As people are getting tired of nightlife and produced performances churned out by some corporate factory, they are leaning more towards novel performances in intimate and unique spaces. The Deep Dish Cabaret By Danielle Sonnenberg     This is a scene of THE APARTMENT     As people are getting tired of nightlife and produced […]

Tomoko Sawada, won the 29th Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award. For nearly thirty years, this prize has been a gateway to success for young photographers in Japan. Paradox, Contradiction, and Enigma: Nana Kono interviews Tomoko Sawada By Nana Kono Tomoko Sawada, “ID400 (#1-100)”, 1998-2001, Photographs, 100 gelatin silver prints, Edition/Set of 15, h: 50 x […]

Lee Bul’s new works, shown at one of the Deitch Projects’ galleries in SoHo, go beyond the revolting, sexual cyborgs and monsters that brought the Korean artist such international visibility as the Hugo Boss Prize and a showing at the Venice Biennale several years ago. Too Beautiful to be a Monster: Lee Bul at Deitch […]

While the choice of Spa, Belgium is a perfect fit for the work of the Venezuelan-born Dutch artist Winand Staring, putting contemporary art on view in a Centre Bien-être is by no means ‘the done thing’ — at least not yet. Winand Staring Explores Abstraction in the Elements By David Ulrichs     “Seascape Blue,” […]

Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund. Recontextualizing Public Space By Zhanna Veyts     Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund       Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund Edited by Susan K. Freedman, Tom Eccles, Dan Cameron, Katy Siegel, Jeffrey Kastener, and Anne Wehr New York: Merrell, 256 pages. […]

Alexandra Hyde discovers a very personal sensory experience in a terraced house in London… Pervasive Performance Art in Your Own Front Room. By Alexandra Hyde http://www.placelessness.com/press/index.html     Alexandra Hyde discovers a very personal sensory experience in a terraced house in London…The essence of On The Scent is its intrusiveness, its inescapability. Artists Helen Paris […]

The Valley Wind What is a House? By Olga Chemokhud Doty Tracey Emin         The Valley Wind Living in retirement beyond the world,Silently enjoying isolation,I pull the rope of my door tighterAnd stuff my window with roots and ferns.My spirit is tuned to the Spring-season:At the fall of the year there is […]

Artist Home Website: www.staalplaat.org Interactive Media Art Web Reviews By Molly Kleiman Artist Home Website: www.staalplaat.org An Amsterdam and Berlin based operation, Staalplaat (under the creative vision of its founder Geert-Jan Hobijn) is a record label turned, in their own terms, "trashy extravaganza." Staalplaat has lifted music from its techno dj booths and punk arenas […]

Ag art Ear Kno rito Coptic Streak: Reflections on Agnes Martin’s Early Work at DIA Beacon By Jamie Dalglish Ag art Ear Kno rito Paintings 57-67 Coptic Egyptian Greek Chinese Representing the ideal in the mind. It is like a memory-an awareness-of perfection. Morphoglyphing. a leaf a blossom a bird in flight feel the leaves […]

Ann Wilson on the Agnes Martin Pace Gallery exhibition IN THE GRACE OF SYMMETRY – AGNES MARTIN AT 92 By Ann Wilson   Agnes Martin, at ninety-two, has painted from the path above the view of the beyond. That’s what her painting does, you know. Go to our painter scholars to heal from our present […]