Few of today’s ‘artists’ seem fit to survive their own fame, let alone the test of time. Aural Fixation: Legacy, Legend and the Curse of Blondie By Robert J. Ricci       the Curse of Blondie       Few of today’s ‘artists’ seem fit to survive their own fame, let alone the test […]

With its 1.2 billion inhabitants, China is the world’s most populous country; 12.6 million people live in its Capital Beijing alone, 14.5 million in Shanghai. "Dynamics" and "vitality" are two prominent catchwords in modern China. Everything is bigger than life, everyone wants to be state-of-the-art, and "bigger, broader and fresher" is the way to go. […]

Though the art-market in Germany has become more and more diverse over the last 15 years, with several new fairs opening in cities like Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, Cologne still functions as its capital due to the vivid art scene in the Rhineland and its many collectors of contemporary art. KUNST KOLN, 2005: A First Look […]

This story is already over. A few seconds more and it will finally be frozen forever, a past in marble like the garden carved in stone . . . this mansion, its rooms now deserted. Remembering By Aram Moshayedi Matthew Buckingham New Amsterdam, 2003 C-print Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy Gallery, New YorkThis […]

She would have liked me to have in my room photographs of ancient buildings or beautiful places. But at the moment of buying them…she would find that vulgarity and utility had too prominent a part in them, through the mechanical nature of their reproduction by photography. Paul MacDonald Barrington’s Digital (Fine) Art By David Markus […]

EFA GERMANY ANNOUNCES BANKRUPTCY. Aural Fixation: Music News By Beata Patricia Pac     Bjork: launch.com         EFA GERMANY ANNOUNCES BANKRUPTCY The March 2 news of bankruptcy of Germany’s music distributor EFA Medien has instantly affected the dark music scene, including bands like Das Ich, Garden of Deight, Clan of Xymox, The […]

I am pretty sure that everyone has at least a short movie in the works. Film Section: EXPERIMENTS IN OBSERVATION By Lily Hatchett     EXPERIMENTS IN OBSERVATION     I am pretty sure that everyone has at least a short movie in the works. The rest of them, the ones who do not, are […]

The potentials for, realities of and secrets about military corporate alliances infect our lives. But how can we possibly get a grasp on something too huge, too insidious to contemplate? A work of art designed to look like a targeted missile, a work recently on display at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art confronts the […]

Igor Stevanovic, has been banned. Again. Not a single art gallery in Sao Paulo, the city in which Stevanovic has been based recently, was willing to accommodate the controversial Serbian-born artist and his newest live performance entitled Slap. This is not the first time authorities have attempted to silence Stevanovich’s. Slapping Censorship By Rebecca Ironside […]

Experiencing the work of Monika Weiss involvesall your senses to some degree. One can not simply walk past the Skulenie (2003), an enigmatic charcoal drawing on photographic backdrop paper, without feeling the essence of the artist’s presence, or hearing the echoes of physical form resonating in Weiss’ drawings, sculpture installations, live or video projected performative […]