In "The Thin Man" (1934) the debonair amateur sleuth, Nick Charles, was a man who enjoyed slumming with thugs and hoods, also liked to mix up a few Martinis. Ornament and Glory: Artifacts of the Jazz Age and Lost Generation By Charles Giuliano The Brooklyn Bridge by the American artist, Joseph Stella. Collection Museum of […]

The modernist gallery space that Richard Serra characterized as a "well-lighted white shoebox" is fractured and refolded in Katrin Sigurdardottir’s installation at Reykjavik Art Museum’s Harbor House. Place Enfolded, Site Unfolded By Eve Heisler Katrin Sigurdardottir, Island. 2003. Modeling wood, electric lights, wire mesh. Exhibited at Galleria Maze, Torino, Italy, Centro Arte Contemporanea di Cavalese*, […]

Disneyland opened in 1955, and the first map of the park was published three years later. It’s a Mall World After All: "Re-Imagineering" the Disneyland Map. By Joanna Neborsky “Re-Imagineering” the Disneyland Map Disneyland opened in 1955, and the first map of the park was published three years later. It’s a giddy document of a […]

Familiar and Unfamiliar opens with the concept of the architectural subject, the person that the architects imagine as the future inhabitant of their spaces. Architecture Book Reviews By Tia Blassingame The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean La Marche       The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean […]

With the Republicans came a literal redrawing of the lines and borders that make up New York City. Marking Dissent Along City Lines By Emily Lodish SpectralQ brands Central Park with Lady Liberty. Photograph courtesy of John Quigley. With the Republicans came a literal redrawing of the lines and borders that make up New York […]

When Swedish-born artist Siri Berg started making assemblage pieces out of discarded industrial parts… Siri Berg: TechnoFemme By Rachel Sommerstein Siri Berg, Kenzau. Techno. Mouseballs. Mixed media on wood, 12 x 12. 2004 When Swedish-born artist Siri Berg started making assemblage pieces out of discarded industrial parts — technological trash — "everyone was speaking of […]

Documentary photography rides the fine line between journalism and art. Out of Africa / "Guy Tallim" Edited by DaimlerChrystler AG, Berlin By Zhanna Veyts Documentary photography Guy Tillim, Edited by DaimlerChrystler AG, Berlin, 2004. Documentary photography rides the fine line between journalism and art. In bridging the two into indissoluble images, it incites a perpetual […]

Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973, and has since lived in Amsterdam, London and Los Angles. SOME OTHER SPRING: Urs Fischer Part 1 By Horace Brockington INSTALLATION VIEW ” KIR ROYAL” KUNSTHAUS, ZURICH, JULY-SEPTEMBER, 2004 IMAGES COURTESY OF GAVIN BROWN ENTERPRISES, NEW YORK Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973, and has […]

Viewers soon discover the drawings possess a perverse humor. Fischer wants the drawing to be both serious and funny. For Fischer immediacy and directness come before dexterity and design. SOME OTHER SPRING: Urs Fischer Part 2 By Horace Brockington Viewers soon discover the drawings possess a perverse humor. Fischer wants the drawing to be both […]

Through the medium of analog photography, Lorenza Lucchi Basili invites us to look at a new form of reality, a reality that emerges from the isolation of the structures that surround us. Emergences By Michael David Wickerson     Lorenza Lucchi Basili, Space fifty, Lille (right), Space forty-nine, Chicago (far left), installation: c-prints on aluminum, […]