Open doors, half-open doors, leaning doors, non-rigid doors. "The door," as Bachelard informed us in his famous work The Poetics of Space, "is the cosmos of the half-open. Stage Evidence: Just Doors Claudia Albertini Loris Cecchini, Stage Evidence, 2003. Seven doors installation, iron and urethanic rubber. Courtesy of Galleria Continua °™ Beijing. Open doors, half-open […]

From time immemorial, Man has celebrated his sexuality through art: sometimes he has paralleled his sexual and spiritual joys, resulting in such wonders as India’s Khajaraho Temple which, due to its colossal size has survived the dreaded censor and centuries of puritanical hypocrisy Anthony Christian Anthony Christian Anthony Christian, Self portrait with bananas. From time […]

Like Chinese contemporary art itself, galleries in China have literally gone from non-existence to experiencing something of a boom at the moment in recent years. Creative Agents and Legends from China Carol Lu Courtesy of artist Text provided by the writer as part of the project presented at ARCO ’06 for the "Cityscapes" section–China. Like […]

A young girl sits in the warm waters of her bathtub, undressed, hair slicked back and plastered to her neck and shoulders. But this is no typical bath time ritual. The Book of Disquiet Julie Alvin Alex Prager, Envy. A young girl sits in the warm waters of her bathtub, undressed, hair slicked back and […]

Along with the international outcry for commercial appreciation of Chinese art being purported by an increasing number of commercial venues (both locally and western funded), private and corporate interests contributing to the implementation of a league of native buyers and ambitious collectors are certainly shifting, especially in Beijing and Shanghai. Space Up: Universal Studios, Beijing […]

Transvestism in art and culture has a curious and concomitant checkered history. It can be the bawdy, safe, normative heterosexually appealing sort of cross-dressing associated with Dame Rose, for example. Venus or Penis Envy Raul Zamudio Oreet Ashery, Marcus Fisher 1 (haircut), 2000. Transvestism in art and culture has a curious and concomitant checkered history. […]

Born from Vietnamese parents in 1975 and brought up in France, Sandrine Llouquet came to live in Vietnam in 1997, and studied for one year at Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art University. In Vietnam Nguyen Hoang Bao Ngoc Sandrine Llouquet. Born from Vietnamese parents in 1975 and brought up in France, Sandrine Llouquet came […]

It came to life out of the consideration that there wasn’t really someone working on a structural level in the field of independent. Contemporary performing arts in Beijing, and out of the experience I had during the Dashanzi International Art festival of last year (DIAF, 2005 — www.diaf.org) when I was in charge of the […]

It’s never been entirely clear how the essence of disco, that heady blend of salsa, funk and soul ramped up to 127 bpm that simply compelled people to dance, devolved so rapidly from the delightful naughtiness of Andrea True Connection’s 1976 hit "More, More, More" to the cringe-inducing cheesiness of Three’s Company’s Larry hanging out […]

After a long hiatus during which this resilient little country helped end the Cold-War, endured brutal civil conflict and Taliban occupation, Afghanistan has suddenly re-emerged center stage as posterboy for post 9-11 national reconstruction on-the-quick. Kabul: Reconstructions Shaheen Rassoul Miriam Ghani, “Kabul: Reconstructions.” After a long hiatus during which this resilient little country helped end […]