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"The Best Art In The World"
In relation to his film work, which often refines the dross of civic participation and the failure of political leadership, German multimedia artist Marcel Odenbach brings us collage work at Anton Kern read more...
This foray into abstraction is a departure for Sears, whose previous focus on figurative work defined her earlier career. Although hints of representational forms can be seen when reading between her lines, the effect is not intentional. At close-range, the graphite lines can still be detected, describing winding impulsive trajectories across the plane of abstract compositions read more...
Ask the Cavellini Festival organizer, curator and artist Mark Bloch who his heroes in the art world are read more...
"I feel like I have a number of modes of making thinking and working on things. Over time my vocabulary seems to expand and more modes strike me as interesting and I feel like, in a sense, I become more comfortable and confident using this language (of painting) in whatever way might strike me without second guessing too much." read more...
In 1918, Dziga Vertov made a death-defying leap across rooftops and filmed it with a slow motion camera. Years later, the Soviet filmmaker wrote in his notebook that when he saw the result of that risky jump projected onto a screen, he did not recognize his face, but could recognize his thoughts and emotions. read more...
Bowie at his best is grandiosity reached orbit, as with his Ziggy Stardust. That work was inexpressive of the hype to follow. It reached subversive trajectory, according to English philosopher Simon Critchley in his slight, silly but fun book BOWIE, based on his discovering the glam icon in 1972 at age twelve. read more...
Heffernan succeeds in alerting us to the gravity of the impending environmental scenario. Whether she intends to convey a somewhat pessimistic point of view, or to offer the prospect of hope, is less clear. read more...
Fujita, who became an active tagger when he was just a kid, describes graffiti as the door that opened up for him into the fine art world. read more...
An aura of symbolism surrounds the subject-matter Rossin has chosen to portray. One is reminded of Georgia O'Keefe and of the vaginal significance ascribed to flowers generally. read more...
The members of 312 Bowery Group sit down for a group interview read more...
The Invisible Cities show at Bosi Contemporary presents a cogent visual dichotomy of two artists read more...