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"An inquiry into the inner meaning of specifically modern life and its products, into the soul of the cultural body […] must seek to solve the equation which structures like the metropolis set up between the individual and the super-individual contents of life"–George Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life, 1903 Hexis Cities Beatrice Leanza Ai […]

There?s a statistic floating around that by 2015 there will be several hundred new museums in China. Some are already complete, sitting empty, some are under construction, some won?t materialize. No one knows who will run them, as there?s a dire lack of trained professionals in the field and cultural promotion is a limited project […]

# We had been warned that the —scopes, which piggyback on other fairs at various times of the year in London, Paris, New York, and Miami (its original location) were a particularly commercial brand of art fair, and that it pushed young artists and smaller galleries to center stage not out of a sense of […]

White, light, pink. These are the tones of Susan Philipsz’s minimal intervention at Malm� Konsthall. White is the architecture stripped bare, leaving the empty, white-washed space on display. Light is the sunlight that pours in from the skylight, facade windows and ceiling lanterns. A Capella Architecture Pernille Albrethsen The white gallery space of Malm� Konsthall, […]

In this two-person summer exhibition at Derek Eller that slices the gallery in two, Seth Kelly and Adam Putnam engage being and nothingness from opposing directions. Adam Putnam/Seth Kelly Jason Murison Adam Putnam, Untitled (Shadow Room III), 2005. DVD, 15 minutes. In this two-person summer exhibition at Derek Eller that slices the gallery in two, […]

Sweet Charity, La Cage Aux Folles and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are all undergoing revivals right now on Broadway. Theatre Update Jeanette Hendler Scene From The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, directed by James Lapine at the 59 East 59th Street Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus. Sweet Charity, La Cage Aux Folles and Who’s […]

Following censorship in the 1980s and vociferous scalding by critics, Richard Serra has transcended all odds with a mammoth installation entitled "The Matter of Time" at the Bilbao Guggenheim. A Torque in Time Jill Connor Gallery/Vistas de la instalaci�n en la Sala Arcelor: Copyright. Robert Polidori, 2005. All rights reserved. Photo by Erika Ede, 2005. […]

Robert Bechtle is a painter of mundane situations. He frequently portrays solitary automobiles or people striking poses next to San Francisco homes. Cars and People Matthew Bourbon Robert Bechtle, Alameda Chrysler, 1981. Oil on canvas, 48 x 69 in. Meisel Family Collection, New York. Robert Bechtle is a painter of mundane situations. He frequently portrays […]

I first saw Gil and Moti, the Israeli performance artists, earlier this year at the Performance Studies International (PSi) conference "Becoming Uncomfortable." I�was quickly intrigued by their work because I�saw in them a�sense of persuasiveness and hope that I�had never found in any other performance artist who work for such long durations?in Gil & Moti’s […]

For her debut New York solo show at Gigantic Art Space, "Across+Down," Edwina White picked up a copy of the New York Times on January 1, 2005, took a look at the crossword, and resolved to answer each clue?in her own way. She talked to Trong G. Nguyen about carrying around a very abstract shopping […]