EFA GERMANY ANNOUNCES BANKRUPTCY. Aural Fixation: Music News By Beata Patricia Pac     Bjork: launch.com         EFA GERMANY ANNOUNCES BANKRUPTCY The March 2 news of bankruptcy of Germany’s music distributor EFA Medien has instantly affected the dark music scene, including bands like Das Ich, Garden of Deight, Clan of Xymox, The […]

I am pretty sure that everyone has at least a short movie in the works. Film Section: EXPERIMENTS IN OBSERVATION By Lily Hatchett     EXPERIMENTS IN OBSERVATION     I am pretty sure that everyone has at least a short movie in the works. The rest of them, the ones who do not, are […]

The potentials for, realities of and secrets about military corporate alliances infect our lives. But how can we possibly get a grasp on something too huge, too insidious to contemplate? A work of art designed to look like a targeted missile, a work recently on display at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art confronts the […]

Igor Stevanovic, has been banned. Again. Not a single art gallery in Sao Paulo, the city in which Stevanovic has been based recently, was willing to accommodate the controversial Serbian-born artist and his newest live performance entitled Slap. This is not the first time authorities have attempted to silence Stevanovich’s. Slapping Censorship By Rebecca Ironside […]

Experiencing the work of Monika Weiss involvesall your senses to some degree. One can not simply walk past the Skulenie (2003), an enigmatic charcoal drawing on photographic backdrop paper, without feeling the essence of the artist’s presence, or hearing the echoes of physical form resonating in Weiss’ drawings, sculpture installations, live or video projected performative […]

The problem for most writers, when they read to an audience, is the cadence of the spoken word. Film Section: GOODBYE SPAULDING GRAY By David Hatchett     Tribeca View     The problem for most writers, when they read to an audience, is the cadence of the spoken word. Cadence is crucial to the […]

Oddly enough, even Clement Greenberg might have relished "Fourth Annual Merry Peace," which was recently staged at Sideshow in Williamsburg. This is not because it was exclusively devoted to the sort of art that he admired, but rather because it was a cheerfully eclectic mix of mo and pomo, with no fewer than 169 artists […]

Tisn’t still the season to be jolly, so my pet bitch this new year is these charities that take rampant advantage of emerging artists. The well-intentioned collectors get tax write offs, a nice (maybe) dinner and under-priced original artworks. The charity gets …well…the money. New Year’s Picks By Christopher Chambers Joyce Korotkin "CAMEO: Robert Longo," […]

"You should say yes to every possibility. It’s simple, just go and try it. Film Section: THE TECHNICAL WRITER By Tarvis Watson   THE TECHNICAL WRITER       "You should say yes to every possibility. It’s simple, just go and try it. And then you’ll know," so says the dying Camille to Jessup, her […]

Screening at MoMA in January 2005, Chain (USA 2004), is the long awaited first feature length film from Jem Cohen. In a career that has made a study of the lapse of time, the meaning of place and the effect of both on the individual, Chain is an essay in cultural critique that pulls strands […]