• Read the Italics

      Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:37

      The exhibition, Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, co-presented by the MCA and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present. It offers an unprecedented look at the artistic production of a country where cultural change has often been defined by the persistence of the […]

    • American Beauty

      Monday, 11 January 2010 17:26

      Charlie White’s work explores the overlap of the liminal space of adolescence and American consumer culture, and implies that this world cuts to the cultural core of a society shaped by capitalist greed. His latest photographic and video work focuses largely on the life of the teenage American girl, and grapples with pop culture (or […]

    • Never for Sale

      Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:07

      In 1979 I painted about 40 hummingbirds on exterior locations in lower Manhattan. An experience I’ve never recovered from. Every year I do another street project but I don’t think I’ll ever get to the bottom of the possibilities I stumbled upon with those birds. For years I engaged in a pretty standard street art […]

    • Molding the Tenacious

      Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:10

      Composed with the intent to create a sort of survival guide for humanity, Federico Diaz’s collection of work for his exhibition Adhesion at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, explores relationships between the natural world and our ever-evolving manufactured world, through a range of different mediums, all asserting a heavy inference of one side outweighing the other. In […]

    • The Great America

      Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:04

      Leah Oates: When did you know you would be a photographer?Will Steacy: There was a single experience in my life which had the most profound effect on me and from that night on, I vowed to devote my life to this thing inside me. In 2003 I was almost murdered in a robbery. I was […]

    • A Subversionary’s Monologue

      Tuesday, 5 January 2010 17:18

      I’m Nigel Tomm—the most famous artist in the world. Some blah had already blah the blah by blah blah, and blah its blah by the blah that blah, blah blah, and all my blah, save blah who blah to tell the blah, had been blah to blah at the blah of the blah by a […]

    • Changing Ground

      Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:00

      In the past few years, the majority of my work and research has been dealing with the domestic sphere and how it can act as a microcosm for the nation-state and society. I am interested in how the family, especially under circumstances of war, can learn to re-enact the trauma of political violence within the […]

    • The Reinterpretation of Clichés

      Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:17

      Green Oregon actually started out as Keep Oregon Green, and was originally a collaboration with the Keep Oregon Green Association, a 150-year-old wildfire prevention group operating out of Salem, Oregon. As an Oregon native I have grown up seeing Keep Oregon Green’s iconic fir tree shaped road signs on trips to Mt. Hood or the […]

    • The Irony of Obedience

      Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:12

      The “Obey” sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in phenomenology. Heidegger describes phenomenology as “the process of letting things manifest themselves.” Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured, things that are so taken for granted that they are muted by abstract observation. The […]

    • In a Room at Sunset

      Tuesday, 29 December 2009 16:07

      Sally Mann’s statement is insightful but it addresses only one element that contributes to the impact of this work. The book Proud Flesh and the accompanying exhibition, which opened at the Gagosian Gallery in New York in September, are the latest installments in Mann’s continuing thematic and visual explorations that ultimately deepen key subject matter […]