Compiler is a new presentation platform for contemporary art, in particular video and audio works, performances, interventions and documentation of process-oriented works. Compiler / DVD-Magazine for Contemporary By Susann Wintsch   DVD-Magazine for Contemporary Art       Compiler is a new presentation platform for contemporary art, in particular video and audio works, performances, interventions […]

Upon visiting Elissa Levy’s solo exhibition at Brooklyn Fire Proof, the first thing one encounters when emerging from the stairwell is a small, black symmetrical form on the wall. Warcraft By Lauren Ross Elissa Levy, Soldier’s Circle – trim, 2004, Vinyl, 26 ft x 9 inches. Upon visiting Elissa Levy’s solo exhibition at Brooklyn Fire […]

Carol Caputo refuses the isolation of an artist’s studio. Bringing the Street into the Gallery By Eva Ponderose   Street Study, crayon and acrylic, 65″ by 68″       Carol Caputo refuses the isolation of an artist’s studio. Her art isn’t just about the city – it literally brings the city into the fabric […]

We all have had days when we feel uneasy inhabiting our body, uncomfortable in our own skin. Boundaries of the Body: Filling Up/Spilling Out By Jody Servon   Ene-Liis Semper’s Oasis, 1999. Single-channel video, color, sound       We all have had days when we feel uneasy inhabiting our body, uncomfortable in our own […]

I arrived at the Berliner Kunstprojekt in the multi cultural district in Berlin-Kreuzberg late on a Saturday night. Controlled Chaos: Lance Dehn� By Tobias Verlende   Untitled, 14″ x 18″, Graphite on paper, 1986       I arrived at the Berliner Kunstprojekt in the multi cultural district in Berlin-Kreuzberg late on a Saturday night. […]

G.C.: In Popism, Andy Warhol describes how you helped him stretch the Flower paintings for his first show at Leo Castelli’s gallery. What other paintings did you help him with? Hard Labor at the Factory: An Interview with Mark Lancaster By Gary Comenas         “Post-Warhol Souvenirs” by Mark Lancaster 1987-1988     […]

From 30 October to 4 December, NY-based Belgian artist Ellen Depoorter reveals her latest collection of paintings of an ongoing series of nudes. Last spring the series started off with an impressive first collection, named "Adoration of the Virgins". Virgins and Madonna’s By Saskia De Schrijver "Adoration of the Virgins", Ellen Depoorter.From 30 October to […]

"The greatest challenge of a soul is to live.And the greatest challenge of a body is to die?"– Marina Zvetaeva CROUTE DES ARTS By Masha Shturman CROUTE DES ARTS"The greatest challenge of a soul is to live.And the greatest challenge of a body is to die?"– Marina Zvetaeva When most visitors travel to Lachute, Quebec, […]

Though many of the Icelandic scripts were decorated by craftsmen centuries ago we can safely say that Icelandic visual art does not really begin until the year 1900 with the exhibition of landscape paintings by Thorarinn B. Thorl�ksson, the first Icelander ever to exhibit works in his homeland. It�s Happening Now! A quick look at […]

It will be one year ago, January 13, 2005, that Joseph Darby, a young military policeman assigned to Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, turned over a CD of image files to the Army’s Criminal Investigations Division. Antidotes for an Alibi By Zhanna Veyts Behrouz Mehri An Iranian couple walk past mural paintings depicting scenes from […]