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Interrogating Monuments: Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford’s Hall of Khan
The critical pedagogue Henry Giroux tells us that objects placed in front of us in the public sphere operate as forms of public pedagogy—meaning that they communicate and reinforce certain cultural...
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Much to do about Nothing
Rarely does an artist invoke thoughts of Nothing like Rachel Whiteread (that’s capital N nothing, by the way – the greater idea of nothing, rather than nothing at all. The loudest negative silence...
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Shell Game: Beyond the Political Cartoon
Translating politics into art is tricky. One false move, and a poignant statement can become overreaching or worse, preachy—its message trounced by the annoyance of the opposition or apolitical. It is...
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Feel Invited: Gallery Weekend Berlin 2013
Springtime feeling is rife in Berlin, and it seems the art world has caught on to the general mood of merriment that has stricken the city’s sun-deprived locals. With emails overfilling inboxes,...
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Sheets
It all ends in sex or death, usually. Both even. I think I've been writing about shadows on bedroom walls and tangled sheets all of my life. These will, with some likelihood, be my last thoughts as...
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Keep an EyeOut: Silicon Allee and Gallery Weekend Berlin
So there is this app. The EyeOut app is the official application of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2013. It makes sure you won’t miss a thing. It helps you plan your art weekend in advance, but also allows...
View Article[VIDEO] Art Cologne 2013 Vernissage
Art Cologne is the world’s oldest and longest running fair for 20th and 21st century fine art. Founded in 1967 the fair for modern and contemporary art was once the undisputed number one. After some...
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Rupture of Form and Meaning
Wang Yuyang’s set of disparate sculptural constructions that make up “Liner,” at Tang Contemporary, betray their design by computer in their fantastically ornate, mathematical shapes, spurs and swoops...
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Caught in the Web
The Big Hoot, a new installation currently on view at CCA, is a towering and tangled sight to behold. The ceiling-high piece dominates the entire peripheral area of the warehouse-style Munoz Waxman...
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O the sleeping bag contains the body but not the dreaming head
In an intriguing gesture of enticement, the information provided on Altman Siegel’s sparse four-part installation is limited to the poem by Matthea Harvey, from which the exhibition borrows its title....
View Article[VIDEO] Hubert Czerepok: History and Utopia / Interview
In this video Hubert Czerepok guides us trough his exhibition History and Utopia presented at Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, Poland.“The latest project History and Utopia is both tracking authentic,...
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Doing the Dishes
When Joan Linder draws something she tends to do it with such intensity that the image on the page makes a monument out of whatever her subject may be. For her fifth solo show at Mixed Greens Linder’s...
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It's in a gallery but you can't have everything
Similarity and difference seems to be the theme of the current exhibition at Yvon Lambert. In one room we have Joan Jonas, presenting a video installation Reanimation II, a reworking of a piece...
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Domestica Dentata: A Tyranny of Details
Daniel Bauer’s photographs are hard to write about. His images are not easily encapsulated by description. I can more easily relate the experience of viewing them, which is slow and contemplative, or,...
View Article[VIDEO] Interview with Storm Janse van Rensburg
In 1968 the Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah published a brutal and visceral novel of (then) contemporary, post-Independent Ghana, titled “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born”. Armah recounts an...
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Interview with Nina Katchadourian
New York, May 2013: In conjunction with the release of the monograph Sorted Books, the latest installment of Nina Katchadourian’s ongoing series of organized bookspines and covers, Once Upon a Time in...
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Miami on the Radio: Patricia Margarita Hernandez's Electric Lunch
Pirate radio has a rich history in Miami, one of the most concentrated areas in the world where the production and dissemination of unlicensed sounds have long usurped unused airwaves. Emerging in the...
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Frieze New York: Literature and Art Fairs
The art fair as cultural event is pretty well established now. It makes sense to use the pretext of the weird art supermarket that forms the body of the fair as an excuse for a wider programme; it adds...
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A Mysterious Visit to Huberville
The Thomas Huber solo show at Akinci reminds me a little of the Atelier van Lieshout one at Grimm, which I reviewed here last December – if anything because they both revolve around the construction of...
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The Audience, Remixed: Haroon Mirza at Frieze Sounds
Haroon Mirza has made his reputation as an artist of the remix. He structures the unglamorous beeps and buzzes of antiquated audio technology into beats and melodies. But he also appreciates those...
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