by Emma S. Hazen LAB REPORT: Carsten Höller: Experience ABSTRACT The New Museum is a laboratory and its visitors are the test subjects with the current show, Carsten Höller: Experience. In this article, I present my current research on the subject, including discussion with the exhibition’s curator, Massimiliano Gioni. The museum will be conducting research … Read more
by Janet Bruesselbach Frieze is the fourth art fair I’ve tasked myself with reporting. I’m not sure how extensively I should discuss the parts of it that are the same as all other art fairs. There is some absurdity to traveling to London for it, considering that the majority of the galleries exhibiting there are … Read more
….This (the) main exhibition titled” Illuminations” and curated by ” Bice Curiger was especially bright went it came to the Katarina Fritsch’s work in the garden area of the arsenale (not to be confused with the Giardini where the national pavillions are in another seperate enclosure) . Here in an outdoor waterside convergence four large and … Read more
The Inflorescence of the Sparkling Evil “The Inflorescence of the Sparkling Evil” transcended primitive desires and needs through technological mediums including video-art-sculptures and graphic design. With these technological inventions human emotion becomes further removed from the physical, and rather, is expressed through the intangible screen. Evils … Read more
on the paintings of Janet Bruesselbach A studious fidelity to perceptual nuances, etc. -> First aspect one notices. This “studiousness” is a double-edged sword. On one side, she paints in a style timelessly reminiscent of the Academy. Which one?
Adonis, Selected Poems, translated by Khaled Mattawa. Yale University Press, 2010. 400 Pages. Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis, the pen name of Ali Ahmad Esber, has written more than fifty books of poetry, criticism, and translations in his native Arabic. He has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. He has been awared prizes in … Read more
Art Review: “Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture” at MoMA (through April 25, 2011) What you didn’t learn in college By Piri Halasz Many recent college graduates this winter are finding “Abstract … Read more
The art of Joy Mancini has a true home in the gallery at Tribes. Her paintings have a visceral quality that would seem to belie the intricate narratives they present. Using relatively simple pallets, Joy creates a visual texture that the eyes must learn to decipher, like a map. Each painting has a legend, a … Read more
The first time I met David Hammons, here in New York, he was running around on his bicycle. The last time he came by Tribes, he told me he was doing an instillation in Vienna, which consisted of nothing but smells. I gave it some thought. Smells? When David and I first became buddies, … Read more
by Janet Bruesselbach “A free society is one in which it is safe to be unpopular.” –Adlai Stevenson Unpop has a variety of playful reactions to both art as commodity and the political legacy of pop art. Art is a commodity so oversupplied that it may be the testing grounds for a post-scarcity economy. Its … Read more
