Fan Mail: Suchitra Mattai
Suchitra Mattai’s work turns about conceptual and material inversions. It thrives on site-specificity while rejecting its basic premise—that specificity necessarily connotes place-ness. Having been...
View ArticleDel Kathryn Barton: The Highway Is a Disco at ARNDT Singapore
Framed against a starlit sky, two female figures with feathered hair and large, limpid eyes sit astride blue and purple kangaroos. Their lush, naked bodies are stark white against a vibrant canvas of...
View ArticleAnselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA
Imagine a corrugated metal shed in which two facing walls tower twenty-five feet high and extend fifty-eight feet in length. Each interior wall is paneled with fifteen six-foot by nine-foot Anselm...
View ArticleFan Mail: Susan Cantrick
Though Susan Cantrick’s paintings are composed mostly of abstracted planes of color, they defy any notion of flatness. The more one looks at Cantrick’s rich fields of color and intricate sections of...
View ArticleCullen Washington Jr.: The Land Before Words at 808 Gallery
From our friends at Big Red & Shiny, today we bring you a review of Cullen Washington Jr.’s paintings at 808 Gallery at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Author Shawn Hill points out,...
View ArticleChun Kwang Young: Assemblage
Chun Kwang Young’s Assemblage at Art Plural Gallery is a series of three-dimensional sculptural works wrapped with Korean mulberry paper and assembled within the two-dimensional frame of a canvas....
View ArticleDavid Altmejd: Interior Labyrinth
Mixed media—that creative collision of materials rarefied and commonplace, refined and raw—is, one might say, something of a given in the contemporary art world. The Hirshhorn’s Over, Under, Next:...
View ArticleNew Waves, Korea
A dominant feature of contemporary Asian art has always been the reflection of cultural and historical frameworks within which such works are produced: firmly entrenched in tradition, yet...
View ArticleGabríela Friðriksdóttir: Crepusculum
Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, Crepusculum, 2011. Photo from Video, 29:00 mins / ed. 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2011 Photo Jirí Hroník. Comprising only a large...
View ArticleVideo, an Art, a History 1965 – 2010
Bruce Nauman, Going Around the Corner Piece, 1970, © Coll. Centre Pompidou. Photo: Georges Meguerditchian In the self-explanatory show entitled Video, an Art, a History 1965 – 2010, the history and...
View ArticleIsa Genzken: Wind
Wind (Rom), 2009; plastic, poster, wallpaper, spray paint, loops, screws; 209 x 202 cm. In William Gibson‘s 1986 novel Count Zero, an abandoned but sentient AI robot composes art objects from detritus...
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