Natilee Harren
“Needles in the Camel’s Eye”
October 2012
As is well known, artists such as Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler emerged in the late 1970s with work that effected a critique of representation through the détournement of photographic and filmic tropes. This unusually tight summer show … READ ON
IN PRINT October 2012 [TOC]
Farrah Karapetian
March 2012
Early on in the protests that prompted President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation and the end of a nearly six-decade-long secular dictatorship in Egypt, an illustrated tactical brochure was leaked online and translated into English for Western… READ ON
IN PRINT March 2012 [TOC]
Alison O’Daniel
Alison O’Daniel talks about Night Sky
January 2012
Alison O’Daniel works across disciplines, combining sculpture, sound, painting, performance, and films with live accompaniment. Her seventy-five minute film Night Sky recently premiered at Anthology Film Archives as part of Performa 11 … READ ON
500 WORDS
Bobbi Woods Annie
December 2011
One often hears the work of Bobbi Woods referred to as “very LA,” for the majority of her work incorporates movie posters, culled from online vendors and Hollywood memorabilia shops, whose images and language the artist selectively masks… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2011 [TOC]
Matt Lipps
November 2011
Ansel Adams’s 1933 photograph Storeroom, M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, depicts an unruly crowd in the institution’s storage vault: smiling kouroi, draped Venuses, and other ancient statuary with legs and arms akimbo. Rather than… READ ON
IN PRINT November 2011 [TOC]
Vincent Ramos
April 2011
Art brut aside, alternate meanings of “outsider” resonate widely in Vincent Ramos’s latest project, “Outsider Art: Others from Elsewhere Doing Something Altogether Different . . . Sort Of,” an evolving installation that is at once… READ ON
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Luke Fowler and Toshiya Tsunoda
April 2011
The documentary films of Luke Fowler have rapidly achieved renown for their experimental style—a mélange of archival footage, new interviews, and scenes of everyday surroundings joined together to form only the loosest semblance of narrative.… READ ON
IN PRINT April 2011 [TOC]
“Worlds in a Box: Mary Bauermeister and the Experimental Art of the Sixties”
January 2011
This exhibition provides not only a thorough introduction to the lens boxes of the underappreciated German artist Mary Bauermeister but also an overview of the widespread turn by artists in the 1960s to the box, a development unquestionably… READ ON
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“The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future”
December 2010
In this smartly curated homage to the largest-ever display of Islamic art, held in Munich in 1910, roughly thirty of the exhibition’s original objects, dating from as early as 600 CE, are joined by contemporary works from artists with ties… READ ON
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Monica Bonvicini
December 2010
Entering Monica Bonvicini’s exhibition “Both Ends,” one became caught in a face-off between two works that confronted each other across the kunsthalle’s atrium. In the rotunda on one side was the seven-paneled arc of These Days Only… READ ON