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Interview with Nina Katchadourian

New York, May 2013: In conjunction with the release of the monograph Sorted Books, the latest installment of Nina Katchadourian’s ongoing series of organized bookspines and covers, Once Upon a Time in...

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Episodic Encounters: “We read, we travel, we become”

It is interesting to note that in the title of German artist Mario Pfeifer’s film ‘A Formal Film in Nine Episodes: Prologue and Epilogue’ at Project 88, the place eludes mention. Pfeifer films Mumbai,...

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Frieze New York: Literature and Art Fairs

The art fair as cultural event is pretty well established now. It makes sense to use the pretext of the weird art supermarket that forms the body of the fair as an excuse for a wider programme; it adds...

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Miami on the Radio: Patricia Margarita Hernandez's Electric Lunch

Pirate radio has a rich history in Miami, one of the most concentrated areas in the world where the production and dissemination of unlicensed sounds have long usurped unused airwaves. Emerging in the...

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A Mysterious Visit to Huberville

The Thomas Huber solo show at Akinci reminds me a little of the Atelier van Lieshout one at Grimm, which I reviewed here last December – if anything because they both revolve around the construction of...

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The Audience, Remixed: Haroon Mirza at Frieze Sounds

Haroon Mirza has made his reputation as an artist of the remix. He structures the unglamorous beeps and buzzes of antiquated audio technology into beats and melodies. But he also appreciates those...

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Giving FOOD its due: “FOOD 1971/2013”

This year’s Frieze New York fair sees the Projects portion of its programming celebrating FOOD, the historic restaurant-artwork hybrid most associated with artist Gordon Matta-Clark. While the...

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Special Edition: Frieze New York #1

ART AND LITERATURELydia Davis at Frieze Talks prompts James Thompson to compare the visual and the literaryThe art fair as cultural event is pretty well established now. It makes sense to use the...

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The desert, the edge of the city

Those who say that Los Angeles has no history would do well to drive east. There, the signs of the past ten or twenty years, at least, are unmistakable. Ever newer developments, stamped with KB Homes'...

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Special Edition: Frieze New York #2

THE AUDIENCE, REMIXEDHaroon Mirza at Frieze Sounds, by Ryan WongHaroon Mirza has made his reputation as an artist of the remix. He structures the unglamorous beeps and buzzes of antiquated audio...

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Tracing the Origin: Meditations

I remembered my desire to meditate more often when I visited “Cui Fei: Tracing the Origin” at Chambers Fine Art. The moment I ducked into the gallery I was overcome with a sense of quietude. I muttered...

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A Landscape After a Storm

John Coplans’ essay, “Pasadena’s Collapse and the Simon Takeover: Diary of Disaster” written for Artforum in 1975, unravels the mirages and problems that the Pasadena Art Museum faced before being...

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The Maudit, Thomas Zipp

The spaces of Kaufmann Repetto gallery in Milan smell of blood, medicine and hospital. The walls are covered with a black shiny varnish and the neon lights on the ceiling spread their cold beams over...

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Special Edition: SF

READY, SET, ART FAIR!Highlights from artMRKT and ArtPadSF, by Christina Catherine MartinezThis week, San Francisco will be treated to not one, but two contemporary art fairs. ArtMRKT San Francisco and...

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Ready, Set, Art Fair!

This week, San Francisco will be treated to not one, but two contemporary art fairs. ArtMRKT San Francisco and ArtPadSF will both take place May 16 - 19th, and it behooves an art lover to visit both if...

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What is tumblr Art?

On Friday, May 17th at ArtPadSF, tumblr is hosting the TUMBLR ARTS SUMMIT. Moderated by Annie Werner, the panel is meant to discuss tumblr as a platform for the arts. Kara Q. Smith of ArtSlant SF, Open...

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The Phenomenology of Sugar

Welcome to CANDYLAB. Walk amongst the sculpted molecular derivatives of glucose and color, and find and lose yourself in the plethora of sugared forms.Having opened on Berlin Gallery Weekend, Thomas...

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Infinite Corpse: Crowd Sourcing New Media

Most of you are probably familiar with the Surrealist game “exquisite corpse,” where a composite drawing is created in sequence by a group of artists adhering to some predetermined set of rules (no...

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A Landscape After the Storm

John Coplans’ essay, “Pasadena’s Collapse and the Simon Takeover: Diary of Disaster” written for Artforum in 1975, unravels the mirages and problems that the Pasadena Art Museum faced before being...

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Special Edition: SF

READY, SET, ART FAIR!Highlights from artMRKT and ArtPadSF, by Christina Catherine MartinezThis week, San Francisco will be treated to not one, but two contemporary art fairs. ArtMRKT San Francisco and...

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