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Amorphous Structures Katherina Romanenko Martina Fischer, Der Besucher 2 – The Visitor 2, 49 by 41 inches   BEINGS/WESEN wasthe title of an exhibition of recent paintings by German artist Martina Fischerat Globe Institute Gallery in Tribeca. The exhibit featured eleven large-scaleoil-on-canvas paintings. This was the artist’s first solo show in New York. In Fischer’s […]

Lance Dehn�: Salvaged Silk Screens   This brand new group of abstract art fromLance Dehn� makes its debut this June. The continuous strip of paintings has no beginning or end. Each piece is the same size (10"x13") and has a mixture of medias on a watercoler paper. Show Runs June 1- June 30, 2004Opening Reception: […]

Multimedia Installation rt Quick Start Guide Donald Schwartz I am confident that in your most private moments, when you’re not consideringyour sexual attractiveness, pondering the Hobbesian question or agonizing overwho is going to win the Final Four, you’re going to want to wrap your head aroundwhat it would take for you to create a multimedia […]

Farnsworth House: to the Moon Tia Blassingame  Farnsworth House. Photo: Jon Miller, Hedrich Blessin. Courtesy of National   Farnsworth House. Photo: Jon Miller, Hedrich Blessin. Courtesy of National One of three homes that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) designed in theUnited States, the Farnsworth House was scheduled to be sold in a Sotheby’sauction on […]

Featuring Houses by the Sea Tia Blassingame Within the slick, oversized pages of this coffee table book, the ocean view is as significant as the buildings and interiors. Each different residence is graphically depicted in each of the twenty chapters. Additionally the author briefly details the effect that site and owner constraints together with the […]

A Look into Las Misiones Antiquas Tia Blassingame   Cover image from Edward Vernon, Las Misiones Antiquas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California, University of New Mexico Press, 2003.   While a number of books have been written about and a myriad bus tours organized around the twenty-one California missions, Las Misiones Antiquas serves to […]

Am Ab-Ort der Bilder: Filme von Evgenij Jufit im Filmmuseum M�nchen Barbara Wurm    “Das h�lzerne Zimmer”     Vermutlich ist es den vielen ‘Posts’ zu verdanken, Poststalinismus, -kommunismus, -perestrojka und schließlich auch der Postmoderne, dass – nachdem die Gegenwart im russischen Kino endlich erreicht schien – im Venedig des Nordens Filme gemacht werden, die […]

Am Ab-Ort der Bilder: Filme von Evgenij Jufit im Filmmuseum M�nchen Barbara Wurm    “Das h�lzerne Zimmer” Vermutlich ist es den vielen ‘Posts’ zu verdanken, Poststalinismus, -kommunismus, -perestrojka und schließlich auch der Postmoderne, dass – nachdem die Gegenwart im russischen Kino endlich erreicht schien – im Venedig des Nordens Filme gemacht werden, die weniger mit […]

The Story of “Decasia” Catherine Wayland  Park City, Utah. Photos by Lily Hatchett. Photomontage of Sundance Film Festival by Lily Hatchett.   Much has been said about Bill Morrison’s “Decasia” – haunting, hallucinatory, relentless. I was unable to find the words, and I consider myself a wordsmith by trade. I can tell you that as […]

Sundance Film Festival 2004 Lily Hatchett     Greetings from the top of the Wasatch Mountains! Park City is a small silver mining village that still shows its Wild West underpinnings as a new town built around the old town, now home to impassioned skiers and snowboarders from all four corners of the world. Once […]