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Art 101
Monday, 8 February 2010 15:32The project group Reinigungsgesellschaft (RG) organized in collaboration with Bayerisches Haus Odessa (BHO) an exhibition and conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art Odessa, Ukraine. With the aim of a holistic view of cultural and social phenomena and with the objective to establish a dialogue on critical art practice, RG proposes an exhibition combined with […]
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Realm of Imagination
Thursday, 4 February 2010 16:08Curated by Christina Zhang Realm of Invention, a traveling group exhibition featuring Franco Meloni, Beatrice Burel, Francois Geffray, Petra Nimtz, Carmen Einfinger, Peter Wayne Lewis, Clifford Faust, and Lawrence Weiner was recently on display at Arts Space Beijing. Previously on exhibit at the Broadway Gallery in New York, Realm of Invention features a varied group […]
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Down a Revolutionary Road
Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:59Tainted Love is a group exhibition that considers love as an activist tactic within artistic production. Featuring works made between 1987 and 2009, the show takes its inspiration from cultural/political activity within the moment of AIDS activism, from both its promises and its contradictions, though the projects included do not all strictly address AIDS. We […]
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The Modern Fablers
Wednesday, 3 February 2010 15:19Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling presents the work of nine internationally and culturally diverse women, who although formally distinct, all reclaim storytelling and vintage techniques as strategies to address contemporary discourses on warfare, the environment, and female struggles. The artists focus on narrative representation and figuration. Their fairytale-like depictions are in reality reflections of underlying conflicts, […]
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In the Wake of Light
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 15:15Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography, and short film. In her current body of work, she specializes in the creation of immersive installation environments that call on the visitor to physically connect with them. The interplay between the moving image, sound, space, and visitor as component elements in the […]
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The Vitruvian Man Goes East
Monday, 1 February 2010 15:11It is twilight outside the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. I join a group of art aficionados and curious passersby who peer through the gallery’s glass façade, at a large circle of sand, illuminated from above by a spotlight. In the foreground is a bucket of steaming water and against the far wall leans a […]
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Candid Doings
Friday, 29 January 2010 17:36In search of lost time, an exhibition of Kazuko Miyamoto’s work at Gallery 128, spans four decades of work, 1969-2009, some of which was never shown in public. The show is comprised of string constructions, paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and photographs documenting past work and performances. Employing non-traditional art materials, such as brown paper, newspaper, […]
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The Unconditional Human Condition
Friday, 29 January 2010 15:46Shapes, lines, directions, and movements of all creations starting with me are constantly combining and contrasting in multiple dimensions through my own visual vocabulary. I want to evoke effects of mirrors, interactions of lines and shapes, and sometimes the stages unruled by the fourth dimension of time. I am trying to expose parallel or sequential […]
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Inside her spirit, a healing pool
Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:27Healing is never easy. It is a process of change, transformation, an acknowledgement of sickness and then a movement toward an idea of well-being, whether it is a conventional or unconventional definition of well-being. Kangal Balıklı Kaplıca, Turkey: a tourist, riddled with a dermatitis branded incurable by Western medicine, bathes in a hot spring and […]
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Beneath the Underwear
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:02El Paquete was the premiere solo exhibition of new work by the New York-based, Mexican artist Ana de la Cueva at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects this past November. The exhibition was a journey into de la Cueva’s past, and explored male and female sexuality through the lens of her life. In her anthropological exploration, the artist […]



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