PhotoCairo William Wells, Director   Jihan Ammar, Shahrzad � Cologne, 2003.     One yearlater, we find ourselves assessing the effects of PhotoCairo 2002, a self-styledcultural experiment that materialized in largely organic fashion – a responseto evident interest within local artistic communities as to photography in allof its breadth. In that year, visible gains have […]

Picks Christopher Chambers Ray Smith, Empire I, 2003. Oil on canvas, 74�diameter. I once had a job in an art gallery. I suppose thedesignation “art handler” would best describe my duties of patching walls,building crates, and installing shows, as well as just sort of hanging around(which used to drive me crazy). I even ran an […]

 Possible Music Vivek Narayanan         Accordingto the rules of the set in BRIC Studio’s experimental series, PossibleFireworks, awell-known innovative musician is invited to pick a band of people that she orhe admires but has never played with before, tune up with them a little, thenplay. It ought to be a terrifying thought, […]

SHOCKING! & DARING: Schiaparelli Lives! L. Brandon Krall Elsa Schiaparelli (French, born Italy, 1890 � 1973), Boots, Summer 1938, Gift of Mme Elsa Schiaparelli to the PMA, 1969.   ElsaSchiaparelli (1890-1974) was a first among “modern” women of the 20thcentury. Like a lightening rod, a diviner’s wand, Schiap [pronounced ‘Skap’]responded to the immediate cultural and […]

Amorphous Structures Katherina Romanenko Martina Fischer, Der Besucher 2 – The Visitor 2, 49 by 41 inches   BEINGS/WESEN wasthe title of an exhibition of recent paintings by German artist Martina Fischerat Globe Institute Gallery in Tribeca. The exhibit featured eleven large-scaleoil-on-canvas paintings. This was the artist’s first solo show in New York. In Fischer’s […]

Lance Dehn�: Salvaged Silk Screens   This brand new group of abstract art fromLance Dehn� makes its debut this June. The continuous strip of paintings has no beginning or end. Each piece is the same size (10"x13") and has a mixture of medias on a watercoler paper. Show Runs June 1- June 30, 2004Opening Reception: […]

Multimedia Installation rt Quick Start Guide Donald Schwartz I am confident that in your most private moments, when you’re not consideringyour sexual attractiveness, pondering the Hobbesian question or agonizing overwho is going to win the Final Four, you’re going to want to wrap your head aroundwhat it would take for you to create a multimedia […]

Farnsworth House: to the Moon Tia Blassingame  Farnsworth House. Photo: Jon Miller, Hedrich Blessin. Courtesy of National   Farnsworth House. Photo: Jon Miller, Hedrich Blessin. Courtesy of National One of three homes that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) designed in theUnited States, the Farnsworth House was scheduled to be sold in a Sotheby’sauction on […]

Featuring Houses by the Sea Tia Blassingame Within the slick, oversized pages of this coffee table book, the ocean view is as significant as the buildings and interiors. Each different residence is graphically depicted in each of the twenty chapters. Additionally the author briefly details the effect that site and owner constraints together with the […]

A Look into Las Misiones Antiquas Tia Blassingame   Cover image from Edward Vernon, Las Misiones Antiquas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California, University of New Mexico Press, 2003.   While a number of books have been written about and a myriad bus tours organized around the twenty-one California missions, Las Misiones Antiquas serves to […]