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Paris Walkabout: The Painter Assadour

Assadour

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…]

Shane Pennington’s Berlin-inspired “Points of Life” Lights Up the Dallas City Performance Hall

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…]


Berlin Festival’s Art Village

Berlin Festival

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…
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Coney Island Walkabout

Barbara Confino

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…]

On The Road: Sara Oppenheimer at PPOW gallery in New York

Sarah Oppenheimer

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……
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Coup de Dés’ “Memory of Present”

Trevor Morgan - "Head_X3: Ulicia Piotrovska", Courtesy of Coup de Dés and Saskia Neuman, photo by Amir Guberstein

Blog post by Adela Yawitz – in Berlin; Friday, Sept 14, 2012.

Berlin Art Week is sure to overstimulate you this weekend, but if you are looking for a quiet, in-depth exhibition away from the mainstream hubbub, Coup de Dés’ “A Memory of Present” is well worth the trip…..
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“Timeless Beauty” at CO Berlin

Blog post by Adela Yawitz – in Berlin; Monday, Sept 10, 2012.

“Timeless Beauty”, currently on view at CO Berlin, is a survey of over a hundred years of fashion photography produced for Condé Nast’s publishing house….
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Out of Line: Exercises in Seeing and Drawing – drawing workshop with Romeo Alaeff

Blog post by Marie-Louise Crona – in Berlin; Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012.

During September and October you have the chance to learn the art of drawing in a non-classical approach. Berlin Collective will organize a drawing workshop in collaboration with artist and instructor Romeo Alaeff. The goal of the workshop is to overcome the clichés and problems normally associated with drawing…..

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Outside Chapter Presents Interactive Art from Venice to Hamburg

Blog post by Anna C. Purcell – in Berlin; Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012.

After Hamburg-based artists’ resounding success at the Venetian A plus A Slovenian Exhibition Center, Italian multimedia artists will endeavor to create a similar exhibition entitled Outside Chapter at the Elektrohaus in Hamburg….[read on…]