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AND Publishing: The Piracy Project at Grand UnionLaura Onions | Feb 13, 2014
Artists from all disciplines take existing works and remodel them, appropriating new from old. The methods for this are hugely varied and can fall in to the purposeful or accidental. The latest exhibition at Grand …
William Burroughs 100 at RiflemakerSimone Gordon | Feb 12, 2014
On 30 January 2014 I attended a private view of Riflemaker gallery’s William Burroughs 100 exhibition, celebrating the centenary of his birth on 5 February 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri. Burroughs was an innovative writer …
The world seen through the eye of Google Satellite: Infrastructure, an exhibition by Jenny OdellDiana Gadaldi | Feb 12, 2014
On February 5th, 2014, the Bay Area native artist Jenny Odell opened her latest solo exhibition at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) …
Le Corbusier: An atlas of modern landscapes at CaixaForum BarcelonaSusana Lopez Fernandez | Feb 11, 2014
Charles Édouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in Le Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland on 6th October 1887. Since January 29 until May 11, it is possible to discover a retrospective of Le Corbusier’s artworks at CaixaForum, Barcelona. Le Corbusier, …
Made in Commons at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau. Practicing art in communal lifeAlessandra Saviotti | Feb 10, 2014
We are living in a moment where, in order to define the distances, we do not mention kilometers any more, but flight hours. The perception of space and time is changing quickly, so institutions feel …
55″ – Images of Sea Level Rise – Abstraction Meets RealityKay Rodriques | Feb 7, 2014
A new exhibition, part science and part art, is now showing near the San Mateo Bridge on the eastern shore of the the San Francisco Bay. It is, 55″ — Images of Sea Level Rise …
New Tate film series 4. Unlock Art: Where Are The Women?Gowri Balasegaram | Feb 6, 2014
Why are there so few good women artists? How many times have we heard that said, and often by people who claim to possess some knowledge of art? The struggle by women artists to achieve …
Hannah Höch – Another ‘big girl’ on show at the Whitechapel GalleryCaterina Berardi | Feb 5, 2014
Going to the Whitechapel Gallery is always a pleasure. Exhibitions are rather simple but very effective, perfectly matching the beautiful galleries of the building. Since its opening in 1901, the Whitechapel Gallery has always strived …
Vivarium at Corvi-Mora, LondonGowri Balasegaram | Feb 4, 2014
Described as an enclosure or mini ecosystem for raising fauna or flora, a vivarium, is an artifice created for the purpose of study or pleasure. At the eponymous group exhibition at Corvi-Mora, art is appropriated …
The Portrait Room. Portrait#7: Etienne WynantsMichela Alessandrini | Feb 3, 2014
Etienne did not want to meet me, at the beginning. Etienne Wynants (born where and when? I did not ask him) is a Belgian art historian, managing editor of Witte Raaf, and business coordinator …
Karen Lofgren’s “Trajectory Object” Buried at High Desert Test SitesKimberly Nichols | Jan 31, 2014
From 2010 through 2013, artist Karen Lofgren was mentally occupied by the nature of time and the idea that we, as human beings, take it for granted as relatively concrete. Within our life spans we …
Navigating our geographies, with Corrie Siegel by our sideOlivia Fales | Jan 31, 2014
Corrie Siegel is more than an LA-based artist; she is a communities-based artist. Her multidisciplinary exhibition, Star Tours, drives this forward: a nomadic initiative, the project ventures to unite visitors with Los Angeles’ diverse landscape– …
