 12 by 17 inches […]

Giacinto di Pietrantonio, director of Gamec in Bergamo, discusses the Italian identity in today’s art world within the context of new emergencies. Emilio Corti: You’ve been exhibiting new Italian art for 15 years—from Cattelan, Beecroft, Pivi to Gabellone, Perrone and Cuoghi—art that represents today’s cultural identity, one that is known internationally and that is recognizable […]

After the spectacular results of past years, the 11th Art Forum Berlin, the International Fair for Contemporary Art, again sets high standards. A by far wider range of international attendance and a fresher program than last year both represent the consistent renewal of Art Forum Berlin. Consequently, in its selection of a clear and compact […]

The Edinburgh International Film Festival is one of few that devote an entire sidebar to experimental film and video. Its “Black Box” section is one of many bequests left to Edinburgh by Shane Danielson, the outgoing artistic director. The antipodean director’s muscular, and occasionally incendiary, style has made the last five years of Edinburgh almost […]

For each error, the internet assigns a number; “404” means “Not found” and announces that what we are looking for is not there. This has become one of the most frequently read errors in internet searches. The first “4” indicates an error by the user, as in an incorrect address or a search for page […]

As we embarked on the 2006 California Biennial, we observed how tired clichés about California barely came into play. Long characterized as culturally isolated, young artists working in California are no more or less disconnected from one another than they are from either the rest of the country or the rest of the world. Many […]

This December brings the premiere of Photo Miami to Florida’s already bustling art market. From the 7th to the 10th of December, a new “International Contemporary Art Fair for Photo-Based Art, Video and New Media” will launch itself and, hopefully, impress the already inundated audiences in Miami this winter. Stephen Cohen, the organizer of Photo […]

There is only one fair that specialises exclusively in modern and contemporary British art and that is the 20/21 British Art Fair, which is held at London’s historic Royal College of Art. In this age of globalisation the idea of a national art fair may seem parochial or anachronistic. But when it began in 1988 […]