• It’s a Supalife – Colleen Becker

      Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:56

      "Let’s have a supalife!" is inked in an outsized, old-timey font on Gabriele Zygor’s glittery pink business card. It’s a Supalife Colleen Becker Pisa73, Masumi Max, 2004. Spraypaint, stencil, cardboard. "Let’s have a supalife!" is inked in an outsized, old-timey font on Gabriele Zygor’s glittery pink business card. A fan of mottos, Zygor truly believes […]

    • Baby-Q: Remnants of a Post-Human World – Andrea Liu

      Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:53

      Dance Theater Workshop was home to the American premiere of ALARM! –zero hour edition, by Japanese dance company Baby Q, a multimedia dance performance group with a sardonic pop culture and highly-visual stylized flair. Baby-Q: Remnants of a Post-Human World Andrea Liu courtesy of Baby Q Dance Theater Workshop was home to the American premiere […]

    • Object Cast – Beatrice Leanza

      Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:49

      "Object Cast" is a project for an in situ installation to be realized inside the unique frame of the B.T.A.P. gallery in Beijing (http://www.tokyo-gallery.com/btap/), a peculiarly evocative place where the conceptual volume of the work calls in the visual language of the industrial architecture of the space in deploying its "poetic device." Object Cast Beatrice […]

    • Diego Gravinese – Angelina MortarottiDiego Gravinese – Angelina Mortarotti

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:22

      On the last Friday of the month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, one of the art districts hosts an event called "Gallery Nights." The event is one of a few throughout the city where maps are distributed to mark participating art spaces, and doors stay open late. Gallery goers pick up champagne glasses, and take them […]

    • Buenos Aires Roundup – Angelina Mortarotti

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:18

      While spending two months in Buenos Aires, I met many porteños (as the city dwellers are called) who grow anxious at the mere discussion of weather maladies and natural disaster. Because, I was told, the only disasters they have to fear in Argentina are politics. Buenos Aires Roundup Angelina Mortarotti Courtesy of artist  While spending […]

    • The City Is Alive – Claudia Albertini

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:59

      6 am: A nerve-wrecking drilling emanates from next door which, drill by drill, gives way to the clink-clunk of hammers accompanied by the dull boom of demolition. This orchestra is the quintessence of Beijing’s cacophony; the city’s sonic harmony. The City Is Alive Claudia Albertini Images courtesy of Yao Bin and 11-art.com space in Beijing. […]

    • China and India Converge – Claudia Albertini

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:48

      Perhaps one of the most interesting, paradoxical and predictable aspects of technological "revolution" is the extent to which we can associate it with philosophy. Indeed, art, science and metaphysics seem to be, in these days, re-running their embryonic stages to meet that shared nucleus of investigation and thinking from which they were generated. China and […]

    • Weapons of Mass Deception – Lyra Kilston

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:45

      "A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station," declared 1960s prankster Abbie Hoffman. Today it heads for the internet. Weapons of Mass Deception Lyra Kilston Martha Rosler, If It’s Too Bad to be True, It Could Be DISNFORMATION "A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station," declared 1960s prankster Abbie Hoffman. Today it […]

    • Spin Cycle – Kim Bockus

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:41

      It’s not often you can walk into an art gallery and feel like you’ve accidentally stumbled into a laundromat, but Kaz Oshiro’s third solo exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery is just such an experience. Spin Cycle Kim Bockus Kaz Oshiro. Courtesy of Rosamund Felsen Gallery. It’s not often you can walk into an art gallery […]

    • One Too Many Scary Movies – David Markus

      Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:36

      Film director David Lynch, more than any other contemporary American artist, has the ability to inflect the normalcy of everyday existence with estrangement and horror. One Too Many Scary Movies David Markus Richard Pasquarelli Film director David Lynch, more than any other contemporary American artist, has the ability to inflect the normalcy of everyday existence […]