• Celebration: Sir Frederick Ashton – By Lori Ortiz

      Friday, 23 June 2006 22:14

      We are in the midst of a world-wide Balanchine centennial, but another choreographer, born in the same year of 1904, is also being celebrated for his incredible contribution to dance. Celebration: Sir Frederick Ashton By Lori Ortiz Rachel Pepin/Chi Cao of the Birmingham Royal Ballet “Two Pigeons” photo: Eric Richmond We are in the midst […]

    • Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers – By Mary Hrbacek

      Friday, 23 June 2006 22:10

      Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers by Mary Hrbacek . Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers By Mary Hrbacek “Time-Space Travelers”. 2004. 15 x 40 x 36 inches Tribes Gallery’s Space Travelers by Mary Hrbacek In "Space Travelers," the group of twenty-one Pop sculptures and four acrylic and mixed media paintings at Tribes Gallery, artists LIZ-N-VAL merge the simple […]

    • King Fisher Project Packs A Punch At Mother Nature – By Aaron Zimmerman

      Friday, 23 June 2006 22:06

      No mundane display of landscape, the work in "Fuck Mother Nature" ushers viewers into art’s ongoing dispute on the issue of man vs. nature in a confrontational, aggressive and clever way. King Fisher Project Packs A Punch At Mother Nature By Aaron Zimmerman Angelina Gualdoni “The Ebb and Flow”, 2002 acrylic on canvas, 30 x […]

    • The Virtual Trailer of Art in New Orleans – By Daniel Rothbart

      Friday, 23 June 2006 21:39

      I was warned by artist Keith Sonnier, himself a Louisiana native, that contemporary art has a lot of competition in New Orleans. The Virtual Trailer of Art in New Orleans By Daniel Rothbart   “Creative Industry Art Stream Trailer and Virtual Gallery,” an arts initiative by Jeanne Nathan and Robert Tannen. This photograph was taken […]

    • Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken – By John Perreault

      Friday, 23 June 2006 19:39

      For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptman, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. Gunman Doesn’t Want His Picture Taken By John Perreault     Anthony Esposito, Accused “Cop-Killer”, January 16,1941     For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptman, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. […]

    • Peter Hamlin Goes Hambot.com – By Adam Barraclough

      Friday, 23 June 2006 17:55

      Brooklyn-based art-machine Peter Hamlin has a robot for everything. Peter Hamlin Goes Hambot.com By Adam Barraclough   Peter Hamlin “Couchbot” 2004 from hambot.com courtesy of the artist       Brooklyn-based art-machine Peter Hamlin has a robot for everything. Many of them are microscopic, fighting diseases and other rogue nanobots within our very bodies. Some […]

    • Cindy Sherman: Imaging Art, Imaging Fashion – By Cayre English

      Friday, 23 June 2006 15:17

      Ever since Andy Warhol revealed the beauty of a can of Campbell’s soup, images of merchandise have adorned the walls of the world’s finest museums. Cindy Sherman: Imaging Art, Imaging Fashion By Cayre English Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) Untitled #279. 1993 From “The New Cindy Sherman Collection,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 1993 Chromogenic color print, […]

    • Nude not Naked: Angiola Churchill’s Site Specific Installations – By Jeanne Wilkinson

      Friday, 23 June 2006 15:12

      There is something naked about Angiola Churchill’s artwork, not naked in the sense of vulnerability or shame but nude, like a Greek statue or temple. Nude not Naked: Angiola Churchill’s Site Specific Installations By Jeanne Wilkinson       Angiola Churchill’s Site Specific Installations     There is something naked about Angiola Churchill’s artwork, not […]

    • In An Unrecognizable and Unrecognized Central Asia – By Marshall Swatt

      Friday, 23 June 2006 15:08

      Marshall Swatt Interviews Leeza Ahmady. In An Unrecognizable and Unrecognized Central Asia By Marshall Swatt     Marshall Swatt Interviews Leeza Ahmady     Marshall Swatt Interviews Leeza AhmadyCulture defines everything and nothing. It is a paradox of boundaries and behaviors, attitudes and geographies, both individual and collective. It is rooted in its environment while […]

    • “Sugar and Spice” – By James Kalm

      Friday, 23 June 2006 15:03

      Beijing to Burma, two photographic self portrait investigations from China. "Sugar and Spice" By James Kalm Beijing to Burma, two photographic self portrait investigations from China "The power of the marginal" is how Brooklyn is described on its own web site. Recently it seems Brooklyn is moving from the margins into the spotlight. Williamsburg, as […]