Are We There Yet? Courtney Mallen Mecca, 2001, cibachrome � Mark Mann Laurence Miller Gallery, New York                In2000’s best-selling expose, Fast Food Nation,style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Eric Schlosser documented andanalyzed the rise and cultural integration of the All-American fast foodrestaurant experience. At the same time that Americans were being sold on thecheap, easy way to take your family […]

Subjective Perspectives in Search of Global Subjects: Digital Africa – The Electronic Arts Intermix and the African Film Festival Subjective Perspectives in Search of Global Subjects: Digital Africa The Electronic Arts Intermix and the African Film Festival Curated byMahen Bonetti and Prerana Reddy of the African Film Festival, the DigitalAfrica exibition at Electronic Arts Intermix […]

Otto Berchem’s 16th Minute Amiel Grumberg   Avoidingthe picturesque entirely, Julie Bozzi creates American landscape paintings thatportray the antiheroic. The artist works sitting in her car, usually at dusk,looking through the windshield at her chosen site. Her process is echoed in theformat of her paintings, which depict narrow stretches of land that, althoughanonymous on many […]

Hidden in Plain Sight Andrea Karnes Four Surviving Hedge Fragments, 2003, Oil on canvas, 4 x 10 inches (10.2 x 25.4 cm.) Courtesy of the artist and Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas Avoidingthe picturesque entirely, Julie Bozzi creates American landscape paintings thatportray the antiheroic. The artist works sitting in her car, usually at dusk,looking through […]

Cunningham’s 50th Season: Short-Circuit Yields Bright Light Lori Ortiz style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>Merce Cunningham makes a point of leaving some things to chance. The elements of surprise and risk that have characterized his life work do not preclude rigorous choice and aesthetic judgment in his selection of artists, dancers, and the form of the dance itself. It’s just […]

Mark Lombardi: Global (Conspiracy) Networks Uri Dowbenko Mapping criminal corporate-government connections is a dangerous occupation. Exposing the players and their front companies is even more hazardous. These are the subjects of Mark Lombardi’s art and the hidden global realities of money and power. His artwork, literally as well as figuratively, connects the dots of international […]

"Spirited Women" Enliven the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s Fall Season Linda Rubinstein On view in the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s maingallery through December 31 is the exhibition Spirited Women: Ten Vermont Artists. The ten artists from throughout the state were chosen as finalists for an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in […]

Memento: Soledad Arias and Madeline Djerejian at CUCHIFRITOS, NYC Berit Fischer style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:windowtext’>  "Inour times the aura has become only a presence, which is to say, a ghost."-Douglas Crimp style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:windowtext’>Theobjectification of a person through artistic reproduction reveals theproblematic nature of representation and its effort to capture life or to evenrecall it. A photograph tries to capture […]

An apocalyptic future at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Danielle O’Steen TheArgentinean artist Sebasti�n D�az Morales creates complex video installations that are experimental and apocalyptic in nature but contain the stark visual language of documentaries. D�az Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia in 1975 and has been presented at Museum Abteiberg, M�nchengladbach, NICC Antwerp, the […]

What Comes Out of Discord, for Susanna Coffey ? Joseph Maceda SusannaCoffey’s latest exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery is apparently aboutdissonance – as evidenced by the first painting, “Self Portrait (Eris),” thetitle of which refers to the Greek goddess of discord. Coffey’s self-portraitsseem at odds with themselves, the gallery, and the artist, who […]