Tag Archives: Festivals

Weekly Round-Up

Weekly Round-Up

A collaborative video installation by Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon premiered last week at the  Armory Center for the Arts. The work  explores the tight-knit subculture of old hippies and …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Bad Taste Explosion

Letter from London

Letter from London: Bad Taste Explosion

Sometimes working in or around contemporary art can be a bit embarrassing. When the papers are splashed with the latest case of a work of art being mistaken for rubbish …

Looking at “Art in Odd Places”

Looking at “Art in Odd Places”

Since the days of 19th-century French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, the flâneur has played a prominent role in our evolving notion of modern art. The flâneur, according to Baudelaire, …

Iceland of Fire, Water and Light

Iceland of Fire, Water and Light

This past week I was in Reykjavik, Iceland attending and participating in the Sequences Real Time Festival. Needless to say, it was a strange time to have come just days …

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

It was a rainy Saturday and it was the kind of day that amplified the bizarrely romantic quality of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. During the popular Art Under the Bridge festival …

Conflux 2008

Conflux 2008

From Thursday through Sunday, September 14th, Conflux, the art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, will present a number of art installations, street art interventions, …

Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done at PICA

Mike Kelley’s Day Is Done at PICA

The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art is showing Mike Kelley’s new work Day Is Done as part of selection of films put together with the Northwest Film Center.  The program …

Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy”

Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy”

Over 34 million people watched the dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Days later, eager buzz-killers were quick to point out that deceptive “augmentations” were actually employed …

Cai Guo-Qiang at the Beijing Olympics

Cai Guo-Qiang at the Beijing Olympics

When the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics kicks off today, the pyrotechnics spectacle silhouetting the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium will spark familiarity to many in the art world. …

Laurie Anderson at Lincoln Center

Laurie Anderson at Lincoln Center

Starting tomorrow, July 22, Laurie Anderson (Season 1) performs her acclaimed piece Homeland at the Rose Theater as part of the 2008 Lincoln Center Festival. Backed by four musicians, the artist offers “an editorial narrative …

Berliner Salon: Sugimoto at the Neue and Street art in F-hain

Berliner Salon: Sugimoto at the Neue and Street art in F-hain

As previously posted, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s retrospective opened today at the Neue National Galerie. Having seen the show in the context of Mies van der Rohe’s brilliantly minimal architectural monument, I …

Carnegie Art Award 2008

Carnegie Art Award 2008

Den Frie Udstillingsbygning is an art institution established in 1891 by a union of artists with the concerted purpose to provide an alternative to the aforementioned censured Forårsudstilling at Kunsthal …

The Influencers: Trevor Paglen

The Influencers: Trevor Paglen

From The Influencers festival, our last guest is Trevor Paglen. In a review in the New York Times, Trevor Paglen was defined as ‚Äúa geographer by training, a conspiracy theorist …

The Influencers: monochrom

The Influencers: monochrom

From The Influencers festival, today’s guest is monochrom. monochrom is a worldwide operating collective dealing with technology, art, context hacking and philosophy and was founded in 1993. So to sum …

The Influencers: Laibach

The Influencers: Laibach

From The Influencers festival, today’s guest is Laibach. Beginning in 1980 as artists, experimental musicians and social agitators, Laibach has been censored since its first public performance. In 1984, Laibach …

The Influencers: Brody Condon

The Influencers: Brody Condon

From The Influencers festival, today’s guest is Brody Condon. Brody Condon is a pioneer in the use of video games as a starting point for the creation of sculptures, performances, …

The Influencers: Alan Abel

The Influencers: Alan Abel

From The Influencers festival, today’s guest is Alan Abel. A writer, filmmaker, and actor, Abel is mostly known for being one of the fathers of media falsification, having professionally tricked …

The Influencers Festival in Barcelona

The Influencers Festival in Barcelona

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG and Bani present:THE INFLUENCERSFestival of media action and radical entertainment ————————————————– *February 28-29-1 March 2008* Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona ————————————————– with ALAN ABEL, …