Archive for July, 2008

Anthony Haden-guest's Beijing Diary

A long wall painted with officially sanctioned graffiti glides by as you approach Beijing’s 798 Art District – ‘No. 4. IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING’ one section crows. In English. The largest of several Art Zones to have budded in the city over the last few years, 798 is gated, and security was hovering in the form of twenty-somethings in short-sleeved white shirts. This is China and now with the Olympics the world’s hugest nation is on tippy-toed alert. jianyi3TINY.jpg

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Publish And Be Damned, The Rochelle School, London

Publish and Be Damned, the One-Day Self-Publishing Fair is in its 5th year and will again take place at Rochelle School on Sunday 3rd August 2008. The fair...

Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing And Sculpture At Like The Spice, Williamsburg

Rodger Stevens 'Forming Lines: Translations Between Drawing and Sculpture' examines the many relationships between sculpture and drawing. The show features works by Rachel Beach, Seth Cohen, Beka Goedde, Abby...

Adam E Mendelsohn On Robert Wilson's 15th Annual Watermill Benefit Including A New Installation By Jonathan Meese

Crowd with Baba Anand piece Simon de Pury Rufus Wainwright Marina Abramovic (copyright Patrick McMullan) Anthony Haden-Guest with friend Taipei performer Jonathan Meese sculpture Jonathan Meese Dalia Oberlander and Amanda Hearst (copyright Patrick McMullan) Rufus Wainright, Kim Cattrall and...

Debut: Jennifer West At Vilma Gold, London

Ever heard that green M&M's and mezcal worms are aphrodisiacs or that Kurt Cobain used to dye his hair with red Kool-Aid? Urban myth or 'absolute truth', the...

Mikhael Subotzky And Josephine Meckseper At Moma, New York

Mikhael Subotzky, Samuel (standing), Vaalkoppies (Beaufort West rubbish dump), 2006 Lightjet C print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper Image size 105.5 X 128.5 cm (Edition 1-4) Image size 82 X 100cm...

James Kalm's Brooklyn Canon

Meeting circle for "Organism," (1993), Old Dutch Mustard Factory. The Brooklyn Canon: Airbrushed Out of History by James Kalm He was a goner, a nonentity, and although he's had a perfectly...

Tomma Abts At The Hammer Museum, La

Veeke, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 x 38 cm. Thiale, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 x 38 cm Loert, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 x 38 cm Tomma...

Juan Fontanive At Riflemaker, London

'I like to make things that dance...' Juan Fontanive Juan Fontanive's debut exhibition at Riflemaker consisted of a room of 'paper films'; mechanical flipbooks housed in tin cannisters reminiscent...

Chantal Joffe In Conversation With Ana Finel Honigman

A model is supposed to personify abstract ideals for countless people. In reality, models are tall, lovely young women or teenage girls. But whether she is impersonating a...