Tag Archives: contemporary art
The Eye Fell in Love with the Ear by Shirazeh Houshiary
Iranian born London based Shirazeh Houshiary’s sixth solo exhibition The eye fell in love with the ear at the Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, is very aptly titled. Infused by her deep metaphysical concerns, her ethereal abstractions speak volumes to anyone who listens. The largest most breathtaking work Echo, 2013, evokes an expansive body of […]
Bushwick Gone Basel
A showcase of 25 underground artists working in Bushwick. Curated by A Dreem & Ms. Fitz Bushwick Gone Basel December 8, 2013 CuCu’s Nest 2805 Collins Ave. Miami bushwickgonebasel.tumblr.com
Objects of Desire: The Lost Art of Challenging Art
As a repository of Dadaist ideas, the brilliant show at Blain/Di Donna, Dada and Surrealist Objects, represents what constitutes artistic re-interpretation. It brings back into focus the bankruptcy of contemporary artistic initiatives as nothing more than shameless re-invention. The “objects” in this elegantly-mounted show represent imaginative artifacts created between 1920 and 1969 (save for the […]
David Michael Bowers
Most people create a mask of respectability that other members of society see. These masks might fool the outside viewers and may even fool the individuals who create them. If you rip off the masks, the primal passions that control humans emerge from the deep recesses of our psyche… My paintings reflect my observations of […]
The String and the Mirror at Lisa Cooley Gallery
In the past half hour, chances are you’ve noticed something about sound—friends interrupting each other, cell reception breaking up, a noise you thought came from your home that in fact came from the apartment below. There are a lot of strange things happening in our sonic universes. But what happens when you render sound tangible? […]
Eleven Ways To Think About Boullet: A Review in Real Time
1. Eh, voilà! Inside the commune mailbox is an old fashioned, hefty brown flat packed with books from Antenne Publishing in London. All of them are by or about one Victor Boullet, a migrant artist with a French name, who claims to be of Scottish origin but was brought up in Norway, and is now waving […]
