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On July 2nd, more than one million fans jammed into ten venues across four continents for Live 8. The music marathon–aimed at pressuring world leaders into eradicating African poverty–included free concerts held in London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Rome, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Toronto. SoundBytes Robert J. Ricci Marilyn Manson. From www.marilynmanson.com On July 2nd, more […]

Norma Drimmer?s photographs experiment formally with ideas of doubling, tripling, symmetry, and repetition. The series "Relationships of Beauty" features black and white, mystical landscapes with a snarling creature lording it at the top?all perfectly split down the middle and mirrored for abstraction, making them look subtly like Rorschach tests. Free association? Ian Green Shechinah #3, […]

For the past two years, Jason Bryant has been exploring the complex link between painting and film through large-scale, cropped portraits?almost photo-realistic ones?of celebrity faces and film stills. Photo-unreality Anna Altman Courtesy of the artist, Jason Bryant For the past two years, Jason Bryant has been exploring the complex link between painting and film through […]

Curated by Amy Hauft, "Relativity" features the works of four Virginia Commonwealth University’s artist/teachers paired with the works from VCU’s collection that inspired them. Relativity: Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA D. Dominick Lombardi Sun Tek Chung?s color photograph, The South, The South from 2005 (right) is juxtaposed with Thomas A. Daniel?s black and white photograph, Untitled […]

With his new series of wryly satirical and inventive woodcuts, Lukas Pusch takes an old fashioned medium and turns it on its head. Pusch toys with the limits of metaphorical language–turning common German expressions and puns into ruthlessly satirical images. Lukas Pusch: Endart, Berlin Paula B�ttcher, translated by Matthias Schroers Lukas Pusch, Berliner Wei�e mit […]

Using spray paints, compressors and acrylic paints thinned to a viscosity level of 19, Katharina Grosse transforms the industrial looking Solvent Space Gallery into a carnival of colorful passages and abstract splashes and shapes. Evoking works by James Rosenquist and Judy Pfaff, Grosse’s wild lines and tangles overcome the Gallery’s relatively banal, sterile architecture. Katharina […]

Olle Jonsson used to be a farmer, but when milk prices crashed in Sweden in the 1990s, he sold all his stock, land, equipment, and animals to start a new kind of cultivation: sculpture. His rickety, rusty giant works have an appropriate connection to the land and its ancient stories. Scrap metal legends Elizabeth Heather […]

This is my third trip to Beijing to participate in the exchange program sponsored by the Pickled Arts Centre. I was met at the airport by Xiao Chen, one of Li Gang’s secretaries, and we took a cab back to the arts center. Li Gang was watching a calligrapher from Taiwan, Yang Tze Yung, create […]

At about 10:00 I went to my room and read some of the new de Kooning biography before going off to sleep. I was up early to try to coordinate a side trip to Shenyang. Four phone calls and five e-mails made me realize that I was going to focus on completing my work on […]

The exhibition "Sport" at the charmingly ramshackle Socrates Sculpture Park on the water in Queens reached a perplexing, almost dada (anti) climax this Saturday. On another boiling hot day, a dozen or so snowboarder dudes hung out, mostly shirtless, around Nicholas Arbasky?s "social sculpture" of several short snowboard ramps, apparently modeled on real ones ? […]