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Nicolas Party
One Friday night this past September, Nicolas Party hosted a dinner party at The Modern Institute. Seated on stools painted like elephants, each of the twenty-four invited guests ate a seven-course meal designed by the artist, which included a single oyster; a fish; a sausage and a poached pear presented on a plate painted by [...]
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Charline von Heyl’s exhibition at Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom; Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
New York-based artist Charline von Heyl (1960, Germany) describes her style as “melodramatic abstraction,” a unique sensually charged take on the tradition of Abstract painting. Throughout her career, Von Heyl has built an impressive body of work that defies the limitations of existing mediums and styles. Her paintings are their “own weird universes,” she told [...]
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Artists Space: Books & Talks
A few blocks from their exhibition space on Greene Street, Artists Space has opened a new venue. Dedicated to the exchange of ideas through verbal and literary means, Artists Space: Books & Talks will host a variety of events. A comprehensive schedule of lectures, screenings, symposia and performances is sure to unfold, as well as [...]
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Sternberg Press publication exploring the work of graphic designer Zak Kyes
In an obituary for Steve Jobs, a long-time Apple supporter, writer and actor Stephen Fry wrote that it would be naive to maintain the distinction between style and substance. Today style determines usability no less than substances does. Current debates in the art world would be incomplete without considering the role graphic design plays in [...]
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“The Peripatetic School of Drawing” at the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá
“The Peripatetic School of Drawing” is a very appropriate title. On the one hand, it identifies the transient and wandering methodology of a group of artists who strive to understand the latin american territory by using drawing as a thought device vis-à-vis the landscape. On the other hand, the concept of “school” is rather fitting [...]
CURRENT ISSUE
ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS
interview by Catherine Wood
CATHERINE WOOD Your dances seem, alternately, like very private passages of thought and deliberately brash “showtime.” What is relationship between your “inside” and “outside” when it comes to inventing and performing dance? [...]
155 FREEMAN
interview by Chris Wiley
CHRIS WILEY To begin, can you each describe the impetus behind your projects, and how they first came about? LIGHT INDUSTRY Light Industry began in 2008. At that time, we were thinking about how New York [...]
THE RESURGENCE OF R&B
words by Tim Small
When, a few years from now, we look back at what’s happening now in pop music, we won’t be able to escape discussions of the resurgence of R&B. The contemporary renaissance of smooth sounds and soulful crooners has been felt [...]
CAMP + DANDYISM = NEO-CAMP
words by Chris Sharp
Soft, pure and uninflected colors. Lavender, yellow, baby blue. Peaceful interiors and the decorative accoutrements that populate them. Everything sharply delineated against unified grounds. Distinguishable. [...]
CATHY WILKES’S “NON-VERBAL,” 2005-2011
words by Isobel Harbison
Non-Verbal, as a title for a work, is a contradiction in terms. Non-verbal communication uses the paralanguages of gesture, image, arrangement, pitch, volume or intonation, rather than the written or spoken [...]
WEB SPECIALS
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL 2012
words by Alhena Katsof
The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, more commonly known as GI, is distinct from the conventional biennial in both format and duration. Running for approximately 20 days, its exuberant and rigorous program is [...]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Justin Lieberman answers to
Chris Sharp’s essay on
Neo Camp
Chris Sharp is rightly ambivalent in his excellent essay on the current uses of camp and dandyism by the artists [...]
LONDON PICTURES
words by Isobel Harbison
Last Sunday I went for a walk through Bermondsey, a newly affluent borough lining the river Thames in close proximity to the city’s financial district. It is not uncommon in London to see familiar faces on the [...]
LOCUS SOLUS: IMPRESSIONS OF RAYMOND ROUSSEL
words by Chris Sharp
This sprawling romp of an exhibition is as indomitable as the oeuvre of the writer who inspired it. No thousand word review could possibly begin to do justice to its breadth, complexity [...]
REVIEW:
NEW MUSEUM TRIENNIAL AND WHITNEY BIENNIAL, NEW YORK
words by Ingrid Chu
Let’s do the math: A three-year span. Plus two museums. Plus two museum curators and three guest curators. Plus eighty [...]
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UTE META BAUER
interview by Carson Chan
CARSON CHAN You curated the Third Berlin Biennial in 2004, and the theme was Berlin itself. The social, economic and historic context of the city was source material for your curation, operating in what Maria Lind [...]
ED ATKINS
interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
HANS ULRICH OBRIST I wanted to ask you about how it all started. How did you come to art, or did art come to you? Was it an epiphany or a gradual process?
ED ATKINS In retrospect, it seems [...]
PIERRE HUYGHE
interview by Barbara Casavecchia
BARBARA CASAVECCHIA This summer, I read Douglas Coupland’s book on Marshall Mcluhan, You Know Nothing of My Work! and found something I thought you might like: Mcluhan says that the work of the artist [...]
PRADA
Nicholas Cullinan and
Francesco Vezzoli in conversation
NICHOLAS CULLINAN The first question is long and usually horrifies people when I wonder it aloud. I think the art world is a lot more like the fashion world than it wants to [...]
NEW JERSEYY
words By Quinn Latimer
What does New Jersey mean to you? To me, it once meant the ever-mocked and maligned state just across the Hudson River from Manhattan; christmas marathons of The Sopranos television series on my mother’s couch [...]
LECTURE CULTURE
words by Luca Cerizza
“The art of storytelling is coming to an end,” wrote Walter Benjamin in the opening section of his essay “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov.” Published in October 1936, the essay is a touchstone [...]
KEEP THE CAR RUNNING
words by Michele D’Aurizio
The cul-de-sac became part of the design of American suburbs in the second decade of the twentieth century. A feature in Arab cities since the nineteenth century, its use was legally codified in the United Kingdom with [...]
BERNADETTE CORPORATION
interview by Annie Ochmanek
ANNIE OCHMANEK As Chris Kraus wrote in her review of your Greene Naftali show “The Complete Poem,” Bernadette Corporation has a notable ability to “stat[e] the obvious in all its complexity.” This describes not [...]
EXPERIMENTAL COLLECTIBLE
Lionel Bovier and AA Bronson
in conversation
LIONEL BOVIER During the five decades that saw its emergence, identification, categorization, institutionalization, spread and hybridization, the artist’s book [...]
RON NAGLE
interview by Sterling Ruby
STERLING RUBY I am sitting here looking at a yellow work of yours that I own called Wall Street Gerbil. It has had a place in our house for a few years now, and I enjoy it quite a bit. There has been a lot of debate [...]
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
interview by Markus Miessen
MARKUS MIESSEN Doug, when I say “pop,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam!
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GREG PARMA SMITH
interview by Nicolás Guagnini
GREG PARMA SMITH In your interview with John Miller, you said that you abhor colored pencils and representation as a starting point for art. Meanwhile, I apparently love spending months and months in [...]
MARK LECKEY
interview By Mark Fisher
MARK FISCHER Maybe we could start off by talking about the role of popular culture in your work. Why do you focus on popular culture?
MARK LECKEY Popular culture is just things that are immediate [...]
POP RIGHT NOW
Bettina Funcke,
Massimiliano Gioni and
John Miller moderated by
Joanna Fiduccia With a postscript by Boris Groys
JOANNA FIDUCCIA I want to begin [...]
STEVEN SHEARER
words by Dieter Roelstraete
Through no fault or design of my own, a chance visit to Minneapolis provided just the right inspirational occasion for jotting down a few thoughts on the new and not-so-new work of Vancouver-based artist Steven [...]
