As themes of populism and democracy sweep European summer exhibitions, a few European artists are finding trend inspiration enough to revitalize and reinvent social radicalism in contemporary art.
Governors Island, a small bit of forgotten land between lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, was the site for "Set and Drift," a subtle exhibition of nine public artworks organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Lyon is historically famous for its creativity, as evinced by figures from Rabelais to the Lumière brothers. However, from September 13 through December 31, 2005 the august French city will be opening its doors to works from all over the world at La Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon.
Entering its seventh year, Contemporary Art Twente (CAT)?named after the eastern region of the Netherlands?may be considered one of the most important events in Dutch art.
Walking down a nondescript street in East Berlin in the middle of the night in the dead of winter poses infinite possibilities. Behind every crumbling façade is the pent-up aggression of a city trembling with creative anxiety.
Zodchestvo is a Russian word for architecture. But it is a word of spiritual connotations as well. Architecture could describe any structure, but zodchestvo is an art form defined by great rigor and beauty. It is also the name of the annual architectural festival in Moscow.
Remember that hyperactive boy in junior high, the one who found nothing funnier than the fact that he was an indefatigable public nuisance? At In Resonance, last month’s Seattle-based sound art exhibit, that boy was Thurston Moore.
Being fashion-forward in a town that’s hardly so is one thing, being forward thinking is entirely another. A group of engaging young Omaha artists is using the city’s most experimental art venue to prove it’s both.
What do women want? What does society want for women? As an advertising executive in Nuremberg and Munich, Leticia Cortez had to try to answer these questions in her campaign ads everyday.
On the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the Straits of Messina stands an ancient tower filled with contemporary art. The tower, which is of Medieval origin, was originally used as a light house for the treacherous seas here.
No one can deny this. We live in a society pregnant with raw desires and riotous with rigorous competition. Society generates anxiety, instils fear and brews exhaustion.
Jim Lambie?s installation in the main concourse of the Dallas Museum of Art, Thirteenth Floor Elevator, continues his exploration of the use of modernist art tropes as a means to critique contemporary culture through the museum/gallery space. Specifically, Lambie’s art mobilizes the radicalism of 60s drug psychedelia and altered perceptual experience.
Ever since Edward Said deflated Orientalism, we have stealthily developed a new model for straddling several cultures. In the updated model, we stumble upon fused identities, not by pursuing shared fantasies of Tin-tin adventures, but by following kinks in fate.
Holy Skirts, Rene Steinke’s second novel, is about the life of an "avant-goddess," a proto-dada artist from Germany who went to live in Manhattan and died in Paris, and is based on the real-life story of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhofen.