To get to the Yue Laan Jit (Hungry Ghost Festival), you have to go through the mall. Entertaining Ghosts in Hong Kong: Spectral Mapping By Samantha Culp Under brightly decorated, electrified bamboo canopies, audience members enjoy Chiu Chow Opera singers. Photographs by Samantha Culp. To get to the Yue Laan Jit (Hungry Ghost Festival), you […]

PHOTO NEW YORK 2004 will feature contemporary photo-based work of unprecedented ingenuity, as well as exceptional pieces from leading 19th and 20th century artists. PHOTO NEW YORK 2004 by Graciela Sacco Graciela Sacco, Shadows from the South and the North Shadow installation, Photo-serigraphy on plexiglass Size: variable October 14 – 17 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, […]

As scholarly work on video game theory gains momentum, charging onto the academic radar … Turn on Your Map–Telepresent Guerilla Gaming By Sarah Northmore   Hactivists take their protest games to the streets. Image courtesy of Anne-Marie Schleiner.     As scholarly work on video game theory gains momentum, charging onto the academic radar as […]

Charles Malinsky first exhibited his drawings and paintings of warrior angels in 1994. Charles Malinsky’s Travel Documents: Journeys in Darkness and Light By Yvonne Owens Charles Malinsky, “The Eternal Tourist,” 150 x 120 cm., oil on canvas, 2003 Charles Malinsky first exhibited his drawings and paintings of warrior angels in 1994. Since then, he has […]

Although the gulf between war and peace is profoundly abysmal, Indian author, Arundhati Roy, equates these opposite poles in her brilliant and trenchant essay of 2001, War Is Peace, reflecting on the current Iraqi war. A Global Response to War Rendered in Words and Images By V�ctor Alejandro Sorell Print in Full as a half […]

In "The Thin Man" (1934) the debonair amateur sleuth, Nick Charles, was a man who enjoyed slumming with thugs and hoods, also liked to mix up a few Martinis. Ornament and Glory: Artifacts of the Jazz Age and Lost Generation By Charles Giuliano The Brooklyn Bridge by the American artist, Joseph Stella. Collection Museum of […]

The modernist gallery space that Richard Serra characterized as a "well-lighted white shoebox" is fractured and refolded in Katrin Sigurdardottir’s installation at Reykjavik Art Museum’s Harbor House. Place Enfolded, Site Unfolded By Eve Heisler Katrin Sigurdardottir, Island. 2003. Modeling wood, electric lights, wire mesh. Exhibited at Galleria Maze, Torino, Italy, Centro Arte Contemporanea di Cavalese*, […]

Disneyland opened in 1955, and the first map of the park was published three years later. It’s a Mall World After All: "Re-Imagineering" the Disneyland Map. By Joanna Neborsky “Re-Imagineering” the Disneyland Map Disneyland opened in 1955, and the first map of the park was published three years later. It’s a giddy document of a […]

Familiar and Unfamiliar opens with the concept of the architectural subject, the person that the architects imagine as the future inhabitant of their spaces. Architecture Book Reviews By Tia Blassingame The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean La Marche       The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture by Jean […]

With the Republicans came a literal redrawing of the lines and borders that make up New York City. Marking Dissent Along City Lines By Emily Lodish SpectralQ brands Central Park with Lady Liberty. Photograph courtesy of John Quigley. With the Republicans came a literal redrawing of the lines and borders that make up New York […]