Timur Si-Qin, Untitled, and Installation view of Legend, 2011 Timur Si-Qin speaks about his work in the 2014 Taipei Biennial. I try to make work that doesn’t believe in the separation between culture and biology. To view humans as occupying a special role in the universe—and therefore as outside of nature and separate from other… Continue reading Timur Si-Qin
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Exhibition: Ann Cathrin November Høibo, “Christopher Burden On My Shoulders”
Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Christopher Burden On My Shoulders, 2012 Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Christopher Burden On My Shoulders, 20 January – 18 February 2012 Standard (Oslo) Having graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts last year, Høibo has made herself known for installations that rely on a layering of disparate elements and combining among… Continue reading Exhibition: Ann Cathrin November Høibo, “Christopher Burden On My Shoulders”
Mark DeLong
Mark DeLong, Untitled, 2011 Mark DeLong, born 1978 in New Brunswick, is a self taught artist working in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and video. His work has been displayed at Colette, Paris; Bee Studios, Tokyo; Spencer-Brownstone Gallery, New York; Abel Neue Kunst Gallery, Berlin; Perugi Art Contemporenea, Padova, Italy; Museum Of… Continue reading Mark DeLong
Dan Colen
Dan Colen, No Sex No War No Me, 2011 and Rama Lama Ding Dong, 2006 Dan Colen was born in New Jersey in 1979. Exhibitions include the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006); “USA Today,” Royal Academy, London (2006); “Defamation of Character,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New… Continue reading Dan Colen
Paul Berger
Paul Berger, Whimac 1, 1994 and 750s-mc, 1999 Paul Berger have been working in the photographic medium since 1965, and in digital electronic media since 1981. He earned a BA degree in Art at UCLA in 1970, studying with Robert Heinecken and Robert Fichter. Berger completed MFA graduate work at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New… Continue reading Paul Berger
Central Saint Martins MA 2011, Myrza de Muynck
Myrza de Muynck, Central Saint Martins MA, 2011 Myrza de Muynck is a Dutch designer who graduated from the MA Fashion programme at Central Saint Martins London. Myrza de Muynck is based in London and was chosen as Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s One’s to Watch AW12-13. This enabled Muynck to have both a catwalk show and an exhibition… Continue reading Central Saint Martins MA 2011, Myrza de Muynck
Books: Thomas Demand, La Carte d’après Nature
Thomas Demand, La Carte d’après Nature, 2010 La Carte d’apres Nature, published to accompany an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, takes its title from a short-lived art magazine created by René Magritte between 1951 and 1954. Magritte’s publication ran for just fourteen issues and each consisted of a postcard,… Continue reading Books: Thomas Demand, La Carte d’après Nature
Nan Goldin, Scopophilia, 2011
Nan Goldin, Scopophilia, 2011 Scopophilia, which consists of over 400 photographs culled from Goldin’s career, pairs her own autobiographical images with new photographs of paintings and sculpture from the Louvre’s collection. Organized around themes of love and desire, Scopophilia, which means “the love of looking,” reflects on Goldin’s intensely personal photographs, as well as the unique permission given… Continue reading Nan Goldin, Scopophilia, 2011
Advertising: Lanvin
Lanvin, Fall Winter 2011-2012 Ad Campaign Primped and adorned in Lanvin dresses, two gorgeous ladies are ready for a night on the town. Just as we believe they’re about to step out for the evening, they stand in position, fixate their eyes on their screen and on cue, start to groove to the music and… Continue reading Advertising: Lanvin
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, From the Series, Contraband, 2010 Shot over five days for the book and exhibition, “Contraband” — of items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport. The miscellany of prohibited objects — from the everyday to the illegal to the just plain odd —… Continue reading Taryn Simon
Helen Bullock, Central Saint Martins MA, 2011
Helen Bullock, Central Saint Martins MA, 2011 Helen Bullock is using strong bold silhouettes as a canvas for bold and intuitive prints. Trained at Central Saint Martins ( MA/BA), her past experiences include Ossie Clark, John Galliano and a collaborative project with Anthropologie. She has also worked as a freelance textiles designer for Louis Vuitton, and… Continue reading Helen Bullock, Central Saint Martins MA, 2011
2000: David Askevold
David Askevold, Harbour Ghosts, HFX (detail), 1999 and Tourists Veiwing Pilescape, Inkjet on Canvas, 2000 David Askevold (30 March 1940 – 23 January 2008) was an experimental Canadian artist who lived in Nova Scotia. Askevold studied art and anthropology at the University of Montana. In 1963, he won a Max Beckmann Scholarship to study painting… Continue reading 2000: David Askevold
Dance Theatre, 3D Cinema; Pina
Pina, 2011, Dir. Wim Wenders, 104 mins Philippina “Pina” Bausch (1940 – 2009) was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director. With her unique style, a blend of movements, sounds and prominent stage sets, and with her elaborate cooperation with performers during the composition of a piece (a style now… Continue reading Dance Theatre, 3D Cinema; Pina
Annie Lennox; HIV Positive
While she is working to alleviate the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS, Lennox herself says she is not HIV-positive. “It will raise questions, I know, as to whether I am HIV-positive,” she said of the shirt. “And I can tell you, actually, the good news is I am not. However, many people are.” “I… Continue reading Annie Lennox; HIV Positive
Escaping Earth: Kepler-22b, The first planet found in the “habitable zone”
NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces Latest Planetary Discovery The Kepler mission’s science team announced its latest finding at a press conference on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. The team announced the confirmation of Kepler-22b, its first planet found in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. The planet is about… Continue reading Escaping Earth: Kepler-22b, The first planet found in the “habitable zone”
“Equally significant is the decline of the critic as a culture broker. Today that role is played by the curator. That, too, will change.”
In october 2005 Frieze asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists How has art changed? With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been… Continue reading “Equally significant is the decline of the critic as a culture broker. Today that role is played by the curator. That, too, will change.”
Talks: The Trouble with Productivity, ICA
The Trouble with Productivity, 11 January 2012 Institute of Contemporary Arts Artists, writers and curators today, more than ever, take part in a time-pressured culture of high performance. Can you be productive by not being productive? Are there artistic possibilities in exhaustion, failure and laziness? Those were among the questions posed at the ICA last week during a… Continue reading Talks: The Trouble with Productivity, ICA
Valerio Spada, Gomorrah Girl
Valerio Spada, From the Book, Gomorrah Girl, 2011 Valerio Spada’s self-published photo book Gomorrah Girl, the grand prize winner of 4th annual Blurb Photography Book Now Competition. The book explores the murder of Naples resident Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of violence in “the land of Camorrah,” (the name for the Mafia… Continue reading Valerio Spada, Gomorrah Girl
Egill Sæbjörnsson
Egill Sæbjörnsson in collaboration with Karolin Tampere, Installation view, 2008 Egill Sæbjörnsson (born 1973, Reykjavik / IS) graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts (now the Icelandic Academy of the Arts) in 1997 and studied at the University of Paris, St.Denis, from 1995 to 1996. Since 1999 he shares his time between Reykjavík and… Continue reading Egill Sæbjörnsson
Standard (Oslo) Gallery
Fredrik Værslev, Untitled, 2010. Spray paint, house paint and white spirit on canvas /wooden stretcher STANDARD (OSLO) Gallery was established in April 2005. Based in Oslo the gallery aims at promoting contemporary Norwegian artists in the international field, as well as introducing international artists to the Norwegian audience. Gallery artists have been included in a number of internationally… Continue reading Standard (Oslo) Gallery