Nadine Spinoza’s White Cube, on display at the Depardieu gallery in Nice, is a small box room covered inside by mirrors. What do we know about reality? Enrico Pedrini Nadine Spinoza, Installation White Cube, 2005. 82.7 x 82.7 x 82.7 in. As when looking into a mirror The shape and its reflection stare at each […]

On May 18, 1980, Mt. Saint Helens erupted with the power of a nuclear explosion, expelling volcanic ash fourteen miles into the sky. Images of ghost forests, fuming plains and blackened ash-choked skies dominated the news. Ash, in the form of a fine gray dust, later rained down on the Pacific Northwest from Seattle, Washington […]

April 30th passed quietly this year, an anniversary largely unnoticed in the American media. In commemoration of the surrender of South Vietnam to the Vietcong, April 30th, 1975, the PH Gallery in New York invited eleven Nguyens to execute pieces concerning this day, thirty years later. Eleven Nguyens and the Thirty-Year Loss at PH Gallery […]

After rushing down the elevator from the forty-something level, checking emails on my mobile, forcing my way through walls of neon signs, heading through Hong Kong?s traffic jam, I finally enter the Schoeni Art Gallery. Right from my first glance at Liu Hong Yuan?s paintings I get a feeling of warmth, quietness, and rest. What […]

"Shopping is arguably the terminal form of public activity."–Rem Koolhaas Seoul’s architectural landscape exemplifies what Fredric Jameson called non-site: locations without centrality and architectures of constant movement. No Mall Rats Here M-1000 Bibimbap for thousands is prepared and served at SsamzieGil. "Shopping is arguably the terminal form of public activity."–Rem Koolhaas Seoul’s architectural landscape exemplifies […]

When I walked into the White Cube Gallery in Berlin, I was confronted by the bright colorful stripes of three large paintings. My first thought: I had already seen such paintings, such horizontal bands so many times before. Nicholas Bodde at White Cube Gallery, Berlin Tina Kesting “o.T.”, Nr. 282, 2003, �l und Acryl/Aluminium , […]

On my recent visit to Beijing, I eagerly combed the Beijing art venues, hoping to find work that looked less "Chelsea" and more "Chinese." When Chinese contemporary art exploded the 1999 Venice Biennale, it was the lush but edgy paintings that received the most attention. The Lost Generation Bryony Roberts Cao Fei, Nada at Home […]

About a year ago, when rogue plans for rebuilding the twin towers were floating around, I thought it would be difficult to top the imaginative and intellectual bankruptcy of the idea. Lockdown at Ground Zero James Westcott left: The new Freedom Tower design, unveiled June 28 by David Childs, with a 200-foot concrete base clad […]

Tokyo is gearing up for the summer holidays with the usual apparently random selection of exhibitions pepped up with a smattering of kid-centric shows, like "Howl’s Moving Castle" at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Report from Tokyo C.B. Liddell Yasumasa Morimura, Dedicated To La Duquesa de Alba / Black Alba, 2004. Color photograph on canvas […]

Psychogeography: The study of the effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals What the Situationists left behind: Psychogeography Dina Deitsch 2004 Conflux performance by Dario D’Aprile to create a pedestrian crossing from baking flour in order to distribute a pattern of white footsteps throughout the neighborhood. […]