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Where Technology and Creative Expression Intersect – Bonnie Mitchell
Thursday, 31 August 2006 17:48The Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery, “Intersections” is one of the world’s most unique digital art exhibitions, featuring an extensive collection of works that merge innovative computer graphics and interactive techniques with artistic practice. The gallery includes works from 132 different artists, researchers and technologists from 16 countries. Where Technology and Creative Expression Intersect […]
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Striking a Plus for Curation – Lisa Paul Streitfeld
Thursday, 31 August 2006 17:42La Zampa’s fully empowered female beauty shattering glass was the strongest image the New Dance Alliance concocted on the 20th anniversary of its Performance Mix Festival. The event ran over six days at Joyce SoHo with around five performances each night followed by a reception. Festival director Karen Bernard’s choices this year included theatrical performance […]
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Drowning In Art – Edward Rubin
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:13It used to be that the Whitney Biennial was the first and last word on the state of contemporary art in the country. It was also the most eagerly anticipated art event in New York City. No matter what hung on what wall or stood on the floor, be it awful, be it great, we […]
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73rd Whitney Biennial, Day for Night 2006 – E.K. Clark
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:09An aura of deja vu hovers over this year’s mega Biennial. One hundred and one artists were invited but more than 400 more are included in the many collectives and the shows within shows that marks a departure in the curatorial style of this, the 73rd Whitney Biennial. We are presented with a made-to-order revolution—an […]
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La IX Bienal de la Habana – Julian Sunyer
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 17:45Bajo el lema de “Dinámicas de la Cultura Urbana” más de 150 artistas, representando a 51 países, se han dado cita en la IX Bienal de la Habana que se inauguró el 27 de marzo y finaliza el próximo 27 de abril. Alrededor de doscientos artistas más, estarán presentes en la cita en los diversos […]
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Piece and Jammed – Mitchell Miller
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 17:41Another day, another dispatch from Glasgow and it seems like no time since the last Glasgow Art Fair. Now in its 11th year the event has established itself as a major fixture on the European circuit and a showpiece for the city’s investment in large-scale cultural events, sited in a giant marquee in front of […]
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Guerrilla Erotic Art – Geoffrey Ashley
Monday, 28 August 2006 19:02“Still photos of naked ladies” are not all I shoot. But sexy, fun, attention-grabbing images of intriguing women are the primary focus of my work. My images have been called “edgy,” “pulsating” and “erotic.” But my favorite description is “sensual, funny, warm photos of women who look real." I infuse my photographs with an editorial […]
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The First International Art Fair in the Caribbean
Monday, 28 August 2006 17:12Circa Puerto Rico 06, the first international art fair in the Caribbean and Central America, will be held at the new Puerto Rico Convention Centre in San Juan. The fair comes on the heels of arteBA in Buenos Aires as well as the Latin American art auctions in New York and will bring the best […]
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International Platform Swathed in Design – Simone Cappa
Monday, 28 August 2006 17:09Professionals, students and an increasing amount of curious and demanding public all continue to make Chaumont an annual international forum for graphic arts. For the past three years, the Festival was structured around four primary concepts: Presenting today’s graphic arts as they really are, restoring the historical dimension of graphic arts, giving posters the place […]
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Uncomfortable Moments and Unfinished Histories – Anna Altman
Friday, 25 August 2006 17:52On the grandiose and mirrored second floor of the Ballhaus Mitte, two performers enact an erotic dance. The typical movements of a sexual encounter between a young man and woman are exaggerated and prolonged for the benefit of the viewers, who move between thick marble columns to get a better view. Uncomfortable Moments and […]
















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