Archive for November, 2009

Kathy Ryan On Prune – Abstracting Reality, Foam, Amsterdam

The exhibition ‘PRUNE – abstracting reality’ focuses on the complex but intriguing relationship between realism and abstraction in contemporary photography. The exhibition includes only photographic work that is based on reality but which depicts this reality with a greater or lesser degree of abstraction.
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Matthew Collings At The Oxford Union Part 1

Matthew Collings defends contemporary art at the Oxford Union in a debate which took place on 5 November 2009. The motion was: "This house believes that...

David Maljkovic At Sprueth Magers, Berlin

David Maljkovic The work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic engages with the heritage of modern utopias. His films, drawings, sculptures and installations often evolve around the potential of monuments...

'So colour is basically about history. To animate colour is historic in the way that the image will tell us about the future and the past.' André Butzer Dominated...

Bianca Brigitte Bonomi On The Art Festival At Hay, Hay-on-wye

Richard Wentworth Last weekend saw the second annual Crunch: The Art Festival at Hay. The rain poured down on the sleepy book town of Hay-on-Wye, famed for its...

Harun Farocki At Raven Row, London

For his first UK exhibition the revered German filmmaker Harun Farocki is showing nine video installations from his first two-screen project 'Interface' in 1995 to 'Immersion', 2009, about...

Jerry Saltz On Performa 09, New York

Clockwise from top left, Performa 09's opening-night gala, Fischerspooner's Inbetween Worlds, Tamar Ettun and Emily Coates's Empty Is Also, and William Kentridge's I Am Not Me, the Horse...

Magdalena Hutter: Saatchi Online Critic's Choice By Victoria Chaine Mendrzyk

Magdalena Hutter, 'Islay Bar', 2007 Magdalena Hutter, 'Spray', 2007 Magdalena Hutter, 'Laphroaig Warehouse 2', 2007 Magdalena Hutter is a German photographer and documentary filmmaker. She has traveled many countries to work...

Showdown: The Finalists Of Round Six Announced

Dmitriy Kedrin Geert Verbruggen Congratulations to the two finalists of the sixth round of the sixth SHOWDOWN competition, Dmitriy Kedrin and Geert Verbruggen. They will now go head-to-head until...

Jerry Saltz's Book Launch And David Hockney At Pace Wildenstein, New York

James Kalm makes a pilgrimage of fandom to the book launch party for Jerry Saltz's latest literary endeavor 'Seeing Out Louder'. The sequel to 'Seeing Out Loud', this...