Blandy’s film trilogy, The Way of the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, presents popular culture as something Janus-faced – as both an offer of potential liberation, but simultaneously a solipsistic prison. In the films, Blandy plays the role of a questing, wandering monk – in the mold of David Carradine from ‘70s TV series Kung Fu – as he attempts […]

The exhibition Best Regards from the Blind Spot is conceived as a rather specific insight into the representations of feminine subjectivity. It should be understood as an ironic intonation of a postcard sent from the place where these artists live: Serbia and Montenegro represents a certain “blind spot” of the art world.   Jovana Stokic […]

As I walk through Chinatown toward the Martha Rosler Library at e-flux, three other things ride my mind and whisper in my ear: the growing Danish Cartoon situation in which art has initiated a worldwide face-off between liberty and tyranny; my 1988 videotape My Whole Wardrobe / All My Books which suggested that one’s collections […]

What: Test, a new private non-for-profit contemporary art center–a 30,000 square foot industrial building for new exhibitions, new projects, new collaborations and a new contemporary art collection.   In the summer of 2007, Portuguese artist Joao Simoes was invited to propose an idea for an industrial building, at LX factory creative cluster, in the heart […]

The recent solo exhibition of the Sardinian “raw” outsider artist, Franco Meloni, innovatively curated by Tchera Niyego, was an overwhelming success. A young self-taught artist from Sardinia, Italy, Meloni’s compositions exude a creative sense of the wild and abandon associated with the terrestrial freedom and radiant sunlight of his Mediterranean island home.    Tanzinika Schwartzschloff […]

Program’s most recent show, ÜBERleben, closes today before the winter holidays; Christmas being perhaps one of the most important of the German Feiertagen. Strings of lights dot the city streets and steaming pots of spiced wine can be had at the ubiquitous, festive outdoor markets. But the spirit at Program is a little less heartwarming […]

Doug Fishbone recycles the language of the mass media in order to critique some of the more unseemly aspects of life in the modern age. Appropriating photographic and digital imagery from the Internet, he constructs witty and occasionally shocking film narratives from apparently unrelated material, questioning the way the mind processes controversial visual images and […]

Melanie Prapopoulos’ innovatively installed exhibition, Through Her Eyes at Broadway Gallery was a surprising and imaginative treat. The ambience at the opening was lively and vivacious. Born Europe, but raised in the US, Melanie Prapopoulos is the true definition of an international artist. In keeping with this multicultural outlook, much of her work draws from […]

The main reference point of her art is the concept and not the production of an object. GT also likes to cast an ironic glance at the art world. Since the end of June RitaGT has been interested in the history of collecting and exhibiting practiced in scientific institutions like natural history museums. She is […]

Since my first solo show in SoHo, NY in 79—no wait, in Soho, London in 77—I continued to exhibit through the end of the 20th century. Soon sculptures evolved from body casts in which the models wore and manipulated gloves, shoes, lingerie, and corsets—then the corsets started to be made of chicken wire, and rope… […]