Speed, vast expanses of space, anonymity, endless possibilities, adventure, transience. The term "superhighway" connotes all of these. It is a loaded term for describing technology?s role in contemporary society. Imposing a Speed Limit Jennifer Hickey Massimiliano Contu, The Talking City, 100x120cm, oil on canvas, 2004 (photograph by J. Hickey). Image courtesy of Berliner Kunstprojekt Speed, […]

When reproduced as shiny photographic images, Shirley Kaneda’s recent paintings look flat, meticulous and well mannered. They are dynamic yet tasteful composed, using colors that are bright, not so bright as to clash with your standard household appliances. How perfectly they would compliment a well-maintained kitchen! Improv at the Photoshop James Engelmann Shirley Kaneda, Cold […]

From February 11 through May 29, 2005, the Whitney Museum of American Art will be showcasing the work of Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson in a mid-career retrospective. Arguably one of the most prolific working artists today, Hawkinson is best known for his whimsical sculptures made from everyday materials and found objects. The work in […]

Members of Manhattan’s art elite are not moved by thundering engines, polished chrome and brute horsepower. No, what sets them aflutter is "Wall Power." Sheri Warshauer has devised a clever gambit loaded with art world "dish," a situation of portraiture in absentia, personalities divinized by those fine art objects collected, and the zones in which […]

Magda Carneci, the curator for Cosmopolis, Microcosmos X Macrocosmos, an exhibition of 100 Balkan artists held at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessalonica, Greece, defined the role of the artist: "to reinvent a dignified and conscious position for Humans in the universe." As a participating artist […]

Birgit Dunkel’s "Madonna Series," which has been incarnated as a photo exhibition as well an installation at a church, is inspired by that most well-known woman of the Christian faith. In opposition to her celebrity stands her real importance for the religion. She is acknowledged as the mother of Jesus Christ, yet in the holy […]

At last, the mystery of Bernar Venet is solved. Well, sort of. As with all good detective stories the solution (like the eponymous epistle in Poe?s Purloined Letter) was in plain sight all along. Bernar Venet: The Re-Write John Perreault Photograph by George VeronAt last, the mystery of Bernar Venet is solved. Well, sort of. […]

"Yes with all enthusiasm, to this new cultural-digital mentality, as it brings huge democratic potential as well as collective creativity potential so far unseen?Yes to digital, unvendible, unstable, unarchivable, untameable, unseizable, anonymous, incomprehensible, unending, desacralised, incomplete, unresigned, ‘trans-shared’, ‘trans-potentialized’, heterocritical digital works."?FILE festival catalogue International Festival of Electronic Language (FILE), 2004. To Infinity and Beyond […]

127 galleries from 24 countries filled the Miami Beach Convention Center with new owners, new sponsors, new exhibitors and many new artists working in a variety of mediums: Art Miami celebrated its 15th year. The Show Director was the very talented and professional Ilana Vardy, formerly associated with the successful Art Chicago. ART MIAMI, 2005 […]

Photographing nearly naked bodies of teenagers—lanky and angular boys and girls—Mokhorev manages to glimpse their inner selves without making the image a beautiful, yet vulgar, nude. Eugene Mokhorev Gleb Yershov, Ph.d. MokhorevPhotographing nearly naked bodies of teenagers—lanky and angular boys and girls—Mokhorev manages to glimpse their inner selves without making the image a beautiful, yet […]