Article by Natasha Klimenko, photos by Natasha Klimenko and Rian Davidson – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.
The recent past of political events, media broadcasts, and personal experiences exists in a curious relation to the present—so near it cannot be called historical, yet already separated by a bridge of time. This phenomenon of time just passed can be experienced at the 2011111111111s collective exhibition currently being shown at LEAP. A project started in…[read on…]
Blog entry by Angela Connor in Berlin; Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012.
The rapid increase in digital technology since the 1980’s has had a radical impact on the production, experience and distribution of art. Traditional forms of art such as painting, photography, sculpture and drawing have been transformed resulting in new hybridized genres of artistic practice. No longer defined by its physical and geographic boundaries these new art forms…[read on…]
Blog entry by Florence Reidenbach in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012.
10 years ago, I was a fresh graduate in London working as a gallery assistant at the Serpentine Gallery. The second show I worked on was Takashi Murakami’s KaiKai KiKi exhibition. It was a privilege to be there, I learned a great deal and it was fun…. [read on…]
C/O Berlin is seeking young photographers and art critics under the age of 35 for Talents, an international competition held every year. Now in its eighth year, the exhibition…[read on]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 15, 2012.
A hallmark for many artists and art enthusiasts who moved to Berlin in the second half of the ‘noughties,’ Pampero Appartement was a weekly exhibition, party and ‘vokü’ (Volks Küche) in a former brewery building off Prenzlauer Allee until 2010. .. [read on…]
Text and photos by Barbara Confino – in New York; Wednesday, Oct. 03, 2012
Delta Airlines does not exist. They have imaginary planes that are always late. When at last they arrive you are told you have an imaginary seat. It seems the only thing that is not a figment of my imagination is the money I paid for the ticket. And when I want to change that ticket in Paris… [read on…]
Blog post by Elizabeth Feder – in San Francisco; Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
Shane Pennington recently helped usher in the opening of the Dallas City Performance Hall with a digital media installation that drew direct inspiration and visual material from Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Entitled Points of Life, the installation features a 15-minute loop of digitally abstracted figures who inhabit the performance hall’s key element: a specially-designed stage curtain that is a fully programmable grid of LED lights. [read on…]
Transart Institute is offering a low-residency PhD program for advanced studio art. The PhD at Transart is a three year full time degree program with an average work commitment…[read on]
Blog post by Evanna Folkenfolk – in Berlin; Sunday, September 23, 2012.
With a gritty, city-bred feel to the pieces, walking through the open space felt a little like stumbling through the back streets of an unknown city… [read on…]
Text and photos by Barbara Confino – in New York; Friday, Sep. 21, 2012
For the first half of the 20th century in New York, Coney Island was the people’s paradise. The beach, the rides, the cheap food and cool air… [read on…]
Blog post by Devon Caranicas – in Berlin; Monday, Sept 17, 2012.
American artist Sarah Oppenheimer has created another hallmark structural intervention at PPOW gallery in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. Titled D-33, this triptych of geometric gaps have been seemingly sliced into the corners of the white walled exhibition space…… [read on…]
