Merchandise and customer service. These are the focus of Christine Hill’s current installation at Eigen + Art Gallery in Berlin. On the right-hand wall: a constellation of photographs depicting neighborhood shops, supplemented by information on the history of each of these family businesses, as part of her “Keep Shop Vendor Archive.” To the left: a […]

We are two interdisciplinary artists who have lived and worked together since 1994, turning our lives and actions into art. Our work moves freely between life, the visual arts and performance. The decision to live life as a performance and to make art a way of living creates a tension, which motivates our work. This […]

Perhaps the most instant decision was to include Alan Bond’s proposal to remake The Planetarium. This domed sculpture, made out of old doors and other reclaimed material, will fit snugly into Gallery Three at The Nunnery. The work, which has been assembled in a number of places before, but never in London, plays humorously with […]

Ironically, the continuing technological and communicational advances in our globalized present do not guarantee equal opportunities for all. Instead of generating a transnational community with a shared set of aesthetic and perceptual foundations, the art world remains structured as a set of multiple hegemonic systems. In order to fight against marginalization of the art scenes […]

It was one hot afternoon in 2004 when I was riding up Tenth Avenue on my bicycle in Chelsea when I first saw Chantel Foretich’s work through a window of a restaurant. Peering into the window, little did I know then that such an incidental gesture on my part was the presence behind her work; […]

Sóu-Lí, the Korean word for “sound,” is the theme for an exhibition presented by the School of Visual Arts and the SVA Korean Alumni Association, which includes works by 48 alumni from South Korea. Our aim in “Sóu-Lí/Sound” is to challenge viewers’ preconceptions and inspire them to explore their inner worlds with a renewed sense […]

Inspired by such photographers as Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston as well as painters Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keefe, I began to consider the world around me and sought a way to visually interpret it. Hopper’s sense of isolation and dolefulness always struck a chord with me, along with the vivid, sensual beauty […]

Most people don’t pay much attention to the ordinary scenes that happen around them everyday. In fact, most of us can’t recognize the deeper art and beautiful compositions hidden there. However, some photographers have a special eye for capturing and showing us what a surprising and wonderful world we live in. Few can do it. […]

The photographs of Dietmar Busse and Roger Ricco at Sara Tecchia Roma, New York, make for a compelling yet elusive narrative. Busse and Ricco both have in common this sense of solitude that is punctuated by an intellectual focus that runs the gamut between the romantic and stone cold aloneness. For this writing, I’ve chosen […]

Katharina Klara Jung: Your last performance took place in the Volksbühne in Berlin. What was it about?    Ragnar Kjartansson: It was a collaborative performance with my wife Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir. We were performing non-stop mega drama salon theatre in the entrance of the Volksbühne. It was called "It’s Not Your Fault." A piece made out […]