Post-Internet Artists Crack Open Our Technological Past Editor’s note: old news A group show at Paris’s Galerie Charlot uses bygone tools and techniques to explore modern media. PARIS — Curator Valentina Peri has made smart, cross-generational, idea-based choices when formulating her excellent group show Archéonauts, the best of the Paris season. Citing Michel Foucault’s Archeology of Knowledge, the …
Heterotopic space opera | Vue Weekly, September 7, 2017 by Stephan Boissonneault Editor’s note: old news Travis McEwen’s exhibit tackles themes in an inventive sci-fi world Working in the medium of vibrant painting, Travis McEwen explores the themes of gender identity, queerness, science fiction, and the abstract in his exhibit, The Arch: Plans for a Heterotopic …
Stuffed corpse of philosopher Jeremy Bantham to fly to USA | Daily Mail Online By Lara Keay, 25 February 2018 Leading 19th century thinker wanted his remains to be preserved after he died His will instructed friends to strip out his flesh and stuff and dress his corpse He has been on display at University …
January 19 – Mar 10 2018 EX-VOTO the body + the institution – Galway Arts Centre Lucy Beech Jenna Bliss Cecilia Bullo Judy Foley Sinéad Gleeson Rajinder Singh “the cataclysm which was my body…this dislocated assemblage, this piece of damaged geology.”The Peyote Dance, Antonin Artaud Ex-Voto is a group exhibition that addresses the colonisation of …
Mark Feeney, Wishing Magnum Photos a happy 70th birthday, Boston Globe, 21 July 2017 NEW YORK — The Psalmist allows threescore and 10 as the years for a human life. So when a person turns 70, that’s an occasion. Institutions seem to prefer three-quarter intervals. Seventy just starts the countdown to 75. Yet it makes …
Amelia Melbourne-Hayward, Temporary environments | Architecture Now, 22 August 2016 Young New Zealand artist Jillian Whitmore explores the intersection between art and architecture with her translucent watercolours. Whitmore will be exhibiting a solo exhibition titled Juncture at the Fine Arts Whanganui Gallery, opening Friday 26 August 2016. Here, she speaks with Amelia Melbourne-Hayward about her …
Multimedia artist feels free as he gets back to basics By Lin Qi, China Daily/Asia News Network Thursday, September 1, 2016 Art graduates are now increasingly opting to create installations, videos and other mixed-media pieces. But You Jin is different. The artist, who majored in multimedia art, is focusing on painting — a subject that …
Observer blog – Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong) will showcase a neon text installation by French artist Laurent Grasso (*1972). Over seven meters wide, Visibility is a Trap, 2012, is a direct reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of Panopticism as elaborated in the theorist’s seminal text ‘Discipline and Punish’ (1975). Picture from the archello site
The Art of Thought Press release PDF April 13th – May 6th 2016 Exhibition at The Cob Gallery 205 Royal College Street London NW1 0SG All artworks are available for purchase. The Cob Gallery is delighted to present celebrated Russian artist Sam Kaprielov’s new exhibition ‘The Art of Thought’ on 14th April. The show …
RAYMOND ROUSSEL Galerie Buchholz 17 East 82nd Street, Manhattan Through Aug. 29 2015 via Review: The Writer Raymond Roussel and His Legacy, at Galerie Buchholz – The New York Times. The German dealer Daniel Buchholz, long a fixture on the contemporary art scene in Cologne and Berlin, has opened a gallery in Manhattan and, for …
