Archive for May, 2007

'21 Positions' At The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

From Markus Schinwald’s portraits of contortionists to Iris Klein’s eerily human solarised prints of her trademark ghost-like puppets captured in the woods, the legacy of Viennese Actionism and Austrian artists’ subsequent concern with the body’s presence is palpable in this show of contemporary Austrian photography, on til 25 August.

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Trent Morse On Biographical Landscape: The Photographs Of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979, At Icp, New York

You can almost taste the dust in Stephen Shore's photographs of rural America. He captures the discrete comeliness of nondescript townscapes with all the exuberance of a...

Laura K Jones On Memorial To A War, Ica, London

Sam Durant, Proposal for Iraq War Memorial, Symbolic Transposition of effects of war in Iraq to the U.S. and England: 10 Downing St., Parliament, U.S. Capitol and the...

Bonkersfest At South London Gallery, London

Still from Wu Xiao Kang's photographic project presented by A Dose of Light This Saturday Bonkersfest! and the South London Gallery will present four new visual and live art...

Justin Lieberman On Daniel Gordon At Zach Feuer, New York

'Jacob'' 2007 C-print, 20" x 24" 'Man and Bicycle', 2007 C-print. 30" x 40" In the photographs of Daniel Gordon, there is a morality play at work that generates an internal dialogue...

San Francisco & Los Angeles Gallery Round-up

Tauba Auerbach. Tauba Auerbach. A while after giving up on finding that famous San Francisco vernacular in the shape of Barry McGee/Margaret Kilgallen murals on a street corner we stopped...

Photo London 2007 Talks And Events

Lisa Kereszi, Gael dressing, State Palace Theater, New Orleans, LA, 2000 Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC Photo-london opens this Thursday at Old Billingsgate presenting 56 exhibitors from 10 countries...

Loop Video Art Fair, Barcelona

A still from Alexandra Navratil's homage to the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, 'Your Face consumes my Dreams' Until 3 June Barcelona is hosting a massive video art extravanganza....

Jorg Immendorff 1945 – 2007

Jorg Immendorff, 'Café Deutschland: Contemplating The Question - Where Do I Stand', 1987 oil on canvas, 250 x 330cm "Art is universal. That may sound like a cliché, but art...

This Week's News Round-up

CHRISTOPH BUCHEL SHOW FINALLY OPENS - BUT UNDER WRAPS We reported a few weeks ago on the dispute over an exhibition by Swiss artist Christoph Buchel which was meant...