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Last night, the California based artist, Ed Ruscha, spoke to an overflow audience at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University about the exhibition "Course of Empire" which represented the United States at the Venice Bienalle. Ed Ruscha at Harvard / Venice Show Opens at Whitney Charles Giuliano Last night, the California […]

Nadine Robinson and Camille Norment, like Aretha, invite you into her sound, but not the expected range of artists playing with music. Both artists explore the semiotic nature of language as sound in a post-postmodernist context. Their objects and installations, while addressing a history of women playing with music or sound, give sound more a […]

"The secret organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio–rippling arpeggios of thyme, lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and new-mown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord–a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig’s […]

Shortly after exhibiting the installation between forms of representation and interpretation in the Medienturm, I was invited by one of the curators from the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria to develop a project for the BIX façade–a light and media installation designed by the Berlin-based architecture group realities:united that covers the entire front of the museum […]

I am crouched in front of a piece of paper hanging no more than a foot from the ground. At the bottom of the page, written in cursive is the phrase, "I still have a gift certificate to linens and things on my birthday." Beth Campbell, Looking At Words Rebecca Lossin “Looking at Words: The […]

If classical musicians had their way, they’d choose to be invisible. For example, pianist Sviatoslav Richter performed his later concerts in halls that were almost completely dark, lit only by a single piano lamp that let him see the keyboard. SoPercussion Dawn Chan So Percussion, Drumming, Part One by Steve Reich, 2005. Performance. Image courtesy […]

Monuments inspire serious reflection on a communal past. Resonant with the sentiment "life is short, art is long," bronze busts, stone obelisks and neo-classical marbles–the typical stuff of memorials–fuse form and function to create permanent sites for personal reflection within public spaces. Kathrin Becker, Displaced Colleen Becker Edgar Arceneaux, Star Coviek Brdo (Old Man Hill), […]

At the age of nine, I stood on the slanted front porch of our farmhouse as a giant Transformer approached from the horizon, cratering the landscape with its iron feet, moving as slowly but as inevitably as an approaching thunderstorm. Seen and Herd Daniel Menasche Mamechiyo, My Little Pony from the Pony Project 2005. Courtesy […]

For those of you who don’t know Manchester, England, it is the Seattle of the United Kingdom. For those of you who don’t know Seattle–it rains. It rains a lot. "The ‘M’ Factor," Neil Roland / Suburb Caf�, Manchester, UK Stephen Gosling For those of you who don’t know Manchester, England, it is the Seattle […]

This unique documentary project by the famous Danish photographer Henrik Saxgren on Northern European immigration is open at Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. The opening of "War & Love" will coincide with the onset of Sweden’s Multi-cultural Year 2006. The exhibition will be on tour throughout Scandinavia for the next two years. Henrik Saxgren, Northern […]