• Rodney Dickson, The Most Noble of Causes – Suzie Walshe

      Monday, 3 July 2006 06:41

      "Pure and simple: it was a noble cause" is what Ronald Reagan said of the Americans’ presence in the Vietnam War. Rodney Dickson’s new show at the Engine Room Gallery in Northern Ireland is all about the aftermath of this "noble cause." Rodney Dickson, The Most Noble of Causes Suzie Walshe Courtesy of the artist […]

    • The Elusive as Physical Experience, Nimbi and Penumbrae / d.u.m.b.o arts center, Brooklyn – Leah Oat

      Monday, 3 July 2006 06:37

      Nimbi and Penumbrae’s curatorial focus is artwork that explores the unknowable and unanswerable. The basis for the exhibition is the "elusive" in art, and thus lends itself to the possibility that the work can be vague conceptually or visually. The Elusive as Physical Experience, Nimbi and Penumbrae / d.u.m.b.o arts center, Brooklyn Leah Oates Kohei […]

    • Lung-Bin Chen, Paper Buddha – Fu Chia-Wen Lien

      Monday, 3 July 2006 05:17

      Lung-Bin Chen studied at the Tung Hai University of Taipei and received his MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts. He has received numerous distinguished fellowships including one from New York’s Joan Mitchell Foundation, as well as Japan’s Silver Prize of the Osaka Triennial. Lung-Bin Chen, Paper Buddha Fu Chia-Wen Lien Courtesy of the […]

    • Genesis and Lady Jaye, Change Thee Way to Perceive and Change All Memory – Sady Sullivan

      Monday, 3 July 2006 05:14

      There was a time when feminist and queer theory confidently used a language of possibility, dismantling Cartesian dichotomies all over the place. Artists, academics and others privileged enough to have time to think, took it as their responsibility to imagine for us all–and in so doing, brought about– the utopian future we humans deserve. Genesis […]

    • Art Started and Completed in 24 Hours – Danielle Sonnenberg

      Monday, 3 July 2006 05:11

      In one 24-hour period, six plays are written, directed and produced. There is no turning back, no matter what. Tina Fallon conceived this project, inspired by Scott McClouds? 24-Hour Comics, an event where artists create a 24-page comic book in 24-hours. Art Started and Completed in 24 Hours Danielle Sonnenberg Elizabeth Berkley and Andrew McCarthy. […]

    • Picasso Erotica / Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA – Jack Jordan

      Monday, 3 July 2006 05:09

      From adolescence through old age, Picasso’s two great passions were women and art, and these came together in his erotic works. The most famous of these is his monumentally important painting of 1907, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (collection MoMA), which is viewed by art historians as the prototypical modern painting. Picasso Erotica / Leslie Sacks Fine […]

    • Press [Pause] – Marco Antonini

      Monday, 3 July 2006 05:08

      My first video-gaming experience dates back to the mid-80s, with the landing of a strongly desired Commodore 64 8-bit personal computer in my living room. Press [Pause] Marco Antonini Mauro Ceolin, Solid Landscape: Zelda, 2004. Digital print on Plexiglas. Image courtesy of artist. My first video-gaming experience dates back to the mid-80s, with the landing […]

    • Matthias Herrmann, Exhibition-ist Au Courant – Drew Frist

      Monday, 3 July 2006 05:05

      To describe Matthias Herrmann’s photographs as full frontal, full on, or full anything for that matter, is an understatement. Herrmann has in a decades’ time become one of contemporary art’s unabashed kings of exhibitionism and erotic photography. Matthias Herrmann, Exhibition-ist Au Courant Drew Frist Matthias Herrmann, Untitled (Homage to P. Molinier), 2005. To describe Matthias […]

    • Kathe Burkhart, Give It to Me, Baby! – Daria Brit Shapiro

      Monday, 3 July 2006 03:33

      Kathe Burkhart’s first solo exhibition with Moti Hasson Gallery, "HARD CORE," provides an explicit peek into a pornographic world littered with bric-a-brac and paraphernalia. Burkhart presents a series of voyeuristic photographs shot through the window glass of Amsterdam porn shops. Kathe Burkhart, Give It to Me, Baby! Daria Brit Shapiro Kathe Burkhart, Santa & the […]

    • Kutlug Ataman,Where Identity Confronts Form – Drew Frist

      Monday, 3 July 2006 03:29

      In a style that’s signature to Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman, the traveling video installation "Küba" documents 40 stories and portraits from Küba, a run-down area just southwest of central Istanbul. Kutlug Ataman,Where Identity Confronts Form Drew Frist Kutlug Ataman, K�ba, 2005. Produced and commissioned by Artangel. In a style that’s signature to Turkish artist Kutlug […]