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The exhibition, located in the beautiful but cruelly un-heated Fondazione 107, uses photographic works, videos, installations and sculptures to document a moment of extraordinary transformation for an area that is five times bigger than Europe. The result is bold and exciting with its mix of "globalization", acceleration, pre-soviet and islamic traditions continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Letizia Battaglia's pictures, because of the corruption, silence, violence and suffering they laid bare, played a crucial role in the anti-mafia campaign. They show anti-mafia Judge Cesare Terranova shot in his car, corpses of mafiosi found by the road, tears of the wives and mothers when they discover the scene of the crime, arrests of the mafia boss, teenagers pretending to be though guys with attitude...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Calculating Space is a delicate sculpture made of sticks, strings and little plumbs. The fragility and transparency of its structure reveals as much as it hides the logic and functioning of the machine. Its units operate like a very basic artifical neural network continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In a series of symbiotic encounters and parasitic relationships, the solo presentations are often interrupted by incongruous presences or perturbed by unusual juxtapositions: drawings by Kara Walker surround a tomb by Urs Fischer; Maurizio Cattelan's homeless man kneels down in front of Kiki Smith's Bat Woman; Robert Gober's haunted rooms incorporate Gregor Schneider's architectural fragments, etc....
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd., Adam Zaretsky and Waag Society's temporary research and education institute on Art and Life Sciences, will be focusing this month on body art continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
This year the wooden pavilion, designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1956, hosts a collection of Fire & Rescue Museum by Jussi Kivi. The artist's museum project is based on his long-term passion of collecting every imaginable item that ever has had something to do with firefighting continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The installation echoes the artist's concern for the relentless threats against Iran made by many countries in recent years. Sentences that include "attack Iran" are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers continue...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Everyday, someone cleans the marble floors of the Palazzo with a mop dipped in water mixed with the blood found on the site of murders committed during the drug wars in Northern Mexico. How long will traces of it remain on the sole of your shoes? continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Nathalie Djurberg looks like a porcelain doll. She makes candy-coloured plasticine puppets who have have orgies, who torture each other and suffer alien, abusive relationships. Sometimes they have fun but that involves a tiger licking a girl's bottom or a father who will eventually be killed by his own daughter. Djurberg, who won the Silver Lion award for best young artist at the Biennale, was the...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón has opened a very very good exhibition a few days ago. 'FEEDFORWARD - The Angel of History' addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed...
Madam Miaow says ... (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
A few strokes from web folks. Look what the nice people at Politics.co.uk have to say : One thing stands out above all from this blog: the excellence of Madam Miaow's writing. Her commentary is consistently strong, especially on Chinese cultural and political issues, and unsurprisingly - given her comedic background - the sense of humour is top-class. We really enjoy reading this blog not because of...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I doubt there are many galleries like Heliumcowboy. First there's that name. Charming and puzzling. Not even an interview with the gallery director has helped me uncover its origin. Then of course there's the artists the space represents. Since its opening in 2003, heliumcowboy has been showcasing artists 'who are capable of pushing boundaries, are a little underground and whose aesthetic is the forecast...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
One of the most striking artworks at the Arsenale for me was Pascale Marthine Tayou's installation 'Human Being' which fills in a gigantic room with a bric-a-brac of objects, furniture made of recycled material, colourful figures, videos and urban noises that re-creates the activity of that small village that we call our world continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
With this project, Hans E. Thorsen wishes to explore how the reconstruction of another artists work can be worked into ones own production and how the public artwork will transform inside the white cube, with its many corners and structures. continue
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