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Massimo Minini: Forty Years of Contemporary ArtEleonora Salvi | Jan 13, 2014
Bonaspetti and Minini agreed that the criterion for the works’ selection on show would been simply: “The unsold”. A curious license that made the exhibition at the Triennale in Milan dedicated to Massimo Minini, a …
Mix 9 Artists and What Do You Get?Joel Hagen | Jan 10, 2014
One of the goals of a well-tuned barbershop quartet is the distinct “fifth voice,” which is an acoustic phenomenon found when four rich voices sing certain chords. The harmonics align just right to create a …
Alexander Calder: He lets sculpture breatheOlivia Fales | Jan 9, 2014
Alexander Calder will make you think twice about air currents. They are the unseen forces that propel his mobile sculptures, whimsical feats of engineering in which abstract bodies of shape and line draw attention to …
Inter-Fluxus at Barjola MuseumSusana Lopez Fernandez | Jan 8, 2014
When the Second World War finished the spirit of Dada came back. Around two fabled characters as John Cage and George Marcianus, it was born Fluxus - a name taken from the Latin meaning flow, …
Michela Alessandrini | Jan 7, 2014
Peter Hutton does not like digital cameras but likes mint candies very much. American independent filmmaker Peter Hutton was born in Detroit in 1944. He has taught at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, and …
Benjamin Reiss: Creating to UnderstandOlivia Fales | Jan 3, 2014
The human body is a complex machine- we know this. If a sculpture’s framework evokes the body, you can bet that it, too, is complex. Bejamin Reiss’s sculpture Automobile (2009-2012), a life-size tower of colorful …
The House That Agnès Built. Agnès Varda at LACMAEmily Kramer | Jan 2, 2014
If you recognize the house as a symbol of the self, then you’ll get the subtle joke of Agnès Varda’s film house installations, one of which is up at LACMA through June 22nd, 2014. The structure, …
Rituals of Rented Island at the Whitney Museum of American ArtRobin Newman | Dec 24, 2013
Rituals of Rented Island currently on view at The Whitney Museum is a groundbreaking reinvestigation of downtown New York art from 1970-1980. The exhibition returns to the beginnings of New York performance art in a …
TROPHIES. New Acquisitions for the collection of NORDICO MuseumBruna Esperi | Dec 23, 2013
The exhibition TROPHIES. New Acquisitions for the Collection 2011/2012 shows 50 artworks by 18 artists that were purchased on the recommendation of curators Martina Gelsinger and Holger Jagersberger for the City Museum of Linz. The …
Droste Effect magazine wishes youDroste Effect | Dec 20, 2013
A HAPPY HAPPY 2014 from the Droste Effect magazine Staff **Please support us by purchasing your copy of Droste Effect magazine** www.drosteeffectmag.com/current-issue
Conversation with Babette Mangolte about her Whitney Museum show, and moreMary Coyne | Dec 20, 2013
Last month I was able to sit down with Babette Mangolte, the filmmaker and photographer whose work is currently featured in at the Whitney’s Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New …
The double life of P.V. – Paolo Ventura’s new work at Museo Palazzo dei PioVincenzo Estremo | Dec 17, 2013
In 1826 French inventor Nicéphore Niépce used a coating of bitumen to make the first permanent camera photograph, but a camera exposure lasting for hours or days was required. Only years later Louis Daguerre, French …
