At "Comix Ex-Machina," the recent inventive group show at Flux Factory, the comics-inspired pieces are not confined to two dimensions; their stories move and change according to the subtle vibrations of tiny motors, the flipping on and off of lights, the donning of a special pair of glasses. Ranging in media from painting, to sculpture […]

The Greek artist Nayia Frangouli, who recently finished her Master’s at Yale and now lives and works in New York, has already been shown at ARCO Madrid and at the Armory Show. In her recent show at Els Hannape Underground in Athens, "The Misuse of Plans," Frangouli proves that beyond her skillful architectural sketches, pictures […]

Cooperative galleries are experiencing a boom right now in Berlin, just as they did in the late 1970s. Today these collectives exist usually for no more than one or two years before they are incorporated into the programs of their larger counterparts. This is what happened recently with Liga, a testing ground for young Leipzig […]

An age, we tend to think, is animated by a spirit: a common aspiration, a pattern of belief. And yet the most familiar of them?Stone, Bronze, Iron?are named for elements, not ideals. The move to class human cultures according to their weaponry and implements was first made by archaeologists, and the convention appears to have […]

New York has been witnessing the rise of a new star–51 year old architect Thomas Phifer. In the near future a whole sea of electrical stars will shoot up into the sky to light Avenues and Streets of New York City in a new and imaginative way. Phifer’s proposed street lamp design has won the […]

Tom Moody began his career painting (with brushes on canvas) and has worked with techniques from photo-realistic to something that would fall under the heading of "bad painting." He still paints, but for most of the past decade, he has done it with digital tools to create an ever-expanding body of work that also includes […]

In the pitch dark basement?so dark there?s no way of telling the difference between the floor, walls, and ceiling?you hear the strange rustling of some kind of nest, and the cold hard clanking of a chain. Then, for a split-second, a stark white light from a flashgun illuminates the room, revealing a naked, slobbering creature […]

Apprehending this summer?s architecture installation in P.S.1?s courtyard is very difficult: it?s a plasticy, skeletal, undulating, and strangely sci-fi sculpture that snakes off into other sections of the compound, and it refuses to resolve into a legible pattern along the way. It?s both an alien landing and an archeological dig. Big-head Sur: sculpture v. architecture […]

When I first moved to New York, a friend took me to the Odessa Caf� on Avenue A in the East Village. At the time, I saw the rundown caf� through the lens of sardonic hipsterdom?as a self-consciously authentically grubby hangout to wet the palates of bobos searching for a genuine experience. I assumed that […]

The Flood is a metaphor. It is the metaphor for the Netherlands as phenomenon: for the culture, for the landscape and for the architectural and planning traditions. The Flood Adriaan Geuz J. Ouburg & S. Schoemaker, IMAGE Building, Het Strand 85.000m2. The Flood is a metaphor. It is the metaphor for the Netherlands as phenomenon: […]