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FAHRENHEIT 911: Realizing an Afterimage – By Richard Kostelanetz
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:56Nothing additional need be said by me about the content of Michael Moore?s great documentary Fahrenheit 911 (2004)… FAHRENHEIT 911: Realizing an Afterimage By Richard Kostelanetz Nothing additional need be said by me about the content of Michael Moore?s great documentary Fahrenheit 911 (2004), which has already been elaborately critiqued and counter-critiqued; but about its […]
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PHILIP GUSTONââ¬â¢S LAST LAUGH – By Jennifer Reeves
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:52All during a night / Of anxiety I wait / At last the dawn comes / Through the cracks of the shutters, / Heartless as night / the Monk Shun-e Philip Guston’S Last Laugh By Jennifer Reeves Pain plays the paperweight on Philip Guston?s desk. Keeps things tidy. Only problem is, the papers continue to […]
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Who is Afraid of Kimiko? – By Max Lewicz
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:48Subtle, fictional, paradoxical, Yoshida?s "Bachelor Brides" form an ensemble of quasi-monochromatic self-portraits, fragments of an intimate web, elaborating on a singular story: the feminine condition in Japan. Who is Afraid of Kimiko? By Max Lewicz Kimiko Yoshida “La mariee aveuglee, autoportrait” C-print 120 x 120 cm Edition of 8 Courtesy: Fifty One Fine Art Photography […]
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Good Woman Under the Sun – By Koan Jeff Baysa
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:45Jungwook Grace Rim paints repetitive circles that hold biological and philosophical implications. Good Woman Under the Sun By Koan Jeff Baysa The Entrance to a River I (2003), Jungwook Grace Rim Jungwook Grace Rim paints repetitive circles that hold biological and philosophical implications. For Rim, a New York based artist and participant in the 2001 […]
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Dialogues and Definitions: conversation with Martin Derbyshire – By Gerald Mak
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:15Martin Derbyshire is a British artist who has been based in Beijing for nine years. Dialogues and Definitions: conversation with Martin Derbyshire By Gerald Mak Dialogues and Definitions, an installation at 798 Space, Beijing. Photos courtesy of Zhang Hao. Martin Derbyshire is a British artist who has been based in Beijing for nine years. In […]
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Neo-Art – By Slawomir Marzec
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:09How we look at art differs from one age to another. Neo-Art By Slawomir Marzec 1. Dariusz Lipski, The Analects 110 x 70 cm. (A detail ) Glass showcase, small stones covered with salt, which crystallizes continually altering the shapes. Every pebble is completed with a fragment of Konfucjusz`s text, which creates motionless “shadows” preserving […]
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A Bridge between West and East at OPENASIA 2OO4 – By Paolo De Grandis
Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:04International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation A Bridge between West and East at OPENASIA 2OO4 By Paolo De Grandis Top left: Yoko Ono, Onochord, 2004, video installation. copy; Yoko Ono 2004. Top right: Ye Fang, Sails, 2004. 3 bronze , 120 x 180 x 9 cm; 300 x 120 x 9 cm; 150 x 150 […]
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Ideology, Art and Propaganda – By Niko Angelis
Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:58Ideology: visionary theorizing. Ideology, Art and Propaganda By Niko Angelis Image by N. Angelis Ideology: visionary theorizing a: a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or cultureb: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culturec: the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program. [1] […]
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The Return of Lee Bontecou – By Edward Rubin
Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:52It’s funny how these things work. The Return of Lee Bontecou By Edward Rubin Untitled, 1961. Welded steel, soot on canvas, and wire, (72.4 x 39.4 x 45.1 cm). Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin ñ Madison; Edna G. Dyar, Humanistic Foundation Fund and National Endowment for the Arts Fund purchase (1973.5) It’s funny […]
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Tie me to the Universe – By Harriet Zinnes
Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:04With so little time, so much energy, and so much work to do, Ana Mendieta–an artist who was born in l948 in Havana, Cuba, on November 18, 1948 and who died in l985–devoted herself entirely to art. Tie me to the Universe By Harriet Zinnes Ana Mendieta, “Glass on Body”, Iowa, 1972 With so little […]