Blog post by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2012
Rimi Yang’s paintings are a patchwork of abstract expressionist strokes and female figures, of western and eastern imagery, creating an inner sanctum where women of different times and cultures echo each other and meet…[read on…]
Text and photos by Barbara Confino – in New York; Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012
Artist and writer Barbara Confino’s new series, Walkabout: The City As Image, explores urban life as a visual experience. Functioning as both cameraman and editor, the walker sees the physical and human environment as if it were a film…[read on…]
Article by Lucia Love, photos by Anastasia Loginova – in New York; Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012.
UNTITLED. art fair was the place to be. You may have thought it was the Miami Convention Center, or a Soho Beach House after party, or maybe even Scope. But if you were really a savvy viewer, we were probably hanging out together at the only fair you could find directly on the beach….[read on…]
Blog Entry by Melissa King – in Berlin; Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.
HERE OR THERE is predominately a portraiture exhibition, a space where Oliver Jeffers takes an anthropological approach in rendering subjects of various religious and ethnographic backgrounds…[read on…]
Blog entry by Philomena Schurer Merckoll, Photos by Peter Cairns – in New York; Monday, Dec. 17, 2012.
Pop philosopher Alain de Botton talks of our modern day status anxiety, our concern of climbing not only the social ladder but the right one at that….[read on…]
Blog entry by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012.
Freischwimmer, Kazue Taguchi’s solo show at Lorch+Seidel Contemporary presents several works made of mylar spirals suspended from the ceiling, curves glued on the wall, and rings…[read on…]
Blog entry by Melissa King – in Berlin; Monday, Dec. 10, 2012.
Whether it is the fossil fuels that power our devices or rather the human neurons fired in creation of digital content, physical matter subsists the virtual world and the buzzing swarm of ‘info-matter’, which we find online…[read on…]
Blog entry by Melissa King – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012.
In anticipation of next year’s edition Contemplative Pathways, Toolkit Festival is hosting an open call to artists aged between 20-35 working in interactive new media art…[read on…]
Article by Evanna Folkenfolk – in Berlin; Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012.
For festivals focusing on arts, media and digital culture, newer and better are synonyms; technology and innovation are the paragons. This year, however, Berlin’s 2013 transmediale is doing things differently…[read on…]
Post by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012.
GYNAECEUM, historically a place of domestic seclusion (some would say “shelter”) from the outside world for women (wives, daughters, slaves), also served as a platform where they shared their desires and intimacies, as well as where they talked amongst themselves in a language of their own.
In an investigation of the GYNAECEUM, four young women…[read on…]
Article by Gustav Åkerberg – in New York City; Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012.
Once again, lights shine from a somewhat dreamy Manhattan skyline.
Same same but different as some buildings still gape empty, tearing
up dark holes in the dramatic scenery, reminding one of what went down…[read on…]
