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MUMOK – Larian Triers
Tuesday, 21 August 2007 10:43During a conversation with the director of the Austrian Museum of Modern Art, or MUMOK, in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, we find out if one of the most prestigious art museums in Austria thinks its art is better defined by its place on the international stage or its place in the MQ. MUMOK – Larian Triers During […]
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KunstHausWien: Hundertwasserâs Museum – Floss Gaely
Tuesday, 21 August 2007 10:39Born Friedrich Stowasser in 1928, the late Friedensreich Hundertwasser became the best-known Austrian contemporary artist by the end of the 20th century. The independent art museum KunsHausWien in Vienna’s third district has housed the museum of Hundertwasser’s work since its opening in 1991. Its flanking rooms alternate with exhibitions of international stature, perhaps gesturing that […]
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Sub-Cultural Phenomena – Ulrika Warmling
Friday, 17 August 2007 16:51For the last eight years, I have been working with sub-cultural phenomena as a theme with roots in my own experiences and engagements. I use portraiture as a method, often in more or less realistic, multi-layered painting, but I sometimes also employ photography, text and music in my work. I allow this theme to permeate […]
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In A Western Tongue: The Kunsthalle Speaks Out – Tomás Ruflür
Friday, 17 August 2007 16:47What conclusions can be made about placing the exhibition “Americans, Masterpieces of American Photography from 1940 until now” at the Kunsthalle Museum in the traditional heart of the Austrian capital? The staunchly raw view of America would instinctively seem ill displayed amongst the works of Schiele, Klimt and Die Blaue Reiter in the neighboring museums […]
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PICKS – Christopher Hart Chambers
Friday, 17 August 2007 16:32I remember my first time online well. It was my first year living in the United States and an acquaintance who was ordered to keep me entertained for a couple of hours sat me in front of a library computer, opened a browser window for me and told me to look up something… anything? I […]
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Chitra Ganesh
Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:16I've always been fascinated by how dreams and their repressions shape personal and social crises. My installation, photography and sculptural work is inspired by mythological narratives, present day imperialism, queer politics, lyric poetry and erased moments in South Asian history. Taking these stories and integrating them with my own mythic imagery, the hybrid world of […]
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Created Light – Kim Carpenter
Thursday, 16 August 2007 15:14Helen Brough is a British painter, drawer, sculptor and installation artist whose work transforms light and its transparencies into ebullient abstractions, as well as sharp social commentaries. In May 2006, she installed Emulated Flora at 70 Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. Jane and David Walentas commissioned the work through the Triangle Arts Association, an organization that […]
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DâOrazio at the KunstHausWien – Henry Estraenges
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:38Born January 23rd, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, American-Italian Sante D’Orazio has captured the imagination of wide-ranging audiences. Glamorous fashion photographer and pioneer icon-maker, D’Orazio’s work is often listed as art, but why? “Photographs,” which ran at the independent art space Kunsthauswien in Vienna, highlighted what it called “a retrospective of the superstar” by exhibiting […]
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Rough-Hewn and Silky Smooth – Elwyn Palmerton
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 18:35Born Leah Borliawsky in the Ukraine in 1899, Nevelson emigrated with her family from the Ukraine to a Rockland, Maine, at the age of six. On being the only Jewish immigrants in their Maine town, Nevelson once said, “They needed immigrants like I need ten holes in my head.” Her father worked in the lumber […]
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Translucent Text – Jayne Dyer
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 20:45In an age of increasingly paperless information, the loss of the central role of bound and unbound text has potent implications. Books have tangible, physical properties that trace time and histories through the turning of each page. Information can be transparent and alert us to a particular culture and time, or else it is opaque, […]