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GAY TOWN: Starring James Franco as James Franco
The obvious needs to be stated before anything else can be said: We are avid consumers of celebrity fanfare and pop culture. It’s an inescapable fact of the cosmopolitan lifestyle. Tabloids give us the...
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Child's Play
Like nursery rhymes about the black plague or fairy tales about dictatorial empires, here is a site-specific installation that employs a colorful playfulness in form to access dark and grave content....
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The Stillness of Destruction
This twenty-six artist-deep group show that just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is an interesting re-examination of work by renowned artists such as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Robert...
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A last love letter from a sunsetting civilization
There's hope this might be seen, yet a humbling acceptance of the vast loneliness of space.It is a gesture.A last love letter from a sunsetting civilization, a temple left on an abandoned planet, a...
View Article[VIDEO] Martin Kippenberger: Sehr Gut Very Good / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
In 2013 Martin Kippenberger, the enfant terrible of the German art scene, would have celebrated his 60th birthday. On this occasion, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is dedicating a special exhibition to...
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Enclaves with double histories
The scraped urban aesthetics of the former Soviet bloc seem to be ubiquitous in contemporary art right now. I guess there's nothing quite like a pale concrete block standing against the sky to satisfy...
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Thank you SPRING BREAK
New Work Miami2013 currently on view at the Miami Art Museum has churned up several points that are both unremarkable and as unique as the composition of the dirt beneath our feet. In Miami, the...
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Hypnosis
There's part of this job that involves trying to use words to conjure the experience of an artwork or an exhibition for the reader. From the second I entered this show I realised that with the work of...
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Sorry for Being a Genius
"There is no more chastity in the Young-Girl than there is debauchery. The Young-Girl simply lives as a stranger to her desires, whose coherence is governed by her market-driven superego."—Tiqqun,...
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Whose Autonomy?
As one of the more visible providers of a critique of the centre/periphery model of cultural development in the early 2000’s, a new exhibition by curator Hou Hanru is highly anticipated. ZiZhiQu:...
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Dead Kennedys
In May of this year, the Dallas Museum of Art will mount Hotel Texas, an exhibition that brings together the artworks seen in the last hotel room of the late John F. Kennedy. These are the sculptures,...
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Upping the Ante: Armory Arts Week 2013
With the arrival of Armory Week, last year’s experiment of Armory versus Frieze is rearing its ugly head, and settling itself into reality. The splash that Frieze made last year on the enchanted...
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The Overlooked Object: An Interview with Michael Zelehoski at VOLTA
Michael Zelehoski won the ArtSlant Prize in 2008, the first year the competition ran. Since, his career has only been gaining steam, having two solo shows a year and making the rounds of the fair...
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Graphene and Glitter: Shane Hope's Molecular Realities
Shane Hope makes invisible worlds visible. Leaders in the world of digital art have called his work “the warmest use of digital technology out there.” This week the New York artist’s uniquely...
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Welche Mauer? / Which Wall?
There are two walls in Berlin. The first, the historic and notorious Berlin Wall of Honecker and Kennedy that bisected a nation, dividing families, constructing prejudices and casting an XL cloak of...
View ArticleArmory 2013: An alien's A-Z of New York's premier art fair
A is for...Art. Obviously. B is for...Bloomberg. Read his speech in a particularly dispassionate manner, but apparently the Armory show is 'fun, and good for the economy!' C is for..Champagne. Free...
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What Do We Owe Picasso?
There is no shortage of Pablo Picasso exhibitions in our world right now – a good half-dozen major shows have opened and closed across the U.S. in the past three years, exploring everything from...
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The Art of the Wall and the Spirit of Berlin
There’s been a lot of talk this week about the current state of the East Side Gallery. Thousands of people, including myself, have expressed their outrage at the city of Berlin and the profit-driven...
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From the Vernissage Floor: Armory Week in 48 Hours
In the last forty-eight hours I’ve walked through six fairs, looked over the presentations of more than 350 galleries, and seen the work of more than 1000 artists. If pressed to put an adjective to the...
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Look out for the unicorn
After going to this show, I spent the next two days holed upreading Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia.In around 1200 pages, West details her journey with her...
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