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Philistines at the Gateway to SoHo – Daniel Rothbart
Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:07I first experienced Forrest Myers’ installation The Wall as a child in the mid-70s. I remember that it piqued my curiosity–I was drawn to it, but I didn’t really understand it. Over time, as it became part of my day to day reality, I began to appreciate its subtleties and particularly the play of light […]
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I feel like fake frogs’ legs tonight – Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts
Sunday, 25 June 2006 05:03The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) explores the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. We manipulate living tissue as a point for reflection on our relationships with other living and partially living beings. I feel like fake frogs’ legs tonight Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts Growing a substitute leather jacket […]
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Poetics of Landscape: Out of Bounds and In Bounds – Fu Chia-Wen Lien
Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:41In a world packed with alienating digital images that lack the human touch, the exhibition "Out of Bounds" at Glyndor Gallery in the The Bronx presents new works celebrating hands-on craftsmanship and a humanist response to nature. Poetics of Landscape: Out of Bounds and In Bounds Fu Chia-Wen Lien Amy Chan, Triboro, detail, 2005. In […]
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Alberto Casado’s Cuba: Absurdity Gleams in Fool’s Gold – Darrell Hartman
Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:34You might say that Alberto Casado, the young Cuban artist who paints on luminescent canvases of recycled glass and aluminum foil, has the aesthetic predilections of a magpie. Alberto Casado’s Cuba: Absurdity Gleams in Fool’s Gold Darrell Hartman Alberto Casado, Untitled, 1992, glass, paint, serigraphic inks, and aluminum foil, 17 x 10 1/2 in. You […]
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Push Me Pull You – James Westcott
Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:27Jemima Stehli once asked London?s top critics and curators to her studio to watch her do a striptease for them. They sat in a chair facing a camera, and held a cable release in their increasingly sweaty palms. Stehli?s back was to the camera. The sitter could choose to take the photo whenever they wanted. […]
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Martin Sastre: La comida estaba deliciosa – Horace Brockington
Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:23Born in l976 in Montevideo, the Uruguayan video artist Sastre now lives and works in Madrid. After receiving a degree in Architecture at the University of Montevideo in l996, Sastre has become part of an emerging group of young nomadic artists moving comfortably between various centers of artistic activity. Martin Sastre: La comida estaba deliciosa […]
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Digital Futures – Midori Yoshimoto
Sunday, 25 June 2006 04:19The term "new media art" has been around for some time. Starting with video art in the 1970s, it has come to encompass all sorts of technological art, including sound art and, most recently, internet art. "LivePictures: The Digital World Animates Contemporary Art," at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Queens, New York, […]
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Techno-Orientalism: Shattering the Mirror of Itself – Maya K�vskaya
Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:41Techno-Orientalism is the theme animating the Beijing Tokyo Art Projects? (BTAP) exhibition for the Dashanzi International Art Festival this May at Beijing 798 Art Factory. Curated by Takehiro Kaneshima and Snejana Krasteva, the pieces exhibited prove how art fused with technology can reconstitute identities, breakdown boundaries and recast relations of power and belonging. Techno-Orientalism: Shattering […]
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Pleased to Meet You: KimSu Theiler at White Dot Studio, New York – Aaron Yassin
Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:39Let Me Introduce Myself is the second line of an email KimSu Thelier received earlier this year from someone claiming to be her younger half-brother in South Korea that she never knew she had. It is the first in a series of five email messages that inspired Thelier’s installation at the White Dot Gallery on […]
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Carrie Mae Weems’ first UK exhibition opens in London – Mark Sealy
Sunday, 25 June 2006 03:38Fifteen years ago, Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers) organized a national lecture tour for American artist Carrie Mae Weems in England, together with events across various cities. Carrie Mae Weems’ first UK exhibition opens in London Mark Sealy Carrie Mae Weems, May Days Long Forgotten (film stills), 2003. Fifteen years ago, Autograph ABP (Association […]