Oakland artist Squeak Carnwath is a mystery. During her opening reception for her October solo show at the Oakland Art Gallery, she remained camouflaged among the many visitors who were examining, discussing and pointing at her work. The Personal Universal Petra Bilbeau Squeak Carnwath, Something Else, 2004, oil and alkyd on canvas over panel, courtesy […]

This year the Venice Festival of Cinema will explore beyond the more interesting cinematic production of the last two years. Director Marco Muller has dedicated considerable space in the festival to a history of cinema which continues to be marginalized. Baruchello and Grifi: "Verification Uncertain" Montage and Displacement Between Art and Cinema of the 1960?s […]

Site Matters: Edited by Moukhtar Kocache and Erin Shirreff / Published by DAP, Inc., 2004 / 317 pgs. / ISBN: 0-9726973-1-4 The connection between a space and a memory is a tenuous one, confounded and fragile, contingent at best. This connection makes a place into a site, and then transforms a site into a context. […]

"A search is always, in a sense, "trouble." In order to search, one leaves familiar territory, questions himself and his surroundings, commits himself to discovery, and to the possibility of action and change," wrote architect Max Abramovitz, after more than 30 years of involvement in building corporate America. Abramovitz’s career grew primarily through his partnership, […]

The recent opening of the Istanbul Modern unveiled a collection tracing the artistic movements and achievements of Turkey from the beginning of the 20th century. Istanbul–which with approximately 15 million inhabitants is the largest city in Turkey–is also the country’s cultural and artistic capitol. New Museum Jazzes Up Istanbul Art Scene Rana Ozturk Courtesy of […]

Speed, vast expanses of space, anonymity, endless possibilities, adventure, transience. The term "superhighway" connotes all of these. It is a loaded term for describing technology?s role in contemporary society. Imposing a Speed Limit Jennifer Hickey Massimiliano Contu, The Talking City, 100x120cm, oil on canvas, 2004 (photograph by J. Hickey). Image courtesy of Berliner Kunstprojekt Speed, […]

When reproduced as shiny photographic images, Shirley Kaneda’s recent paintings look flat, meticulous and well mannered. They are dynamic yet tasteful composed, using colors that are bright, not so bright as to clash with your standard household appliances. How perfectly they would compliment a well-maintained kitchen! Improv at the Photoshop James Engelmann Shirley Kaneda, Cold […]

From February 11 through May 29, 2005, the Whitney Museum of American Art will be showcasing the work of Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson in a mid-career retrospective. Arguably one of the most prolific working artists today, Hawkinson is best known for his whimsical sculptures made from everyday materials and found objects. The work in […]

Members of Manhattan’s art elite are not moved by thundering engines, polished chrome and brute horsepower. No, what sets them aflutter is "Wall Power." Sheri Warshauer has devised a clever gambit loaded with art world "dish," a situation of portraiture in absentia, personalities divinized by those fine art objects collected, and the zones in which […]

Magda Carneci, the curator for Cosmopolis, Microcosmos X Macrocosmos, an exhibition of 100 Balkan artists held at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessalonica, Greece, defined the role of the artist: "to reinvent a dignified and conscious position for Humans in the universe." As a participating artist […]