If I were asked to outline the main characteristics of the paintings of Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei, I would undoubtedly describe them as outstanding, original and enigmatic. Xie Nanxing and Wang Xingwei, Show Me, Catch Me, Sight Unseen Nataline Colonnello Xie Nanxing, Untitled No. 1, 2005. Oil on canvas, 220 x 385 cm. Courtesy […]

Nowadays scientific rationality and technological development have favoured the transformation of values into needs, and allowed the conquest of an ever-expanding industrial society upon a boundless geography. Urban Mythology and Spiritual Drive Beatrice Leanza Instant Archeology, Wu Ershan, “24 H” show, Beijing Film Studio n.1, courtesy of CAEP, 2005 Nowadays scientific rationality and technological development […]

Wallace Berman is a legend of a West Coast counterculture that bloomed during the Beat Generation, although the full extent of his contribution to art and literature has yet to be fully reckoned. Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle (D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art) Essays by Michael Duncan, Kristine McKenna and Stephen Fredman Valery […]

I return from Portland, Oregon and the Portland Institute for Contemporary?s Art?s Time Based Art Festival, a geographical-cultural missionary of sorts. I feel like Malcolm X, ossified and stalwart in my political beliefs, before being thrust into Mecca and realizing that my entire paradigm for understanding the world was unjustly skewed by my poisonous environment. […]

Jody Zellen’s most recent site-specific interactive installation, "Trigger," at Pace Digital University Gallery in New York City, utilizes found images from newspapers and other texts that are transmitted through seven projectors onto the surrounding walls. Jody Zellen, "Trigger" / Pace Digital University Gallery Cecilia Muhlstein Jody Zellen’s most recent site-specific interactive installation, "Trigger," at Pace […]

In the 80s, Detroit was notorious for its "celebrations" on Devil’s Night, the evening before Halloween. What traditionally started out as adolescent mischief like playing "ding-dong-ditch" and soaping windows turned into an annual phenomenon of ritualistic arson where at its high point in 1984, 800 fires set the city violently ablaze. Time Stereo presents "Devil’s […]

"Russia Redux #1," Schroeder Romero’s opening show of the fall season, is an incisively critical–and successful–counterpoint to the Guggenheim’s latest blockbuster "Russia!" Conceived as such by its curator, Elena Sorokina, and the sixteen artists and artists collectives she assembled, it also holds its own as a smart and compelling group show. Russia Redux / Schroeder […]

It’s hard not to be transported to another time or world when you’re visiting the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Dr. Gunther von Hagens, Body Worlds / Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL Colin St.John Gunther von Hagens, Runner. Courtesy of author. It’s hard not to be transported to another time or […]

Driving down 13th Street in Denver used to be so pedestrian. It was nice to roll by the Gio Ponti-inspired Denver Art Museum and the main branch of the Public Library, but it was always really just a quick way to get from East Denver and Capitol Hill to Speer (a major boulevard diagonally connecting […]

Lise Kjaer and Andrea Gregson met in Poland in the 1980s at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Their friendship lasted the tides of time and their separate ways in the world (Lise lives in New York, Andrea in London). Lise Kjaer and Andrea Gregson, Transformation / Gallery XXI, Warsaw Slawomir Marzec Andrea Gregson, […]