Deborah Warner @ I-20 Joyce korotkin There is much moregoing on in Deborah Warner’s mixed media sound installation at I-20 thanmeets the ear — trumpets, whinnying horses, hoof beats and heartbeats. Incorporatingtwo audio pieces, “Blood Horse,” and “Dead Heat,” in a surroundsound environment, as well as photographs and a central sculpture, this exhibitionhighlights an interesting […]

Remembering Beauty with Anemone Dance Theatre June Julian You may think thatanemones are underwater dancers, plantlike animals, translucently quivering tothe touch of the tides. But they also move among us in our Code Orange city nowadays,and dance this town around quite a bit. From the first time I saw Anemone Dance Theatre perform their Moving […]

The Double-Edged Worlds of Mr. Alberico Kenneth Martina Inspiration can come from a variety of sources: from the things I read, seeon TV or just observe during the course of the day. They can be things that makeme angry or things that evoke a sense of awe like a visit to Mt Edna in Sicily.They […]

Mark Dion’s “Full House” @ the Aldrich Museum L.P. Streitfeld As the AldrichMuseum of Contemporary breaks ground, a 22 foot fallen tree lives under glassin the original structure. “Vivarium” means many things. For one, thetree is an ancient symbol for life. For another, a tree with live insects crawlingthrough it symbolizes the merging of art […]

No Fair Lee Klein  This season I wasless excited to attend the art fairs than ever (knowing full well in advancethat the atmosphere would be cool). I burst into the giant downstairs room atthe Dylan hotel for the scope art fair opening party (where I was actually helpingout inside at an exhibition space/hotel room for […]

MODESTY L�via P�ldi Currently, in the seemingly trendless and pluralistic milieu of contemporaryart making again there is a strong awareness concerning formalistic approachesand objectuality – the status, position and presence of the art object inthe social, aesthetic and commercial triangle. Art in the 1990s was focused moreon the social context and participatory practices of art, […]

Philip Guston – A Life Lived Matt Bourbon Writing about PhilipGuston is like writing about a religious icon. One need be careful, because thereverence he’s afforded is extreme. Of course, there are many reasons whyGuston is adored. First, he is a traditional painter who’s smitten withart history. The conservatives love him. Second, his paintings are […]

Queers, Crime, Midgets & Murder Maya Pindyck First find BrooklynFire Proof Inc. then prepare yourself for a treat far more profound than thevaudevillian title hiccups. “Queers?” Expect sepia colored paintingsof women enjoying love orgies in the grand old style of male master painting/bating.“Crime” refers to nostalgic portraits of individuals who have beenexecuted on death row. […]

Travelogue 21: San Bernardino, CA, May 2003 MeryLynn McCorkle In a recent New York Times article, Roberta Smith excoriates the socially conscious/relevantwork proliferating in museums and arts festivals. In her words, these shows consistentlydemonstrate “moralizing primness, eccentric materials, intellectual dryness,multidisciplinary amorphousness or high-tech spectacle slowly revolving on a pedestal of arrested artistic development”. I compare […]

LETTER FROM ZURICH Nina Zivancevic Sometimes tracingthe individual artist’s work can be an interesting Enterprise – as I spoketo several Swiss artists who are supposed to have a show at Lubelski’s NewYork gallery in May, they advised me to see their specific work at Zurich’sGallery Incontro and the show which has just opened there in […]